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Salina Journal
By TIM HORAN Salina Journal
“So I guess we just got lucky. You and me.”
That line was from the Oscar-nominated movie “Spotlight,” recently shown at the Salina Art Center Cinema. It also recently won the best picture at the Critics’ Choice Awards.
In the movie, Robby Robinson, a Boston Globe editor who grew up a good Catholic in Boston, was told by a classmate that when the classmate was younger that Father James Talbot sexually abused him.
Later in the movie, Robinson, played by Michael Keaton, asked a Jesuit Boston College High School alumni if he played sports.
“Yeah. Football. Why?”
Robinson said he ran track.
“Father Talbot coached the hockey team,” Robinson said. “So I guess we just got lucky. You and me.”
The classmate who’d been abused said he always wondered why Talbot picked him. The only answer was that the classmate was a member of the hockey team.
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