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Paul Newman's camp for sick kids rises from the ashes
"A huge creative center at a camp for seriously ill kids founded by the late actor Paul Newman opens today following a 2021 fire. The $4.5 million creative center in Ashford, Connecticut, is 11,000 ft² of February 2021 fire destroyed many of the facilities at the hole in the wall gang camp, but donations helped rebuild it, artist muse shone created a large mosaic centerpiece at the new facility which reads camp is magic. The kids are so present and so excited to be here. And it's sort of like we were we were all sort of just creating this magic world together. Jimmy canton is the camp's chief executive. What was a traumatic, horrible event? Was quickly turned around because of the kindness of strangers and the loyalty of longtime friends. I'm Donna warder
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"paul newman" Discussed on The Maverick Paradox Podcast
"And <Speech_Male> it's really <Speech_Male> it's really <Speech_Male> amazing <Speech_Male> and <Speech_Male> the <Speech_Male> showrunners, the gentlemen <Speech_Male> that created the show, talk about. It's <Speech_Male> almost all based on <Speech_Male> their actual <Speech_Male> real life <Speech_Male> experiences. <Speech_Male> Well, <Speech_Female> that sounds a bit shocking. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> Yeah, watch it. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> It's a pretty <Speech_Male> shocking show <SpeakerChange> and there's <Speech_Male> a lot of sex in it, <Speech_Male> so if you like <Speech_Male> that, or if you don't <Speech_Male> like that, that might <Speech_Male> tell you whether <Speech_Male> you want to watch industry, <Speech_Male> but <Speech_Male> as I watched it, <Speech_Male> I thought it was one of <Speech_Male> the most accurate <Speech_Male> shows <Speech_Male> about the financial <Speech_Male> industry that I've ever <Speech_Male> seen on television. <Silence> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> Gosh. <Speech_Male> So <Silence> before <Speech_Female> we end <Speech_Female> for today, <Speech_Female> what could <Speech_Female> you leave <Speech_Female> with the audience or <Silence> what <Speech_Female> would you like to <Speech_Female> share? <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> Well, <Speech_Male> you know, <Speech_Male> one thing we didn't talk <Speech_Male> about is I <Speech_Male> took this job as <Speech_Male> a survival job <Speech_Male> because <Speech_Male> I <Speech_Male> was <SpeakerChange> <Silence> trying to <Speech_Male> be an actor. <Speech_Male> And one thing we didn't talk about <Speech_Male> is I worked a lot <Speech_Male> as an actor. I was <Speech_Male> a professional actor. <Speech_Male> I worked with <Speech_Male> Al Pacino and <Speech_Male> Paul Newman <Speech_Male> and Calista Flockhart <Speech_Male> and James Gandolfini <Speech_Male> and Kevin <Speech_Male> Spacey and O. J. Simpson <Speech_Male> and all of <Speech_Male> these people. And I <Speech_Male> made a living as an <Speech_Male> actor. <Speech_Male> And <Speech_Male> the spine was kind of <Speech_Male> just to <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> supplement my income <Speech_Male> and then later when my acting <Speech_Male> career did dry <Speech_Male> up it then became <Speech_Male> my full income. <Speech_Male> But the point <Speech_Male> that I <Speech_Male> like your listeners <Speech_Male> to <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> leave this podcast <Speech_Male> with is to <Speech_Male> take the journey <Speech_Male> you want to take. <Speech_Male> You know, I didn't <Speech_Male> want to work for my father <Speech_Male> in the car business. <Speech_Male> You know, the Kurdish family <Speech_Male> car business <Speech_Male> exists to this <Speech_Male> day. My cousins have <Speech_Male> done extremely well. <Speech_Male> And I could have been <Speech_Male> one of, you know, <Speech_Male> part of that. But <Speech_Male> I didn't want to do <Speech_Male> that. And I'm so <Speech_Male> glad I didn't do that. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> Because I took the journey <Speech_Male> that I wanted to <Speech_Male> take, you know, and even <Speech_Male> though the corporate spine <Speech_Male> wasn't really <Speech_Male> what I wanted <Speech_Male> to do, <Speech_Male> it certainly <Speech_Male> made for a fascinating <Speech_Male> life and <Speech_Male> now I've been able <Speech_Male> to take <Speech_Male> that and turn it into <Speech_Male> a piece of art, this <Speech_Male> book, <Speech_Male> and so that <Speech_Male> would be my big <Speech_Male> takeaway for <Speech_Male> readers, especially <Speech_Male> after COVID, right? <Speech_Male> Life is short. <Speech_Male> Do what you want to do. <Speech_Male> Don't do <Speech_Male> what your father wants you to <Speech_Male> do. Your brother wants <Speech_Male> you to do, <Speech_Male> your best friend <Speech_Male> wants you to do your partner <Speech_Male> wants you to do, <Speech_Male> do what you <SpeakerChange> want to do. <Silence> <Speech_Female> That's a good message. <Speech_Female> And I guess <Speech_Female> I suppose you're still <Speech_Female> waiting to find out <Speech_Female> whether your book's <Speech_Female> going to turn into a <Speech_Female> TV series. When will <Speech_Male> you know about <SpeakerChange> that? <Speech_Male> Well, <Speech_Male> it's pretty far along. You know, <Speech_Male> we have a show runner. <Speech_Male> There's a production company <Speech_Male> behind <SpeakerChange> it. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> The proverbial, <Speech_Male> I don't count my <Speech_Male> chickens until <Speech_Male> I'm on the set, <Speech_Male> and there's <Speech_Male> a chair that says <Speech_Male> Robert kurb <Speech_Male> on it. <Speech_Male> But <Speech_Male> it's pretty far. <Speech_Male> It's pretty far down <Speech_Male> the road. <SpeakerChange> So I don't <Speech_Male> know when, you know, <Speech_Male> when the <Speech_Male> shooting per se <Speech_Male> would start, <Speech_Male> but <Speech_Male> if things go well, <Speech_Male> I'd say, you know, <Speech_Male> in about a year's <Speech_Male> time, <Speech_Male> there would be a ruse <Speech_Male> TV series <Speech_Male> that people <SpeakerChange> could watch.
Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"paul newman" Discussed on Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"What <Speech_Female> <Speech_Music_Female> <SpeakerChange> <Advertisement> <Silence> <Speech_Male> I've learned about <Speech_Female> leadership <Speech_Female> is that there's <Speech_Female> still a lot to learn. <Speech_Music_Female> <Speech_Female> <SpeakerChange> And <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> that leaders come <Speech_Female> in all shapes <Speech_Female> and sizes <Speech_Female> and approaches <Speech_Female> and introverts <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> and extroverts <Speech_Female> that <Speech_Female> there is <Speech_Female> a definitely an <Speech_Female> alchemy <Speech_Female> of inspiration <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> and vision <Speech_Female> with <Speech_Female> basic <Speech_Female> skills <Speech_Female> in getting <Speech_Female> stuff done. <Speech_Female> You've got to <Speech_Female> have some <Speech_Female> balance of the two <Speech_Female> and I think <Speech_Female> that certainly <Speech_Female> as I've gotten <Speech_Female> older and <Speech_Female> I know where <Speech_Female> my weaknesses <Speech_Female> and strengths <Speech_Female> are and so then <Speech_Female> you put a team <Speech_Female> together which <Speech_Female> at the foundation <Speech_Female> we have an <Speech_Female> extraordinary team <Speech_Female> of <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> individuals <Speech_Female> to help <Speech_Female> do this work <Silence> and everybody <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> helps everybody <Speech_Female> to be their very <Speech_Female> best and we're still <Speech_Female> accountable <Speech_Female> and running <Speech_Female> a really <Speech_Female> top <Speech_Female> top notch <Speech_Female> organization. But I <Speech_Female> think leadership <Speech_Female> it's about <Speech_Female> it's <Speech_Female> about having a vision. <Speech_Female> It's about <Speech_Female> having <Speech_Female> the ability to <Speech_Female> get things done <Speech_Female> to <Speech_Female> surround yourself with <Speech_Female> people that can tell <Speech_Female> you where your blind <Speech_Female> spots are. <Speech_Female> It's having <Speech_Female> humility. It's <Speech_Female> most of the time it's <Speech_Female> making sure <Speech_Female> that provide <Speech_Female> agency to the people <Speech_Female> that you work with. <Speech_Female> So that <Speech_Female> everybody's <SpeakerChange> empowered to <Speech_Female> do the best work. <Speech_Female> I like all <Speech_Female> of those. I <Speech_Female> wouldn't disagree <Speech_Female> with any of them, I <Speech_Female> think they're all pieces <Speech_Female> of a puzzle. <Speech_Female> And you're right. <Speech_Female> You don't have to <Speech_Female> our world is <Speech_Female> no longer looking <Speech_Female> for the sort of <Speech_Female> the P. T. Barnum <Speech_Female> leader. But <Speech_Female> there are <Speech_Female> is what I mean, <Speech_Female> I'm sure you as a funder <Speech_Female> and <Speech_Female> he is <Speech_Female> an executive coach <Speech_Female> and sort of playing <Speech_Female> in the land, land <Speech_Female> of working with <Speech_Female> leaders of nonprofits. <Speech_Male> It's <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> very inspiring <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> to see <Speech_Male> the <Speech_Male> universe of people, <Speech_Male> some of them have <Speech_Female> found <Speech_Male> organizations and <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> that just can't, <Speech_Female> they can't sit <Speech_Female> idly by. And <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> it's a <Speech_Female> pretty remarkable <Speech_Female> thing. And <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> what a nice vantage <Speech_Female> point you have <Speech_Music_Female> as someone who not only <Speech_Female> gets to see that, <Speech_Male> but gets to <Speech_Female> partner with those <Speech_Female> people to have a great <Speech_Female> to enable <Speech_Female> them to have a greater <Speech_Female> impact. What <SpeakerChange> a privilege <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> that must be. <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> Well, it is a <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> privileged and <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> I try to <Speech_Female> use my privilege <Speech_Female> for the <Speech_Female> common good. <Speech_Female> But thank you so <Speech_Female> much for <Speech_Female> having me. It's <Speech_Female> really been a joy to <Speech_Female> talk with you, Joan. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> I enjoyed the conversation <Speech_Female> too very <Speech_Female> much. And <Speech_Female> thank you for <Speech_Female> your work and <Speech_Female> <Speech_Male> thank you for being so <Speech_Female> true to the values <Speech_Female> that Paul <Speech_Female> Newman embedded into <Speech_Female> his food business <Speech_Female> and the foundation <Speech_Female> and my <Speech_Female> goodness. You know, <Speech_Female> I even learned a <Speech_Male> lot today about the <Speech_Female> varying tentacles <Speech_Female> with the <Speech_Female> CEO <Speech_Female> development and <Speech_Female> the hole in the wall <Speech_Male> gang camp made it just <Speech_Female> it's <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> a remarkable <Speech_Female> remarkable legacy <Speech_Female> and <Speech_Female> I just want to <Speech_Female> skin. If you wanted to say <Speech_Female> thanks for sharing the <Speech_Female> stories and the insights <Speech_Female> and continue <Speech_Female> to follow <Speech_Female> the path to the common good, <Speech_Female> my friend. It's <Speech_Female> nice to meet you. Thank <Speech_Female> you very much and <Speech_Female> take good care. You <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> too, Miriam. <SpeakerChange> Take care. <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> Thanks <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> so much for spending time <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> with me today. <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> I hope you found the <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> conversation valuable <Speech_Music_Female> as you navigate <Speech_Music_Female> the messy world <Speech_Music_Female> of nonprofits. <Speech_Music_Female> Check out <Speech_Music_Female> all my other resources <Speech_Music_Female> at Joan Gary <Speech_Music_Female> dot com. <Speech_Music_Female> Hope you find <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> them helpful too. <Speech_Music_Female> Lastly, <Speech_Music_Female> thank you <Speech_Music_Male> for the work you do <Speech_Music_Female> to repair <Speech_Music_Male> the world in ways large and small. I'll see you next time.
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"paul newman" Discussed on Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"Than what it is and that just seems all wrong to me. So the hunt for the right word seems important. And so I was intrigued by your use of that term. And you know, usually I ask this at the front, but we got right into this. How did you come to foundation work? Well, I've always been very focused on public health, especially the intersection of nutrition and food. And with a colleague of mine, a wonderful colleague of mine at Tufts University where I did most of my work. Christina economists, we cofounded a project called child obesity one 80 and did a lot of work with the former First Lady, Michelle Obama, with her let's move campaign and we were looking for funding. I was still at tufts at the time. We were looking for funding and I thought to myself, gosh, Newman's own. I know that they support endeavors like this. And somehow, I know we don't accept non solicited proposals, but part of this is networking and understanding what they were doing. And in the end, we ended up with some support for it after school program for children. And I got more and more fascinated with Newman's own and because again, using the power of the commercial side to fund the nonprofit side, I thought was fascinating. And then I ended up being a board member on the food company. So I was a board member and then there were some leadership transitions and at the foundation. And I got asked to take on and be the president and CEO. So I started as a grantee, which is I think the best way to start because you have a lot of empathy and understanding. But the work is very similar, you know, as I've had in the past thinking about, how do you create positive change in the world? How do you think about policy? How do you think about entrepreneurship? How do you think about programs, resources? So I feel like I'm using my full skill set in my current position. What, how joyful is that? I interviewed another guest not long ago. And where that person wound up was so obvious where that person was going to end up when you actually heard the past and the passion. And so, but what a lovely thing when those things align and you find yourself sitting in a seat that actually allows you to bring everything you're carrying with you to the work. I wanted to end with this question. So you were a grantee, you deal with many grantees every year. And this is a, you know, my jam is fueling and supporting and championing leaders in the nonprofit sector. What have you learned about leadership in the sector as someone who is a funder to lots and lots of grantees? What have you learned.
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"paul newman" Discussed on Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"But he was really demonstrating leadership. And I just, I wonder how you two parts to this question, Miriam. So the first part is really, how do you, of course, I'm going to forget the second part because that's what happens when you get to a certain age. You remember number one, and then you don't remember number two. But maybe talk for a minute about you talked about funding leadership leadership. And what is that? What is that for the foundation? What does that look like when you're investing in leadership? What kinds of things? Maybe you could bring that to life a little bit. And when you say we really focus on leadership, what do you mean by that? What yeah, so Paul really had a knack for identifying great leaders and supporting them. I'm not sure that he would have self identified as a leader. He was way to it will also at the time that I may be a negative connotation versus now. I'm not sure, but I'll give you a couple of examples. Certainly, one is an amazing gentleman Kennedy odate who started something called shining hope for children, shopko, which is in the slums in Kibera in Kenya. And he actually, it's a long story, but he's an extraordinary man. And ended up going to wesleyan university in Connecticut. And one of our board members identified that he thought he was an incredible emerging leader. And we supported shopko at its earliest stage. And now, you know, it's just reaching, you know, thousands and thousands of children, especially education for girls and Kennedy is just extraordinary social entrepreneur. Another gentleman is Kurt Ellis, who runs food court and Kurt has a passion and the brains for thinking about how we can think about food and nutrition in the school environment so that nutrition and food are embedded in the educational experience in.
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"paul newman" Discussed on Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"It was in the early 90s and the CEO was really wanted to live, you know, sort of wanted the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to be embedded in showtime, horizontally and vertically, as you described it. So I came to know about this initiative because I was asked to Lee. I was sort of like the gay poster child at showtime in the early 1990s when we started the sort of the affinity group, the LGBT affinity group. And we started other affinity groups at that time and was just so interesting about it. Is that giving agency to those voices? Yes, it certainly changed policies inside of showtime in a variety of different ways. But it also seeped into programming. And showtime's programming, and it was one of the things I was most proud of about working at showtime. Showtime's program became remarkably diverse. And not for its own sake. But because it was living the values of the CEO then Tony Cox, who actually died of a heart attack in the midst of all of this, but his legacy lived on. And when I think about, at that time, it's really interesting. I had not thought about it before this conversation actually. Showtime was a very sort of distant second to HBO in those days. And it is no longer. It is a highly distinctive brand that is remarkably successful in ways it was not when I was there in the 1990s. And I can't help but believe that the values that were embedded in that. And with integrity and authenticity, those things bring out the best in the work, the folks who work there and in the product that is that is actually created. And I just, I really, I think you could tease back to the 1990s and see the kind of legacy that somebody like Tony Cox had that drove a number of those things. And I swear I had not made this connection till this very moment. Yeah, well, thank you for telling that story because I think it's a really good story. It's when you start living the values, all decisions, then. And it has to be top down bottom up, you know, it's like every which way and you think internally and externally, definitely a smaller example, but one that I think really I know for me hit home was back in the 80s, HIV was rampant and Paul Newman and colleagues started the hole in the wall gang camp. And they were trying to make decisions as you can imagine you're talking about supporting children who have serious illness. What kind of illnesses would they be supporting and they made a decision right off the get go that HIV positive children needed to have a home at these camps. And this was a time where there was no treatment for HIV. There was a lot of tons of stigma. There was misunderstanding. And you know, they just like, that was the right thing to do..
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"paul newman" Discussed on Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"What does that fundamentally about? Is that about? I mean, just clearly it's about doing good. It's also about enhancing that brand in some way that a cruise benefit in the bottom line, right? Now you're doing, but you're doing the same thing too. We will have a bottom line. You have a bottom line, exactly. And so but your motive, it's kind of interesting, right? So the corporate social responsibility group is Trump may, in fact, live under the public relations arm of a company, right? Yeah, it depends. It depends, right? But I think the bottom line for me and I wonder what your take is on this. If online for me is, what are the values embedded in that company? And does the philanthropy the doing good part align with those values? Is it authentic, authentic to the values of the company? I wonder if you could speak to that about the landscape, so much of the private sector is do they have values? I mean, we talked about this also was the notion that we have people joining the workforce in their 20s and 30s that have an expectation that a company will live its values. But I do think at the end of the day, it's about your company, your entity, your enterprises, value yeah, I agree completely there are two things here. One is I do believe more and more companies are seeing the value of their corporate social responsibility and their philanthropy and their ESG work and they're seeing that it actually improves the bottom line and so that's a good thing. ESG for listeners, ESG. Environmental social and governance for their organization. So are they, you know, are they equal pay for equal work? Are they making sure they aren't employing under waged individuals? The social piece is very big. The environmental piece is very big. And then the governance structure. One thing I'd like to bring a highlight to your viewers is an organization that Paul Newman also started, which was CEC, which is chief executives for corporate purpose and I think I got the term right, but CCP is a wonderful organization network that supports it's a couple hundred really top tier organizations in their corporate social responsibility and really thinking about being philanthropic. And we still work with them and support them and they do really great work. So if you want to look up CEC, it's a wonderful organization. You talked about values driven organizations. And I think it's really difficult to understand whether it's just really good PR or whether it's truly embedded in the values. One organization that I know quite well is Patagonia, the clothing, and they do actually provisions and some food now. And Patagonia is, you know, their whole reason for being is to save our home planet. And so every decision they make, you know, HR, procurement, sale. I mean, it's all driven. And so I really believe there is an organization which is trying to use the power of what they do. They also sell a really good product. So the power of what they do for the common good. You know, there's certainly other organizations out there as well. So, but it's integrated vertically, horizontally, and I think that's really important. Yeah, I do too. It's so interesting how these things happen. It's not exactly exactly the same thing, but I worked at showtime for a number of years before I entered the nonprofit sector..
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"paul newman" Discussed on Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"I think there are companies out there that use their purpose, the philanthropic purpose to sell products to sell more products. And then I do think there are organizations that are like ours that sell products for the purpose. And I think that's fundamentally different. But I'm going to say that I believe strongly that there are a lot of organizations that truly believe in the power of business to create positive change. And so I don't want to ding anybody at all because I think that there's a number that are moving in that direction and they're also realizing that the value proposition for hiring and retaining the best talent for actually being relevant to their consumers for the joy and the comfort and the fun in doing good in the world brings to you. So, you know, I'm not I've never been on the for profit side, but I'm, you know, dabble in it in different ways and certainly with Newman's own. So I believe there's a lot of goodness out there and it's transitioning because consumers are demanding it. They're wondering about the social, the environmental, the governance of an organization, they're voting with their pocketbooks. So we're really, we sell products to do good in the world. We don't do good in the world to sell more products. The distinction is very clear to me. And the one that you're not is not in any way a bad model, right? Two use your profits for good. In that way, sort of a company that makes money and gives some portion of it away. But it is the sort of the motivation, the motivations fundamentally different, right? You're you have a philanthropic motive. Whereas, you know, one of the things you have to really unearth with a company, and I see this a lot with folks that are who run nonprofits who interact with the corporate social responsibility group of a company..
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"paul newman" Discussed on Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"Yeah, well, shifting quite significantly. We used to fund much larger variety and we realized we weren't having the impact that we could and that would be advantageous from an impact standpoint to fund fewer, but be more involved with our full resources. And if you go to our 9 90, you can see everybody that we support. But we, I'm trying to think last year, it was maybe 250 different unique organizations. We also have an employee, if you work for Newman's own, you also are involved in helping to think about who we support. So that's where a number of some of the grants come from to wonderful. That's really, that's really awesome. The 100% thing you actually in our pre interview, I want you to hammer this home for our listeners because even I did not know that there are some brands that talk about giving profits away and indeed they do. But is there any other company that gives away a 100% of profits? Yeah, thanks for asking the question. We are, I can't name any rate at the moment. But we're loosely aware that there are few others that do this. In fact, I was on a call last week with a wonderful organization that is shifting to this model. And I think there's more and more that are looking at this. Usually their family owned and then, you know, the patriarch or matriarch is trying to think about their legacy and doesn't want to just sell the company. And so a little bit like Paul Newman and so we helped to support some organization. I can't talk about who they are, but they're sort of in transition, which is wonderful. That's great. Yeah, what's fascinating is we've done a lot of research with consumers. As you can imagine, really, because our donor is the person that buys salad dressing or popcorn or salsa or pasta sauce or wonderful pizzas. I mean, that's who our donor is. And so we need to understand our donor and the relevance and it's amazing that most regular consumers don't really understand the difference between giving one or two or 3% away and giving a 100% away. And I think there are a lot of companies that do there are a lot of philanthropic companies and companies doing really good work. I mean, there are a number of them. But they don't give a 100% away. Like we do. So again, I really believe we are the original purpose driven brand. And that's the way Paul wanted it. And I think we need to do a better job of really heralding that model and what we do so that we can really differentiate ourselves from the as poll would have said, well, the people that are giving one, two or 3% away. That's a good start. But, you know, try a hundred..
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"paul newman" Discussed on Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"So we are a team, but we each run different entities at Newman's own. That's important. In terms of the foundation, we're in the midst of some transitions. And every foundation, an organization for that matter, occasionally needs to really think about their impact, think about their resources that they have. Think about where you want to have impact for us. We have a lot of resources in terms of we have the money that we get from the profits from the sale of food, but we also have the sort of power of Newman's own and Paul Newman himself, even though he is not with us anymore. We've got networks and we've got the wisdom of our grantee partners. We've got, you know, opportunities the power of the brand to really think about change. And so we are really looking at that and finishing up some strategic thinking and how do we really maximize all of those resources to create change, especially for children. I mean, we know that children really matter to Paul and it's something that we supported from the get go. So how do we really think about children? So, you know, some of the areas that we supported you already brought up is children who are seriously ill through the camps that work. But we also are very deep into supporting efforts and thought leadership around children's nutrition security in schools. There's a real opportunity right now with the current administration and because of some experiences with COVID, we know that schools have really become the epicenter of nutrition security in their communities. So there's a lot of, we support that work and both policy and practice and people in that area and then another area where we've been supporting work for the last decade has been in Indian country and Native American youth and really thinking about food stuff Randy and the amazing entrepreneurship that is happening in on reservations and with native people and so those are just few areas where we.
Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"paul newman" Discussed on Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"He had luck on his side in many ways. And, you know, when he stumbled, I'm going to say across the food business. And he realized that he could use his power for good. It was really, he called it shameless exploitation for the common good, which I think is a wonderful term. And he realized that he could use his power for the common good, especially for children. It was really exciting. But he was very savvy. He believed that good food needed to have the best high quality ingredients. It needed to taste really good. It needed to be convenient. And it needed to be something where you could bring the family and you could gather around. And those ideas ideals around quality trumps, everything else, was really important from the food perspective. And he really, that has really stuck with us through time. I want to move on to talking about the foundation and the work. But I also find myself wondering how many people are listening who don't know the story of Paul Newman, right? There's just the generations of people like me like you who, for whom this is quite top of mind, but for younger generations who might not know the story. So I wanted to stick with it just in the hopes that there's somebody listening to saying, wow, I really didn't know that. Yeah, he was radically good. I mean, he really was quite extraordinary. And so many different ways. I wish that I had gotten to know him. Well, it sounds like well, it certainly sounds like you actually did get to know sort of his values and his ideals and are living that living that in your work. So let's talk about 2022 and tell us about the size and impact of the foundation. And a little bit about how it intersects with the food company. I think people would find that interesting. Yeah, so let's see which to go for so let me talk about how we intersect with the food company. So with Newman's own, there are there's the foundation, which as you said in the introduction, we are the ones that think strategically about our impact and how to use the funds that we receive from the sale of food and licensing to have impact. So there's the foundation, which I'll talk about in a second. And then there's the food company. And the food company is run by a wonderful man named Dave best..
Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"paul newman" Discussed on Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"Tell me about the timeline because I think many people certainly, many people of a certain age know that Paul Newman was deep commitment to being a humanitarian and using his platform. This is one way. He also was involved. I think you'll tell me in the hole in wall gang camps as well. Was that before or after he cooked up the salad dressing? Do you know? So Paul Newman was a Oscar winning actor. He was a winning race car driver. He was a social entrepreneur with the food business, Newman's own, and a philanthropist. I mean, he was and he was so many more things than that. When he started Newman's own, he just decided that children that were facing serious illness needed more joyful experiences to just be a kid. And so he and hotchner and hotchner's wife and Joanne dreamed up the hole in the wall gang camp based on the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid story. And started a camp in Connecticut for seriously ill kids. And the whole gang camp is going strong..
Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"paul newman" Discussed on Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
"Helping people in need around the world. Miriam. I'm really happy you're joining me. I found our pre interview fascinating and I'm looking forward to sharing your story with our listeners today. You're so kind, Joan to have me today, and I'm looking forward to our conversation. Thank you so much. Let's do it. So let's talk about the origin story of Newman's own. Now, I have a hunch that there probably are some people in the world don't know that story. I think most folks assume that Paul Newman made this like kick ass salad dressing and someone suggested that he and Joanna start selling it. And then someone took it a step further and suggested, wait, maybe the profits can go to nonprofit organizations aligned with Paul and Joanne's areas of interest in values. I don't know. That's the story I would write, but maybe it's more complicated than that. Why don't you tell us? Yeah, I think you've got it pretty well. So as I never got to meet Paul Newman, but I've certainly listened to tons of interviews, read so much about him, talk to people that knew him very well. And my understanding is that he was a foodie. He loved to cook. He would not have called himself a chef, but he loved to cook and he loved good food with really good ingredients. And around about 1982, early 80s, a friend of his hotchner. Said, let's brew up some really wonderful wonderful salad dressing and they gave it away to their neighbors and the neighbors all said you should sell this. And so he said, okay, well, I'll try. And so locally he worked to sell his wonderful salad dressing that tasted so good and with great ingredients in the next thing you knew, the salad dressing was selling off the shelves. And so then he is wonderful, humility said, well, if we're going to sell this, I'm going to give 100% of the profits away to good causes..
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Is Cole Hauser Gay?
"I can't tell any female in my life that there was a rumor a long time ago that Cole Hauser is gay and is even a further rumor that his boyfriend was Vin Diesel. I know it's impossible to think of two of those guys with all that much cheese mo being gay. Look, it was a rumor in the same vein, John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Paul Newman, deal with that what you will, but that was the scuttle butt. Emphasis on but,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"paul newman" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Chris Ryan, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise Martin Scorsese. It's a really good one. Fun talking about Newman. I don't remember if we'd really dove into Newman before. So we did it on that one. Also, we did a bunch of basketball coverage today in the ringer. We used the green room on Spotify, did some live pods that bring our NBA show, the mismatch, had a whole bunch of pairings in there. Did an after show tonight after the Lakers warriors came, so keep an eye out for all that content as well. I'm really excited for the basketball season and have a basketball and football together. It's just beautiful. Coming up on this podcast, I'm going to talk a little bit at the top and then Jackie McMullen and I we taped that earlier in the day, but we covered Ben Simmons in the season itself. So that's happening. And then Ben sole act terminator. Relatively new ringer employee hire addition, free agent, whatever you want to call him, but he's been killing it on Warren sharp's Wednesday show in the ringer game show in the ringer and her first show as well. So he came on to break down a little 6 game report of what containers we should be watching, who's in trouble with two and four teams could be a little sneaky dangerous, maybe and a whole bunch more. That is all coming up in one second. I wanted to talk about some of the sports tonight before we get to the rest of the podcast. So I'm taping this part of the pod. It is almost ten o'clock, Pacific time. Just went through another Red Sox roller coaster. You knew they weren't going to win all three at home. I was really trying to be realistic about that. These games, 8 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 5 o'clock.
SpyHards Podcast
"paul newman" Discussed on SpyHards Podcast
"Paul newman had the sting this year the next year. He stars in the biggest blockbuster probably of the year the towering inferno paul newman's good. Don't worry about him. Folks and walter hill takes a bit of minor break before coming back. He writes the nineteen seventy five. Paul newman movie. The drowning pool and has his direct to'real debut hard times with charles bronson and that kick starts historial career. He's fine too. So it's more like i think the macintosh manage just sort of a curiosity among this really interesting trio. And how did this come come across your lap camp. This is your choice so yeah a little behind the scenes. We have a big master list of spy films to cover for the podcast. And i will just sometimes google around and look for spy films to add that maybe are hidden gems. Or just things that you know. People don't have on the tip of their tongue. And when i saw a john houston film. Starring paul newman listed as a spy film. I said this is a must do at some point because easier to big talents. Here we are okay. Giovanni else i can. Nope that about wraps up the macintosh man. Okay so let's get into what we feel about the field. We've kind of hinted little bits and bobs. but i really wanted cristina. Our guest take away. What did you think of the macintosh man. so i was fascinated by just what was going on fascinated. Not not integrate. Good way but just this felt like three or four different movies all into one with makes complete sense with all the different writers they had on this like are at the very beginning. I was getting a very like spy. Who came in for the cold vibe from okay. You know we're gonna send you in. We're gonna you know you but of course we don't know what he's supposed to be doing because they give us zero information of. Oh what you're trying.
WBZ Afternoon News
Biden calls for 'commonsense gun law reforms' on anniversary of Parkland shooting
"At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida 17 people were killed in the shooting when a former student at the school opened fire. The shooting sparked a youth gun control movement called March for our lives. President Biden called on Congress to strengthen gun laws on the third anniversary of the shooting, saying there was no time to wait. Florida governor Rhonda Santis ordered flags to half staff across the state actor Paul Newman's camp for Children in
A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich
Ranch vs. Blue Cheese
"I love blue cheese all everyday not even as a wing dipping sauce blue cheese dressing. I like blue cheese crumbles. I like it on a wedge salad on the side of you know. The stake have one time mistake and i made blue cheese pound butter. Wow what a wonderful yummy. Oh that does sound good bread. Yeah i love blue cheese. And i think it's verse it on. I think people just have a weird aversion to mold. You think blue cheeses versatile. I think it so versatile foods that i didn't necessarily well you kind of just named like wings salad and then stake but stake when really blue cheese. Would you blue cheese dressing on a stake. Blue cheese dressing rate is like the arguing. She's dipping sauce. We like dipping sauce dressing all blue cheese in general. I brought a list of blue cheeses. That i like. Well no but. I mean a lot of people like as a kid. I didn't know that blue cheese was a standalone cheese. Only had it in dressing for in. I'd only had like bad dressing. I think bad blue cheese dressing is much worse than what is bad. Blue cheese dressing wishbone. We're never getting wishbone. Wishbone wishbone boise. Addressing. there is no blue cheese in there. It's like a little bit of mold powder and then all parents love wishboned. Blue cheese dressing. That's why we grew up with it. He's like. America does corn syrup and chemicals america america french dressing. Wow i have nothing. I'd love wishbone. I love the shape of their bottles. Correct i think. Ken steakhouse highfalutin. That's the zinc legit jesse of all time. I can't bring myself to buy like fancy salad dressings. Because i'm either buying like a valley or like a wishbone equivalent or making my own spending. No seven forty. Nine for paul newman. Do you like making your own ranch. Yes is it as good as a bottled ranch. It's not as good as this. We we need to offer up a correction here for a previous episode. I don't even know what the heck we were talking about. We mentioned how good cisco ranches and we brought it specifically outback. Yeah mansion house. Oh no but i mean to me. That's a testament of. I love taking foods that are like really good prefab like stove. Top stuffing right like making my own homemade version of top stuffing and trying to make it taste exactly like that. And i love doing that like cisco ranch. But those don't no one's talking about cisco is the gigantic food distribution company that delivers like ten gallon drums What's the one cattlemen's cattlemans barbecue sauce. Brands that only exists that go through cisco and sell in ten gallon increments until like every crappy chain across. America uses the same barbecue sauce cisco small mom and pop restaurants long thoughts. Yeah they'll source of a lot of diners especially that have really big menus aren't so using very true. Isn't blue cheese dressing just ranch plus blue cheese okay. This comes to a very good point ranches. The mother sauce dressing is the variation on the mother. It's like you have holidays. Then you add shallots in tarragon and you get burn as you have ranch dressing. And the ad blue cheese crumbles in blue cheese dressing. Which is why. I think ranches superior s coffee rolling in his grave right now. The disrespect that you are giving towards his muscle. Tear down your french cooking idols. All right because the hidden valley corporation made so much more money so many more people in this coffee. You don't know that where your second. Though that i got a rifle actually hidden valley is worth a ton of money. They got top chef money. They sponsor entire seasons of top chef last chance kitchen which is also one of the most brilliant digital marketing devices last chance kitchen so top chef hidden valley would occasionally sponsor like a quickfire challenge on top chef. Literally be like yeah. Oh there's and they can get all wacky with it. Like reynolds wrap sponsored one one year and literally had to only cook using reynolds wrap as like equipment so people were like fashioning saute pans that have just reynolds wrap. Oh that's so fits on the up and they go on the show on top chef. Can i go yeah. I don't think i would win. But i would. Just a lot of people are like top chef. And i was like literally like the one of the first challenges. There is called a pre where it's like you have to perfectly breakdown or trust chickens. Yes technical stuff. That i have no idea i feel like i could go on. Chopped cut their kitchen. All the garbage food network shows. Top chef is an entirely different level. That i could not happen. Yeah yeah yeah.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"paul newman" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"Not to mention there was a show, I believe in 1970 called now explosion. I don't think many of you ever heard of that. If you did, you've got to be able to 50. Or you've got to be a real old soul. Now explosion was 20 some odd years ahead of the curve and playing music videos. And my uncle Larry, who was the Doctor Who was in 74 and sunny was really kind of hit, he liked younger music, he liked to smoke weed. He was definitely having this midlife crisis kind of thing. Always driving a fast Alfa Romeo with racing gloves on his hands. That kind of shit. He had eyes like Paul Newman. No, he looked gorgeous. Even though he was bald, it didn't matter. Uncle liar was fucking cut like a diamond. And he turned us on to that show and we would all gather and now explosion was on for like four hours. Oh my God. Let me know if any of you remember that. No Googling, just try to remember it. Tremendous tremendous. So that's why. That's why it shouldn't be anyone that music takes me back to such a wonderful place where so many things are born and discovered. All right, let's talk about Neil Young. And as I said, I was never a huge fan of his. For me, as I got older, he represented very druggy music and I was against that. He had the big mutton chop sideburns, the fucking hair. I started not to like it, you know? I remember in high school the football team would play his song powder finger. During home games, we wore white jerseys, and we were really, really good. And the first verse of that song was, look out mama, there's a white boat coming up the river. And I think that was played as a warning for the visiting team as the football team ran through the goalpost and crashed through the paper the chilling as we're holding before they spilled onto the field to everybody's cheers. And by the way, Neil Young's album rust never sleeps was a huge hit back then in high school. But think about that song..
KGO 810
"paul newman" Discussed on KGO 810
"Dimensional wealth radio. I want to share that with you. If you're just joining us In the previous segment. Today, I've been talking about taxes and how people aren't too strongly consider a strategic rollout, not a rollover. Roll out getting the money rolled out of qualified accounts like IRAs and 41 case. Usually, I would recommend at least five years before retirement. S o that you could get the money out. The tax is over and done with sooner than later in today's lower tax brackets, but reposition the net after tax money into something that's gonna be tax free. From now on, Then, with a good accountant, you can strategize how you could maybe offset some or all of the tax by maybe resurrecting new deductions and so forth. So that's why I was talking about selecting a very good tax strategist. And so I've taught many CPS and tax attorneys with advanced C PE, continuing professional education and so forth. So they have to have several 100 hours 120 hours every two years or so. Now, folks, when we talk about taking money out of IRAs and four in one case, why Why do you want to do that sooner than later? It's because you're not accomplishing anything. When Congress is hard up for money. Where do they go to get the money? Okay if they need tax revenue Where do they go to get that money? I'm going to give you a hint. To the people who have the money. Okay, now. There are About 5000 people recorded that have scaled Mount Everest. Now. Some of them have done it multiple times. But 5000 human beings have actually successfully scaled Mount Everest. There's been the last statistic about 307 people who have died. In that attempt now. Do you think they died on the way up the mountain? Or On the way down the mountain. The vast majority died on the way down the mountain. Now you know, you could say, Well, they weren't thinking about it. They just They were just focused on hitting the top. See a lot of people in life. They focus on, you know for retirement. What are they doing to save for retirement? Let's see. Very few people will talk about. Well, what do you do at retirement? What do you do now that you're at the top, I remember climbing a pyramid and chips and needs in Mexico and the climbing up but was was not scary at all. But coming down. Oh, I had to turn around and crawl down. It was like coming down the mountains. And so Congress as it takes and robs people coming down the mountain sort of figure coming down the mountain of life, and that's the people who have the money. And it always reminds me of one of my favorite movies with Robert Redford and but well, Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. And if you remember that movie, you know they're robbing the banks and the Union Pacific Railroad here and you die. Each chairman of the and he starts to track him down. And so they take off to Bolivia, and they start robbing banks down there And then pretty soon they're getting on to him down there. They decided to go straight, and so they hired themselves out his payroll guards. And I'll never forget this scene because they're going down or up the mountain here to get the payroll and and their leader is ahead of him on the meal. And you know Butch and Sundance or you're talking to each other. I'll bet you the robbers were gonna be up there in the rocks on the right. No, I think they're gonna be in the bushes on the left. And the guy turned around, says morons. Have morons on my team. They don't rob you when you don't have the money. Don't worry about being robbed and we don't have the money. We're going down to get the gold. We're going down to get the money Worry because robbers don't rob you if you don't have the money, and here he was. Tutoring two robbers who had decided to go straight. Well, yeah, they don't rob people who don't have money. The government goes for tax revenue to the people who have the money. Okay, so that's the whole point here. So that's coming down the mountain of life, and that's when, frankly, a lot of retirees can least afford it. But that's why I warned people you've got to have a tax strategist, help you find the right advisors that could help you from attack strategy standpoint, because most people When they look back at the end of the day they go. I should have never taken Rmds. Why did I do that? I strung out the taxes and paid 45 times. Well, I I needed to pay if I would have got got the money out, and the tax is over and done with But people sort of go well. If you don't need the money, why take it out? Just keep it deferring. Well, they think that saving tax and it's not I can prove it to you. Mathematically you want to get the money out in the tax is over and done with Now. You don't need to spend that If you don't need it, you reposition. The after tax roll out money into something that's gonna be tax free from now on, And that will ultimately blossom is Mike Joyce. Do you want to you want when you finally die to blossom in value and transfer income tax free? That's why my favorite vehicle I called.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"paul newman" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Twitter at Melville Trust. This is NPR. Welcome back to Bull side. I'm Jesse Thorn. I'm talking with actor Isaiah Whitlock Jr He's performed in movies like Goodfellas and 25 Bloods. He played state Senator Clay Davis on the wire, and he's starring in the New Showtime. Syriza, Your Honor. Let's hear the rest of our conversation. You have a really wonderful start to your career on film. Here I am DP in your Wikipedia list two films in which you appeared in 1990, both of which Are profoundly beloved cult classics. One is Goodfellas and the others. The other is gremlins to the new batch. I have actually seen gremlins to the new batch. More recently, I saw that about eight months or a year ago. It's pretty amazing movie. Uh, can you tell me? Can you tell me how it came to be that you ended up in two pretty big movies to start your career, albeit in in in small roles. Gremlins two. I think I was like a fireman or something that might have been like the first her second movie that I that I did. I was really like trying to scratch things out. But Goodfellas was interesting because Had become a member of the actors studio. And Paul Newman was looking For some people to come over to his apartment and read the color of money. Uh, with Martin Scorsese, Tom Cruise. And I went over to to the part, but terms I'm sorry. I'm busy. Hey, plan, not new man a date, So it's like, Look, you know, I gotta go over to Paul's, uh, apartment and sit on the couch and read and he had a handful of people there and we're all sitting around and we're and we're reading the color of money. And of course, I wanted a part in the movie. And I didn't get a part in the movie. That part went to force Whitaker, but When good fellas came around. Went to audition for good, fellas. I got an audition for good fellas. And I got a call back and I got called back for Can't remember the actor's name. But the scene is when he's comes to Joe Pesci with the bill and Pesci hits him over the head with the bottle. He owns the restaurant or whatever. And I thought, what? There's no way they're going to cast B. In this part, but I got a callback. So I'm not going to say no. I haven't really done a movie. So I go and Walked in, and Scorsese says I know you from somewhere. And I said, Yeah, I did Those readings on the couch for the color of money. And he says, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's great. That's great, He says. Well, look, the part you auditioned for You can't play that, But I do have this role of a doctor. It's a very, very small part, but it's very instrumental to the movie. It's the only guy that Henry Hill trust. He's all coked out and everything like that. Do you think you could do that for me? I know it's not much, but do you think you could do that? And inside? I'm saying Act like you've been there act like you've been there and I say Yeah, Yeah, sure. Marty. Yeah, I think I could do that. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so, he said with Paul real quick, I'm going over there is a privately right? And that's how I ended up in Goodfellas. But at the time I kind of took it in stride until I started going out and I started telling people Yeah, you know, I got this part in this movie Goodfellas. And that was the big story was. How the hell did you get a part in Goodfellas? Which is called wise Guy at the time. And I was working a job at a restaurant. And there was one guy who actually said Look tomorrow I'm going down. I'm gonna audition for Goodfellas because of you got apart. I know I'm going to get a part. They must just be giving parts away in this movie if they hired you well, needless to say he didn't get apart and Screw him. It's bull's eye. I'm Jesse Thorn. My guest is actor Isaiah Whitlock. Junior. Um, your character on the wire. Clay Davis. He was briefly in the first season of the show, right you It was. It was just starting up when you went in. Did you get to read any hole scripts before you went in for that part? Or had you just seen little sides? No. The thing with wire is also very interesting because I was in season one in season two, but I was only supposed to be They're at a cocktail party. There was no story line. There was nothing written. It was just the state senator. After those they decided. Well, we should maybe do something with this. We should maybe do a story line and When they called me to come back. For season three. I initially said no, because I thought it was just gonna be This sort of cocktail party stuff. And I was doing a fellow in Alabama. And I said, No, I can't be bothered. I just I'm not gonna go. And my agent called me, he says. Are you sure said No. I said, I'm too little fellow down here in Alabama. I can't be concerned with some little cocktail party. And, um, they finally convinced me to go and David Simon pulled me aside and said, Now we've got this whole thing set up this whole story line where you're gonna be ripping off the drug dealers and things like that, and they think they're ripping you off and you're gonna be ripping them off, and that's when I got excited about it. But I was never ever on their radar from the beginning. Was the show on your radar. I mean, did you realize by then what it was, You know, not many folks were watching it at the time. Yeah, I did, because I had a lot of friends on the show and You know, I mean, I thought the show was great. I just didn't really at the time just didn't see myself in it. And then when I got on it Could admit this now. My biggest fear was that I said, Don't be the weak link. This is like a great show. Don't be the weak link. Don't be the got, you know, they say Oh, yeah, the wire and then that guy Isaiah Whitlock. Other than that. The show's like fantastic, But I was terrified. I was just terrified. You know, I said this could go One of two ways, but that being said, I had the courage enough to do what I wanted to do. And when I was at the American Conservatory Theater, the artistic director Bill Ball would always say fail big. If you're going to fail, fail big. So I thought, OK, I'm going to fail big and kind of go forward and play what I feel or what I think this character should be. There was a period where I thought I know they're gonna fire me. But then I also thought, you know if they don't like it, they can always cut it. But nobody ever said anything to me, and they just kind of let me Continued to create and it was that freedom that they gave me that allowed me to just even do more stuff and solidify that character. How did you feel the impact of your work on the wire to folks talk to you about it every day every day. It At the end of the wire. David Simon came to me and he said, You know, you know you're gonna have to live with the catchphrase and everything like that. And I didn't believe him. I thought not, You know, a year from now, nobody's gonna Really paid too much attention to it, but There's a few things there one. I had to live with the catch phrase, but I also saw how the character affected people. It's like you're a bad guy, and you're going to make people love you. It would be so easy to just sort of dismiss the character. But The key is to make people like you and make people enjoy you when they see you, and I thought I was able to do that on this show. And then fast forward to today, people still feel that way..
How I Built This
interview With Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries
"Hey everyone. Welcome to how. I built this resilience edition from npr on these episodes. We talk with entrepreneurs and change makers how they're meeting today's challenges with new strategies and ideas and today we're going to hear from father gregory boyle. He's the founder of homeboy industries. Father greg founded homeboy industries after years of serving as a jesuit priest and later as a pastor at dolores mission church in east. La forty saw the devastating effects of gang related violence on his community after operating for over thirty years. Homeboy industries has become one of the largest gang intervention rehabilitation and re entry programs in the world. About fifteen thousand folks year walk through our doors trying to reimagine their lives. We were begun in nineteen eight. Just end my paris. Which was the poorest in the city but had had the highest concentration of gang activity. We had eight gangs at war with each other and i started to bury kids. I buried my two hundred and eighty third last week. Not all from that community. Obviously but i know a lot of gang members. So i get asked and and so we just started. Things started to school than we started the jobs program trying to find felony friendly employers then that was not so forthcoming so we started businesses. A bakery was the first in ninety two and now we have nine social enterprises but also a program of healing you know. Sluggers tattoo removal. There's therapy case management classes. It's an amazing series of programs. And as you mentioned i mean things like tattoo removal or just helping people kind of reenter society after being gangs or being incarcerated obviously while it's changing many employers still reluctant to hire people with felony records and in response to that you create your own businesses aside from the bakery which is probably the best known because it has locations in los angeles tummy a little bit more about some of the other social enterprises that homeboy industries has launched so at our headquarters. We have homeboy bakery homegirl. Cafe and homeboy homegirl marchandise. And then we have the restaurant at the airport a city hall. We have homeboy diner. The only place to get food at city hall. We have a thing called homeboy grocery where we sell chips salsa and guacamole and a variety of grocery stores boy recycling which is recycling. You waste which quite an extensive of business and growing amboise silkscreen and embroidery. That's been around for twenty seven years. Lap boesky nine in there so That's a lot. that's a lot. I was telling you earlier before we went live that i saw you profile and sixty minutes in. I think in the late eighties early nineties and i grew up in in los angeles. You're such a legendary figure there. I'm you've been awarded the california peace prize. And i mean you're a priest at the end of the day like your priest you do. Mass obviously socially distant for people who are incarcerated. But you're also an entrepreneur. Did you consider yourself as an entrepreneur when you founded this organization. Do you think of yourself that way. Now why board would never sign on the notion that i know anything about business so i don't really see it that way but we're always responding if tattoos had become a an obstacle in gang members. One of them off. We started that even in terms of our businesses. They were kind of haphazard you. There was no business plan. There was an abandoned bakery across the street from our school. Our parochial school in a movie producer. Ray stark after the unrest in ninety two wanted to help and i said well okay. I don't know by this bakery. It has ovens they don't work. You could fix them. We could put hairnets on enemy rival gang members. Well that was the entirety of my business plan. So i think i think everything else kind of operated in the same way. There was a couple from the parish who wanted to start rodriguez silk screening. And i said well. Don't start homeboys screening in. So that's how that was born so you know it wasn't like go some big master plan and it was all kind of accidental. You know we have a thing called the global homeboy network. Which is you know. Three hundred programs in the country outside kind of modeled on methodology. You know they all want to start a social enterprise and they all want to do food. Which i always say don't but you know because food is hard. Yeah restaurants are really hard sex in us to a bakery cafe and it's hard to talk people out of this. But i was tell do silk screening. That's recession proof. Everybody wants a shirt their family reunion or they're five k. race. And they'll go with you even if it's more expensive because it's kind of the. Paul newman feel good. You know it's like yeah. It's cost more but it helps employees
Asian Enough
Sung Kang reveals the fight to make 'Better Luck Tomorrow'
"Sung king you know him as the street racers. Hans Solo. I love that Han Solo in the fast and furious movies. And you can argue that. Seng's portrayal of Han the impossibly cool mentor of Tokyo drift. A member of the core fast and furious family made the franchise the most surprising and successful blockbuster series in Hollywood history. I would definitely make the argument so we are very lucky to have the chance to speak with Song. Today on Asian enough. Thank you for being here with us forever me we want to start off by addressing the big news. Which is you are coming back to the fast and furious franchise for the upcoming fast and furious. Nine which is huge for those of us who obsessively watched these movies because we know than Han. Your character has been gone for a couple of movies and in fact has one of the most tremendous most unpredictable. Arc's I feel like in movie history in that you know Tokyo drift. Which was the third movie in. The fast and furious franchise is the one that you originated this character. And we'd love to hear from you. What has your relationship with Han. Been like over these years. It's a love hate relationship. The hate is a strong word for it. I think it's maybe love and difficult is what it is because I'll never dismiss what the fast and furious and with the Han characters done for my career and my family and opened the Hollywood doors the first time I you know Justin and I worked on festive fears like we would just literally walk around the production office and then go into his office and start like laughing. Because can all these chairs the free snapple into the free water right those little things that we really appreciate it. Because when we're shooting tomorrow we had nothing we had a fold out table with five sticks of. Wrigley's spearmint gum spread out and a box of cold intimate donuts breakfast. That was our craft service and better luck tomorrow. Of course was the two thousand two indie film about over achieving Asian American teens who flipped the Model Minority Myth on its head when they start doing crimes so better luck. Tomorrow was Justin. Lin's first solo feature recode to feature call shopping things with Quinton leave and there were still students at Ucla. And then I heard that this young filmmaker out of UCLA was making an Asian American film. But I had already worked on a couple of Asian of American films that never finished and it was kind of a fiasco and felt like yeah. It's great to be part of this movement but we're not going to be able to compete with because you can't even finish the movie and when I came back to La. I was so disenchanted anytime I heard about another Asian American filmmaker instantly said this is probably not a good idea. That was already probably a few like maybe five six years in right. I mean I've been already a journeyman into business. You know and the auditions that I would get are the roles that would be a waiter or Yakuza and I felt like maybe the timing was rights. And this idea of being an actor in Hollywood is not GonNa Happen. Right and then I got a couple of phone calls from some aspiring producer. Asian American producers. And they said Hey. There's this guy named Justin Lin. He's a ucla and he's doing this. Asian American film. You should take a look at the script and you should like audition for it now and then two more friends call and say hey. You should really take a look at the script so Justin I actually met at. Danny's on Wilshire and western Koreatown. We met to talk about the script right and talk about the role and stuff like that and at that time. I think Hon- was written as a Filipino character. That drove a hundred civic here like a shaved head. Wow he was really perpetuating kind of like this. You know southern Kelly J. JD M. car culture kind of thug. And I'm from Georgia so I don't identify with I'm into muscle and you know my role models were like James Dean. Paul Newman John Wayne. If you will right and so this thing did not resonate so when I sat down with just and I said Hey I can I addition for Ben. The main character for best. I better tomorrow and just in being the the the patient older brother if you will and he would make a great poker player because slow played it and he's like why not. Let's see so. I went at like three times to read for Ban and knowing the whole time. I'm way too old looking. I don't fit the VIBE and I said to myself if this dude cast me it's movies gonNA suck and compromise vision. So after the third edition called me and said. Hey Man it's not gonNa work out but I would still love free to play on. I was like this is a guy that I would go to paddle with one last shot. Because if it doesn't work out I probably have to go and find a real job and it was so challenging because we had the whole budget in place but then the investors had asked Justin to change all the rules to Caucasian and Justin being. Who is now not GONNA do it? And he started putting the equipment on his credit card but as soon as the credit card companies. No you're maxing it out. They basically linked to the other companies. And then they'll hold your credit card so we're screwed and then I had worked at this restaurant in Beverley hills this cream barbecue place called Hula okay. That is no longer and we shot for a day and then justice said the money's not coming in so we probably have to shut this down and I went to work and I was so depressed right and I'm a server. They're left of a smile. I was so bummed and this is where I feel like everything happens for a reason. Like I don't necessarily subscribe to all these myths and stuff as some Guardian Angel but if if there is such thing that night she showed up and by that you mean John Wong and her husband. Jeffrey go founders of the Cherry Sky Films Production Company. They had been coming into the restaurant for a couple years and there was the first time they saw me not smiling and that kind of goofing off and she said what's wrong way so sadness explain the situation and she said can. I take a look at the script as I have in my car. She goes Why don't you in the director come by the office? Like the talk we went in there spoke for about an hour and then she wrote us a fifty thousand dollar check. Wow there's something like so mythic about this whole story but isn't that the keep a fifty thousand not enough to finish this movie right and so then we're stock and just kind of freaking out and the only person he knows that really has money. Is this guy named Mc Hammer right and how does he know MC Hammer so justin used to work at the Japanese? American museum is to be editor for the downtown Japanese-american Museum and so he was in plans of shooting tomorrow. And at that time the cannon xl one three chip consumer camera was coming out. And if you guys are aware if your techies like big deal so that was the first option of going digital post to film and suggests that went down. I think there was a convention down there to look at the new cameras coming out and Hera was there so hammer's standing next to a kid. You know anything about this camera. And he kind of helps them out and he goes. So what do you WanNa do this well? One day I hope to be a director. They Kinda you know. Talk a little bit and hammered being who is gave him his phone number and said hey you ever need anything. Give call so fast forward. The money's not happening just freaking out the credit cards frozen. I think he had the the phone number like pin to his wall. For you know for Sake right is that what the hell he calls. Hammer Hammer picks up. What's up is okay. Do you remember me Zig. Know what do you want? Here's the situation he goes. Hey it's not hammer time anymore. I can't just be funding these things. But here's ten grand. Do what you gotta do but you know I don't I don't need it back but here it is so if you go and watch. Tokyo drift anytime. There's a Tokyo City. Scene is hammer
Aerial America
Ohio Natives Who Went on to Make History - burst 2
"A deal drafted by president. Thomas Jefferson that deal called the northwest. Ordinance helped ensure that New Territories like Ohio. Set aside land for universities. It's tempting to wonder what Jefferson would have made the university's most recent achievement ranking among America's top party schools. Well known alumnus was no stranger to that reputation in nineteen forty-three a freshman named Paul. Newman joined the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity. But it didn't last year long. One Ninety allegedly rolled a beer keg down a hill on campus when the cake crashed into a car owned by the University President Newman was expelled before becoming a famous actor. Paul Newman then joined the navy hoping to become a pilot but his dream of flight was dashed when he was found to be colorblind. But here in the small town of topic Annetta another young man shared Newman's dream of flight and his journey would soon turn extraordinary in one thousand nine forty four fourteen year old boy named Neil Armstrong and his family moved into this Corner House gazing out at the night sky from his second floor bedroom. The Armstrong fell in love with the idea of flight. Got His pilot's license just two years later the age of sixteen even before he could. Dr Armstrong flew for the navy and worked as a test pilot for NASA before becoming an astronaut or July sixteenth nineteen sixty nine he and the rest of the Apollo eleven crew lifted off from Cape Canaveral. It was four days later on July twentieth. That Armstrong set foot on the moon while he inspired millions around the world. People here in. What can ETA were especially proud of their hometown. Hero that same day. Ohio Governor James Rhodes proposed building museum to honor Armstrong and the state's contribution to spaceflight just three years later. The Armstrong Air and Space Museum opened. Its doors from the air. It looks more like a moon station than a museum. Inside is a Gemini Capsule a Moon Rock and a simulator gives visitors a chance to feel what it's like to land on the moon.
Aerial America
Ohio Natives Who Went on to Make History - burst 2
"A a deal deal drafted drafted by by president. president. Thomas Thomas Jefferson Jefferson that that deal deal called called the the northwest. northwest. Ordinance Ordinance helped helped ensure ensure that that New New Territories Territories like like Ohio. Ohio. Set Set aside aside land land for for universities. universities. It's It's tempting tempting to to wonder wonder what what Jefferson Jefferson would would have have made made the the university's university's most most recent recent achievement achievement ranking ranking among among America's America's top top party party schools. schools. Well Well known known alumnus alumnus was was no no stranger stranger to to that that reputation reputation in in nineteen nineteen forty-three forty-three a a freshman freshman named named Paul. Paul. Newman Newman joined joined the the Phi Phi Kappa Kappa Tau Tau Fraternity. Fraternity. But But it it didn't didn't last last year year long. long. One One Ninety Ninety allegedly allegedly rolled rolled a a beer beer keg keg down down a a hill hill on on campus campus when when the the cake cake crashed crashed into into a a car car owned owned by by the the University University President President Newman Newman was was expelled expelled before before becoming becoming a a famous famous actor. actor. Paul Paul Newman Newman then then joined joined the the navy navy hoping hoping to to become become a a pilot pilot but but his his dream dream of of flight flight was was dashed dashed when when he he was was found found to to be be colorblind. colorblind. But But here here in in the the small small town town of of topic topic Annetta Annetta another another young young man man shared shared Newman's Newman's dream dream of of flight flight and and his his journey journey would would soon soon turn turn extraordinary extraordinary in in one one thousand thousand nine nine forty forty four four fourteen fourteen year year old old boy boy named named Neil Neil Armstrong Armstrong and and his his family family moved moved into into this this Corner Corner House House gazing gazing out out at at the the night night sky sky from from his his second second floor floor bedroom. bedroom. The The Armstrong Armstrong fell fell in in love love with with the the idea idea of of flight. flight. Got Got His His pilot's pilot's license license just just two two years years later later the the age age of of sixteen sixteen even even before before he he could. could. Dr Dr Armstrong Armstrong flew flew for for the the navy navy and and worked worked as as a a test test pilot pilot for for NASA NASA before before becoming becoming an an astronaut astronaut or or July July sixteenth sixteenth nineteen nineteen sixty sixty nine nine he he and and the the rest rest of of the the Apollo Apollo eleven eleven crew crew lifted lifted off off from from Cape Cape Canaveral. Canaveral. It It was was four four days days later later on on July July twentieth. twentieth. That That Armstrong Armstrong set set foot foot on on the the moon moon while while he he inspired inspired millions millions around around the the world. world. People People here here in. in. What What can can ETA ETA were were especially especially proud proud of of their their hometown. hometown. Hero Hero that that same same day. day. Ohio Ohio Governor Governor James James Rhodes Rhodes proposed proposed building building museum museum to to honor honor Armstrong Armstrong and and the the state's state's contribution contribution to to spaceflight spaceflight just just three three years years later. later. The The Armstrong Armstrong Air Air and and Space Space Museum Museum opened. opened. Its Its doors doors from from the the air. air. It It looks looks more more like like a a moon moon station station than than a a museum. museum. Inside Inside is is a a Gemini Gemini Capsule Capsule a a Moon Moon Rock Rock and and a a simulator simulator gives gives visitors visitors a a chance chance to to feel feel what what it's it's like like to to land land on on the the moon. moon.
NPR News Now
Shirley Knight, Star of ‘Sweet Bird of Youth’ and ‘As Good As It Gets,’ Dies at 83
"Award. Winning actress Shirley Knight has died in Texas of natural causes. She was eighty three years old night. One Oscar nominations for her performances in Hollywood classics. The dark at the top of the stairs and sweet bird of Youth Jeff. London has this remembrance born in Kansas Shirley Knight studied acting at the Pasadena Theatre school and was cast in many television series before she began getting roles in films. She had supporting parts in the screen. Adaptations of stage. Plays William Inches. The dark at the top of the stairs stairs and and Tennessee Tennessee Williams Williams sweet sweet bird bird of of youth youth with with Paul Paul Newman Newman nightmare nightmare a a home home in in New New York York where where she she was was a a member member of of the the actors actors studio studio and and appeared appeared on on stage stage in in such such plays plays Dutchman Streetcar Named Desire and Kennedy's children for which she won a Tony she won emmys for thirty something. Nypd blue and the mcmartin trial and appeared on television and in movies into her eighty s
True Crime Brewery
Searching for Summer Shipp
"So summer shipp grew up under her given name Dolores in Granite City Illinois. Her mother Cora raised her and her three brothers alone after their alcoholic. Father left the family. Now Cora raise children as Jehovah's Witnesses and this was a religion there's some are continued to practice throughout her life. She did stop attending services but observed religion. She never celebrated Christmas birthdays. She said that every day was a holiday and she liked by her daughter and her friends gifts when it was her birthday. Isn't that Nice good? Sounds like a nice lady really really nice so some are grew up in extreme poverty under pretty rough circumstances and of this. She has pretty frugal but in our young adulthood she married a wealthy man John Ship and she lived for years in luxury however difficult childhood in Granite City. That never was far from her mind. John Ship was the manager for the local metro-goldwyn-mayer branch. Mgm when he moved to Kansas City from Florida in nineteen sixty nine now summer had moved to Kansas City just a few months previously. She saw the city as a place to forget her pass and she's going to create new life for herself. Yeah that was important to her to kind of start over. The childhood was rough so John. Lived in the same apartment complex as a friend of summers and when she visited that friend at the community pool she really caught Johns I. Some are was not a classic beauty but she was really pretty at five foot one inches tall and just over a hundred pounds. She was tiny but she was a bundle of energy sometimes described as sprightly so although John had a girlfriend at the time he broke things off with her to be with summer in October of nineteen. Seventy summer was pregnant and she told John on the night. He took her to see an advance screening of the movie. Two thousand one a space odyssey and after that they decided to move in together and just see if they could make things work. John's apartment became their first home together and their front door was just feet from the pool so John worked as he floated in the water and Sunday himself. The phone set nearby and when it rang he would just paddle to the edge of the pool and work on deals so this is kind of living the dream. I guess float around in the pool. Yeah phones broke their nice good way to do it but he did work hard. He negotiated film showing contracts for hundreds of theaters throughout Missouri and Kansas. So he was really on his way up in the industry at this point so some are in. John got married at the courthouse with John's brother and a friend of summers as witnesses and they had a daughter who they named Brandy. She had read here like her mother's but even brighter and darker and both summer and John were just thrilled with this little girl. They moved out of the apartment and rented a cottage that summer adored for a while and then as the money kept coming in two years later they moved into a duplex in a very upper class area living near professional football players so John left MGM and but an independent Film Distribution Company called Thomas Films and after he bought it he changed the name to Thomas and ship films. The company was more successful than he had ever could have been able to imagine. He made a ton of money so much money that he felt like he'd WanNa Lottery. Are He come up from humble beginnings himself? Yes I think in summer really didn't know what to do with all this money. It was foreign to both of them and I guess summer was able to kind of not focus on it. She just wasn't that interested in things but I think John it kind of affected him and he got carried away with it here. Well I knew her. Religion would seem to me to make her less desirous of money. And what money can buy share? I mean I'm sure she liked not having to worry about it like she had all her life absolutely and remember up until this time she's still going by her original name. Dolores but when brandy was just a toddler that's when she legally took on her new name. Summer brandies middle name was Alexis so some are named herself summer. Alexis ship and by the time brandy was three. John was making over two hundred thousand dollars a year. And this is the nineteen seventies. So I looked it up. And that's about seven hundred thousand dollars a year equivalent in today's money so ton of money tournament in nineteen seventy four. They bought a two story. English Tudor home in the exclusive Crestwood neighborhood and they had a house with a huge private in ground pool. An Art Gallery Jim Asana just everything. Yes so brandy was Kinda spoiled. When she was a little girl. It was almost unavoidable even though she did get a lot of attention as well as things but like I mentioned John's lifestyle just became out of control as his income was soaring. He spent time on the West and east coasts partying with the rich and famous. Eventually he found himself with an expensive dependence on cocaine and pills and is John pulled away from his home and family life into this life. Some are just kind of channeled her love and attention into raising her daughter. So Brandy got a lot of attention. Showered on her. Maybe too much if that's possible. Do you think that's possible to give a kid too much attention? No again it depends on what kind of attention. Well here's my thought on it. You can give them too much attention if you're allowing them to control you like when you're on the phone they're trying to take your attention away when people come over when you have worked to do. I mean there has to be a respect as well sure. That's why I said it depends on the kind of attention right so I think that it can be a bad thing when you get to the extreme. But that's not really the attention being the problem I guess that's more like the The fruits of the attention. Well yeah it's kind of the control like you want your child to see you as being in control of things when you don't want your child to take over control of what's going on day to day. Well I mean it can really be unhealthy and they can have a rude awakening when they get older. And everybody's not just falling over themselves to please them herbs moving so I think that's another issue is you don't want to raise them to feel entitled to everything so anyway I mean they did love her and it was a nice childhood although she was probably a little bit spoiled. Well how does she turn out? She turns out great. Okay so in. Nineteen seventy six. John took brandy in summer to the cons film festival ru and they spent time with David Kerosene is that the Kung Fu guy. Well that's the Carribean family. I don't know which one is which I think David was Kung-fu guy okay. And cary grant roll my love who carry granted yes. He was in one of my favorite movies. What was it sweep? Listen in Seattle now. An affair to remember. I know I was GONNA say that next so afterwards they went on an extended vacation to London Rome and Paris and they flew back to the United States on the First Air France Concorde flight from Paris to Washington. Dc wrong that's That's cool that's cool. That's Nice. Yes where she? Oh totally. And some are just felt like this poor country girl who was living like royalty. John became one of the biggest independent film distributors in the country and they were dining with. Paul Newman Joanne Woodward and Clint Eastwood Big names. Very big names especially in the seventies absolutely well when still around working yeah. He's still big but as her life was changing. Some are really didn't change. Who she was and I respect that. While John was traveling all over the world she stayed home and spent time with her daughter. She also invited other children over for play dates reading books and singing with them so she liked to share in her good fortune which. I think is so important. She even took time to volunteer at a home for emotionally disturbed young women and as a reward for good behavior. She would bring some of the girls to her house to swim for a day and loved it and they worked hard and did things so that they could earn a day at the pool so are like summer. She sounds like she's cutter head on straight and she's living the life. Well you know it's funny because they started reading the book about summer than I found online and I had no idea I was going to do the case but I did just feel such an affection for this woman that I enjoyed reading the book. It wasn't like work and I really enjoyed being able to Read about her in her life. Of course Jon was away a lot of the time. And he had his drinking habits in his drug habits so understandably their marriage suffered. There is a large Christmas office party in the late seventies when summer walked in on John and he and other parties were snorting large amounts of cocaine right on his desk so she walked out feeling pretty angry and worried at the same time. Sure I mean not only worried John but for her daughter you know. It's just very risky behavior. That he was getting into their relationship was getting more and more distant. Rose probably not a lot of good that comes out of a cocaine addiction or a drug addiction for that matter in marriage right. Something's going to happen well and it's interesting that when things stopped going so well for John and he has to really deal with things he does get better. So by nineteen eighty. His company started going downhill and the small films that John Distributed. Were really being snatched up by the major film companies without that business. He was quickly falling behind on his debts and he fell into some deep financial trouble because he hadn't saved enough. He was a big spender and happens. Cocaine is not free. I know but wouldn't you just put enough in a savings somewhere? In case the bottom falls out as a backup will most people would but a lot of people disfigure that. There's no end to this stuff. I guess you feel that way now is at this very very successful company. Money's just rolling in. I'd be of the opinion that this no change in that things are going to keep happening for me. Well and I'm kind of surprised that the way summer grew up that she didn't squirrel away more money because I personally waiting for the other shoe to drop and I liked to be prepared. Well Yeah but she did. She work well not really now. Not at that point or any money. She had came through her husband. Sheriff so what you're going to say to him honey. I need an extra thousand this week. 'cause I'm saving for when you go bankrupt? Well I just say. I WANNA start a savings account. I WANNA put a thousand dollars a week away and it shouldn't have fazed him when he was making so much
All Things Considered
Writer AE Hotchner, friend to Hemingway, Newman, dead at 102
"Author and play right Erin Edward Hotchner has died at the age of one hundred two after service in World War two was a journalist in the U. S. Army Air Corps Hotchner became close friends with Ernest Hemingway writing is nineteen sixty six biography Papa Hemingway who's working also adapted for place in television later with another close friend and Westport Connecticut neighbor actor Paul Newman archer co founded Newman's own which donates all profits to charities they co wrote a memoir about the project called shameless exploitation in pursuit of the common good he also wrote bestselling biographies of Doris Day and Sophia Loren in a book about his childhood king of the hill later adapted into a Steven Soderbergh
KCRW's Hollywood Breakdown
The Hazards of Making Movies About Real People
"The I'm Kim Masters and this is the Hollywood breakdown joining me as many of the Hollywood reporter and Matt has come up. Many times in Hollywood does what it loves to do which is to make make movies and particularly awards season movies based on real people that controversy follows and we're seeing more or less at the same moment to different controversies sees. One of them involves Clint Eastwood's new movie Richard Jewel. which according to the Hollywood reporter's awards reporter Scott Feinberg up ends the Academy Me Awards race? It's it's GonNa be very very popular. He thinks with hatemi members in numerous categories. I'm assuming that probably includes picture but in this movie Richard Jewel. Joel this is about the security guard who tried to warn about the Olympic Park bombing back in Nineteen ninety-six a real event. He is portrayed in this movie. Of course he. He was excused of having been involved with the bombing. He was completely innocent and his life was M- very damaged by this. But I'll tell you what life is being damaged now day day in this movie have character a woman reporter who Allegedly in the movie sleeps with a source with an FBI source to get a story about about this and this person this real life person whose name is used. Kathy scruggs is dead and cannot speak up. I mean this is an outrageous thing to accuse as a reporter of that is a firing offense as you know if you were to get wind of one of your people at the Hollywood reporter sleeping with the source to get stuff and I will tell you in my life there. There have been occasional offers. But that's not something that real reporters do and the editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution where this person worked is objecting to this and I will just now. This is a Clint Eastwood movie. Clint Eastwood is clearly very conservative. Possibly part of the trump you know the reporters play reporters are fake news world and I honestly Kinda Hope. This becomes the controversy. Because I think it's outrageous. Well it's also part and parcel of the film this. This is an indictment according to the reviews that have come out of both the FBI and the media and how they handled this situation with Richard Jewel. And I don't I don't think anyone is saying that this was the finest moment for either of those institution absolutely not but it does cross the line there to suggest that a reporter did something like this and it's also a trope like you've seen this in other things with sally field. I'll never forget it. I was like well. Paul Newman hard to resist about. We don't do this right and even more recently. If you look at the character in house of cards played by Kate Mara her relationship with Kevin Spacey. Right if you look even Amy Schumer in trainwreck. I mean that was. She was sleeping with the subject of her story. So this is like a trope that comes back and and I am not what a female journalist but I see how deeply offensive this is And also not necessary like you. Don't need it's Lizzie. And let me just turn quickly to this apple premier. You know apple is trying to plunge into this world. It's been a bumpy ride. We've talked about. They have this movie. The banker they were going to have a premier they cancelled it. Why did they cancel it because the son of the subject and the stories about a black man who this is a real story again of who recruited a white man to front for his financial business sixty years ago before the Civil Rights Act? This is a real story. But they have been using this guy. Son is the sky named Bernard Garrett Junior to promote the movie and IT Turns Out Bernard Garrett has a couple of half sisters who say that this guy had sexually molested them for years ears and this has now blown up. It's a different kind of hazard. Apple acquired this film. But when you don't vet things carefully this hazard that can happen. Yeah that's an interesting question because apple bought this movie after it was already made and neither apple nor the filmmakers knew about this controversy until about a week peak before the premiere and obviously the allegations are very specifically time. But now they've got to figure out what to do with this movie. That has this. Explosive allegation dropped their wives. Yeah I mean I just saved. Proceed with caution when you're doing true real life stories and I think it's a cheap out to Take on someone who's dead and can't speak up. Thank you thank
WBZ Afternoon News
2019 Had the Smallest Ozone Hole on Record, No Thanks to Us
"The hole in the ozone layer is at its smallest size on record but officials say we shouldn't read too much into a NASA scientist Paul Newman says the shrinking is due to warmer stratospheric temperatures over Antarctica and is quote not a sign that atmosphere goes only suddenly on a fast track to recovery the ozone layer blocks potentially harmful ultraviolet rays from reaching earth scientists first discovered the ozone hole and thinning of the ozone layer back in the seventies they said the problem was caused by the production of chlorofluorocarbons as well as aerosol sprays that is
It Happened In Hollywood
William Friedkin: 'The Exorcist'
"Hi, I'm Seth Abramovitch senior writer at the Hollywood reporter. And I'd like to welcome you to it happened in Hollywood. It's a new podcast. I'll be hosting with the help of my good friend. Chip pope. Hi there. That's me. I'm chip I'm a TV writer and a pop culture enthusiasts in each episode. We're going to be taking a journey backwards and time and revisiting some of the wildest chapters in Hollywood history iconic films zeitgeist TV shows infamous lawbreakers and just the random weirdness that color the place. We call LA La Land. Yes. And we think that you'll find in Hollywood the more things change the more. They stay the same. And that's what this show is about on each episode. We're going to be going to a key figure in whatever topic recovering and interviewing them. And then after the fact Seth, and I will comment on those prerecorded interviews, so let's get right to it. Welcome to the first episode of Hollywood. All right. Let's do some scene setting its December nineteen seventy three Richard Nixon one month before told a room full of reporters in Orlando, Florida. I am not a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. And in movie theaters. Cross the nation. Robert Redford, Paul Newman were playing crooks in a blockbuster hit called the sting. Then this thirty eight year old wonder canned Billy freed Ken comes along riding high. Having just won the Oscar for the French connection in seventy two. I love that. He's thirty eight year old wonderboy because the industry in nineteen seventy three's run by nine year olds he's young blood at thirty eight. He is he's whippersnapper and -ticipant for his chosen follow picture to French connection is at a fever pitch. His choice was the exercise. I now this was a big budget adaptation of smash hit novel about a little girl who gets possessed by the devil. The film was plagued by infighting delays. It went way over budget. He acted kind of crazy firing people left. And right people thought there was a curse on it yet. There was supposedly occurs. And there was all kinds of reports that this thing is going to be disaster. But when it finally came out, it became the all-time record breaking movie from Warner Brothers at the box office and went on to become one of the most admired and imitated horror films of all time. It's interesting that you should mention the sting because that was just like nostalgic entertainment that took place in the thirties. Whereas the exorcist was very edgy movie. Very hard are a hard arm and pretty much almost an ex. I mean, this is like a cold bucket. A holy water in the face of a pew Besson. Girl. I mean, even the Hollywood reporter this very publications seemed genuinely shocked by it in its review, they called it, quote, an abomination, and quote, and they call it the wretched excess of the year, but at the same time, they also suggested that it may be the most frightening movie ever made and forty five years later, it's still pretty much lays claim to that title of scariest movie ever made this week's special guest. We have the man responsible for making it. That's right director, William freakin. What throw the talk to this guy? He was great. He was absolutely wonderful. I didn't know what to expect. I thought he might be lawf- the wall get some of the films. He's made forget his age eighty two. I didn't know what we were going to get. But he was such a nice guy was just a thrill to sit at the feet of a master filmmaker.