then alice walker comes through and sends it to steven spielberg. >> yeah, and quincy jones. >> what'shrough your head? because you are doing improve in san diego a few years earlier smuggling in and out of east germany. and now you are on broadway and you are sitting in front of steven spielberg. >> so i did the show on broadway. and then in the interim i got a manager and agent. and the manager whose name was sandy galen said steven spielberg wants to see you when you go out west. and i'm thinking, oh, yeah, i'm going to be in indiana jones, man. i'll be running right next to ind eye. and eye. and i wasn't sure why he wanted to see me. so i met with him. and i was just looking at him, wow, this is am blem. this is where et lives and where all this stuff happens. and he says i want you to do your show if you wouldn't mind. and break in our little theater here. i was like, no problem. >> this is the actual apron you got up on? >> i'm very good with this. and i told him how much i loved et. so now i'm backstage and curtains. and i peak. and i see michael jackson and i see quincy jones a

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coming up in the show us act as a result dawson and sarah silverman joining jeremy corbyn alice walker and angela davis in calling for israel to release palestinian teenager i had tell me we speak to professor norman finkelstein about the collusion of human rights organizations as more planes from israel on by britain again bomb gaza from the headlines the bank that likes to leave its clients hanging and i spy colbert in westminster but did he spied for a country in the eastern block check it out all the civil war coming up in today's going underground but first not even elite mainstream media paid much attention to israel's prime minister in the past few days he brandished a bit of alleged iranian drone at the munich security conference attended by u.k. minority government be to theresa may and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov so given we have yet to interview anyone from the israeli government or the israeli embassy in london on this show has been even netanyahu. here's a piece of a very very rope. or what's left of the after we shot it there. are a lot of years you can see for

. >> before we hit the break a moment in black history we will remember and honor alice walker won thetzer prize for fiction for her novel the color purple which went on to becoming a oscar winning film starring whoopi goldberg and oprah winfrey. miss walker still bus >>> is just the greatest, jason kelce back in his mummers costume for this mardi gras tradition. we saw him in the suit and making that epic speech after that eagles super bowl win in our parade. he was joined by avalon string band who lent him that costume before the eagles parade. he played saxophone, he played with the kids last week, strutting down main street in manayunk. crowds came out with their phones, really him, we cannot believe it. fifteen other string bands also participated. >>> and, weather did not impact unofficial kick off to our st. patrickes day festivities leading up to the big parade you will see right here on fox 29. >> irish bands, food, drink, dancing, whole lot of fun, st. patrick's day organization fundraiser at fop hero call, last night, see kathy orr, bob kelly, lucy noland, so much fun hangin