Word: rubin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet...
...Party and an author. His latest project: We So Loved the Revolution, a coffee-table book that takes a backward look at himself and other young European and American radicals of the 1960s. The book is full of pictures and interviews with the likes of Yippie Turned Yuppie Jerry Rubin, now an entrepreneur. Since its September publication in France, the book has sold 30,000 copies and made the best-seller lists. It is being translated into English, Spanish, German and Portuguese and is the basis of a current four- part French TV series...
...everyone who graduated from high school was required to know, Macbeth is a play about the evils of ambition. Three "weird sisters" prophesy to Macbeth (Mark Southern), a Scottish nobleman, that he will one day become king of Scotland. At the urging of Lady Macbeth (Alicia Rubin), the hero decides to help fate along by knocking off the current sovereign, leading to the classic meditation on paranoia, guilt, death and despair. The critical decision for the contemporary director is whether to present these and other traditional themes as best she can or to innovate, to impose new contexts and outline...
Unfortunately, Rubin's Lady Macbeth is not as consistently convincing as her better half. In her near-hysterical rendering of Lady Macbeth's opening speeches, Rubin seems to have approached her character as if the lady was pathologically insane at the onset of the play. Although her energy is limitless, and sometimes truly frightening, we are deprived of seeing Lady Macbeth's great descent into madness: only the amplitude of her performance, never the content, varies...
...wake of the Miami grand jury's decision, Florida Legislator James Burke intends to sponsor a law to allow businesses to use potentially deadly devices to protect property, if they report them to police and fire departments and put up a warning sign. Meanwhile, Rasheed and his attorney Ellis Rubin plan appearances in Chicago, Detroit and other cities to start a campaign to change other states' laws. "Sometimes your property can be the same as your life, when it's the source of your livelihood," says Rubin. As for Rasheed, he says he is done with deadly traps and hopes...