Word: rubens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When historians hunt for telling moments in the 1996 Donorgate scandal, they may point to a White House coffee in December 1995 when would-be giver RUBEN VELEZ, apparently unaware of the law against contributing in the Executive Mansion, tried to hand over five checks. Velez, Puerto Rico's biggest builder, may have had more than protocol on his mind...
...relationship, subtly foreshadowing the betrayal that must end it but allowing these figures room to draw normal human breath. It diverts us by showing each man dealing with a dangerous professional problem. In Tom's case it is a hot-headed, trigger-happy yet likable partner (well played by Ruben Blades) who tests his loyalty and affection. In Frankie's, it is an arms dealer (Treat Williams, slithering from smooth menace to surprisingly vicious sadism) who tests his nerve--and to a degree his commitment to his cause. Frankie can't help contrasting the dank underworld he is obliged...
Each passing day, I became more convinced that Harvaard viewed me as expendable and had dealt me my fate, sending me from Grays East to Pfoho like the first-place New York Yankees exiled Ruben Sierra to the abysmal Detroit Tigers. Many questions crossed my mind: Should I investigate off-campus housing? Should I work out to get in better shape for the daily trek...
With a proud grin Floyd then pulls out his own 38, Red (Tommy Hollis) shows off his, and Canewell (Ruben Santiago-Hudson) wips out his switchblade, each arguing half in jest about whose weapon is best. Their playful posturing merely conceals what is ready to explode from within...
...acting, however, could hardly be improved upon. Especially fine are the performances of Jerome Preston Bates as Floyd, who makes us care about the tortured soul that lies beneath a veneer of strut and swagger; Viola Davis, an eloquent and unaffected Vera; and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who plays the sweet-natured, joyous Canewell as a sort of Mercutio to the lovers' Romeo and Juliet...