. >> rose: i had lunch today with george lucas. he sold pixar. >> uh-huh. >> rose: to steve jobs. >> in february of 1986 rdz now did steve know something that george didn't know or was it just something that george just did not have time and didn't want to focus on >> at the time, we give at pixar, we give george complete credit for kind of getting xar stted. what was amazing was in 1979 george lucas red ed-- to come and to develop four projects at the time were thought of as completely nutty. digital film editing, digital sound editing for film, digital compositing of imag, and computer animation. they thoht, people thoht he was nuts to invest the ney in that. 1979 through when steve jobs bought bought the lucasfilm computer division, they developed those four things. but-- but what george was not interested in at the time in having a computer company, the hardware and software company within his filmmaking organization of lucasfilm. and he sold us to steve jobs who had recently left apple. and what was so amazing about george is t

production company help put tunisia on the entertainment map helping bring in monty python and george lucashe entrepreneur and asked him about the road ahead following a year of unrest. >> economic problems plus lack of political freedom was the cause of that. now they have liberty and dignity. but now whoever is going to rule, they will be expecting immediate reforms and work, work and work without economic work with these young people, democracy cannot function. >> the cost of the arab springs was extremely high and some analysts are forecasting it will take up to three to five years just to recover from the financial losses. >> my hope is that the wealthy arab nations who have seen this arab revolt, this arab revolution would come to understand the unfair spread of wealth in the arab world should be compensated, so that the rich can help the poor. my dream is that these rich countries understand that these revolutions send a message to them so that they should help these countries become real democracies and invest and invest in manpower, in youth. that's the best investment. there's eno

. >>> not everybody is excited about george lucas' plan to build a new film making fortress. he wants to transform it into a three-story studio. including a cafe. a general store and a day care. the plans call for. some neighbors say an industrial complex has no business in their backyard. they're calling for a full impact review. >> solyndra is auctioning off more stuff. and plenty of polos. >> hold on before you see these polos. this is the second auction selling off. the first auction raised $6 million. the obama administration structured the loan so private investors could pay back first. among the auctioned items, solyndra polo shirts size 4xl. not xxl. double-double xl solyndra shirts. you can read more about the first american web page that celebrates itself birthday. the founder of wikipedia is threatening to take the whole site down for a few weeks. he says he's not sure he's going to do it but he's thinking about it. most silicon valley companies and politicians oppose sopa which would put them on the hook. and a billion dollars. modern warfare three now has a billi

>> called up george lucas and he gave us chewbacca.ially be chew baca and so he lived in northern california, they flew him in. >> jimmy: you get to keep him? >> no. [ laughter ] no, but he gave -- >> jimmy: living in your yard. >> we had him for the day and it was just great. we were all taking pictures. >> jimmy: did he sing? >> no, he did not. >> jimmy: that would have been something. so, you guys got the real chewbacca. is it the same one from the movie? >> no, no. but this is the guy that's been doing it for 12 years. >> jimmy: he's the official. i think he's been here on the show. >> probably. >> jimmy: chewbacca -- that's a big guest star. were you able to get you djudy garland? >> no. >> jimmy: when does that episode come out? >> oh, god, i don't know. >> jimmy: it's a christmas episode so it hass to be around christmas. >> yeah, something like that. two weeks. >> jimmy: two weeks. look for chewbacca on "glee." matthew morrison, everybody. "glee" airs tuesday nights at 8:00 on fox. we'll be right back with maggie q. yoohoo, hi.

involved in this when i heard about this incredible group of computer graphic specialists that george lucas had assembled at lucasfilm that heanted to sell. and so i went up there and saw what they were doing and i met the leader of this group, group, and ed told me about his dream which was to make the firstomputer animated feature film some day. and showed me what this team was working on. and i was blown away. i spent a lot of time in computer graphics with the macintosh and laser writer buthis was way beyond anything i've seen. and so i bought into that dream both spiritually if you will and financially. and we bought the computer division from george. and incorporated it as pixar. john was there from the very start. was there and we were joined by other people along the way. and it took us ten years to do it. >> what was so hard? >> oh, there were-- good question, huh. >> yeah, it is a good question. it took us a long time to build the technical foundation to dohis stuff. we were pioneering every step of the way, pixar invented all of this stuff, but as john says we don't view our ef i

a friend of his brought him up to george lucas, lucas was getting rid of the digital animation software and hardware division he had. steve thought that was really cool. he thought he could make consumers the ability too do digital renderings. that never really took off. there was one guy working there in charge of making short to show off how cool the machines were, named john lassiter, and then he made a couple of shorts and the rest, as they say, is biography, if not history. makes -- eventually makes "toy story." so pixar is transformative. >> he says something very profound to you in the book about that period, which is, the strain that running pixar and next simultaneously put on him physically, and he even says i think that had something to my eventually getting cancer. >> i don't think that's the case. i don't think you get cancer from working hard or stress. >> right. it was -- >> he felt that way and felt it was great stress. he was driving up the pixar. handling -- and then of course goes back to apple he is juggling quite a few things. i think that was a time of great stress

a friend of his brought him up to george lucas, lucas was getting rid of the digital animation software and hardware division he had. steve thought that was really cool. he thought he could make consumers the ability too do digital renderings. that never really took off. there was one guy working there in charge of making short to show off how cool the machines were, named john lassiter, and then he made a couple of shorts and the rest, as they say, is biography, if not history. makes -- eventually makes "toy story." so pixar is transformative. >> he says something very profound to you in the book about that period, which is, the strain that running pixar and next simultaneously put on him physically, and he even says i think that had something to my eventually getting cancer. >> i don't think that's the case. i don't think you get cancer from working hard or stress. >> right. it was -- >> he felt that way and felt it was great stress. he was driving up the pixar. handling -- and then of course goes back to apple he is juggling quite a few things. i think that was a time of great stress

a friend brought him up to george lucass to meet some of those people, and lucas was getting rid of the digital animation software division he had. steve thought that was really cool, thought he could make it for consumers the ability to do digital renderings, and that never took off, but there was one guy working there in charge of making shorts to show off how cool the machines were, and he made a couple shorts with a lamp and then one called tin toy, and the rest, as they say, is biography, if not history, and makes one eventually leads to toy story, and pixar is a transformative thing in the animation business. >> he said something very profound to you in the book about that period, which is the strain that running pixar and next simultaneously put on him physically, and he even says i think that had something to do with my eventually getting cancer. >> i don't think that's the case. i don't think you can get cancer from working hard and stress, but he felt that way and felt there was great stress, driving up to pixar, was hand handling, and then, of course, going back to app 8, he'