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Saturday 21 November 2015
In any ensemble, Mark Ruffalo is still standing out
JAKE COYLE sation. (He began a recent and off. and they tend to move to- Catholic Church priests
AP Film Writer interview eagerly imploring “I see a lot of light on the ward that when given the and subsequent efforts to
NEW YORK (AP) — Is there a reporter: “Talk to me!”) horizon. I call it ‘the sunlight choice.” cover up abuse cases.
any better team player in He has regularly poured revolution’ and it isn’t just “Spotlight,” which expands The cast, including Michael
movies than Mark Ruffalo? his considerable energy about renewable energy,” to theaters nationwide Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Ra-
Whether running in a pack into both political activism says Ruffalo. “It’s about en- this weekend, dovetails chel McAdams and Stan-
of superheroes, wrestlers ley Tucci, is uniformly excel-
or journalists, Ruffalo has a In this Oct. 28, 2015 file photo, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Rezendes, lent. And the film, one of
rare ability to slide seam- the year’s most acclaimed,
lessly into an ensemble left, stands for a photograph with actor Mark Ruffalo, who plays Rezendes in the film “Spotlight,” has been hailed for its veri-
while nevertheless stand- similitude in depicting the
ing out for his talent in do- as they attend the Boston area premiere of the film at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in Brookline, step-by-step digging of in-
ing so. A year after Ruffalo vestigative journalism. Ruf-
received an Academy Mass. Associated Press falo, 47, plays Spotlight re-
Award nomination for his porter Mike Rezendes.
supporting performance (most notably hydraulic lightening and bringing to with that mission. The film, “These are the people we
as Olympic wrestler David want to celebrate. These
Schutlz in “Foxcatcher,” fracturing) and passionate, light the wrongs of the past. directed by Tom McCar- are the people that de-
the actor is again expect- serve our admiration,” says
ed to be Oscar nominated striving characters, from Everywhere I look, I see this thy, is about the Pulitzer Ruffalo. “You can’t have a
for his key role as a dogged free world without journal-
Boston Globe reporter in the bipolar but exuberant inquiry happening. I think Prize-winning reporting by ism, and it takes resources.”
the newspaper procedural To prepare for the role,
“Spotlight.” father of “Infinitely Polar people are conscious. I the Boston Globe’s team Ruffalo spent time with
“I’ve been at the right Rezendes, observing him
place at the right time for Bear” to his redemption- think people are sick of it. of investigative report- at work in the Globe news-
these two movies, and room and getting to know
been able to disappear seeking music executive They want righteousness. ers — named Spotlight him at his home.
into the beauty of an en- “As I told him, I said, ‘You
semble, to serve some- in “Begin Again.” He does They want to know that’s — that uncovered the found out things about me
thing that’s bigger than I didn’t want to know,’ says
any one particularly indi- enthusiasm well, on screen there’s justice in the world, widespread sex abuse of Rezendes. “He worked
vidual,” says Ruffalo. “They very hard and he got it.”
say something at a mo- Rezendes, whom Ruffalo
ment when the culture’s calls “a master” at his craft,
ready to hear it. A movie, if continues to report on sex
it speaks to people, it bub- abuse and the church.
bles out of the culture and “The Catholic Church has
lands at a moment when taken some steps in the
we’re ready to have a dis- right direction, which I
cussion.” don’t think it would have
Ruffalo, one of the movie taken were it not for us. But
industry’s most outspoken it has a ways to go,” says
advocates for environ- Rezendes. Ruffalo, his mov-
mental (and other) causes, ie-star counterpart, is more
rarely turns down a conver- emphatic.q
Fox: We’re ignoring
overnight TV ratings
DAVID BAUDER Nielsen company on how who save the shows on In this image released by Crown Media, Steve Lund, left, and
AP Television Writer a program did in the rat- DVRs, stream them on-
NEW YORK (AP) — The Fox ings have long been the line or watch on demand, Shenae Grimes-Beech appear in a scene from the Hallmark
network said Friday it will no lifeblood of the television they said. Within a week,
longer distribute measure- industry. Not only are they more than one-third of the Channel film, “Christmas Incorporated.” Associated Press
ments of how many peo- reported in the press, but youthful audience that
ple watch their programs Fox employees would get watched a given Fox show “Fox is a company that has flects only a portion of our
on the night they are first an email every morning at saw it after the night it first always prided itself on be- audience,” the executives
broadcast, reasoning that 8 a.m. PT reporting on how aired. ing forward-thinking, and said in their memo. “So to-
they are a poor reflection the shows performed the Seven of Fox’s prime-time nothing could be more an- gether, let’s move the rat-
of how television is experi- night before. shows more than doubled tiquated than a decades- ings conversation into the
enced these days. Starting Monday, that will their first-night audience old measurement that re- future.”q
Some cable networks, in- stop, said Fox’s top execu- when viewing over a 30-
cluding HBO and FX, have tives, Dana Walden and day period is figured in,
already taken this step, but Gary Newman, in a memo Newman and Walden
Fox is the first major broad- distributed to staff on Fri- said. Nielsen releases rat-
cast network to do so. day. The overnight ratings ings for viewership within 3
Overnight reports from the don’t include most people days, 7 days and 30 days.
