The Paper (1994)
Directed by Ron Howard
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
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These are not new questions for a filmmaker to ponder; I remember, at merely eighteen years old and not yet personally acquainted with the idea of asking for some “give” from one’s family, relating deeply to the themes of Ron Howard’s The Paper , a film deeply preoccupied with the idea of never feeling that one has enough time to do what’s important .
“Stop the presses!” It’s a great movie-cliché moment, enjoyed and employed by everyone from Michael Keaton in The Paper to Gonzo in The Great Muppet Caper.
Spielberg in The Post seems to channel director Ron Howard, who directed The Paper (1994), with Michael Keaton.
The Paper is, too, and so is Spotlight.
Also Read: Venice Film Festival Books Eddie Redmayne, Michael Keaton, Kristen Stewart Films Seeing Keaton strolling past a printing press brings back memories of his turn in “The Paper,” and here he once again gets to play a man whose joviality masks a tenacious need to get the information he’s chasing.
Michael Keaton – and wouldn't this make an interesting double-feature with the comic "The Paper"?
(Keaton’s an old hand at playing a journo — he was also great in The Paper back in ’94.)
Michael Keaton (who starred as an ink-stained wretch in Ron Howard’s excellent “The Paper” in 1994) is Walter “Robby” Robinson, the beloved editor of the Spotlight team, which consists of Rachel McAdams’ Sacha Pfeiffer Mark Ruffalo’s Michael Rezendes and Brian d’Arcy James’ Matt Carroll.
The film introduces its bullpen of principle players quickly, establishing the trust and confidence Spotlight editor Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton, back in a newsroom two decades after The Paper ) puts in his team, Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams), Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), and Matt Carroll (Brian D’Arcy James).
Keaton famously played a city editor in The Paper , a 1994 comedy by Ron Howard about a tabloid newspaper that seemed to borrow the crusading spirit of New York’s Daily News and the machismo of the New York Post.