the tricky thing is it's a built of a stretch of reality. ever have a character in theater ever pick up a horn and play who is not a horn player? unless you do it right, it always looks phony. i had originally scripted the play so that we wouldn't have that problem. i thought i'd come up with a clever sort of solution and that is his love interest, lillian, goes and gets the 78 and plays it and while she's listening to it, chet has his horn for the first time, kind of fingers it but he doesn't actually play it. yet we hear him playing 5 years earlier on the record. it's a way of hearing him without the mime playing. anthony brown, who is a composer, is going to get a horn player to play something that is good but it's also someone who hasn't played in a while so it's a bit rusty. that's kind of tricky, but it had to be that because it couldn't be anything too complicated. he couldn't come up with this extraordinary riff set that made everyone kind of stand up and cheer. it had to be this sort of ragedy and yet truthful and sum up everything that's happened in the

>> rose: so tell me about the characters? >> it's really we explore the dynamics of this couple who they're dating and his daughter comes to town from a previous marriage and it's what i found really great about this script was the journey for my character from not really comfortable with sally to by the end of the movie having bonded with her and really seeing herself inn sally. you know, she becomes a motherly figure and a protector and she ends up fighting for her. >> rose: this element was not in the original. >> not all. >> rose: why did you want a kid to enter this? >> well, i wanted... i am fascinated by the idea of having tense family situations that is interesting to watch and have the creatures almost start as a manifestation of that dynamic and then sort of characters coalesce or distance themselves from each other. >> rose: and we're more scared by kids in peril than adults in peril? or not? >> to a point. it's not a rule. i actually think with kids it's a very delicate thing. if it's misdirected or misproducted it

there was a great deal of controversy in the camps and difference of opinion. so my character is one of those individuals who signed no, no. that's a form of protest. and because of doing that, he is taken out of the camp that he's in and sent to tule lake where most of the troublemakers were sent. then he gets out of camp and he comes back to san francisco and what happened in the japanese american communities is that many of the young men signed yes yes. many of them went off to war and became part of the 442nd, the 100th battalion, the mis, military intelligence, and were extraordinarily heroic and died in very high casualty rates in europe. and so when chet comes back to san francisco, those people who signed no no were looked upon as cowards. they were traitors. they sat out the war where these other people died. everyone a friend, an uncle or somebody they knew who had died, lost an arm, or was killed in service. chet comes back and he is literally spit on by his own community. so my protagonist is someone who is an ex-jazz musician, who spent his adult years playing wit

is it part of the character? >> yeah, i think about that a little bit, and it is like art to the degree that it asks you to think what the city values and there was a time when the city really valued entrepreneurial energy and with these type of stores and immigrant entrepreneurial energy and you come to the new world, and going to make a go of it, and you're going to do everything you can to make your business work. there is a lovely graphic artist cater and i think some of his work is in u.s. weekly and he has a series about a real estate photographer and this character wanders through the city that is kind of like new york and not and a really important part of the city and how it speaks through ingenuity and a will to make a go of it. now that is the intention and north beach is the example and the stakeholders pride and the people that regard it as their community and want it a certain way and have sern elegance and generosity and consistency that is at odds of this and the chicago model and the flower basket

>> the character or the use of uncle tom has are phrase for someone who was not like the character in the book what was the force that brought that about and when did that happen since the publication of the book? >> the negative usage of uncle tom rose principally during the jim crow era largely because some of the representation -- in many of them he was a feeble old man who hauled on stage and said yes master and that sort of thing and the whipping of uncle tom during that era in some productions became a really violent act. this was the time when hundreds and thousands of people would show up to see an african-american person lynch in the south. there is a vicarious pleasure in seeing him whipped to death even though he was portrayed as old and frail. and also there are rows the new negro movement, and a angrier kind of militant african american, richard wright wrote uncle tom's children and there was a backlash against the misconception as there was a misconception of uncle tom, against that sunni part of the naturalistic writers who had a darker view, and in rear view. more mili

. >> he captured the character in the book. the film iand coatavis: i have e past that you are not always thrilled with what they do with your stuff. even though you optioned it. >> when it gets to the script, that usually kills the project or not. they had a good script saar had high hopes. when matthew mcconaughey became involved, i saw him in another film where he had played a hollywood agent. some of the similarities so i was happy. right now with the film, could not be happier. tavis: the cast is amazing. marisa tomei.atthew and >> it is a great ride and very loyal to the book and have the gritty realism of l.a. that i hope was in the book. tavis: when you write these books into option the rights and someone is brought in to do the screenplay, are the things that you get a chance to say, do not touch this or that, do you have any say so in that? >> you have all the control when you are picking who you will give it to. i did due diligence and spoke with the producers. the main producer on this movie had been a trial attorne

and the characters were wonderful. >> okay. your first question, first. you know to be totally honest, when i sat down to write dreaming water i thought this is the book that -- i had finished language of threads and written 4 books that took place in asia. because language of threads was a hate this word, the seekial to women of the silk i felt i came full circle and my asia period might have been done i wanted to write a book that was contemporary and set in california. i knew i wanted to write a mother daughter story line. that's what i began with. it was the first time i said, this character not necessarily has to be asian. none of these characters necessarily have to be asian. i was of mind opposite of what you are saying happened through the book. what happened was the more i started to research when i discovered warner's, ime wantedo write. i was feeling older as a person and wanted to translate that into a book. when i thought i would write about the care taking situation and wanted to write about a mother and daughter and i thought was there an ag

we felt that these would fit in and add to the streets character. we are very familiar with the neighborhood of guidelines, we on several properties and businesses which shows setbacks. we don't understand why this city is changing the guidelines. was to put their remodel 100%. i'm a founding member of the farmers' market and an advocate of the clean environment. i am impressed with the sustainability features. this is a value i share and one that i wish was more appreciated by the planning department. we have heard that they would have preferred a small light well. this would eliminate the overhang at the front of the new floor. i am sure the department has its reasons. i want to point out that these conflict with the goals of this site. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good evening. i am here reading a letter on behalf of -- i am a physician. we are small business owners here and san francisco. we have been san francisco for 33 years. i have seen homes expanded all around me. this is followed by a three story home and then another two- sto

so, yeah, you are spreading the word there through your characters. >> it seemed fair enough. [laughter] yeah. i mean, and certainly those are feelings held by many people in the body politic, but you don't have to be a member of the national security community or an elected official to feel that way. i know a lot of americans feel that way. and, you know, you don't know where to turn. i think i also have them say that the neo-cons sit around a room and tell each other things until the room becomes the world, and they really believe what they're saying is true. and the democrats are like manic depressives, in any given day you don't know what wing they're going to be in. so -- and the tea party folks think the president's a worse threat than al-qaeda. [laughter] so, you know, there's a lot to choose from. [laughter] but it's unfortunate that at a time when we're facing problems so serious whether it's this one or the divisions in our society and the, um, decline of our middle class and all the rest that we don't have a more honest political dialogue among our leaders than i thi

you know, you talk about the situation and if you inhabit the characters, hopefully, in the right way you try to feel hathey would feel. >> thank you. >> we started reading your book in my classroom a couple of weeks ago. >> he's lifting the book up. they are disapointed because we haven't gotten to the part you read yet, it's okay the story is not spoiled. i want to thank bobby and alex for coming on a school night. i want to thank you, too. >> you are welcome. >> [laughter]. >> one of the things the book has done is opened their eyes to japan and japanese culture which is new to a lot of them. what are some of the more important aspects of japanese culture that you would want us to take away reading this book? we are fixated on figuring out who the samurai is we have ideas and we are trying to deconstruct the attributes of a samurai. in your opinion what would be useful for us to think about or focus on as we finish the book. we are a third of the way through it. >> one of those kind of questions [laughter]. i will tell you about an e mail i got this entire high school on the east c

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and you know we have the other characters in the film, not working on, the man side of the aims and what was interesting for me through my research that rupert put me on to, i learned so much about the commonality between human behavior and ape behavior, and i was completely surprised, the fact tha they could emote feelings of loss, and the biggest feeling they could emote which surprised me was betrayal, you know, and i saw that would be an emotion that was going to be used in the fil as well in a way, especially in the scene where will comes back to take caesar and caesar kind of, in a way, it is a difficult decision for him to make and stays back and it is almost like the other chimpanzees do not feel betrayed by this new leader that is going to be. so all of these feelings and the feeling of, i learned about the -- in the film which are the only peace making apes in the film, and they use the same gesture of, you know, not the handshake, necessarily, they us sex in order to resolve conflict but it is the kind of the touch and all of these things are so interesting for me to lear

farouk is the main character in the book. one of my closest friends. i wanted to give him a pseudonym and leave certain things out about him and he said no. a m farouk. he refers to as book. how is book doing? it is like its own entity. like it is that human being and we did get him to chicago. he is living in a canada and we got him to chicago in april and he was thrilled to be here and to see chicago where he worked for so long. >> one of the themes of the book for those who haven't had a chance to read and enjoy it is farouk's macho persona and how that represents a lot of a men in afghanistan. >> that he represents afghanistan. well-intentioned, bumbling, no clue how to do this. no clue about the cultural sensitivities. i am american and farouk -- he has to get what he can while he can. so he likes telling people i am a 3-dimensional character. where did you get that? i was telling him i am trying to make this not just one dimensional, you are three dimensional and refers to himself as a try dimensional character. >> tim mentioned the former prime

farouk is the main character in the book. he is my fixer/translator/local journalist and one of my closest friends, and i wanted to give him a pseudonym and leave certain things out about him. and he said, no, i alpha -- i alpha iraq, and he wanted his name in the book. it's like it's a mc, and we did get him down to chicago. she is living in canada now and he got him to chicago in april, and he was just thrilled to be here and see chicago, the place he worked for, for so long. >> one of the themes of the book forks those who haven't had a chance to read it, is farouk's macho persona and how he represented a lot of the men in afghanistan. >> yeah, yeah. also, he represents afghanistan. and i'm very much a foil for america, well intentioned, bumbling, no include -- no clue how to do business there, no klueh about cultural activities, and farouk is very afghanistan, hopeful at first and then convinced aam planning an exit strategy. so he likes telling people i'm a try dimensional character. i'm like, where did you get that? i'm

signing to better integrate the proposal with the character of the surrounding neighborhood. it would ensure better compatibility. the project sponsor is here to make a presentation as well. >> good afternoon. good afternoon, members of the commission. i am representing in the project sponsor. we were here four weeks ago for the conditional use authorization for the target that was approved. we are back here tonight for this afternoon, showing you the sign ordinance. we had to wait on that. we work calendar couple weeks ago. -- were calendared a couple weeks ago. it will show you some of the design elections we have made. adam miller is the representative of the ownership group, and he will make that presentation. we are all here to answer questions. thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. i will walk you through a brief presentation highlighting some of the aspects that are before you. we had three main goals as relates to sign district at the property. one is to create a consistent program across the property. right now it is very inconsistent between the various signs the

it's going to use teaching the not character in the marines key theatre. not only that stage five bali's also again. why do you like this german officer so much well. let me explain the song of a very jealous when i didn't come but possibly even a half a set in what befell him with my actress model and when he fell in love with her. hand in marriage under the condition that she'd follow him to the battlefield. for two and a half years my mother served with my father's cavalry division it was during the war during the war. but when your humble servant was conceived to the rule of cannons and the time came for my mother to give birth i was sent to moscow where i was born. after my birth mother again went to join father taking me along and we followed the division with the baggage train and thus reached the county's barry today's a kaliningrad where i grew up. at the. beginning. my father was the military commander after cunningsburgh became kaliningrad and the germans were removed my father was sent for further service to saxony. he grew up in germany till n

third was the issue of community character and the compatibility with existing character and compatibility in the neighborhoods. we are not phoenix. the most significant need is for folks to know these things are happening and at a forum to be able to talk to decision makers about whether these things that. that was the need. it's not about whether it's a financial institution, coffeehouse or clothing store. we created a definition of formula retail but did not go in and change these categories. we had to lump them together, which was clumsy at best, which is why you're getting this technocratic debate over whether the financial institution is an aura out. we would have been writing the entire code so it would have had to take that subcategory how. the issue here is really about what level of scrutiny and community voice and commissioner involvement should there be when formula retailers moved into san francisco neighborhoods. [tone] thank you. >> i am active with the transportation planning committee and i work with the hayes valley merchants and the business community meetings. obviously

the characters in the wiki leaks phenomena and arrived on the scene too late for the book. us suppose there will have to be a sequel. sons of figures of speech. are will talk today about the characters who came on the scene with the wiki leaks phenomenon. if you like you can hiss the villains and cheer the heroes if you can figure out who is who, which is which. let's start with julian assange. is he a first amendment hero or a villain? recognize even suggesting that he might be some kind of hero is offensive to a lot of people and probably to some of you. you can judge him for yourself. all i will try to do in the tradition of fox news -- [laughter] -- is be fair and balanced. julian assange is the founder of wiki leaks. when he was interviewed on 60 minutes a few weeks ago he wrapped himself in the first amendment and said, quote, our founding values are those of the american revolution, those of jefferson and madison. julian assange may not know that our constitution was written in complete secrecy in philadelphia behind closed doors guarded by sentries and there were no

we see that this addition will retain the scale and character of the 400 block and allow the families to remain on our block in san francisco. please allow them to build this as designed. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i will be reading a letter on behalf of -- "i'm writing in full support of the plans submitted to the planning department and hope that you will allow them to pursue the design they have presented. i'm the owner of the two-story home built in 1913. i have owned my home and i have seen much change. almost all of my neighbors have expanded their homes by increasing the height or the footprint or both. this trend has been to upgrade and expand the homes to fit modern tastes and lifestyles. in the past, they have been one or two bedroom cottages. they were much too small and impractical. it seems that my neighbors should have the right to alter their homes to fit their needs. allowing the owners to expand their home seems in keeping with the stated goal of making our city family friendly. the owners have been exemplary in their inclusion of the neighbors in the room model.

the legislation your beginning to look at is beginning to address not the character we want in this city, the kind of uses we want in this city and the kind of businesses that have the personal relationship. when our customers grow old, we monitor them. we offer to go out and deliver them their food for the animals for free. when they do not show up or call over a certain time when we know they should be coming in, we call to find out if they are ok. something happened to them. we go and try to please the animals. [tone] the relationship of baseball business like ours is very different from a big box and i support the legislation. supervisor mar: thank you. seeing no other comments, let's close public comment. colleagues, i will say it has been a learning process discussing with some unease all business leaders and community residents on this issue. we are not targeting any businesses through this legislation. we're just supporting a more livable community. i think she just hit it on the head -- what makes a merchant corridor or community viable and vibrant? i think it is small businesse

. >> buy a ticket for this show and the main character will be friendly and facebook. tin, texas. the internet links the two sides. the comic story of a couple's long distance relationship is played out by skype. there is also a third audience, on line. you can watch the show and interact with the actors on twitter. >> i definitely feel that shows are incorporating technology on the way that we use it on a daily basis. >> when people ask questions by skype, it progresses the plate. they find out -- they discover more about the characters. >> i am not the edinburgh festival. send me an e-mail. all of us have smart phones and we can access the internet adds another new possibility for performers to get their work to an audience. "ghost city" is part of a new trend. each recording is tethered to a specific location >> one person who is no stranger to integrating technology this stand-up comedian. for this year's show, and he googles and audience members live on stage. >> you do not exist. >> what possibilities are opened up to comedians? >> you can use it in your show. tha

they do hope the colorful character will eventually tire of the hustle and bustle of big city life. look at him up there. >> a tourist attraction. >> he looks a little too comfortable. >> he's away from the people. >> how do they get up there? >> i guess they fly. who knew? >> i'm veronica de la cruz, just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> archaeologists have found a different type of buried treasure off the coast of panama. it may be the remains of a ship belonging to captain morgan. the infamous pirate and privateer. there's a side of a wooden hull, unopened boxes and chests buried just below the sea bed. five ships including morgan's flagship sank after a raid on panama. >>> frustration with indonesia's health care system and lack of education has many there turning to a dangerous pseudo medical treatment. believers believe lying on electrified railroad tracks cures everything from high blood pressure to diabetes much better than traditional treatments. they come despite a police crackdown and threats of a fine or jail time. >>> there is a new way for dare

the plot. i write about characters the characters drive the story. when that hatched i sat down and said, what happens is, a, he arrived and gets off the train what's going to happen. >> i know z, he would get on the train and leave at the evented book. i didn't know the alphabet in between. i was nervous and i took one step at a time very japanese like. i began to study and read everything i could find on the japanese culture. the incredible thing was not having everything that went into it and it still became a quiet book. there is a tsunami. there's tv and lep easier and a fire. i call it my zen book i think it's because as i was learning about the japanese culture, all of that started to go into the book. and it gave me the structure of what the book would become, which was very much taking after what a japanese garden it. early on a read about gardens. you don't know where you are going you just read. because japanese gardens are a huge aspect on the culture i started reading on gardens. i love the natural and the idea on how they use the garden

in terms of flip's character, the woman character, the female character that he did, he talked extensively on that, and you have to remember that black women characters portrayed by men go all the way back to minstrel si first done by whites on the minstrel stage. and be done, also, by black minstrels when they took over in the 1870s. so you have a whole tradition to this. it goes all the way back. flip wilson thought that he was bigiving that character some dignity. he thought he wanted to do a real woman, but it was prideful, andher whole thing about, you know, don't touch me, t like she was a very proud woman who never allowed anyone to put her down. and flip insisted upon that. and when he talked to me about it, it was one of the things he said he wanted to do. madea, i don't know, i think i'll let someone else talk about that. [laughter] >> i got nothing. >> uh-oh. >> tyler perry, that character to me is not one of my favorites, put it that way. so, and be i think that a few other black comedians have done the female characters that, in my opinion, are not that positive. it bothers me

the title character, uncle tom has box a by-word for a spineless sellout, someone who betrays his own race. we tend to think of the novel of an old-fashioned sentimentsal affair that teaches the deaths of the enslaved black man and his blond angelic child friend, but this view, this negative view is egregiously inaccurate and does a gross injustice to uncle tom's cabin. he's actually a muscular dig mid man in his 40s notable precisely because of his not have betrayeded his race. one reason he passes up to chance to escape the kentucky plantation is he doesn't want to put his fellow slaves in dangerrings and later on endures a brutal whipping that leads to his death because he refuses to tell his master where two enslaved black women are hiding. as for little ava, she bravely accepts her coming death and would gladly give up her life if that leads to the emancipation of the millions of americans enslaved black people. together, tom and ava formed a bond that offers lessons even today about tolerance and decency. unfortunately, these were lost in the stage versions of uncle tom's cabin.

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it was tough and a lot of pain but i saw the character throw that the entire thing and i will tell you i could not be prouder. [applause] every night sometimes it gets heated with interesting exchanges but you're respected discussion happens at our table. the. >> look at this. [laughter] >> we have a lightning round with a certain topic it is not that quick were lightening. [laughter] so i thought i would start on the lightning round with charles. >> if i knew i would have been called upon i would not have worn jeans. [laughter] first-come i want to thank juan williams because every time i give a speech he has the best line i say i am happy to be here. then i say the truth be told where juan williams can not interrupt me. [laughter] >> so he has been said should good friend to say something here i have been preparing for years but now i will give it away. after you pay your presentation so much air, so little time. [laughter] when you hear it you will know it is not spontaneous. now even before we ended up together i have deeply admired but has stood for things that are not popular in

i cannot think of another organization whose work on the ground is actually changing the character of the tenderloin. look at the ambassador. it took a hike -- an iconic hotel that was here at the beginning of aids crisis and have turned it into how many units? 105 units of gorgeous housing. this building has been here for a long time and got its second or third rebirth, and looks beautiful. this project, in particular, has meaning to the health department. essentially, 80 of the 200 units are part of our direct access to housing program. tndc, early on, helped us with 60 chronically ill seniors. another thing about tndc, whether we have bombs in the road, disagreements along the way, they are one of those organizations, when you work with them, they will sit down with you and problem-solving and come to a solution at the drop of a hat. we really value that, and that is the way the collaborative should be. i am certain tndc will be alive and kicking for some time. they are a solid organization. one final thing, i am really excited about our future collaboration. the ymca down the bloc

you think of cagney and lacy and you think of gypsy, all the characters you played, were they relished by you those i named because they added something each in their inway to who you are today. >> sure. yes. you know. the timing of when they came along and when i got to interpret these other personalities. has been very lucky for me. >> charlie: television, on stage. >> the whole thing. not being decorative enough at the beginning. to get there at this late stage, what surprise that is. i have to have my nails done ad all. >> charlie: you don't say this is the theatre and it's the highest part of what i can do. this was a television series, that's not what this was. >> young actors who sit around and say where is the higher thing, when is selling out. because the doing of it is the same. it comes from your heart and mind and guts and you apply it to whatever the assignment is, you know. if the assignment is the agamenoh or i play a cop or social worker or a woman who can't have a baby, another play or in the theatre once upon time i was cast as a nine year old black boy. now they don'