tonight a conversation with oscar winner anjelica huston about her latest thome "watch me: a memoir," about her childhood. a where theh last left off. a candid look at her career in l.a. and much publicized romance with jack nicholson and relationship with robert graham. we're glad you joined us. a conversation with oscar winner anjelica huston coming up right now. ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> so just about a year ago, anjelica huston was in this very chair talking about her first home, a memoir in ireland called "the a story lately told." she let us know she was writing more about her life. and i immediately asked her to come back when the book was done. she agreed. since then, we've hung out in new york city. and now she's back in l.a. to join us tonight for the new book which is called "the watch me: a memoir." i am honored to have her back on this program. you kept your word, and thank you for doing that. my pleasure. >> i want to -- there's so much i want to talk to you about. i'm glad i've got a full show and can do three o

a conversation with oscar winner anjelica huston coming up right now. ♪

. >> and of course, john huston's daughter is the award winning actress anjelica huston. rk that it had later in his career? >> i think that, you know, huston certainly lived long enough to understand that he was absolutely revered and venerated as a director. unlike many of the other directors that i wrote about, huston directed vigorously until the very, very end of his life. not all of the movies he made were good. he read into some reasonable problem and was very honest about the fact that he took certain jobs to get the paycheck. if you look at the movies made at the end of his life like fritzys honor and under the volcano they are some of the best movies he ever made. >> those who read the book 5 came back. a story of hollywood in the second world war. >> what do you want the reader to take away from your research? >> i hope that i've conveyed to them something about what it was like to be a hollywood filmmaker in a world that is so different from the one we're in now. you know, it's inconceivable to imagine a war now in which one-third of hollywood's adult male work