. >>> for the first time in 36 years, barbra streisand will be performing at the academy awards. no word on what streisand will be singing just yet. she'll be in good company with norah jones as well. >>> and lindsay lohan arrived in a black hummer for her probation hearing with a black plate sporting the tag "i'mtrying." everything is a character when it comes to this story. >> the discount rack -- >> exactly. >> maybe it seemed like he wanted publicity and he's getting it. >> los angeles, right? i'm richard lui. this is "early today." this, your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> you're watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breaking. this is 11 news today at 5:00 a.m. >> good morning. we had a rough night last night. things are settling down this morning. temperatures in the 50's. we will drop into the 40's of this afternoon. a mixture of sun and clouds. it is going to be windy. we will check the seven-day forecast coming up in just a few minutes. >> thank you. 58 degrees. >> the effort to remove john leopold may not be legal. i will explain. >> the thrill of

. >>> for the first time in 36 years, barbra streisand will be performing at the academy awards. no word on what streisand will be singing just yet. she'll be in good company with norah jones as well. >>> and lindsay lohan arrived in a black hummer for her probation hearing with a black plate sporting the tag "i'mtrying." everything is a character when it comes to this story. >> the discount rack -- >> exactly. >> maybe it seemed like he wanted publicity and he's getting it. >> los angeles, right? i'm richard lui. this is "early today." this, your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. you're on timeout leo! some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. >>> the storms may be moving out this hour, but you could be in for a rough commute after a night of heavy rain. today everything from big puddles to roads blocked off and under water. our in-depth coverage will get you up to speed before you head out the door. good morning, everyone, i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today"

how about barbra streisand and michael moore? we asked them all. we will tell you what happened. >> do my best for our country. for those i represent at the pentagon and for all our citizens. >> is president obama nominating chuck hagel as secretary of defense in in order to cut funding to the military? charles krauthammer will weigh in on that. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. aborting babies at taxpayers expense that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. we have been taking a very hard look at a disturbing situation that may be a major violation, maybe of federal law. in 1976 congress passed the hyde amendment which forbids federal tax dollars for abortions. the reason is obvious. many americans believe abortion is morally wrong to. protect those americans, the feds said no to public funding of abortions. but now it looks like pro-choice zealots have figured out a way to get around the hyde amendment. they are using planned parenth

. >>> for the first time in 36 years, barbra streisand will be performing at the academy awards. no word on what streisand will be singing just yet. she'll be in good company with both adele and norah jones as well. >> that makes sense because she admitted to having a stage issue thing. >> she'll probably have them alongside her. got you. >>> and lindsay lohan's attorney seems to be quite a character when arrived in a black hummer sporting a license plate that says "i'm trying." she carried a louis vuitton briefcase that said "good luck." something she needs. >> lindsay needs to luck. her career is on the upswing. >> she is, clearly, bill. thanks a lot. i'm richard lui. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> there's a new cafe that opened in taiwan where pink is priority, shall we say. the first ever barbie cafe opens its doors to eager fans of the plastic beauty queen. partnering with matel, this cafe decor features perfectly pink accessories right out of barbie's dream house. the menu treats here fit for a doll with pretty pink pas

and i love the fact that it can be the dawley lawmaker athe next minute barbar barbra streisand and charliesheen. you have the same thing hire. i watch the show regularly. the fact that you do that means i suspect you share my view that people can be very narrow minded in their definition of what is interesting or news worthy. it's not just about war, famine, opener politics. there's much more to life than that, and the ability to meet people from all walks of life and get inside them have the curiosity you have or larry king has or oprah has and also from time to time not just cover big, breaking news stories but shape ape national debate as we have been doing with the gun control debate and hopefully, from my point of view, have some influence there and to have a clear voice and to give people a clear perspective and an opportunity to assess it for themselveses and make a decision. that's a pretty unbeatable proposition. >> rose: what you owe to all of us-- everybody, what i owe and oprah owes-- is to make sure you don't take it for granted and you work as hard as you can to be as good as

for the first time in 36 years, singer and actress barbra streisand will perform at the academy awardson the oscar stage in 1977 when she belted out a song from "is star is born." that same year she won best original song for "evergreen." other powerhouse performers will include adele and forare jones. they will air right here an abc2 -- on abc2 on february 24th. >>> justin timberlake will be getting out the suit and tie for the grammy's. the singer and actor is joining the list of performers at the 55th annual grammy awards. it will be the first return to the grammy stage in four years. he released his single from his new album and she joined a star -- he joins a star-studded lineup for the grammy's. they air on february 10th. >>> vincent chase and entourage are jumping from the big screen to the -- small screen to the big screen. it followed the hollywood exploits of a hot young actor vince, his buddies and his agent. as we have come to know as time has rocked on vince was mark wahlberg. >> absolutely. yeah he was -- >> it will be interesting to see it on the big screen. >>> stay wit

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ then you go to the laundry, now i start thinking about barbra streisand, the most fantastic thinking to myself she sings those wonderful long notes. now i'm writing long notes. okay? and i start that process. now i also happençó to know where -- what the title of this piece is right? so all i now need is to put in the title ♪ the way we were -- ♪ that's how that was written. a song like "one" for "chorus line" probably one of the easiest songs to write because the lyricist hadlp the title. "one." he loved the idea of having all these people in the part and they're all one. michael bennett said to me "i've got to have a song where -- i have to have a beat where you go boom and those hats go on. so i've go home and i already have ♪ one...♪ then that becomes that. ♪ one singular sensation -- ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ it's like building a picture in your mind and slowly by surely translating it into the language of music. >> rose: tell me about young helen. >> 18 years old horrible acne no money mother not so long ago widowed and she's depressed a lot and my sister mary at age 19 got polio

. >> reporter: that was barbra streisand, winning the oscar for "funny girl" in 1969.today, an announcement. for the first time in 36 years, streisand will perform again at the oscars. and as you know, she'll be the second big voice on the stage this year. recognize the other one? ♪ it's the skyfall adele and streisand on one stage. 25 days until the oscars. stay tuned. >>> and we have a big announcement tonight from a familiar face in our past. it's gomer pyle. >> shazam! >> that's "the andy griffith show" and jim nabors. today, the 82-year-old has announced he has married his long-time partner. they have been together for 38 years. nabors said he's never been ashamed of being gay, but liked his privacy and says he wants everyone to know he feels blessed and happy to have had a love that lasted so long. and we send our congratulations. >>> and coming up, a new report. it spokes fluffy, your pet cat, may have a shocking secret life. we'll tell you about something making news tonight. ] hi, i just switched jobs, and i want to roll over my old 401(k) into a fidelity ira.

. >>> well, it's something that barbra streisand has not done in 36 years. >> she's going to perform at the academy awards. she last sang in 1977 when she belted out a song from "a star is born." that same year she won best original song for "evergreen." the academy awards will air here on abc2 on february 24th with the host seth mcfarland. >>> word this morning that justin timberlake will be performing at the 55th annual grammy awards. he recently released his new singling from his new album. he joins a star-studded lineup for the other performers include the black keys and elton jon. it airs on february 10th. ♪ >>> new honor for the man in black. johnny cash will be remembered with the u.s. postal service and a stamp for the new music icon series. the cash forever stamp will be square and resemble the 45 record sleeve and it's going to be released later this year. big honor for johnny cash. >>> man in black. all right, stay with us this morning. because coming up we are going to have the latest news following a fire -- sherrie johnson is there live this morning and it happened? sou

[laughter] me and carole and barbra streisand.upported -- i've gotten involved with a number of people in massachusetts, gary studs, ted kennedy, i worked on his campaign, i worked for elizabeth warren this past time. um, i worked for, see, i've written it down here if i can find it. i worked for dukakis and mondale and gore and kerry and really a long list of -- clinton and jimmy carter. i worked on john anderson's campaign, the only nondemocrat in the bunch. so, you know, it was sort of natural being so politically active over the years that i would get involved in the campaign of 2008. i really, i was hugely motivated also by eight years of cheney/bush. and i say it in that order on purpose. [laughter] those were -- it was a tough time for me. i really suffered. it made me deeply ambivalent about my country, that we would choose that -- even if we may not have actually chosen it. [laughter] but that that was our, that that's what represented us in the world. and i felt as though after september 11th the, the diversion, the dist

. ♪ ♪ then you go to the laundry, now i start thinking about barbra streisand, the most fantastic voicehinking to myself she sings those wonderful long notes. now i'm writing long notes. okay? and i start that process. now i also happençó to know whee -- what the title of this piece is, right? so all i now need is to put in the title ♪ the way we were -- that's how that was written. a song like "one" for "chorus line" probably one of the easiest songs to write because the lyricist hadlp the title. "one." he loved the idea of having all these people in the part and they're all one. michael bennett said to me "i've got to have a song where -- i have to have a beat where you go boom and those hats go on. so i've go home and i already have ♪ one... thenhat becomes that. ♪ one, singular sensation -- ♪ ♪ ♪ it's like building a picture in your mind and slowly by surely translating it into the language of music. >> rose: tell me about young helen. >> 18 years old, horrible acne, no money, mother not so long ago widowed and she's depressed a lot and my sister mary at age 19 got polio before the

the love i thought i had found in you ♪ >> reporter: at the same time, other performers, cher, barbra streisandt ♪ ♪ when i heard the news today ♪ >> reporter: how am i supposed to live without you, a number one hit for laura in 1983 was life changing for michael bolton. ♪ tell me, how am i supposed to live without you? ♪ >> reporter: columbia, bolton's record label gave him a piece of advice. forget rock'n'roll. sing your own songs. don't give them to everybody else to turn into hits. you have just walls of records around this room. the result is all over the walz of his basement. what's the most one record of yours ever sold? >> 14 million. worldwide. >> reporter: a bitter-sweet blockbuster. because on it this song... ♪ love is a wonderful thing ♪ >> reporter: love is a wonderful thing. michael bolton spent 14 years in court fight and ultimately losing copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the rhythm and blues group the isley brothers. ♪ love is a wonderful thing ♪ >> reporter: the song by the same name he swears to had day he had never even heard. >> what i have to live with is a piece

. >> maybe barbra streisand, how far left can i go. >> but in "unthinkable" did the issue of torture become part of the debate? >> that's what it was. it was about taking the famous ticking clock scenario, which i'm sure you're familiar with, and dramatizing it. a man has put four nuclear poms an american soil, how -- bombs on american soil, how far do you go to get it out of him? what are the lines you're willing to go up to or beyond to cey the entire united states of america and everyone in it? or do you have to negotiate with this man's human rights? what are the parameters? so the film was a dramity sargse of that. and again, there are difficult to read what the politics of it were. it was sort of, you can watch the entire film and still, everyone has their own view of it. being the man who actually the film is about a c.i.a. agent, american c.i.a. agent who is working in iraq, disappears, nobody knows where he is, pops up in a mall in america and gives himself up and then when he's brought in, he says to these -- he's converted to islam and puts -- has put these bombs around th

turned "funny girl" into a star-making vehicle for the young actress he'd chosen for the lead, barbra streisandshow was floundering. people in new haven had been running in groups of 20 and 30 from the theater. sondheim: he said, "the trouble with the opening number is "it doesn't prepare the audience for what the show's about. "it doesn't say, 'this is gonna be low comedy, baggy pants comedy.'" he asked me to write that kind of a number. he said, "steve, don't tell any jokes. let me do the jokes." walton: he just developed these amazing sight gags from stuff that we had lying around. it was as if you had given jerry a pocket handkerchief and said, "now do 25 astonishing things with this." [ laughs ] and he did. sondheim: he came up, in a week, with, oh, one of the two three best opening numbers in the history of the theater. ♪ tragedy tomorrow ♪ ♪ comedy tonight! ♪ you want to do a musical about a bunch of old jews in russia who are going through a pogrom? i mean, what are you out of your mind? sondheim: i heard the score of "fiddler," i think, up at joe stein's house in new rochelle, i think

they have snubbed big-name directors, spielberg himself they stop in 1985 "the color purple," barbra streisandthey did not do a real achievement, a competent after ""the hurt locker"." that is what is a bit of a disappointment. dennis: obviously "lincoln" is out from disney for such a huge company it is not like they will get a stock bump if "lincoln" wins, will they? >> disney has to be ecstatic. three out of five titles in the animation category. this is the first time in years you have disney dominating. and garnering all those nominations. dennis: for nominations, the youngest actress ever nominated, a nine-year-old girl. >> what would the nomination noe without this kind of surprises. and top films of the year. "the avengers," ""the hunger games"." dennis: the new james bond film got overlooked. you know more about this than we do. >> there was talk that "skyfall" might get the best film nomination. it had received 5% of the votes on the ballot. and "skyfall" is a very well-liked film, academy award-winning director. and in oscar friendly cast, i think in this case "skyfall" was in many b

. - sweet barbra streisand!filling in a void that comedies like this haven't been made for a long time, and i think that people were looking for this sort of, you know, real sort of comfort comedy. - for me, i mean, i feel like we've all been so fortunate. we've all worked on amazing shows with wonderful casts. there's just something about this one, i think, because it came at this point in our careers. it was rather unexpected and, i think all the sweeter for it. it's like having caught another brass ring at a later stage in life and i think i appreciate everything more at this age than i did when i was 40. - absolutely. - but what happened to us was, we came on stage and fell in love. i had done the pilot with these girls, and i thought, "why would i walk away from something like that?" it was just real chemistry. - and we knew that after the first table read and we all sort of stopped and having done this so many times over so many years but we all kind of looked at each other and went, "oh, wow." - "oh, wow.

. >>> barbra streisand will be performing at this year's oscars.w building up to be quite the musical extravaganza. adele also there to perform "skyfall." it will be a great night. looking forward to it. february 24th, where? right here on abc. >>> great news this morning. josh, listen up. i'm so excited. "entourage" is back. it looks like ari, vincent, johnny, drama and turtle will be back. warner brothers just green-lit the project, which has been talked about since the hit series went off the air in 2011. all characters are expected to sign on. and doug eelen will write and direct. i hope rex lee, who played his agent. and "entourage" withdraw will subside. >> it will be good to have ar i-back, as well. >> we should invite them on. >> my vintage ensemble is in honor of this last story. make room for the big banana. the giant banana car built by a michigan man, has taken it to a whole, new level. it's 24 1/2 feet long. and banana has parts of the fort f-150. and he does hope to take it on a tour through europe and asia. i will tell you, we're cur

barbra streisand will be performing at this year's oscars.p to be quite the musical extravaganza. as you know, adele also there to perform "skyfall." >> and norah jones, will she be there? >> yes. it will be a great night. looking forward to it. it all happens february 24th, where? right here on abc. >>> great news this morning. josh, listen up. i'm so excited. i know you will be, too. "entourage" is back. it looks like ari, vincent, johnny, drama and turtle will be back. this time on the big screen. warner brothers just green-lit the project, which has been talked about since the hit hbo series went off the air in 2011. all the main characters are expected to sign on. and doug ellin will write and direct. i hope rex lee, who played his agent. i hope he is back. and my "entourage" withdraw will subside. >> it will be good to have ari back, as well. >> we should invite them on. i would love that. >>> my vintage ensemble is in honor of this last story today. move over wiener mobile. make room for the big banana. the giant banana car built by a

the fact that you -- rush limbaugh can love a show and bill clinton or maybe barbra streisand. how far left can i go? "unthinkable "did the whole issue of torture become part of the dwai. >> that's what it was. the film itself was about taking the sort of famous ticking clock scenario people talk about, which you are familiar with and dramatizing it. the idea that a man has put four new bombs on american soil how far do you go to get out? what are the lines you are prepared to go up to or beyond in order to save the entire united states of america and everyone in it. or do you have to negotiate with the man's human rights and you know what the parameters. and the film was dramtyization of that. very difficult to read when the politics were. it was sort of -- you can watch the entire film and still, again, everyone has their own view of it. and being the man who actually the film is about a cia agent, american cia agent who is working in iraq disappears nobody knows where he is. he ends up in a mall in america and gives himself up and then when he's brought in, he says he's conv

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i assume you're talking about barbra streisand in "the guilt trip."hich is a very odd career choice. she had not had a starring role in more than a decade. this is a movie in which she and seth rogen are stuck in a compact car driving across america and driving each other nuts for an hour and a half. does not sound like something most people would want to experience. the actor who's in worst actress is in his eighth appearance as madea, tyler perry, in what we are calling "madea's witless protection." he's kind of driven that character into the ground. >> and what about "that's my boy"? this is a film that i saw recently, i admit it. and you have put the entire cast on the razzy left. it stars adam sandler, van issa ice in there, susan sarandon's in it. >> yes. that surprised me. this is his followup. last year he won every -- his movie won every razzy award, "jack and jill." this time he's playing a wife who fathered a child with his math teacher when he was 14. after basically banding the kid, comes back begging for many to pay taxes. it's foul-mout

. >> obama is in cahoots are barbra streisand al gore who has a big house. >> please help us erase obamaouse. >> he got a laugh or something. >> stephanie: it is funny. 47 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show." >> go ahead laugh out loud in your cubicle! everyone always thinks you're a left wing lunatic anyway. it's "the stephanie miller show." you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? rogaine? well, i'll admit it. i was skeptical at first. but after awhile even my girlfriend noticed a difference. [ male announcer ] rogaine is proven to help stop hair loss. and for 85% of guys, it regrew hair. save up to 4

and gentlemen, i bring you andon cooper and kathy griffin singing the classic neil diamond and barbra streisandflowers." you don't bring me flowers, you don't talk to me anymore at the end of the day >> let's go to gary tuchman. he's in the sardine capital of the world. >> really? can you verify it's the sardine capital of the world? >> i can possibly. >> i'm trying to reach out. look at gary. >> gary, how are you holding up? >> reporter: anderson, kathy, i'm holding up great. how many of our viewers have heard of a sardine drop before this very night? that's what's happening. this is eastport, maine, tiny town, 1,300 people. they're so quiet right now. how come? they should not be quiet. this is a very unique place. we can see the sardine. this used to be the sardine capital of the united states, that sardine, eight feet long made by a nice man who is an artist will be lowered. you have the ball in times square but we in eastport, connecticut -- i mean eastport, maine -- this is the eastern most city in the united states. one mile to that side is new brins wick, canada. it's a time machine. yo

streisand reunion? >> first of all, i love barbra. >> now trending, hot headlines. >> mel gibson, the father to jodie foster's> and did the alleged manti te'o hoaxer pull a giant scam on "the voice"? >> nip-tucks, nose jobs and