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News in Washington I'm Jack Speer President Trump says he was not trying to intimidate former Ukraine embassador Maria Vonn of h one and tweeted about her today N.P.R.'s Asia Rosco reports Trump criticized Yvonne a bitch as she testified before Congress about her dismissal from the trumpet ministration President Trump says he's allowed to speak his mind about the proceedings in the House impeachment inquiry you know what I what I have the right to speak I have freedom of speech just as other people do but they've taken away the Republicans rights trance we there earlier the every where you have on of it when it turned bad he said he has the right as president to remove ambassadors any time you have an image was asked about the president's tweet during her testimony she said she perceives comments as intimidating the former ambassador testified that she was dismissed from her post due to what she considers a smear campaign against her I saw Roscoe in p.r. News the White House President Obama is reacting today to the verdict in the Roger Stone case saying the conviction of his longtime friend and confidant on charges he lied to Congress is a double standard Trump saying that others who he ledges have done similar things including Hillary Clinton an f.b.i. Director James Comey have not been convicted president commented via Twitter minutes after the verdict was announced saying Didn't they like quote None have been charged stone was convicted on 7 counts including lying to lawmakers witness tampering and obstruction North Carolina's Republican controlled legislature today approved a new congressional map for the state but as Jeff to bury reports from member station w.u.n. See Democrats are already planning a court challenge despite being an evenly divided state politically North Carolina's congressional delegation consists of 10 Republicans and just 3 Democrats in October a panel of state judges blocked that map from being used in next year's election saying it violates the state constitution and unfairly helps Republicans this new map. Seen as likely yielding $85.00 result still legislative Democrats voted against it citing a lack of competitive districts this is the 1st congressional redistricting effort after the u.s. Supreme Court ruled in June that claims of partisan gerrymandering cannot be determined by the federal bench the redistricting group led by former u.s. Attorney General Eric Holder says it plans to challenge this map in state court for n.p.r. News I'm Jeff to be in Raleigh North Carolina Turkey has deported the American Islamic state suspect to the u.s. N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon says the suspect had been stranded on the border between Turkey and Greece Turkey's interior minister Silliman Soyou told reporters and that the American suspected of fighting with Islamic state forces was put on a plane for the u.s. Turkey tried to send the American to Greece but he was denied entry at least twice subsequently Turkish officials say the u.s. Agreed to take him to German ISIS fighters were also repatriated according to soil and N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon our Wall Street the Dow is up more than 200 points this is n.p.r. Trying he's tech giant it while away is selling a folding smartphone without Google Apps or u.s. Made processor chips that's after Washington imposed sanctions against the company but concerns it might still u.s. Technology secrets the phone known as the mate x. 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Worth Watching sitting in for Terry Gross on Sunday Netflix presents the new season of The Crown which tells the story of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd in the 1st 2 seasons the young woman who became queen was played wonderfully by Claire foil for this new 3rd season which covers the years 1941977 the queen is played by a Livia Coleman who takes over the role seamlessly and instantly really in seconds and before even showing the front of her head our critic at large John Powers will have a review of the new season of the crown but 1st let's revisit a conversation with the creator and writer of that mini series Peter Morgan Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies spoke to him last year Peter Morgan's other impressive works about powerful people include the movies the Queen and The Last King of Scotland and the play and movie Frost Nixon. Let's start with a clip from the 1st season of the Crown it takes place a few days after Elizabeth Windsor then $25.00 has learned her father has died and that she is now Queen Elizabeth is played by Claire for she's with her husband Philip played by Matt Smith We hear 1st from her private secretary played by Harry Hadden Patton. Was. Well. It's. Very. Only if Queen Elizabeth. And the 1st time Queen Elizabeth hears those words from the crown Netflix series that is created by our guest Peter Morgan Peter Morgan welcome to Fresh Air thank you. It's remarkable to imagine a 25 year old woman suddenly inheriting this responsibility she says a few times in the series that she would have preferred to live a more anonymous life and I saw a piece where you were quoted as calling her a countryside woman of limited intelligence was this taken accurately or in context no it was yeah I have paid for that. It was a headline of the story I saw of. Just about anything unfortunately that I say about the show ends up in the headlines somewhere that I don't want it to end up so I've ended up being quite private about this and about my. Part my responsibilities here but yes I do think she would have been. More comfortable as a country woman I do think she is naturally a modest not a shy retiring person I think one can sense that. You know one can sense when someone is hungry for the limelight and when someone would soon void it that of course is quite different from her sense of juicy and you know which in itself is such an interesting thing to explore you don't get a sense that people talk about you t. Very much anymore and so you know when I started sketching out episodes and thinking about what the show could possibly offer me as a writer or an audience you know what was the central dilemma at the heart of this psychologically emotionally for the lead character it would be. You know that who she is as a Lizabeth wins and who she is as Elizabeth. The queen are 2 very different things and the push and the pull between those 2 things but Russian dolls one within the album right and her her mother tells her the queen the crown must always win. You know it's fascinating as I hear you talk about this you know she bore this responsibility of representing this institution properly you kind of bear the responsibility of interpret ing these lives to a lot of people who don't know very much about him does that feel like a weight on your head and I hope that it's that waits and it's the responsibility that will. Dramatists would feel when when tackling real life figures you know that came a moment after the film that I wrote the queen had come out where Tony Blair was asked about his audience with the queen and in his book it is all to program free which of course came many years after we made the film The Queen Tony Blair when referring back to that critical period in the aftermath of Diana's death used a number of expressions and quotations that seem to me to be very familiar because they they they sounded like my dialogue and I remember thinking about it I kind of got it that right I mean I think we were all pretty confident we knew what Tony Blair represents we knew what the queen thought and but surely he he didn't say the very things that I've written that he'd said and I write a couple of I said if you read the. Autobiography because it sounds very much like the scene that I wrote and it seems that even Blair's memory had sort of become blurred with what we had done and it was both funny but also sobering because you suddenly realise that. That predisposition people have toward sort of a blur once you watch something on film it becomes that thing it becomes the way it was and so much of what I write column to be exactly the way it was because I don't know I'm just guessing and then for black in this particular instance of taking those imaginations or guesses and to reconstruct them as the truth was confusing in his own account. He's got his own account right he said I then said that I was like you didn't I don't think you did well if you did what a stroke of luck on my behalf but I'm pretty sure you're actually just quoting what I wrote which you've watched and which you've subsequently denied that you've watched but which you've clearly watched. Well we were talking about the very young Queen Elizabeth inheriting the throne at the age of $25.00 and adjusting to the demands of it and one of the things that we see in here is the effect on her marriage with her husband Philip and he finds it difficult you know the constraints of living in a palace and all of the demands on her and being kind of 2nd to her and I wanted to play a scene here this is in the 2nd season where Philip has been away on a long trip representing the crown in Australia and some other places and he's back and information as has been surfacing in the press suggesting infidelity on his part and this is not a complete surprise to Elizabeth and this is a scene where they're I believe in a room on the yacht and they're going to have a frank talk about their marriage in the context of the of the demands of being a royal couple and I'm just going to mention one thing for our audience you will hear Philip refer to them a stash as he's referring to functionaries and secretaries who set rules and enforce traditions around the palace so let's listen to this is Elizabeth and Philip Philip is played by Matt Smith and Elizabeth is played by Claire for let's listen. My take is about unity. Without jobs and without. It's not an option for us. Ever. And that is carefully in Matt Smith playing Queen Elizabeth and her husband Philip in the Netflix series The Crown created by our guest Peter Morgan It's a terrific scene how do you find the voices for this young couple of the situation I suppose in some shape or form and it's like. The high wire walk who doesn't notice the distance beneath his wire you know or while you know I. The fact that I'm writing these 2 people doesn't seem for some reason to give me vertigo. I just write them and therefore you know then writing about a marriage and dying would be something any you know screenwriter would be expected to do. I just seem to have to write them and you know we know they will hold up on the role of the Opera Tanya for a good many hours before they emerged publicly we know that they were in a storm we know the dates that they were there and we know what had transpired we know that his best friend Mike Parker who had also been his private secretary had just been divorced very publicly by. His wife for infidelity. And so you know as a dramatist you see a series of dots and what you hope is that through research the dots are brought close enough together we know where they were you know roughly what their official function was thought much with these people is extraordinarily you know evident and minute we know where they we pretty much know every day of their lives where they were and what they were allegedly doing what we don't know is what they were feeling what they were thinking and and so it's my job to to to to draw the line between those 2 points and to do so in the way that we were talking about earlier in as responsible a way as possible you know I watching this series one gets the impression that Prince Philip probably did play around though it's not completely clear and I gather the the royal family has never acknowledged there's been no clear proof yet . Do you have ever gotten any feedback from the royal family at all about your work. In the crown or what I mean the royal family is not going to give me any feedback about Prince Philip and infidelity. But other people might and. And the royal family you know I'm I'm delighted to say that I've only met them on a couple of occasions and on those occasions I steer well clear of telling them who I am or what I'm responsible for if they know it making sure that we're talking about something else I'm thrilled to give them the distance to have total tonight ability and in the same way I want to have respectful distance from them to be allowed to get on with what I do and to take responsibility for. Peter Morgan speaking to Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies last year more after a break this is Fresh Air. This is Fresh Air Let's get back to Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies and his 2018 interview with Peter Morgan creator and writer of the Crown and writer of The Queen The Last King of Scotland and Frost Nixon the 3rd season of The Crown starring a Livia Coleman as Queen Elizabeth the 2nd begin Sunday on Netflix you know Claire 4 is just terrific in this role and I assume you were involved in the casting you know what were you looking for and what did you see in her arms 31 year old of the cast of Claire for which is now sort of almost impossible to imagine was you know she was overlooked so this doesn't reflect well on me but I will tell the story and live in shame so what would happen as we'd be so I would be sent a list of people coming to the costings and I would look down the list and Wednesdays as it were costing session would involve the following 5 young actresses and I looked on the list like oh well I know that one that one that one of the other or rather interesting I'll come in a lesson to see that one I'll come in at 12 because I'm busy an important alarm Fatah and whoever this calf or person is I'm not into the oval looks and snubbed on no fewer than 5 occasions until there was one time. Where I simply couldn't avoid it because I was interested in the one before the one after her and so I then stayed to see her and then of the why is no one should. What's the matter with and if you why don't you tell me to look at this when they said Pete says she's been there for 5 occasions and each time you have studiously avoided and I suppose she's fantastic you what did you see what did you see of what it's not an easy part I mean you have to be both forgive me when I say but you have to be both plain and stunning you know she has to have both and a number of the actors that came in was simply too beautiful you know too conventional beautiful or to their faces did not have the full range because Elizabeth Windsor is a beautiful walls that is arguably still a beautiful woman but not all the time and not from every angle and her face lights up you know with a smile and can look quite grumpy quite like a wet weekend when not smiling and be over look about and quite plain and you need to believe she has intelligence and understand her intelligence because the queen contrary to what people think I think she has an intelligence and a very sharp mimicry and intolerance of fools but at the same time she's not that intellectually curious and so she has to be both quick and alert and yet at the same time capable of repose and being quite docile so it's not easy and she has to be emotionally stable and I don't think an actor can act that I mean of course they can but it so helps if they are that and Claire brought a lot of that into the part and then acted a lot of the stuff that didn't have to perfection an eyesore in in an instant but she could do it. Well I want to talk about we've talked a bit about the Queen which is this the feature film that you did before you did the series the crown this was directed by Stephen Frears and we'll hear a scene here this is about the moment in 1907 when Princess Diana has been killed in a car accident and because she is divorced from the royal family the queen sees her death as a private matter with no need for a public appearance or even a statement from her the Queen and in fact she takes her family and Diana's 2 boys who are her grandchildren to the royal estate in Scotland kind of to just get away while London is mourning and in this scene we're going to hear she gets a call from the Prime Minister Tony Blair played by Michael Sheen who is concerned because the public and the press are seeing the royal family as heartless because it's expressed no grief at Diana's passing So here the queen pick up the phone to speak to the prime minister Prime Minister good morning Majesty trying to stop. But I was just wondering whether you'd seen any of today's papers. We managed to look at one or 2. In which case my. Next question would be whether you have. Might be necessary. And. I believe if you have either edges or doing their best to sell newspapers it would be a mistake to dance to their tune. I would agree. But. Well my advice is. Taking the temperature of modern people on the streets and all the information I'm getting is that the mood is quite good. So what would you suggest prime minister some kind of a statement now that. I believe the moment the statements has passed. I would suggest Firefly could have lost power. Coming down to London at the earliest opportunity. It would be a great call. And would help them. With great. Grief. Your imagine I'm going to drop everything and come down to London before I attend to my grandchildren who've just lost their mother. Your mistake. I doubt there is anyone who knows the British people who move than I do Mr Blair No who has greater faith in their wisdom and judgment. And it is my belief that they will any moment reject this. This mood. Which is being stirred up by the press in favor of a period of restrained grief and sober private money. That the way we do things in this country quietly. With Dignity. With the rest to go out as was it not as full. And that is Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth in the film The Queen which was written by our guest Peter Morgan you know it's interesting that in the crown we see a very young Elizabeth who is struggling to put duty above her personal interests and feeling so often and in this episode you know many decades later it would seem the queen puts her personal feelings about Diana and her failed marriage and her disappointment in Diana above her role and you know as a sovereign kind of embodying the nation's grief does it make sense and no I don't think no I think I think that it was exactly the opposite I think it was that she was doing exactly what she thinks the principle the right thing to do was which had nothing to do with a personal feelings. Peter Morgan creator and writer of the Crown and writer of the Queen and Frost Nixon speaking to Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies last year the new season of The Crown with the Livia Coleman inheriting the role of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd begins Sunday on Netflix after a break we'll continue their conversation and have a review of the new season of the crown from our critic at large John Powers Also our film critic Justin Chang will review the new film waves about an African-American family living in South Florida I'm David Bianculli and this is Fresh Air. They knew about our Family Foundation supports w.h.y. Wise fresh air and its commitment to sharing ideas and encouraging meaningful conversation support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from math museum committed to building math success critical thinking and problem solving skills teaching students face to face and more than 1000 franchise locations. 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This Sunday Netflix and veil season 3 of the Crown with the Livia Coleman taking over the role of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd from Claire for way today we're listening back to an interview from last year with the creator and writer of the Crown Peter Morgan Morgan also wrote the screenplay for the movie The Queen starring Helen Mirren when we left off Morgan in Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies we're talking about the days after Princess Diana's death the queen was initially reluctant about making a public appearance acknowledging the nation's grief because Diana had divorced from the royal family people interpreted it as a personal vendetta but actually there is strict protocol at the time where you have a even if mother of the future king if you're divorced you're no longer part of the royal family that point you no longer entitled to you know the titles and and as such when you all 2nd or 3rd or 4th or 5th in line or whatever it is there are quite clear precedents for what happens and this is a system which you know works entirely through precedent you know what are the rules for what happens when this happens and of course when the rules are all in conflict with what the natural emotional intelligence will response to a situation would be that's when you get into trouble and that's where the royal family has frequently come you know. As run into trouble is when their response appears to be a motion out of step with the strict system's all rules or you know and I'm and if I went to my research as I'd have to come back he was 6 or 10 really interesting examples I'm sitting in the right just got no access to that but where they've been really interesting examples where actually you would want emotionally to respond in one way but actually it's really clear that in the case of say the Prince of Wales you know who's at the throne the following rules apply. I and she the queen behaved perfectly correctly in that scene that you just heard even though as a mother and or former mother in law it might appear cold and in a proper and that's why the the response in the country was so animated she was only doing what she thought the right thing to do was. She is eventually persuaded to come to London and join in the national mourning give a tell yes the queen by the way never attends funerals almost never attend the funerals you know so so no matter how close she is to someone you will find that the Queen does not attend the funeral why she wants its product yes because I think you know it is protocol and it's like the Crown does not attend a funeral. It's again if you gave me a couple of hours to respond I'd be able to respond with more information and you know because again you know my I keep doing this I keep refusing to swallow all this information myself because you know my responsibility is to be a storyteller these people interest me only insofar as they are a family and a vehicle with which I can analyze the 2nd half of the 20th century or the dynamics of a family as a long running saga. Swallowing this royal porn which is what we'll call it you know this was swallowing the mind you shy hole of apparently complete crackpot protocol and so forth it's not something I particularly to lighten you know we have I have 10 full time research on this and they work around the clock and they have certain areas divided up within them and some of them all focused on politicians and some of them all focused on on the royal masses. You know I saw the queen when it was made I think was 2006 and then you know I've watched the crown recently to all 20 episodes and then I Swatch the Queen again and it was so much fun to see the same characters that are in the series the crown now you know decades later much older drawn by the same writer you Peter Morgan you know they're different actors in some cases but then we see these same people after they've matured and gone through all this life experience and I'm sort of fitted this is Peter Morgan's vision of these people now later on although you did them in the reverse order you did the older one the more recent one 1st and I wonder if you were doing the queen now after this deep immersion into the Elizabeth her of her twenty's and thirty's and forty's do you think you would have done it or written it any differently such a question I don't I really don't know I couldn't tell you I haven't really watched the queen. I don't tend to watch anything you know by the time you reach you know a final cut and something aside sick of it and. And you know by the time it's on promotion and so full of listening to it just now. I was there any affection I had was not for my writing but for the beautiful school biogs on the law I notice it's just on the shape of water and won the Golden Globe the other night was a great pleasure to run into him again he's a wonderful composer but. I tend not to look back on it but but it's interesting that I wrote the older character the older versions and. And let's see you know I thought the moment I can't but I had the idea of continuing to write these characters for much longer but I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying still realigning season 3 in seasons for us that coming up which will be the as it were the middle aged Queen which you know comes in between of course the the queen that you saw and the movie played by Helen Mirren and there's a whole generation as it were to be played by another actress and we've we've all sort of a cold months to that and happily she said yes but actually the cumulative depth of knowing that they were you know knowing them and having written them as younger and having invested in their marriage in the early years of their marriage and now has the marriage hits middle age and as they hit at légion as they have midlife crises and as they you know go this way and that way as characters maybe this is one of the joy of writing television and having the time to really really stay with character maybe that will really pay dividends and maybe I'll love it Peter Morgan speaking to Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies last year more after a break this is Fresh Air. 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Directed by Ron Howard it was and it was a play originally you did it for stanch and this is based on the interviews that David Frost to older folks will remember was a British celebrity journalist and with Richard Nixon 3 years after he resigned in disgrace. Let's just listen to a scene this is from this series of interviews Frost did with Nixon many of the earlier interviews were relatively congenial but this is the last of them when frost is really boring in on Nixon about Watergate Nixon is played by Frank Langella David Frost by Michael Sheen Let's listen I have always maintained you nothing about any of this until March 21st but in February your personal lawyer came to Washington to start the raising of $219000.00 of how Schmoe need to be paid to the burglars Now do you seriously expect us to believe that you had no knowledge of that Norm I believe the money was for humanitarian purposes to hope there's a grant judge people were dirt affronts while it was being delivered on the tops of phone booths with a and I asked courts by people with gloves on that's not normally the way lawyers fees are delivered I have made statements to this effect before all that was hold up no nor what most presidents I know nothing Ok fine but you made a good group for America I stated my view Now let's move on let's go about us no home no I don't want your children and on it goes that's Frank Langella David Frost . In the film processing you fight it out yeah well it could be he did what it just did you in this confrontation between these 2 men wanted to put it on state. When it was it was a particular. You know you do to sound pretentious. You do look at it almost like a set of ingredients and not every historical encounter which has huge significance and ramifications for the country or for the world has those ingredients and for me it's all about character and and it appealed to me particularly I could never have written Frost Nixon as a play or the film had frost not been British Frost was my way in and so to me it was a story about a guy out of his depth and a guy you know suddenly finding himself. You know I went in through I was not tortured in the same way as any American citizen would have been by the by the national trauma that was Watergate and so Watergate was something I observed from from the point of view of the u.k. I was emotionally invested in what must have been like. To have thought oh I better get these interviews with Richard Nixon because they it's quite prestigious get only to suddenly feel the extraordinary weight of American you know the trauma on your shoulders and to realize if you do not deliver a conviction that that these interviews will effectively be offering somebody a rehabilitation and so suddenly he's in unbelievably deep water and that really appealed to me so I came in and threw frost but of course in America the play and the film were interpreted completely differently and they were interpreted as will the beast get slain you know and and and one of the joys of Fos Nixon as a project was travelling in between the United Kingdom the United States and having the schizophrenia response to the play in one country it was a play about Richard Nixon and one country was a play about David Frost and in the England they saw Frost as well rehabilitating his own an image or what no frost was sort of you know Frost was known in the u.k. As an opportunist. Although he was a very intelligent man he was certainly not known for his intelligence he was known more for his high lifestyle and his you know it was always with beautiful women and he was that you know he he was an opportunist he was not he was a golden opportunist and this was one opportunity that he seemed to have misjudged and so the opportunist. Being out of his depth fell it was a story met with leaders in the United Kingdom where frost was you know also the purveyor of some quite lowbrow. Gameshows all talk shows and suddenly the idea that he was in the ring with Richard Nixon and being forced to deliver something that no one else had delivered before. It turned out he did have both the mettle and the intelligence to do so but. Wouldn't have known it necessarily starting out. Well Peter Morgan It's been fun we will look forward to more of the Crown thank you so much for speaking with us pleasure. Peter Morgan creator and writer of the Crown and writer of the Queen in Frost Nixon speaking to Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies last year the new season of The Crown which tells the ongoing story of the royal family during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd is presented Sunday on Netflix it features a new cast including Oscar winner Olivia Colman as Elizabeth our critic at large John Powers says that while the show has changed in many ways what hasn't changed is that it's still so good I was once visiting Cambridge England when I saw crowds pouring into the city center joining the throng I arrived in time to see an immaculately besotted Prince Charles give a speech that celebrated of all things the opening of a new supermarket watching him feign enthusiasm I remember thinking the poor guy spent his whole life doing this stuff and I walked away grateful that I wasn't a royal I says that many feel the same gratitude watching the crown the plush behind the palace walls hit the maybe the most delicious series on television created and largely scripted by Peter Morgan the show's 3rd season drops on Netflix this Sunday carrying Queen Elizabeth story into the mid 1960 s. And seventy's while the essential drama of Buckingham Palace stays the same it's the tug of war between public rules and private selves season 3 has big changes that take a couple of episodes to warm up to it's not simply that we're watching once youthful characters now congealed in cushy but often disappointing middle aged Malays we must also be used to a superb new cast with Matt Smith spiky Prince Philip giving way to Tobias Menzies more textured annoyance he's a reservoir of bad advice and Vanessa Kirby's dead Ling Princess Margaret turning into an unhappily married social butterfly waspishly played by Helena Bonham Carter . Most important clear for his likeability hesitant will visit with has been replaced by a prematurely dowdy queen who in Olivia Coleman's layered performance has warmed to her job beneath her sometimes lacquered exterior She's an odd mixture of decency and coolness cluelessness and ultimate good sense making measure still trickier the show is no longer set in the postwar afterglow dominated by Winston Churchill largely ignoring the giving us of swinging London were going focuses on troubled times even as politicians Asquith of the monarchy is a waste of time and money Britain is faced with a shrinking pound sterling massive strikes calamitous power cuts and even the threat of a right wing coup involving national luminaries here on Election Day in 1964 Elizabeth watches the news while her husband fans absurd fears what will happen should Labour's Harold Wilson become prime minister we do know is that men and women just. The ones out. This is the whole Fiz government be made up of rabid anti Americans were the heads and spokes view that evolution as an adult is big fiction and the focus. Of this field where he's from. I haven't heard a rumor that he is a k.g.b. Spy or Mr Wilson who has fought with his predecessor Hugh good skill was poisoned by the Russians so that their man might take a. Good to hear that a friend of mine learns to be a whole theory. Being termed Well a trade mission to Russia that he even had the k.g.b. Code. Over when in it until sunrise it Opus a m I 5 they must allow the locals off Mr Wells list I know they would have done something about it for this they never expected him to get this far. No indeed as it happens ideology proves irrelevant over a series of nifty scenes Elizabeth comes to develop a close relationship with Wilson slightly played by Jason want guns who talks to her forthrightly about governing she vastly prefer same to his feckless Tory successor Edward Heath who she finds about as appealing as a tree salon the crown gets much of its own from filtering historical events through their often tangential connection to the royal family thus a mining disaster becomes the story of a lizard with trouble displaying public empathy a preview of her p.r. Disaster with Princess Di Britain's need for an American loan lease to a drunken Princess Margaret spouting dirty limericks to a delighted Lyndon Johnson in a sneakily powerful episode the fear of Welsh nationalism leads the family to uproot Prince Charles played with great feeling by Josh O'Connor and shipped him to the University of Wales in ever rest with to prove the English care along the way Charles becomes this season's prime sacrificial victim where his sister Princess Anne played the star making assurance by Arundhati listens to David Bowie into his casual flings and addresses the world with biting sarcasm the touching Charles believed himself a kind of individualistic free thinker but was rich his schooling or his love life his bulldozed into doing what his chilly stiff upper lip family decides is best for the crown. His whole purpose in life is to become king when his mother dies now 71 he's still in that limbo more a figure of mockery than sympathy the crown is wonderfully entertaining in part because you don't have to take it all that seriously because the throne has no real power we can enjoy it as a historical soap opera without worrying that things are inaccurate or partisan as we would with a show about say the Kennedys or the Trumps indeed one key to the monarchy is a lou or is it offers a kind of larger than life pop mythology in its timeless pageantry an out of touch silliness the crown transcends the moment it represents the idea of an enduring Britain and it provides ordinary people with a useful distraction from the battles of political life I never thought I'd say this but these days maybe America could use a royal family to critic at large John Powers review the 3rd season of The Crown available on Netflix this Sunday coming up our film critic Justin Chang reviews the new film waves about an African-American family living in South Florida this is Fresh Air. 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This is Fresh Air The 31 year old writer director Trey Edwards Schultes one great acclaim and the top prize of the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival for his debut feature Krisha his new movie waves is a family drama complicated by tragedy it stars Kelvin Harrison Jr as a Florida teenager and Taylor Russell as his younger sister film critic Justin Chang has this review the emotionally turbulent drama waves revolves around an African-American family living in south Florida and I mean revolves quite literally in an early scene the camera swivels a full 360 degrees around the inside of a car as a teenager named Tyler Williams and his girlfriend Alexis drive along the oceanfront Tyler played by a mesmerizing Kelvin Harrison Jr is a high school wrestling star with upright looking future and the camera whether racing alongside him on a field or crashing down next to him on the wrestling that seems to draw on his youthful energy the writer director Trey Edward Schultz has a gift for turning dramatic ideas into visual ones waives is his grandest and most ambitious picture yet but like his earlier features and it comes at night it's about the fragility of the American family shots the style has some of the raw ragged intimacy of John Cassavetes but also the dreamy poetry of Terrence Malick whom he worked with years ago his camera is alive to the lush beauty and sweltering heat of his Florida setting and it's magnetized by the intense physicality of his actors the camera begins to slow down when Tyler gets home and mumbles a half hearted greeting to his family Renee Elise Goldberry places loving stepmother Catherine and Taylor Russell plays his sensitive younger sister Emily Tyler has the closest but also the most difficult relationship with his father Ronald a gruff authoritarian played with soulful gravity by Sterling k. Brown role of those hard. On his son always correcting his behavior and pushing him to do better whether they're lifting weights together in their home gym or having an argument about Tyler's work ethic I said it before us here to get the real good about you and me. We are not afforded to the luxury of being after which you were 10 times harder to get anywhere. It's. So I don't push you because I want to push you because I have to give you your winnings so. This is one of just a few moments in which the movie directly addresses the subject of racism there's a later one too when a stranger hurls an anti-black slur at Tyler but for the most part the tensions tearing at the Williams family come from within this is a sad sweeping story about the seemingly unbridgeable gap that can open up between parents and their children it's also about the desperation that can set in when life doesn't go according to plan. Tyler starts to experience a nagging soreness in his shoulder a doctor's visit confirms that he has severe muscle damage spelling the possible end of his wrestling career around the same time his girlfriend Alexis informs him that she's pregnant and wants to keep the baby this might sound contrived on paper but I like the way that wave's doesn't shy away from melodrama and shelters filmmaking is so propulsive that you're carried along at every moment he puts you inside Tyler's head making palpable his confusion and anger as everything begins to spiral out of control I won't say anything more about the tragic turn that follows partly because I don't want to spoil it and partly because Tyler's experience turns out to be only half the story waves understands that men tend to hog the spotlight in families and relationships in sports and in movies and so it's both pointed and deeply moving when the plot suddenly ruptures in the perspective shifts to Emily who tells her story in the movie 2nd half Emily is as shy and reserved as her brother was brash and reckless and Taylor Russell acts with a quiet sensitivity that counterbalances Kelvin Harrison Jr's brooding fury but before long Emily catches the eye of a classmate named Luke played with puppyish sweetness by Lucas Hedges who charms her and coaxes her out of her shell their initial flirtation blossoms into a real relationship as they bond over burgers and hang out with friends they also connect over their shared understanding of the pain that family can bring there's a wrenching scene in which Ronald confesses his failings as a father and reaffirms his love for Emily whom he has too often ignored he proceeds to recite a few words from the Book of Proverbs which beautifully encompass the movie and its emotional extremes hatred stirs up strife but love covers up all offenses Schulte isn't peddling easy redemption he's trying to show us. What it looks like for a family to try to heal in the aftermath of tragedy as a technical display waves is awfully impressive as an emotional experience it's simply enormous It begins in exuberance before moving through rage and despair but by the end it has achieved what feels like a state of grace Justin Chang is a film critic for the l.a. Times on Monday show our guest will be actor Robert Pattinson who stars opposite Willem Dafoe in the gothic horror film The Lighthouse. Pattinson became a teen heartthrob for his role as a vampire in the Twilight films he's gone on to work with David Cronenberg and Verner Hertzog I hope you can join us. Fresh Air's executive producer is Danny male our technical director and engineer is Audry Bentham with additional engineering support from Joyce Lieberman and Julian hurts. Our associate producer for digital media is Molly c.b.s. Remote Assur octo Rex the show for Terry Gross I'm David Bianculli. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this. 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Economy is holding pretty steady thanks once again to the American consumer we've got some may a Keynes with the economists with me here in Washington and Lynnette Lopez with Business Insider at our New York studio to discuss this and more. Great let's start with the hearings here in Washington not the ones everyone's talking about Fed chair Jay Powell testified in the House and Senate on the outlook for the American economy what did you take away from those sessions I think the thing I took away was basically the same message that we got from off to the last Fed meeting right and essentially it is that the ball for another interest rate cut is pretty high the economy is sort of in the place that they were expecting and if if the economy starts going downhill if you start to see a much worse outlook than they were expecting then that could lead to another cut but for now it's kind of where they want it to be. Good consumer spending Ok business investment is maybe a bit softer than they would want but you know that the plan is going ahead as scheduled yet again Lynnette this is more of the same story we've been hearing businesses aren't doing much investing it's really American consumers who are fueling this economy any signs of that slowing down. We've had some topping numbers like last month's retail sales numbers earlier this fall they were not looking great but we got strong numbers today and we've got you know we've got data that looks good we've got data that looks weird The Fed seems pretty confident and I think one thing that how did in his hearings the last couple days was speak a little bit more for.

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