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A few hollywood blockbusters getting their premieres in toronto as well ill be talking to scott rocks in just a minute but 1st a bit more about the tiff. It started quite small but over the years to run 2 has become one of the most important Film Industry hops this year it presents 333. 00 films from 84. 00 countries its not on a festival so theres no International Competition but that doesnt mean no major premieres and b. Star was. Good last year green book was screened it won the toronto audience prize and went on to pick up the best picture oscar. Because it takes. This year tom hanks is one of the big names dropping in he stars in a movie about us t. V. Legend fred rogers. The children so International Film festival runs until sunday. And joining me now direct from toronto is scott iraq fresh from seein ....
Yeah this is quite interesting a female director here theres a lot of people directors in this year this is a biopic but with a difference its put stars the nicest man in Hollywood Tom hanks playing the nicest man in t. V. Fred rogers or mr rogers the late childrens t. V. Presenter and whats interesting about this its not really the story of freds rogers but its the story of the life of someone who can influence namely a cynical journalist who tried to find the dark secrets about fred rogers but spoiler all he found was more wonderfulness this film is like a big warm hug and maybe just the right thing for these sort of talks at times scott always a mine of information great to talk to scott roxboro in toronto thank you. Now in our continuing series 100 german must read featuring great books from german all being translated into english were looking at a book that shed some light on how family life was in the form a communist east g ....
it s called christ of the ozarks. christ of the ozarks was the subject of a huge a suspiciously huge fund-raising operation by gerald l.k. smith. he died in 1976, but that statue still stands 1 in arkansas toda. but gerald l.s. smith is about to have another moment in the public eye because what he really wanted to be remembered for, even more than that statue, was a nationwide movement that he tried to build, a movement that he named and that he led and that he promoted tirelessly and that he wanted to outlive him forever. the motive behind the term christian nationalist is easy to define and simple to interpret. we believe that the destiny of america in relationship to its governing authority must be kept in thein hands of our own peopl. we must never be goonchd by aliens. we must keep control of our own money m and our own blood. in other words, we must remain trueor to the declaration of independence. that is nationalism. woe believe that the spiritual symbol of ....
forgiven. he is no longer a famous figure. but in his day, he was a famous fish guy. a preacher and political figure. at one point, he ran for senate in michigan as a republican. in 1944, he ran for president against fdr. he ran for the ticket on the america first party, which he had founded. gerald l k smith did not go far with that bid or the bid as a republican. either if gerald l k smith, is remembered for anything, today it is probably mostly for this, this is a statue that he erected in arkansas in the 1960s, it is called christ of the ozarks. crisis of the ozarks was a suspiciously huge fund raising operation by gerald l.k. smith. he died in 1976. but that statue still stands in arkansas today. but gerald l.k. smith is about to have another moment in the public eye. because what he really wanted to be remembered for, even more than that statue, was a nation wide movement that he tried to build. a movement that he named and that he lied and that he promoted charsl ....
fundraising operation, he died in 1976 but that statue still stands in arkansas today. but he is about to have another moment in the public eye. because what he really wanted to be remembered for, even more than that statue, was a nationwide movement that he tried to build. a movement that he named. and that he led. and that he promoted tirelessly. and that he wanted to outlive him. the motive behind the term christian nationalist is easy to define and simple to interpret. we believe that the destiny of america in relationship to its governing authority must be kept in the hands of our own people. we must never be governed by anyone. we must keep control of our own money and our own blood. in other words, we must remain true to the declaration of independence. that is nationalism. we believe that the spiritual symbol of our statesmanship is the cross, which indeed is the symbol of christianity. we believe that the inspiring dynamic out of which america grew is christi ....