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John McGeechan first struck one winter morning in February 1996 in Skerryvore Road, Cranhill, Glasgow. 

Rain or shine, Whiteman is out each day mowing and edging graves, preparing the ground for any upcoming funerals – and, most importantly, talking to mourners. “You’ve got to give people plenty of time, don’t rush them ... You get to deal with them for years and years. Some of them I’ve met have gone into homes, and you miss them, so you ring up and check on them. “When you have a funeral on, everything comes to a stand still. You’ve got to allow those people that time and that moment. If you’re backfilling [the grave], you wait until the family’s gone,” he said.

Down and Out In Beverly Hills, which premiered on January 31, 1986 . The film represents arguably the best work from the 1980s of director Paul Mazursky, who in the '60s and '70s had made the highly-regarded movies Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Harry and Tonto, and An Unmarried Woman. Mazursky's films always feel slightly idiosyncratic, combining elements of comedy, drama, and if not social satire then at leas a wry eye for social foibles.  Down and Out In Beverly Hills captures the essence of this feeling, if not quite the full magic of his earlier work.   Watch the original trailer for 'D...