World Vision's former programme quality director, Simon Manning, said that Halabi, who he worked with closely for several years, is a " stubborn" man who sticks to his principles.
The die-hard New Yorker sat downwith People to discuss that meaty new role, hishectic home life and what he's learned afternearly 40years in the spotlight.
And so, Joaquin Phoenix plays the sheriff who's like this crusty, unreconstructed, and he's not really a Trump supporter per se, but he's like this sort of crusty, you know, kind of traditionalist, you know, kind of guy.
For old Ewbank hadn't quite appreciated me till then; he was a hard nut, a much older man than myself, and I felt pretty sure he thought me young for the place, and my supposed feat a fluke.