4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Director Morgan Neville knew his new documentary about the life and legacy of Fred Rogers and his neighborhood would be emotional. But he wasn’t prepared for theaters full of mass sobbing. He tells us why Mister Rogers makes us cry and how he made the deeply touching film, 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?'
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:05.0 | That first screening was a theater full of mass sobbing, and I didn't expect it. |
0:12.2 | I really didn't expect it. |
0:14.1 | But there's something, it's not sad. |
0:17.0 | It's cathartic. |
0:18.5 | That's really what it is. |
0:20.0 | It's a different kind of emotion. |
0:22.6 | Director Morgan Neville anticipated that his new documentary, |
0:25.6 | Won't You Be My Neighbor, about the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, might elicit some emotion. |
0:31.6 | He was not prepared to be confronted with a river of tears wherever it played. |
0:36.6 | Neville tells us how he convinced Fred Rogers' family and estate to participate in this film |
0:41.0 | and then got fully funded before shooting a frame. |
0:44.3 | But first on the news banter, a big ruling on the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner is on the horizon. |
0:50.5 | Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
0:57.0 | Music and stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my co-conspirator and banter. Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt. |
1:04.0 | Hi there. So June 12th, we are expecting a big, big court decision that could really go a long way towards an already underway |
1:12.7 | remaking of the Hollywood landscape. And this would go to AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner, which is |
1:19.9 | HBO and Warner Brothers and CNN, notably, which is why some people thought the Justice |
1:27.1 | Department tried to block this acquisition. |
1:29.7 | They said it was an antitrust violation, but the feeling was that Trump had made clear his dislike for CNN. |
1:36.4 | So all of that is now potentially going to be acquired by AT&T. |
1:41.5 | And as I said, there was some who thought this was a politically motivated case brought |
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