Word: almodovar
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...loved being a whore, and that offends people." Norma Jean Almodovar, 49, head of the International Sex Workers Foundation for Art, Culture and Education, has made a career from such bluster. But being an activist for prostitutes is less lucrative than her previous job--impersonating a bawdy Julia Child for her johns. (That was one specialty...
...also more controversial here in Butte, Mont., where Almodovar has been trying to rustle up the funds to fully restore the Dumas, a former brothel that opened in 1890. After seeing Almodovar on a talk show in 1998, Butte businessman Rudy Giecek, 57, who had acquired the dilapidated Dumas from its last madam, contacted her. Using little more than sweat equity, they have turned the 43-room Victorian building into a museum exploring the history of prostitution. One day Almodovar would also like to turn the Dumas into her foundation's "headquarters" (a fancy term for her tiny collective...
...examples, the book offers straight-faced tips on how to escape quicksand (don't fight it, float on it); how to survive if your parachute fails to open (if a fellow skydiver is nearby--and that's one big if--grab him); and for those who share Pedro Almodovar's concerns, how to deliver a baby in a moving vehicle (support the baby's head and tie the umbilical cord with a shoelace...
...PEDRO ALMODOVAR (2) help Americans get over their squeamishness about public displays of affection between directors and their Oscars...