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...only erotic hoo-hah was for this intimate German drama about, to get right to the point, naked old people making love - but nothing explicit, danke. Inge (Ursula Werner), a plain hefty woman in her early 60s, is more or less happily married to 70-something Werner (Horst Rehberg), whose idea of excitement is to listen to recordings of model-train sound effects. No wonder she goes for the slightly sprightlier Karl (Horst Westphal), who's 76 but young at heart, or at least early middle-aged. They have a quick tryst in his apartment, which begins a love affair...
...Bagnato and Rehberg have got nothing but trouble for their efforts. Bagnato says he's being "shut out" from surgery business decisions at Phoebe and suspects the hospital of "politely but pointedly directing patients away from Albany Surgical and me in particular." Phoebe calls that claim abhorrent. But Bagnato is convinced, "If they could get away with firing me, I think they would." Rehberg, who filed counterclaims against Phoebe last week, now has the same security guard who protected Jeffrey Wigand. "Given a choice," Rehberg says, "I prefer to sit in back and observe. But I can't quietly tolerate...
Bagnato and Rehberg say they are not on a vendetta against Phoebe, though their feud with the hospital took some ugly turns. Aiming to draw attention to what they felt were unscrupulous practices, they sent faxes to local politicians and businesses last fall and winter, including one that showed a cartoon of a fat "Phoebe Exec" puffing on a cigar, with a caption saying, IS THERE REALLY CORRUPTION AT PHOEBE? Around the same time, they say, their office at Albany Surgical was bugged. Rehberg's wife Wanda reports coming home one day and finding the door lock jammed...
...Rehberg, meanwhile, says Phoebe tried to intimidate him by sending a couple of private eyes to accost him in a parking lot last month. According to a complaint Rehberg filed with the FBI, the men jumped out of a Jeep, claimed they were former FBI agents, blocked his vehicle and demanded he come with them to sign documents granting him "immunity" from lawsuits in exchange for cooperation. "Think about your wife Wanda and family," Rehberg says he was told, and "keep quiet about all this." A father of 8-year-old twin girls, Rehberg, 44, a former hospital...
...gave Dickie the letter and he kept studying it," Merideth recalled. Scruggs was outraged by the accumulation of hospital wealth and seemingly abusive collection efforts. "He wouldn't give it back to me for a while," says Merideth. "When he finally did, he said, 'Wow.'" Two weeks later, Rehberg and Bagnato chartered a plane to Mississippi and presented their research to Scruggs, including tales of conflicts of interest, of executives paid to head both the hospital and for-profit subsidiaries, and plenty of stories of aggrieved patients. By June, the suits were flying. "These hospitals claim they're charities...