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...About My Mother follows Manuela, a middle-aged nurse who is compelled by the sudden death of her teenage son to travel to Barcelona in search of his drug-addled, HIV-positive transvestite father, who now goes by the name Lola. He is elusive, but she finds Agrado, a transvestite prostitute he robbed and abandoned, and Sister Rosa, a local nun he impregnated and infected. Manuela begins mothering them both, and also befriends Huma, an aging lesbian stage diva performing in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The quartet form a bizarre postmodern family that shares pain and solace alike...
BRIGITTE RAAB AND MANUELA OLTEN...
...That’s the thing—Alicia manages to partake and enjoy; but when things are out of control, potentially dangerous or embarrassing, she’s the first one to react,” writes Manuela L. Zoninsein ’05 in an e-mail...
...CHARGED. GIUSEPPE (PIPPO) CALO, 73, FLAVIO CARBONI, MANUELA KLEINSZIG and ERNESTO DIOTALLEVI, with the 1982 murder of Banco Ambrosio chief Roberto Calvi; in Rome. Calvi, known as "God's banker" because of his close ties with the Vatican, traveled to London when his bank was near collapse and was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London, his pockets stuffed with bricks, rocks, a false passport and several thousand dollars in cash. A London coroner originally ruled the death a suicide, but in 2003, Italian prosecutors issued a report concluding that Calvi had been murdered by the Mafia...
...Ramon recruits a lawyer, Julia (Belen Rueda), to help him fight for the right to die. His desire appears very resolute despite the seemingly good life he has been able to lead with his brother Jose (Celso Bugallo) and cared for by Jose’s wife Manuela (Mabel Rivera) and son Javi (Tamar Bovas...