Today on AirTalk we'll look at Gov. Jerry Brown's new CA budget plan, what happens when bullying goes too far, TGIFilmweek and a look at the movie One Day on Earth with director Kyle Ruddick. Plus, the latest news.
New California budget will eliminate Healthy Families program
Governor Jerry Brown and California legislators reached a decision yesterday on how to close the state’s $15.7 billion budget deficit.
Among the cuts that have angered various groups is the plan to axe the Healthy Families medical program and move the 880,000 low-income children the program serves to Medi-Cal over the next three years. Many health advocates argue Healthy Families is a much higher quality program partly because it pays doctors and health care providers better.
When the budget is approved next week, what will this mean for the state’s disadvantaged children? And what will it mean for the doctors and health care professionals who provide them with care?
GUESTS
Dylan Roby, Director of the Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program at UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; Assistant Professor in UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Wendy Lazarus, Co-President and Founder, The Children’s Partnership
Dr. Theodore Mazer, MD, Chair of California Medical Association’s Technical
Bullied bus monitor says parents are blind to bad behavior
In a disturbing video that's gone viral this week, a school bus monitor from upstate New York has become the Susan Boyle of bullying victims.
Karen Klein is a 68-year old grandmother who was verbally abused by seventh graders earlier this week. One of the kids recorded the ten-minute scene. The video ended up on YouTube, then a good Samaritan started a fundraising page for Karen Klein.
Today, they've raised nearly half a million dollars so Klein can retire in serenity. Meanwhile, the bullying kids and their parents are dealing with vigilante threats. Even NBC's Matt Lauer called the kids "monsters." Klein has been kinder to the young boys. She said they probably don't act that way at home and their parents might have no idea how terrible they behave.
Could that be true? Are parents aware of their children's character? Or are they in denial? Were the instigators in this case from troubled homes with disrespectful parents? When confronted with the facts, how do parents react?
GUEST
Holly Priebe-Diaz, Intervention Coordinator, LAUSD
FilmWeek: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Brave, To Rome With Love, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and more
Larry is joined by KPCC film critics Tim Cogshell, Andy Klein and Charles Solomon to discuss this week’s movies, including Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Brave, To Rome With Love, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and more. Also, the critics will touch on the passing of influential film critic Andrew Sarris. TGI-FilmWeek!
Guests:
Tim Cogshell, film critic for KPCC and Box Office Magazine
Andy Klein, film critic for KPCC, Glendale News-Press and the L.A. Times Community Papers chain
Charles Solomon, animation critic for KPCC and author and historian for amazon.com
Brave producer delivers the latest Pixar release – it’s a girl!
In a world where cowboys, spacemen and grumpy old guys with balloons dominate the landscape, at last comes a girl with humor, determination – and a quiver full of arrows. Pixar’s latest release “Brave” is an antidote to princess-hood, a tween heroine we can all cheer on.
The film’s producer, Katherine Sarafian, has been at Pixar since 1994, starting as a production coordinator on “Toy Story.” She’s had key roles in many of its hits since then, including “A Bug’s Life,” “Monsters, Inc.” and “The Incredibles.” Sarafian joins Larry to talk about her years at Pixar and her role in shepherding “Brave” from story to screen.
Guest:
Katherine Sarafian, producer of “Brave,” Pixar Animation Studios
One Day on Earth
Usually, a movie takes years to make from start to finish. Kyle Ruddick’s new documentary, however, only took one day. (Well, not counting editing, that is.)
“One Day on Earth” is a bold, global film project that started at the grassroots level. The thrust of the movie is that it shows the human experience in every country on the same day. The result is a world record-setting movie made by over 19,000 volunteer filmmakers, cut from 3,000 hours of raw footage and which features 70 different languages.
One Day on Earth, which is also the name of the organization which backed the movie, donated 1,000 high definition cameras to people all across the world. Footage includes a North Korean military parade, the lives of scientists at the South Pole, a Kosovo wedding ritual, and much more.
How did Ruddick manage to orchestrate such a huge project? What got left on the cutting room floor? What’s next for One Day on Earth?
Guest:
Kyle Ruddick, founder and director of “One Day on Earth”
One Day On Earth: Trailer
One Day on Earth - Release Trailer from One Day on Earth on Vimeo.