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Madeeha Hasan Odhaib is a diminutive, 37-year-old seamstress whom some people have begun calling the Mother Teresa of Baghdad. She's devoted her energies to helping Iraq's internally displaced people, particularly in the Karada district where she lives. She organizes periodic supply convoys to various camps for the displaced. The Iraqi army in the area helps her distribute basics such as rice, tea, sugar, cooking oil and blankets. The supplies come from different nongovernmental organizations, including the Red Cross and Red Crescent and an Iraqi aid group called Hands of Mercy. But aside from logistical support from...
...virgin from her intended and his conservative family. Another assistant is rather surprised to discover that she is leaning toward lesbianism. One customer, coming to grips with menopause, is trying, rather frantically, to salvage what's left of her rather disappointing life by becoming an actress. The spinster seamstress who lives next door is flirting with a client, but her desire is deterred by her need to care for her aged and dotty sister. You could perhaps characterize this as a Shop of Fools. You might also think of Caramel as another version of one of those agreeable, insignificant little...
...integrating memories from his own childhood and relevant clips of Palmieri’s music, and intermittently holding up original records from his collection of the more than thirty albums that Palmieri has produced. Palmieri entertained the audience with his early memories. The son of an electrician and a seamstress, Palmieri grew up playing stick ball and listening to the radio and the music played by his older brother Charlie, who started playing professionally at age 14. “Eventually my father made it with my family and opened up a luncheonette and we made it play mambo...
...firm of landscape architects keeps being robbed by an acrobatic young man. Will (Jude Law), one of the practice's partners, traces him and enters into an affair with the boy's mother (Juliette Binoche), who's a widowed seamstress trying to put the miseries of her Bosnian past behind her. The affair is perhaps understandable because Will is unhappy at home. His partner Liv (Robin Wright Penn) has a near autistic daughter, whose care obsesses and distracts Liv. Eventually order and forgiveness are imposed on these troubled lives...
...with his subtle hand and rigorous tailoring. So flattering were the cut and construction of his clothes that Diana Vreeland once declared, "In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room." Born in a small Basque village in Spain in 1895, Balenciaga worked in his mother's seamstress shop and found his first client at 13 when a local countess permitted him to copy one of her couture dresses. She later paid his way to Madrid for formal training. By 1919 Balenciaga had his own couture salons in San Sebastian, Barcelona and Madrid, but the Spanish Civil...