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Jack Horner's entourage is explicitly presented as a dysfunctional makeshift family: Besides father Jack and sister Rollergirl, Dirk finds a mother figure in the porn actress Amber Waves (Julianne Moore, who does a good job of looking beautiful in one scene and puffy in the next), and a brother in the ugly, dumb, good-natured hack actor Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly).
Their makeshift homes, known in Turkish as gecekondu (“built by night”), take advantage of an old Ottoman law that protects a house whose roof has been built during the hours of darkness.
These full evenings of entertainment generally include a makeshift marketplace featuring artesanía for sale, a buffet Mexican dinner, games (involving drinking large quantities of tequila), mariachi music, a presentation of folkloric dance from around the country, and a generous supply of margaritas and other beverages.
Dad planted it in my birthday cake on a makeshift flagstaff.
The national sport, badminton, and is played wherever a net, real or makeshift, can be set up for players to thwack the shuttlecock across to each other.