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so, thank you john lithgow for joining us tonight. it's a pleasure. >> guest: thank you.ice to meet you and talk to you. >> host: we are especially pleased to have you after the newest book came out which is out this weekend i had the pleasure of reading it. also had the pleasure of watching you on stephen colbert last night so joining us after the cold air show. >> did i make a fool of myself. >> host: fantastic. appreciate you joining us today and talking about the book and more of a chance to get a feeling for it including what we sought to kick off the program with a reading of one of your poems. before we get into that, can you tell us a little bit about why poetry. we all know you as an amazing actor and all kinds of wonderful things as i mentioned earlier. and relatively recent what made you do that? >> i certainly didn't set out to write political satire in verse. i've always written verse just occasional. i had written funny poems that include everybody's name in the cast of a play on closing night. i've actually done to two commencement speeches at private schoo

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joining me oscar nominated and tony award winner john lithgow and author of" trumpty dumpty versus age." so glads to have you here. what does this mean for the film industry, real quick? got to at least lift spirits? >> i just heard about it first time from you and i think it's great news. it's one of those little incremental stages we're going to go through i think the next year if not more. i'm just waiting for it to happen with broadway theaters. that's the saddest story in new york right now. >> yeah. i know. absolutely. >> among the saddest stories, yes rnlgtsz a yes. >> you and i spoke about that last weekend, the domino effect of the industry and taking down restaurants and tourism and the like. >> yeah. >> when the pandemic hit, john, it put most production on hold, if not virtually all. we're seeing some resuming, new safety measures. sometimes two steps forward, one step back. how about you? any productions back in production yet? >> it's an extraordinary bit of timing, alex. i had done two months of a new series for fx with jeff bridges that was suspended in february, and

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"3rd rock on the sun" and you had a virtual reunion with your co-star john lith mcgowan and -- john lithgowall my teenage years, age 13 to age 19, and yeah. that's like my second family, you know? i learned so much from john about not only acting and comedy and being an artist, but just being a person, you know, being a kind human being, and we got to talking just recently because he put out a book. it's called "trumpty dumpty wanted a crown." and wrote all this satire about our president and people in my hit record community, you know i do this thing called hit record where people make art together online and people have been making art out of john's poetry and it's been such a special thing to have something, you know, that he made get to mix with something that i made and it's just meant a lot. >> wow, that's a cool story there, man. let's turn to "the trial of the chicago 7." were you that familiar with the story about the peace activists that went on trial after their protests at the 1968 democratic national convention? did you have to do a lot of catching up about this story? >> you k