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...REUBEN, REUBEN...
Credit Producer Walter Shenson (The Mouse That Roared, A Hard Day's Night) with putting his money where his mind is. He has shepherded Peter De Vries' 1964 novel Reuben, Reuben from page to screen; he has made a film for, and about, the over-the-hill gang. The central character of Reuben, Reuben is a poet, someone for whom words and even the occasional idea matter. For Gowan Evans McGland (Tom Conti), the English language is a weapon to be used against fools, an aphrodisiac with which to ply faculty wives, and a solace whenever thoughts...
...sympathy." Such attitudes are particularly grating to a large segment of the public that has come to see the press as primarily interested in its own profits and renown. "There is no longer a prevailing feeling that the press is righting to right a wrong," says Chicago Attorney Don Reuben. "The sense is that the press is venal, out to make a buck...
...looked harmless. "He just seemed like an ordinary person, real polite and real nice," recalls Faye Moore, wife of a Pentecostal preacher in Stoneburg, Texas. "I never knew him to take a drink, and he never used foul language." One humid May morning last year, Moore's husband Reuben, 52, gave Lucas and his companion Freida ("Becky") Powell, Toole's 15-year-old niece, a lift in Montague County, Texas. He offered the couple room and board in exchange for chores around his makeshift church. Thirteen months later, following Lucas' confessions, the remains of Powell...
...Shoot!" Reuben cried. "Everything has fallen apart here...