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DAVE DAVIES, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I’m Dave Davies sitting in this week for Terry Gross. In the Neil Simon film “California Suite,” Maggie Smith plays a film star up for an Academy Award. But when she doesn’t win, she doesn’t take it well and leaves before the evening’s over. So later that night…
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, “CALIFORNIA SUITE”)
MAGGIE SMITH: (As Diana Barrie) What was the best picture?
MICHAEL CAINE: (As Sidney Cochran) The best picture? You were there when they announced it. It came after the best actress.
SMITH: (As Diana Barrie) I was in a deep depression at the time. What was the best bloody picture?
CAINE: (As Sidney Cochran) You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did those idiots pick as the best picture of the year?
SMITH: (As Diana Barrie) What won the award you [expletive]?
CAINE: (As Sidney Cochran) I am not an [expletive]. Don’t you call me that.
SMITH: (As Diana Barrie) Sidney, I have just thrown up on some of the best people in Hollywood. Now is no time to be sensitive. What was the best picture?
DAVIES: What was the best picture from the past year is a question we’ll have the answer to late Sunday night at the conclusion of this year’s Academy Awards. We’ll be talking about two contenders on today’s FRESH AIR. In the second half of the show, we’ll hear an interview with the director of “The Big Short” about the global economic crisis of 2008. We’ll start with “Spotlight,” the story of a group of journalists at The Boston Globe who in 2002, published a groundbreaking investigation of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests. The film has earned six Oscar nominations. Our guest, Tom McCarthy, is nominated for best director and for best original screenplay, which he co-wrote with John Singer. Joining us in this interview is Walter Robinson, a veteran reporter and editor who headed the investigative unit at The Globe known as the Spotlight Team. The Globe’s work on the clergy sex abuse scandal won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. I spoke to Tom McCarthy and Walter Robinson last fall. We began with a scene from “Spotlight.” The Globe’s new editor, Marty Baron, played with Liev Schreiber, is having a strategy meeting with the investigative team. The clip starts with Walter Robby Robinson, played by Michael Keaton, talking about how Boston’s cardinal, Bernard Law, must have been aware all along of the church scandal they’re uncovering. The other two reporters are played by Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo.
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