you have john cusack as edgar allan poe. it was probably inspired by the "sherlock holmes" reboot. it is a little silly to do that to edgar allan poe. he never actually turns to the camera and says "go ahead, make my day." he is wielding a gun. it is a waste of a great character and a great idea. >> too bad. maybe if they had filmed it in baltimore. >> john has another look at the weekend forecast when we come back. >> i'm pete gilbert. coming up in sports, we'll check in on the ravens. the three newest ravens. we'll check in on what makes >> the baltimore ravens select courtney upshaw, outside line backer from alabama! [applause] >> introducing the ravens top draft pick, courtney upshaw. he is 6'2," 275 pounds. he is one of the players that avi newsome looked at and said he will be there at 35. we'll take him at a fourth-round pick. indeed, that worked out. the player they got, the director of personnel describes him pretty well. >> he played like a junkyard dog. he has strong punch. he is a physical, violent football player. we're excited about that. that's not an easy position to

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us, too, are those early writers, pride of our growing national culture, nathaniel hawthorne, edgar allan poe, washington irving, the beloved poet walt whitman, and what schoolboy doesn't know the faces of our statesmen henry clay, john calhoun, daniel webster, men who shape and guided our young republic. they built well, but soon within the country's capital still awaiting the completion of the now familiar dome, the storm clouds of the slavery issue threaten national unity. as the crisis sharpened, brady saw a new use for the camera. abraham lincoln whom brady had photographed as a young congressman from illinois, now sat in washington as president of the divided nation. from him brady received permission to make a record of the war that could not be held back. we are coming, father abraham, so sang the volunteer units responding to lincoln's call to arms. hastily constructed camps sprang up, crude and comfortless by today's standards. the growing manpower had to be supplied and equipped, furnished with the weapons needed to fight this country's bloodiest war, a means to move those masses o

debuting and expected to fight for about $10 million "the raven" starring john cusack is poet edgar allan poe. >>> jason statham's latest action effort, "safe." >>> this comes to us from boston, in cambridge a piano played its last note ending its life with a bang. and a piano off the roof of their dorm. there it goes! yikes. it crashed right on top of another piano six stories below. this is part of a tradition 40 years, the last day students can drop classes without having them show up on transcripts. don't feel too bad for these instruments, because only broken pianos are used for these big sendoffs. still, it just doesn't feel right with me. i don't care if they're broken or not. >> can you play? >> i can't. but i'm a music lover and just don't think -- >> never tickled the ivories yourself? >> haven't. and if i did, i probably wouldn't be good at it. all right. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz, this is "early today" just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> one cyclist in canada is helping the environment one ride at a time. in order to lighten his carbon trademark, the b

and expected to fight for about $10 million, the thriller "the raven" starring john cusack as edgar allan poeand j any of that look good to you? >> no. this is the worst time of year for the movies. i can't wait until the summer season. we get like the big box office hits. it's -- >> i went to go see "friends with kids" with my mom the other night. it was really cute. kristen wiig, maya rudolph. >> well, i know them. >> you should! >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "first look" on msnbc. stay tuned. "way too early" with willie geist starts reitz now. have a great weekend. >>> quote, i promise you the president has a big stick. i promise you. >> vice president joe biden conjures the spirit of teddy roosevelt in a foreign policy speech ensuring the american people their president indeed carries a big stick. the question is, could joe biden possibly deliver any more consistently? >>> meantime, john boehner calls the president pathetic for traveling to college campuses in battleground states to demagogue the issue of student loans. the question is, how can the white house argue that these are

john huston plays edgar allan poe on the trail of a copycat killer using his stories as a guide. is a miss. 2 stars. here is the weekend movie guide. >> we have a -- 2.5 starts for "cabin in the woods." "safe" not very good. hope you have a nice weekend. i am arch campbell. >> thank you. >> i love it when arch campbell gets excited about the movies. >> we have the seven-day forecast. saturday evening into saturday night is rain. otherwise, looking drive.

on friday, you can see him as edgar allan poe, packing heat in the new thriller, "the raven."sack! [cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: i don't want to bears you, i know you're a humble guy, but congratulations on the hollywood walk of fame. that's a big deal. >> thank you very much. maybe we should celebrate that and cinco demayo by -- >> jimmy: with what? >> maybe having a little shot. >> jimmy: really? >> you and me. >> jimmy: i should point out, this is not a planned thing, so we did not think ahead to put something else in there. so it's not a prop. is it a terrible idea? >> yes! >> dicky: is it safe? >> it's not safe. >> like how unsafe? >> jimmy: i'll take one. >> me too. [cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: here's some water for you. >> thank you, man. >> jimmy: wow, that's terrible. these kids are really determined to get drunk. >> cheers, that's a first. >> jimmy: i think we just invented something here. whose name is your star next to? >> it's right next to the singing cowboy gene autry. >> jimmy: that's pretty cool. >> he owned the angels. he had his horse trigger. >> ji

if someone said you can play edgar allan poe.uch a complicated mixture of things. i just sort of jumped at the chance. >> when you play a character who is dark and creepy and comes sort of with a whole host of problems, is that something that sort of affects you personally as an actor. 5:00, we're out. wrap. we move on. >> depends on the project. you know, with poe i think you just sort of immerse yourself in his stories and in his divide there and he had such a tragic life. he lost his mother to tuberculosis and then he lost his stepmother and then lost his wife. i think he was really a haunted man. i think you just have to immerse yourself in that. it was just -- i just sort of stayed in it for the entire shoot so i felt a little bit like a vampire when i was done. then i went home for christmas and scared my family. what happened to you? >> when you look back at your career, do you think -- you were a child actor, right? most of the stories i have done on child actors -- >> guilty as charged. >> bad endings. >> i wasn't a chil

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he said edgar allan poe is a role of a lifetime. cusack after the break ♪ oh yeah, this is what a weekend getaway should feel like. and does. if you're here that is. >> we must assume miss hamilton is still alive. >> why? because it's more convenient to do so. >> why am i to blame? where were these officers last night? where were you? he told me he was coming. >> mr. poe, listen to me. this killer is methodical. he's coming. he'll keep you alive to keep him alive. >> it's creepy. >>> this is called "the ravenen." he's played many memorable roles to risky roles. >> john cusack is here in the es studio. welcome. >> hi, how are you. nice to see you. >> what's the attraction of poe? >> oh, i think to play a literary giant and an icon like that would be any -- he's such a complicated person. >> i was going to say, he's a coom employ indicated dude. scary. >> we take the genre to some of the super natural stories. he influenced vern. he's the godfather of gothic horror. >> you got my atemg when you said it's the role of a lifetime. did it

edgar alan poe. >> a murder is basically mimicking his stories, and they seek out edgar alan poe -- allan po.ible. alice was terrible. >> cusask? >> there was a terrible tone. it didn't have a consistent tone to it, and i found myself laughing more than i was -- >> i'm getting a sense of the bad rating. >> 2 out of 5. skip it, skip it, skip "the raven." >> one of my favorite movies of all time "pulp fiction." that's when sam jackson pulls his wallet out. is there something written on it? >> we can't blur it out. >> no, we did blur it out. thank god! >> i want him to hold the wallet with me in the picture, and there he is, and another one of him. he actually took the wallet and said the famous line from the film on camera. >> look at his face! it was so awesome! the movie will be out next week. we have exclusive interviews with the entire cast. >> we have to roll. thank you, my friend. back to sarah and tucker. >> thank you, guys. let's talk weather. >> hard to beat that. >> cool temperatures, sunshine, and should be a nice looking friday. with he come close with a nice weekend. >> i know. app