Reuben or Ruben may refer to:
Rubén Aguirre (Spanish pronunciation: [ruˈβen aˈɣire]) (born June 15, 1933) is a Mexican actor. He is best remembered for his characterization of Profesor Jirafales in the Televisa's television show El Chavo del Ocho. Aguirre also participated in another well known television show of the era, El Chapulín Colorado, albeit less frequently.
Rubén Aguirre was born in Saltillo, Coahuila. He began his acting career in Monterrey, Nuevo León, working with a character (a famous clown) named Pipo.
He went on to Mexico City, where he worked on several television scripts with Chespirito, creator and main star of both El Chavo and El Chapulín Colorado. Chespirito noticed the tall, skinny figure of Aguirre (therefore, the last name "Jirafales", derived from "jirafa", giraffe in Spanish) and asked him to play Professor Jirafales, to which Aguirre agreed. Aguirre was a personal friend of journalist Carlos Villagrán, who later played Quico in the same show and also acted in El Chapulín Colorado. During a party at Aguirre's house, he "discovered" Villagrán, recommending him for the role of "Quico".
Christopher Theodore Ruben Studdard (born September 12, 1978), best known as Ruben Studdard, is an American R&B, pop, and gospel singer. He rose to fame as winner of the second season of American Idol. He received a Grammy Award nomination in December 2003 for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "Superstar."
In the years following Idol, Studdard has released four studio albums, including his most recent disc, 2009's Love Is.
In addition to appearing on various television shows he has toured with Robin Givens in the comedy-drama Heaven I Need a Hug and in 2008 accepted the role of Fats Waller in a national tour of Ain't Misbehavin'.
Studdard, who was born in Frankfurt, Germany while his American father was stationed there with the U.S. Army, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. The youngest son of two teachers, at the age of three he sang for the first time at the Rising Star Baptist Church in his hometown of Birmingham. He continued singing gospel in church, performing solos as a child while his mother sang in the local choir. While at Huffman High School, he played football for which he received a scholarship to Alabama A&M University. While at Alabama A&M he joined the Omicron Delta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the men's music fraternity of America.
Rubén Juárez (5 November 1947 – 31 May 2010) was an Argentine bandoneonist and singer-songwriter of tango. Juárez studied the bandoneón from the age of six. In 1956 he entered in the Youth Orchestra of Club Atlético Independiente. He was born in Ballesteros, in the province of Córdoba on 5 November 1947 and raised in Avellaneda (south of Greater Buenos Aires). His corresponding studies of the guitar during his youth led him to integrate various rock bands into his repertoire. Years later he met the guitarist Héctor Arbello around the time that they both played together with Julio Sosa. Subsequently they formed a duo with and they began to tour around the country. When the bandoneonist Aníbal Troilo (1914–1975) went to watch him the first time, Rubén asked him to be his artistic godfather. On 2 June 1969 he recorded his first song with the label Odeón Para vos, canilla, and that was an immediate success. After a year, he was recruited by Nicolás Mancera to sing on his TV program Sábados Circulares. Since that time, he had acted in Argentina and abroad, and recorded songs with artists like Armando Pontier, Charly García, Pedro Aznar, Leopoldo Federico, Raúl Garello, Litto Nebbia, the guitarist Roberto Grela and José Colángelo. In later years he worked with the master Raúl Luzzi
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈruβen ˈbleðz]; born July 16, 1948) is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, actor, Latin jazz musician, and activist, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres. As songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova as well as experimental tempos and political inspired Nuyorican salsa to his music, creating thinking persons' (salsa) dance music. Blades has composed dozens of musical hits, the most famous of which is "Pedro Navaja," a song about a neighborhood thug who appears to die during a robbery (his song "Sorpresas" continues the story), inspired by "Mack the Knife." He also composed and sings what many Panamanians consider their second national anthem. The song is titled "Patria" (Fatherland).
He is an icon in Panama and is much admired throughout Latin America, and managed to attract 18% of the vote in his failed attempt to win the Panamanian presidency in 1994. In September 2004, he was appointed minister of tourism by Panamanian president Martín Torrijos for a five-year term. He holds a law degree from the University of Panama and a master's in international law from Harvard University. He is married to singer Luba Mason.
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31 Dias (31 Days) is the story of Eva (Irán Castillo), a young and beautiful psychologist and author of a series of self-help books about modern women and their love relationships. For her next bestseller she has decided to prove her most daring theory: After the first 30 days together love ends, so the only way to have a meaningful relationship in this new millennium is to for the couple to part ways after the first month. At a magazine's photo session Eva meets Adam (Lorenzo Balducci), an attractive Italian photographer, and she decides he's perfect as her study subject. She will live a very intense relationship with Adam during 31 days, in order to prove her theory is right. However, what she is not aware of is that Adam is using all her own advice from her books in order to make her fall in love with him and teach her a lesson. What neither of them suspects is that they'll come to learn that love has no rules.
Keywords: book, contract, photographer, psychologist, seduction
Till the contract do us part.
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Liv returns to her childhood home - a rundown mansion - after the death of her father. There are mysterious circumstances surrounding his passing and Liv starts to suspect that her relatives are hiding something from her. A gothic drama about a family's secluded, twisted world.
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"Angels" is a trilogy. The three episodes featured in the movies are: "Angel of Mine", "Daddy's Angel" and "Angel of Love". "Angel of Mine," directed by Gina Alajar, features a career woman forced to tend to a child left by this problematic mother. "Daddy's Angel" follows the bitter father-and-son relationship between a (dying) ex-convict and this affectionate young boy who bore miserable stigmas of a brutal past. A young man is imprisoned for killing a close friend, who raped his wife on his wedding day. While in prison, his wife gets pregnant, giving birth to this angelic boy. The wife dies before his sentence is due. In "Angel of Love", Bianang, a frustrated musician, is caught in a tangle of family concerns. Orphaned by their mother and abandoned by their father, she is left to look after her two younger siblings and fend for their needs by finding her niche in the music industry. By some twist of fate, guised through Kerubina, her path crosses with Jude, a guy from a matriarchal clan of aristocrats who battles with repercussions of ending a heavily laden relationship.
Keywords: angel, anthology, aristocrat, assassin, assassination-attempt, babysitting, back-from-the-dead, cat, death-threat, ex-convict
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Southern California high school senior Carson arrives at the all-important "Cheer Camp Nationals" determined to lead her squad, the West High Sharks, to victory. But chic New Yorker Brooke and her team, the East High Jets, are equally steadfast in their pursuit of the competition's coveted "Spirit Stick." As tension mounts between the two rival squads, Carson falls for fellow cheerleader Penn, not realizing he's a Jet. When Brooke discovers the budding romance, she raises the stakes by challenging Carson to a one-on-one cheer-off. A spectacular "cheer fighting" sequence erupts into a no-holds-barred brawl and cheerleaders on both sides are suspended from the competition. With their dreams of taking home the top prize all but shattered, the leaders of both squads realize they'll have to take drastic measures to stay in the game.
Keywords: 2000s, airlift, army-brat, cheerleader, cheerleader-camp, cheerleading, cheerleading-movie, competition, curse, dancing
Sarah: You know what this really needs to pop? The blood of a virgin.::Carson: Okay. Why are you guys looking at me?::Sarah: Come on, Carson, just a little pin prick.::Ruben: If she can take a little prick, she wouldn't be a virgin.
Aisha: Just so you know, I'm not mad anymore. I myspaced it all out of my system.
Carson: Why him? Why now?::Aisha: Why who?::Carson: Aisha, I met this guy!::Aisha: What? I wasn't even sure you remember what guys were!::Carson: His name is Penn, and he is SOOO...::Aisha: Carson, breathe!::Carson: He's awesome, and smart! But in a good way. And he's HOOTTT! CALIENTE hot! Aisha, I wanted to lick his abs!::Aisha: But you didn't, right?::Carson: No! I need to focus, and that means NO cute guys. Right now, beating the Jets is my top priority.::Aisha: Good, and you're doing the right thing.::Carson: I know...::Aisha: So, can I have him?
Brooke: Just because you skanks go all the way, doesn't mean your team will.
Aisha: Oh girl, you know a Cheer Crip can't be hittin' it with a Cheer Blood.
Carson: Brooke! I dont think you stole the Spirit Stick anymore.::Brooke: Like I give a flying tuck what you think?
Brooke: Oh, and Penn? It's your loss. I'm double-jointed.
Chelsea: This is like a total cheer-clipse of the sun!
Carson, Ruben: It don't matter what we do. Music, baby, is our cue. Hands and shoulders, face so tight, all our moves will rock this fight.::Penn, Brooke, Chelsea: Our moves are tight, we move with ease. The moves we do will make you wheeze. So watch us strike our muscle pose, while you all prance and do-ci-do.::Carson, Ruben: That was cute, your pose was dull, but all of you have belly rolls. Once again we groove with flare, the moves we do, you wouldn't dare! So listen quick, while your face gets cracked, one, two, three your whacked!::Penn, Brooke, Chelsea: Your rhyme was fun but we're still good. We still can stunt, your from the hood.::Penn, Brooke, Chelsea: Hood-rats, good-rats, what are you called? The moves you do won't win at all. So listen quick - oops, you said that rhyme. one, two, three our time!::Carson, Ruben: Motions, motions, hear them roar. No one's knocking at your door. With no rhythm and with no sass, all of you can kiss our ass!::Penn, Brooke, Chelsea: Dance:10; Looks:3; the moves you do make us all pee.::Penn, Brooke, Chelsea: We laugh, we cry, we all say "HI!" but when you dance it's "BYE BYE BYE!"::Carson, Ruben: BYE BYE!
Ruben: P-E-A-C-E! Peace to the middle east! Go Planet!
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"Employee of the Month" is about a guy whose day spirals from bad to worse when he gets fired from his dream job at the bank and is dumped by his fiancée Sara. David's best friend Jack tries to convince him it's for the best, but the opposite occurs when bank robberies and millions of dollars become part of his day from hell.
Keywords: 555-phone-number, bad-luck, bank, bank-robbery, bank-vault, bare-breasts, betrayal, black-comedy, bullet-proof-vest, burn
Congratulations, you're fired!
Things are not always what they seem.
David Walsh: If America is the great melting pot, then L.A. public transportation is the gooey shit baked on the bottom.
David Walsh: I've never been one to judge a book by its cover. Unless, of course, the cover of the book reads: "The Guy Sitting Next To Me Just Shit Himself".
[repeated line]::David Walsh: I love you. Believe me?
Jack: The... the engagement party! How come you didn't invite me?::David Walsh: I didn't think you'd come.::Jack: I wouldn't have.::David Walsh: Then why are you here?::Jack: 'Cause you didn't invite me.::David Walsh: If I knew you're not going to come, why would I bother sending an invitation?
Jack: Look, there's a reason why I'm your oldest friend in the world.::David Walsh: I can't seem to remember what it is right now.::Jack: I tell the truth.
David Walsh: You know this review process, it's... you have. I bet it's illegal. I could sue you.::Mr. Gartin: Go ahead. You'll lose, because the best lawyer wins, and mine are the best. They're Ivy League assholes, and they'd wrap a lamp cord around a new born baby's neck rather than lose to a schmuck like you. And I got deep pockets and all the time in the world, and I never lose, ask anyone who's tried me. Ask my old man. By the time I'm done with you, you'd be in some alley giving blowjobs to cab drivers for pocket change to get a cup of coffee, because you're a loser, and that's what happens to losers. You're fired. Period. Deal with it.
David Walsh: [about his fiancé] She loves me.::Jack: How much of her Kool-aid did you drink?
David Walsh: [pulling a gun on Mr. Gartin] Tell me the world is a fair place.::Mr. Gartin: It's not, and try to remember that while your ass bleeds as you're being passed from nigger to wop in the showers at San Quinton.
Jack: [after hearing David was fired] Tell that fuckstick boss of yours to take tomorrow's work day and shove it up his dick!::David Walsh: I don't even know what that means.::Jack: He'll know what it means!
David Walsh: I just hope that my review shows that I've been slacking off, and this way I should be fired. That way, when I snap and threaten to kill the old fucker, I'll have a good reason. I'm just kidding.
Family. Undefined?
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Christel , a shy nurse, by chance stumbles over the bag of a patient while being at work. The patient turns out to be Ruben, a sexy and arrogant salsa dancer. While Christel immediately falls for him, Ruben does not even look at her. But the young woman doesn't want to give up and realizes that she can only get Ruben's attention through dancing. She practices really hard with Han, a good friend of hers and a dancer, too. One day Christel seems to have achieved her goal: Ruben dances with her. But will she also be able to win his heart?