Fresh Air · 2026-08-15 · 49 min · 7,676 words

Best Of: 'Spider-Man' dir. Destin Daniel Cretton / Novelist Harriet Clark

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From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley in Los Angeles. Today What is happening in me? Did you miss me, Spidey? The film Spider-Man Brand New Day continues to break box office records after having the biggest US opening weekend in history.

Today we meet the film's director, Destin Daniel Creton. before Marvel. He worked in a group home for at risk teens, an experience that shaped everything he's made since then. and became the movie's short term twelve. Also we hear from Harriet Clark.

She was 11 months old when her mother was a getaway driver of a robbery. The robbers were members of a radical offshoot of the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers. For thirty seven years. Clark spent Saturdays visiting her mother in prison. She figured out how to mother me in some of the most difficult conditions possible. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.

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