bethany mclean and joe nocera. thank you. on the next charlie rose, russel crowe on the new film "the next three days" and the craft of acting. >> i like to know we'll start on time and finish on time. >> charlie: are you prompt? you're always there? you're there and ready to roll? >> i work the way the director works. if the director shows me in the first week he's not capable of beginning at 8:00 in the morning then you know i'll like, you know, because otherwise you create a strange tension you know. if somebody's regularly half an hour 45 minutes later than the game that said i work towards that and one thing that's soul destroying as an actor for me is sitting and waiting. >> charlie: wikipedia bills itself as an free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. there are more than 90,000 active contributors. the company announced last month plans for an office in india. its first outside the united states. i'm pleased to have him back. >> january 15th, 10th anniversary. >> charlie: how is what it is different from what you imagin

bethany mclean, joe nocera, welcome! >> thank you. >> thank you. >> reporter: you framed this book as a look back at the whole financial crisis, so i thought i would frame this interview as: who is the biggest culprit? >> i certainly would put the rating agencies right at the top of my list of bad guys, or my list of devils. a place like moody's took a culture that had a reputation for some integrity, and completely corrupted it in a drive for market share and profits. >> reporter: so biggest culprit, ratings agencies, you agree? >> i do agree. if they hadn't taken subprime mortgages and rated enormous quantities of them triple "a", meaning they gave those bonds the same credit rating as the u.s. government debt has, this whole thing couldn't have happened because debt that is rated triple "a" is precisely the debt that is snapped up by the largest quantity of buyers all around the world, buyers who are not capable of doing the detailed work to analyze these bonds by themselves. and yet there is still this myth that thes

. >> holman: on our "making sense" page, a follow-up to last night's interview with authors joe nocera and bethany mcclean. we've posted a "hall of shame" slideshow looking at some of history's most notorious financial figures. plus on "art beat," jeff talks to director lucy walker about "waste land," a film that follows a brazilian-born artist who found inspiration in the world's largest trash dump. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on monday, we'll look at the african nation of mozambique, where the economy is growing, but many still live in poverty. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online, and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs st

my co-author, joe nocera, who was my editor at fortune and then who edited me -- edited "the smartest guys in the room," was in chicago actually working on a column and we were sitting in my house and he said we should do a book together about the financial crisis. at that point in time, we thought it was a unique, original idea. we were soon disabused of that notion. but and i thought -- i wasn't so sure about embarking on another book. the last one was a really difficult process and i -- that was still too fresh in my mind, but i have the utmost respect for joe and the ability to work with him again, plus be able to spend you know a couple of years thinking about something that i was really interested in and delving into all these tales that otherwise i'd never really be able to delve into, i thought ok, sign me up. >> well as you know there have been a lot of documentaries and other books written. what -- how is your approach different from everything else? >> i think it is a really different book. i fully believe that you only have in you the -- one book, the -- and you can't -- y