arby's? i'm not going back there! (laughter) what could have destroyed this beloved american diabetes dispensary. >> it's the unions that really did it in because they would not allow hostess to operate efficiently. >> hostess, which was forced to close its doors due to union demands, they couldn't afford to stay in business during a long worker strike. >> the union preferred killing the company to accepting what they thought was a bad deal. >> jon: unions! you've got to imagine gingrich is taking this hard. he is, after all, half stpho * ball on his father's side. (laughter) just to play devil dog advocate here, could there be another reason hostess went bankrupt? >> this company could not run itself efficiently. in the last ten years they've had seven c.e.o.s. >> jon: oh, uncertainty. i'm told the market abhors it. >> after the 2004 bankruptcy, the workers took wage and benefit cuts. it wasn't enough. the c.e.o. gave himself a 300% raise. >> jon: so the unions had already taken a cut in somewhat inverse verse propor

i read five by arby's on her. -- five biographies on her. it was piecing together her psychology of why she behaved the way she did and some of the document if things we know she behavior certain ways. the task has bent, you take the magnificent complicated screenplay and you put all of those pieces together of all of the research i had done, the interior and the exteriors. i gained 25 pounds to try to reach that girth, the roundness that she was. and then you shake it up and you let it go. and you standa in front of the exquisite talent of daniel day lewis. and let her be. i had no preconceived ideas, i had no notion of where she was going. there are scenes of great grief and great anguish and anger. and then levity. and she was imperious. she had a feeling of entitlement. and she was also devoted to her husband. and had there not then a mary todd lincoln there would not have been an abraham lincoln. that is simply a fact. she was breathtakingly smart, highly educated, half came from a powerful, political family and the south and found him

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