studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. we made it. it is tryday friday. and kathie lee has the day off, and our good friend jenna bush hagar is with us, and just crank it! you cannot get enough of this. this is "love song" by sara bareilles, and we will be talking to her about project ss that are happening. and it is weird that you don't everyday glance over to th c d see music royalty and movie royalty right next to her. do you cook in the kitchen? >> i get it done. >> good answer. >> sara? >> no.

ttuve etaore tacoe w vyy a the beautiful diane lane has a project out and it is a movie opening this weekend and she has a lot of things coming ut this weekend. and i still can't get over did you see? >> yes, i love it. >> and another one of the girl crushes. >> reece witse witherspoon from nashville and we shared ao a,d it is a lot of fun. >> she seems like a fun girl. >> she is fun and smart and doing a lot of of great things for women. i like her. >> and another first, elvis duran last night who is fromz 100 and he got into the hall of

out ryan seacrest, and delilah and steve harvey. >> he looks great. >> he dropped a bunch of weight. he looks very, very good. if you are ready for christmas, you are going to have good news, the rockefeller christmas tree arrived. did you see it when you came in? >> yes, i did. >> they are about to prop it up. it is a norway spruce that weighs 10 tons. yet? >> no, it is 70 degrees yet. but it is close to time for christmas. i mean, we don't have that much longer. >> well, the tree lighting is december 2nd, and if you were wonderinatrm wluat the christmas cups are out at star buc, and the red cups are out, and people are putting up christmas lights in joanne lemarque's neighborhood. >> yes. >> and we have learned that christmas commercials have

started already. >> and ie ri cmei. stsad. >> i do love this feeling. >> all right. you know what, it is maybe it is time. let's go ahead and say it. >> okay. it is time. >> and remember yesterday that we were telling you about gwen stefani and blake shelton and i call d called that one a couple of day before. >> you did in. s . >> and was ta that in the privacy of your own box? >> no, i called it here, because when the whole crew of "the voice" and matt lauer were talking and when gwen was talking, blake was gazing lovingly. lovingly. >> and what about when blake was talkingig? try oddetsnm yeyat both of them are dating. but i am about 90% happy. >> and the thing is that you have a man.

>> yes, and anyway, we have a photo here and it is an incredible photo and it o a and gwen. but we have a problem. >> we can't show you, because we are not allow to to see you. >> because of money. >> and so we can't show you. >> okay. >> so let's act it out. >> okay. i will be thegwen. >> i have always had to be the boy in everything. >> okay. i'll be gwen. >> and we brought this with the cowboy hat. oh, okay, i'm way bigger than okay. >> and the camera over here? >> yes. and my look is this. is that good?

we appreciate it. >> we are holding hands. >> how can we better hold hands. >> okay. that is an experiment that failed so we are sorry. "people" magazine is report nag the -- is reporting that the two of them have written a song together. >> about somebodileying a relation relationship for something they truly want. d att u a-rdyo is dating, right? >> and okay. this is what we talked about this morning even before we heard the story, because we are both on the tall side. your boyfriend, he is not short. >> no, he is not. >> he is tall, and shorter than you in heels. >> yes. and i don't mind one bit. i don't think that he minds. >> i have dated a boy and he was probably a boy at that time who like came right up to here. you know around the chest area. >> and this 13-year-old boy went

dating a girl who is taller than me, and he is 13 and they have been dating for two months, and he wants to know how to put the move on her while they are at the movies, because he is so much shorter. >> and so the question is should just go for it. >> i think that he should do one of these, and then just drop it and see how -- you know, you will know right away if somebody wants to be touching you. >> and also a 13-year-old girl that you want your boy to the put his arm around you so bad that you don't care about the arm around you. >> and your first kiss? >> my first kiss was spin the bottle in the fourth grade. >> fourth grade? ran away. i was like, what? do i have cheeto breath or what? what about you?

my brother and this girl and we were playing spin the bottle, too, in the woods. otnd his name was john zachman. >> mine is john henderson. and sorry to john henderson's wife wherever they may be. nothing serious. >> and in is what they told the kid, if it is awkward, don't do it, otherwise, do it. >> i say do it. >> and al roker is on kicking it off of all 50 states in seven days. he is in hawaii. how are they go ging to do it? >> i don't know. >> and all of the money he is raiio f e a hes going to alaska and hawaii and not just the continental u.s. he is going to be doing it all, and we wish al roker great luck. the weather has to cooperate. >> yes, exactly. >> can i give a quick big hug to two people last night. there is a benefit call ded moo

moo and the marina fund. it is for two people who lost their kids to a horrible tragedy, and they are raising money to help other kids, and this is a picture of them last night. they are amazing, and they define the art of healing those two, and i wanted to give a shout out to them. >> and joy bauer. >> joy -- >> it is her birthday. >> yes, and speaking of her, we want to hear your inspiring weight loss club. you know -- >> remember, you are to be 1,100 this. all right. coming up after this, we have a dream team, and diane lane and she has done a and she has another hit to add to the list. >> and we want to hear another song before fibromyalgia, i was on the go. i was organized. i was a doer.

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diane lane has enjoyed the career that most actresses can dream of. from the breakout role as a teenager in francis ford coppola's "the outsiders" to the e erotic thriller hard to get out of your head to the beautiful "under the tuscan sun." >> and now the next story tells the true story of a screenwriter who was blacklisted for his political beliefs and his strong-willed wife who struggled alongside him.

you just snap, bark. i keep waiting for you the start pounding the dinner table with a gavel. >> so in addition to being a pariah out in the world, i also have a supreme joy of battle insurrection in my own home where these ten fingers literal literally clothe and feed and shelter us. >> it is not just hapni t y. a hurt. >> diane lane. >> thank you for having me this morning. >> when you saw the script, did you right away sa yes shgs i, i have to do that film. >> there were a couple of things that made it absolu f m chti a im f oh because all of his films are smart and funny which is a wonderful conversion. and bryan cranston, well, pinch me hard. >> and look at that. how did you learn how to do that? >> well shgs, i honestly, i -- >> this is the part i could not believe. >> i was practicing that before i met with the director for the

job, because i wanted to have as many opportunities, and i was learning from scratch. yeah. >> and the kashgcharacter, you are the wife of bryan cranston the's character, and tell the basic plot line. >> okay. the hollywood ten is a notorious phrase and it has been used a lot, but people are not familiar with that. it was screen play writers who were banned to apply their craft because of the affiliations either rumored affiliations or the fact that they had done anything at all to do with the communist party. there was so much fearmongering ii. it was a hot button and i want to say that hedda hopper and i don't know how to compare her to today, but she was so wielded power to have something like 30 million readers, and the way that the news, the media is cop trolled today, it is nothing compared to how it used to be,

know, comments at the bottom of says, hey, wait a minute. >> she played a great character. what was it like to be on set with helen mirren and bryan cranston and john goodman? >> well, it is so strong and heroic story, and it debates what it is to be american, and what the first amendment is valued as. it does it with the great humor of jay roach. >> do you have is to audition any more or do they say, we want diane lane for this or that, and do they say, come in to read or do you walk in and get the job? >> it is a respectful meeting. i make sure they inform myself about the people i am meeting about with as well. auditioning. i don't think that i any got any parts from auditioning. i don't do it well. >> you get nervous?

it was more regular for me to be experiencing that, i would go into a sort of the whiteout, panic, and i was not sure what i wdonan w a little bit aingengry and insecure or angry about being insecure, and so it just, probably didn't go well. don't get a lot of parts with that attitude. >> and people feel better that you got nervous. >> oh, yes. >> you have a lot of projects coming up. deep throat thing. >> watergate to be clear. >> yes. >> and "superman." >> yes shgs, the role of martha kent reprised and i got to work in helena ford coppola as well in a documentary and i get to work with liam neeson. >> continue the great work. and go out to see it opening nationwide on thanksgivin >y we have more hollywood

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oww! grammy award winner and nominated sara bareilles has brought us great hits. >> and she has written new lyrics for the upcoming broadway musical "waitress." >> and to today the album is out and and it is called "what's inside a waitress." >> and we should say that tik w on sale for the broadway show and tell us what happened, because when a box office opens, you are biting the nails a little bit. >> totally and they had projected on a good day, what might we possibly achieve and it was threefold. the fans came out in droves. it was absolutely amazing. >> and it is a passion project for you. >> yes.

movie by kerri russell -- >> starring in it. >> yes, yes. >> and what captured you? >> we were thinking about this, and i really loved that the film deals with dark matter but in a quiet way. the film was very fun dealing with being a feminist, and eccentric, and it just feels like real life, but she also paints a slightly ethereal world as well. it is a really nice balance of the fantasy and reality. >> we know that you are a fan of broadway musicals and we saw picture from the book, and you have done it all. and yearbook, yearbook. we want the see it. >> did you -- there you rare as a little girl. did you go to musicals as a little girl? >> well, this is me playing fern

production of charlotte's web. >> oh, i love that. >> so have you always loved the musical theeter? >> i have. i grew up on it, and my family has always been involved with it. my mom was an actress, and my sis sisters and my dad is very musical, and so we are hams and we love to work the room, you know. >> and what about "waitress" and i saw the pictures on the instagram in your apartment and you have bneen working on this for a long time. >> well, i have to say overal ihb labor intensive ab absolutely, but it has mostly a very blissful project. i have loved to working on this so much. it was a nice departure with the grind that i'm familiar with, and so it felt very playful to be writing songs for other people to sing, to be writing someone else's story, and so all of that was really fun. >> have you thought about starring if your own musical, and it does not have to be about you. >> well, okay. >> and i want it about me, please.

what do you mean? >> i nef say neverver say, "never," but my little girl's dream was to perform on the theater stage, and so when my career took a left turn and it has been a delicious homecoming to come back to the theater. so it is the right project to present itself. >> what about jesse mueller? she plays the mean girl in your story. >> she is the lead and the jena and what a gift to the show. >> and she was in the musical and a lead there, and you have become pals through the process. >> we may or may not be going out. >> and bffs. [ laughter ] and you have friends from a long time ago and a lot of plg i t lyoo a a ot sfthv tfrnbnboo tthgh we have admired about you is that you keep the

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girl jenna bush hagar, and jenna is so lucky, because she got the sit down with reese witherspoon. >> and we both have a little bit of a girl crush on her, and she has starred in a laundry list of movies to her award winning role of june carter cash and to her performance in "wild" last year, but now reese can add entrepreneur to her title. i caught up with her at her store named after her grandparents. >> the second you walk in, it is like, welcome home. that is what we want toded to do with the brand. >> another thing that is plaisobag. >> when i drove up, i saw your grandparents' name on the door and i know as a southern girl how importannnames are. >> yes, they are. >> did that choke you up a little bit? >> yes, seeing my grandmother's

so many people were raised by their grandparents. my mom and dad were working all of the time, and so my grandmother made my dinner ever every night and picked me up from school, and so grandparents are amazing. it is important to honor those people in our lives. >> reporter: from clothing to accessories and of course stationary draper james is putting the feather on southern style. >> if your grandmother walked in here, what would she be attracted to? >> probably the dresses and she always had a belt on. to be starting a line at 39, and i love fashion and clothes, but learning the business of it is fascinating. and really, a challenge for me. >> reporter: reese has not only added this clothing line to the long list of accomplishments. she also runs her own female-focused production company. >> there is a sunrise and sunset everyday.

>> reporter: and goes from wild girl to the woman on the silver screen. she talks about balance. >> well, the kids come first, no matter what. my kids are wonderful. they are so supportive of what i do as a filmmaker, and what i have been doing as an en entrepreneur. >> reporter: even though her grandmother was a a presence in reese's life, it is her mother that is always a text away. >> we were talking about our moms and the mom text. >> yes, the mom text. my mom wrote "wednesday morning. mom." i was like, great. >> she wanted you to know that she was there. >> bank, doughnuts, traffic, mom. >> is there anything that your daughters do that you go, oh, mom.

the morning when i have coffee, and it is mortifying to my children. they also don't like when i use the hashtag or the -- >> yolo. >> or the mlrb. >> and it is clear that southern belle is all about girl power. >> wish me luck, bruiser. i have classes today and i total ly look the part. >> and what about elle wood, mind? about the politic, and don't worry about what other people's beliefs are, but don't wait for somebody to ask you, just get in there. and ael wood is a great inspiration in that way. and girls in china said that we went to law school because of elle wood. >> what about you?

>> oh, my good nessness. >> is that a lot of pressure? >> that is leaning inta over. >> do you love her? >> and i love her. and the text bank, doughnuts and traffic, mom. >> and yes, moonwalk, debbie. and so she wanted to give you you and kathie lee. a and this is totes y'all. and we have the extended while. and so i like her. and iskt me more about this. and you can go to klgandhoda.com and there is like ten more minutes. >> i could have kept watching it. >> me, too, but is that just me? >> well, the producers have rules.

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and insert foot moments, and expert. we love when you are here, because you set us straight. >> and we need help. >> and we sent a camera around the city to ask people etiquette questions, and will you respond >> yes, by all means. >> i'm a bar tendtender from ft. myers beach, florida, and i saw a man sitting at the bar and rushed over and said, hello, sir, what can i get for you, and she looked up and said "i'm not a sir." >> and you have to realize that you are more mortified than the perp. and you can blame the lighting because the bars are dark and immediately, and thenven > i just had a baby and so i have had it happy to me and others or you say, oh, when is that baby due and the baby has come four months before or the person is not pregnant. >> do you ever, ever, ask the

question and what do you do? >> there are the things that you could not have possibly known and that is nin the category, so don't ask that question. somehow, you hear it coming out of your mouth and it is out before you can do anything about it, i would simply say, i am so sorry, that that you are glowing, so i automatically presumed that you are pregnant. >> that is a good one. >> well, nobody has done it to me, but they did it to one of my best friends at a wedding, and when are you due, and she just had a baby and said, listen, it was a man, and i said, now, darling darling, you never ask that, never. all h>o good enough. all right, to the next person. >> i had a customer drive up, and i said to my co-worker, i said, oh, god, look at her woman. her face is so huge, and she looks like a lion. and he turned the speaker on and said, oh, hey, mom. >> it was her daughter? >> wow, it sounds like the daughter was the one working

pulling up and criticized by the co-worker. so that for that, i would say, worse things to be called than a lion. >> wait, we are confused? >> in is a drive through bank and the two workers are at the bank, and the people are pulling up, and the woman next to her says, she looks like a lion. >> and so i get it, it is somebody else's mom. >> so it is not criticizing a person, but their parents. and a lion, i would not be upset about being compared to a lion. well shgs well, she is so majestic and looks like sl r roar. if i am having a bad hair day and somebody said that to me, you look like a lion, and they

>> that is a compliment. >> no, it is not. and the next one. >> a working e-mail saying that this lady is retiring and come get some cake and punch and i said, i don't know her, but let's go eat some cake. reply all accidentally. >> and so that is good news for us all. >> and starters, never reply all to reply all. so don't apologize in a reply all. if somebody ap approached me, i would say, clearly my blood sugar is so low and why would i have written something low, and i would have congratulated the person, and say, congratulations on the retirement. >> and sometimes the tendency is to clear it up with everybody, since you sent it to everybody. >> and you might say, i hope this does not spell my retirement since i sent that e-mail. keep it light. >> and there is an elderly

was a young woman in her 20s rubbing his feet, and when i said, why haven't you introduced me to your granddaughter, and she said, i'm his wife. >> and i think that gentleman is accustomed to hear ging this, because an age gap that big, he is flattered and this is the trophy wife for her. >> what about her? >> she knew it. and they have heard it before, and you would be silly if you didn't make that mistake. i would have said, well, i noticed that there was love in the air, so i should have known that. >> and i have learned to never open u my mouth ever again. >> he is a friend of ours and a warning companion to million ss of people. >> elvis duran gets a major

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elvis duran is the host of "the party" on the radio, and his morning show is the top listened to the program. >> and he is also a friend of our show. >> and he is last night inducted into the radio hall of fame in chicago. and so kathie lee and i headed to the station to see what makes elvis so special. >> all right. we are received a text from andrea. and years ago, when we were texted -- we have just arrived a few moment ago and we vhave had the coffee and we are about to step into the booth with elvis. >> and his crazy zoo team. >> there he is. hello, darling. >> broadcasting live from new york's z100 he introduced pop culture and celebrity guests and hit song, a spot that has landed

him in the national radio hall of fame. >> people voted on this. your listeners and fans and friends. that is awesome, elvis. >> thank you. >> he began hosting a daily radio show in 1996. then 13 years later, it went national and now he is held by over 30 million listeners around the country. >> i never ever thought that it would be happening the way i happening. >> throughout the 30-year career he has interviewed billy idol, mariah carey and j.lo, and it is often the names that he can't hear that drive him every morning. >> the listeners are the fuel to the fire. >> for the first time in five years the listeners had the chance to vote their favorite radio personality into the radio hall of fame. this the year, they chose elvis. >> this radio hall of fame thing has forced many toe stop and

think back of the 30-something year s years about where i have been, and what i have done ado haetdanya anda and p i work with and what we have accomplished everyday. i feel better than ever. >> and raiddio was my best friend, and continues to be today. >> on thursday night, elvis join d joined the ranks of abbott and costello and dick clark and casey kasem. it is radio's way of recognizing his accomplishments. >> winston churchill said "these are the best days" but i can't imagine it getting better than this, because i don't want it to end. >> congratulations to elvis. and you know, it is so funny that you don't know how much weight he has lost until you see it. >> and don't you love that, "these are the best day ss." make it our mantra >> congratulations.

but first this on nbc. wrapping it up for us, the christmas tree at rockefeller plaza is finally upright. thank you, jenna hagar bush. we will be seeing jenna a lot on friday s fridays and kathie lee will be back monday. and the latest of blake shelton and the daughter of sean penn, and donnie deutsche is here, because he has a new show. what is going on some >> well, it sounds like a good week. >> it sure does.

enjoy it.good morning, i'm andy fales. police are investigating a shooting in des moines. it happened in the 13 hundred night. officers found a man inside a home with a gunshot wound. no word on any arrests in the case. police are trying to figure out who fire shots into a des moines home. it happened in the 12 hundred block of filmore street around 1-45 a-m. no one was hurt. [cheering and applauding]

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