and he comes charging across a huge lobby was sean penn by himself. and i hadn't met him yet.t oh, no, he would have been so much better for this part. and so i was looking for somewhere to hide but there was nowhere to hide. and he spotted me and came directly towards me. i thought to tell me he would have been better for the part. and he came up to me me and he said, hey, man, loved you in the movie, let's go get a drink. okay. okay, yeah, of course. let's get a drink. so we walked into a bar. and i left my family, everyone at the movie. >> jimmy: uh-huh, you have to, yeah. >> it's sean penn. so we walk into the bar and i'm thinking oh, my god, i'm having a drink with sean penn. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and so the bartender starts approaching us and i break into a flop sweat. what am i going to order? >> jimmy: oh, yeah. >> please don't make him say, what do you want, before he orders. >> jimmy: because he's a very masculine guy. >> he is a very masculine guy. >> jimmy: so what did you order? >> the bartender comes up and sean says what are you having? i said, well, [ bleep ]. i g

hollywood told his story in the 1985 sean penn movie "the falcon and the snowman."boyce is out of prison and working on a book that's expected to come out this summer. "the falcon and the snowman: american sons." in his first tv interview in 30 years, chris boyce shared what snowden may be going through. >> i assume he's feeling a whole lot of fear, a gnawing fear, tension, stress. i read the other day that he had disappeared out of his hotel but he certainly hasn't disappeared from the chinese police. they'll be watching his every move. if i was him, i wouldn't trust the chinese, and i would not be surprised if at some point they didn't extradite him back to the united states, sell him in effect for some political concession, and when and if that happens, his life -- if he thinks it's stressful now, it will just go further and further down the drain. >> so what do you think, what length is snowden going to right now to stay out of sight? >> probably think that all of his movements and activity are controlled now by the chinese government. he can no more hide in chi

languages and turned into an opera, a play, an academy award winning film starring susan sarandon and sean pennprejean is also the founder of "survive," a victim's advocacy group in new orleans. she continues to counsel not only inmates on death row, but also the families of murder victims. we welcome you both to democracy now! , you travel from anchorage to indiana to see paula cooper when she was released. you have yet to see her, but explain this case and why you got so involved, coming out on behalf of paula cooper, the woman, the teenager, who killed your grandmother. >> it was about a year-and-a- half after my grandmother's death, about three at once after paula cooper have been sentenced to death, i became convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt my grandmother would have been appalled this girl was under the death penalty. i was convinced she would have loved for paula cooper and her family. i felt should what my family to have that same compassion and i felt a fell on my shoulders. convinced that is what my grandmother would want, in tears, i begged god to please, please, give me love and

over all, people are sensibly thinking. >> right, i want to she you the clip of you and sean penn. >>r. that check out his work product along with mr. penn. ♪ ♪ you are better than the best. ♪ you drive me wild. ♪ you make me smile. ♪ you make me smile. >> it is a great message. it is so great and i got to give my buddy. i thought it was mike shuman on the iphone. but they put it together for ten grand and sean was immaculate. it is his comfort zone acting and me not so much. it was perfect timing with the madness before the election and people hating each other over politics. you feel we are less divided than we were then? >> i am not so sure, i think that big wave has passed. you know, it still seemed like congress and people. they don't have much faith in them. and people are up in arms over trying to credit or discredit and not moving forward. >> what do you make of the scandial mania and penning bengterror attack and irs targeting conservative groups. and nsa reading your e-mails or phone calls. >> i don't think they could take two. >> it would break up the day. >> i think geez.

i just anything that people like sean penn are for i'm against and vice versa.t is all for i guess it is all for publicity. they like their face out there. what happened to kone? >> we are not talking about coney island. >> he is on cbs now. >> the cause du jour. amazing. >> bill? >> the defense department guy that leaked the pension papers. in, indeed, all of that stuff was out there the fact that this guy was in solitary confinement for a year. >> he was not actually in solitary confinement. >> for three years he was locked up but for one year in solitairely confinement. >> do you know what is shady? >> sun glasss. >> a really nice tree he. we don't have the time to read the piece. it was ♪ >>> how could a place to great inspire such hate. that is the question the superliberal residents of cambridge, massachusetts, are asking themselves after the boston bombing, a terrorist act allegedly committed by two residents. they are struggling to square the accusations against the tsarnaev's, i never how to pronounce that [ bleep ] name. with the tolerance inherent in

i just anything that people like sean penn are for i'm against and vice versa.t is all for i guess it is all for publicity. they like their face out there. what happened to kone? >> we are not talking about coney island. >> he is on cbs now. >> the cause du jour. amazing. >> bill? >> the defense department guy that leaked the pension papers. in, indeed, all of that stuff was out there the fact that this guy was in solitary confinement for a year. >> he was not actually in solitary confinement. >> for three years he was locked up but for one year in solitairely confinement. >> do you know what is shady? >> sun glasss. >> a really nice tree he. we don't have the time to read the piece. it was a good one about pab. we will save it for late. >>> reuse. [ bell dings ] [ crowd cheering ] [ male announcer ] for sensitive skin, there's fusion proglide. our micro thin blades are thinner than a surgeon's scalpel for our gentlest shave. switch to fusion proglide. gillte. the best a man can get. yeah? then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check?

sean penn's charity which is really fantastic, the stuff he's doing.lace called center for the arts port-au-prince. we do some work there. and you see how education, empowerment, leadership skills, it spreads out into the community. like it spreads out -- girls will take what they have learned in school, and they'll go back to their village or their hut or community or cul-de-sac and they'll spread that knowledge. they'll teach it to their mom and to their aunt and cousin and younger sisters. but i truly believe that the key to the success of transforming a culture or upraising a culture is -- lies through the education of its women and girls. >> thank you very much, rainn wilson. and to learn more about his foundation visit monafoundation.org. and tonight, make sure you watch "girl rising." it's at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. >>> it's the last day of bonaru. couldn't make the event? we've got you covered. >> hi, don. coming up a little later today, bonnaroo. woo! >> the celebrities themselves will fill you in on what you missed. ♪ with so much comp

"hey, sean penn, you're great. go do that monologue for us. yeah, you're all right." >> prove it!do "milk." let's see it before we give you the award. >> jimmy: let's see you -- come on, do it! but let's talk about the nominees this year. you got a great variety. you got tom hanks. you got "matilda." that's a big one. >> tom hanks is in a play called "lucky guy." >> jimmy: yeah. [ cheers and applause ] >> he's great in -- >> jimmy: haven't seen it yet. >> "matilda," super great british import musical that's amazing and clever and super fun. >> jimmy: yeah. >> there's four girls playing matilda, all not simultaneously. they each -- they alternate. and they're winning honorary tonys just 'cause, i guess, they're little. >> jimmy: yeah. [ laughter ] that's super -- >> super little. >> jimmy: because that's cute. [ talking over each other ] how cute, yeah. that'd be fun though. >> "kinky boots." >> jimmy: "kinky boots." did not see "kinky boots" yet, but that's my man, harvey fierstein. >> indeed. [ as fierstein ] >> jimmy: "he has the best voice in the business." >> "he knows how to

her book "dead man walking" was made into the movie starring sean penn on death row and susan sarandonid a terrible thing, a terrible thing. but you have a dignity now. nobody can take that from you. you are a son of a gun. >> joining me now sister helen trajon, author of "dead man walking" and a leading crusader for joining us. >> happy to be here. >> the movie was extraordinary. the book on which it was based was even more extraordinary. where is the battle now on the death penalty in terms of your advocacy state by state? >> we can see a real shift happening in the country. executions are down. death sentences are down and there's less enthusiasm of the public for the death penalty. you can see that now it's down to like maybe 62, 63% who still say they'd favor the death penalty. when they're given life without parole question opposite the death penalty, we now have a majority, slight, 1%, that favor life without parole. >> are there any cases, sister, where you would support the death penalty as horrendous as 9/11? >> yeah. the killing of any human being, a loss that can never be r

that book "dead man walking" became a famous movie of the same name starring sean penn as the prisoner and susan sarandon as sister helen. >> the story of "dead man walking" starts off and it was very important that it started off with just a little visit, and then little by little she gets more and more involved and she kind of had all these doubts and that's what i really liked about her was that she didn't go into the whole situation a hero. she just got sucked in deeper and deeper and deeper, and the more she knew, the more she got involved. >> you're a fool. you are making it so easy for them to kill you. coming across as some kind of a crazed animal nazi racist mad dog who serves to die. >> is that what you think? >> you're making it so difficult to help you. >> you can leave. >> i'm not going to do that. it's up to you. you want me to go, you say so. >> i remember when we had the first edit and we invited her to see it and i thought, oh my god, is this going to be so hard for her and i was kind of worried about her emotionally and to have to go through that again. when it was ov

lovely person, and we did a play together in 1997, and we -- it was a play called "remembrance," and sean penne knew he didn't have that much longer to live so he wanted to give that as a gift. and jimmy was just such a beautiful, beautiful actor. and he was just a gifted artist and the play took place in northern ireland, well, he went there just for a couple of days because he was also shooting the pilot of the sopranos. and we had -- he said i have to go back because i'm shooting this hbo pilot. and i said oh, that's great. and then he finished the pilot, and we only had two days before we had rehearsals and he flew to northern ireland just to get his accent down. and he was just wonderful, and i heard somebody say he treated everybody with the truest amount of respect no matter who they were, and that was absolutely true. i thought he was a really lovely guy, and at my wedding -- a bunch of my friends lived in new york. and a bunch of them were broke and he said does anyone need a ride back to new york? and he loaded up a bunch of my friends and drove them back to new york. and he hired a

we had sean penn testify. jacobn hands and we said is an innocent man suffering in bolivia.e needs to be freed. morale is means to step in and releases american. why would any american want to do business in bolivia? officials can take your business and then throw you into jail with no charges whatsoever. this law would apply globally. it would use a decent sanction as a means to at least hold into account some of those who commit these crimes. guest: chris smith, republican of new jersey. he is in the fourth district. he serves as special representative on human trafficking. he also is the ranking republican on foreign affairs overall. he chairs the subcommittee on global human rights. he also chairs the subcommittee on africa global health. independent, hello. caller: i just have a question. the representative is so gung ho about human rights in china, we really can not affect anything that the chinese. we might be able to affect american corporations that go over there and make a ton of money. does the representative have a position on that? host: great question. for year