Feminist theologians argue that the lack of female disciples was not unusual two thousand years ago, and point instead to the key role held by other women in his life: his friends Mary and Martha, Lazarus's sisters, and the prostitute Mary Magdalene.
In the supporting actress category, the heavily favored Anne Hathaway took home the prize for her role as a troubled prostitute in the musical "Les Miserables, " from Comcast Corp.
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Mr McLellan's story is based on the Old Testament story of Rahab - a prostitute from the city of Jericho, who saves the lives of two Jewish spies and is, in turn, saved by them.
With Paolo Bonacelli as a priest who urges the assassin to take God into his heart, and the beautiful Violante Placido as a prostitute who falls in love with the assassin after he performs an act of sexual gallantry that no man experienced with prostitutes would likely perform.
Congressman Barney Frank, who had his own sex scandal involving a male prostitute in the 1980s, has the rare perspective of someone who has come out while he was in Congress.
The star informer was Trevor Haken, a former detective sergeant who helped to install miniature video cameras in the dashboard of a police car and in the light fittings of a prostitute's home.
Two years later, magistrates in Milan said they were investigating whether Berlusconi paid for sex with an underage prostitute named Ruby the Heartbreaker, then used his power to spring her from jail in an unrelated incident in which she was picked up for theft.
The movie also stars a sullen, stolid Leonardo DiCaprio as a young Irish immigrant eager to avenge the death of his father, Cameron Diaz as a prostitute and pickpocket, Liam Neeson as a fallen Irish leader, and Jim Broadbent as the corrupt political boss William Tweed.
Having finished his puffin homage, Breton views with equanimity the commercial consequences of his decision not to prostitute his product in order to sell it.
In 1990 Melissa Halstead, an American model turned photographer, disappeared in Amsterdam and 10 years later Paula Fields went missing from the London streets where she worked as a prostitute.
First staged in 1921, O'Neill's play about a former prostitute reuniting with her sailor father won the Pulitzer Prize for drama the following year.
Emma Hamilton, before she married the British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples and became notorious for her relationship with the hero of the Battle of the Nile, had in fact been a London prostitute.
That other great Argentine hero, the footballer Diego Maradona, has been heard, as he leaves restaurants in the early hours, extolling the virtues of his wife and children - while a prostitute hangs on each arm.
The official Tory candidate for London mayor was forced to admit he had cooked up a false alibi to cover him for the night he had been accused of sleeping with a prostitute more than a decade previously.
Mr. GREG ARAKI (Filmmaker): Everything is so nuanced, and all the characters, including the coach and including the johns that Neil sleeps with as a young male prostitute, they're seen as these sort of flawed human beings, but they're all given a humanity and a depth, that they're not just these black and white kind of cardboard bad boys and good guys.
In that trial, Lord Archer successfully sued the Star newspaper over allegations that he had slept with a prostitute.
Mr Berlusconi is also currently on trial for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute, and later abusing his powers by putting pressure on the police to release her from custody.
The centre-left candidate, Pier Luigi Bersani, said in Milan on Sunday night that the country was facing ruin whilst Mr Berlusconi was preoccupied with Ruby - the young woman he is accused of paying as an under-aged prostitute.
Despite his clashes with Italian justice over corruption charges, and the fact that he is still on trial for allegedly paying an underage prostitute for sex, Mr Berlusconi is using his considerable political skills to appeal to an electorate which has seen a draconian increase in taxes by the technocrat administration led by Mario Monti during 2012, our correspondent says.
It is widely believed in Italy that Silvio Berlusconi seeks influence to resist the legal battles - including having allegedly had sex with an under-age prostitute - that he still faces.
He is a defendant in three trials: one on charges of embezzlement, tax-dodging and false accounting, one in which he stands accused of paying an under-age prostitute and one for alleged bribery. (He denies all the charges.) The third, in which he is accused of corrupting his former legal adviser, David Mills, is the one he is said to fear most.
Based on a graphic novel, the film starred Josh Brolin as a disfigured bounty hunter and Megan Fox as a tough prostitute.
When the school-boyish English actor was arrested in June 1995 for picking up a Hollywood prostitute, many suspected that at 34 his career was over.
On Twitter recently, Armstrong's former personal assistant said things started getting easier for her when the USADA report came out and "people started realising I wasn't some 'prostitute' liar!"
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She found international fame in 1976 for her Oscar-nominated performance as teenage prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver, and roles as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone and the lead in Freaky Friday.
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