i remember talking to ben affleck's grandfather, who was a marine. he had -- in the pacific.e had done niece beach landings. he had lost a lot of men. and they were told in advance of the mainland invasion that they were going to lose 6 out of 10 men. and he said, "when we heard about the bomb drop, we cheered." he said -- you know, this is 50 years later he's telling me this. he goes, "i lived with the fact, but this is what they were telling us, that they were going to fight to the last man." you cover it in your book. they said between 250,000 and 1 million americans. >> you read my book? >> it was fantastic. >> "countdown 1945," available on amazon. >> it really is great. >> but your point is exactly right, which i think people fail to realize, and i didn't until i wrote, studied and wrote the book. which is, it's not like you're going to kill all these people in hiroshima or nothing's going to happen. >> right. >> if you don't kill them, there's gas going to be an invasion of japan by the u.s. soldiers. it's going to extend the war at least another year and a half. and p

. >> and friendship with ben affleck. and later acting powerhouse, laura linney on her new film. >> i wouldn't have recognized you. >> and her unforgettable character from prosecutor to matriarch of a crime family. >> she was fun. is that part of your super power? >> get it done. it was possible i may not see the end of the year. >> i'm a little pistol. that's what it is. >> this is not where i thoughts the story was at. >> good evening. welcome back to who's talking. tonight hollywood is on hold. we are in the second week of the actors strike and the third month of the writers strike. meaning nothing is being created in tinseltown. both groups are demanding higher pay and more revenue sharing from tv and film studios in the face of streaming services and artificial intelligence. and some of the best paid actors in the business are supporting rank and file members some of who are struggling to make ends meet. because of the strike all movie publicity is suspended. so tonight's conversations with taped before the strike. w

"oppenheimer" comes in the same year for damon as the hit movie "air," directed by ben affleck. >> doike to be directed by your best friend? >> it was great. great directors really give you the freedom. it's a collaboration, it's a partnership. so we definitely have an eye to finding good stuff to do together. >> i imagine you have a short hand on set, too, which makes life easy. >> you can waste so much time by trying to be polite. in the movie business and in theater they've developed a whole vocabulary for how to talk to somebody and basically how to tell somebody they're sucking, right. we can just say you suck. >> so it's not that was great but what if we tried this? >> i'm wondering if he feels a little more reserved. just tell me i'm overacting. you know what i mean? ♪♪ where ben and i grew up, we had would take the subway. >> ben and matt grew up two blocks apart in cambridge, massachusetts, bonding over their love of writing and acting. it seems to me you knew really early on this was it. >> probably by the time i was 13 and was taking it very seriously. we had the best teach

i remember talking to ben affleck's father who is a marine, and he said, when we heard about the bomb fact that i cheered, but this is what they were telling us that they were going to fight to the last man, and that we were going to, you know -- and i covered it in the book, 250,000 and 1 million americans in your book. >> yes, it is called "countdown 1945" and it is available on amazon. >> and not the shamelessly plug your book, but -- >> what would you have done? >> i probably -- i probably would have had a head of gray hair, but you know, the presidents just goes white, and like, you know. it is funny, because when you are looking at it, you think that there is one choice to make, and you are looking at the people who make the choice, but i don't believe that groves lost one night of sleep, because he fulfilled the mission, but oppenheimer, and once they started to go through the test, they said, oh, my god, and it is like a shock wave going through them. >>> joining us now the discuss is chris wallace, and the host of "who is talking to chris palace" on cnn and did matt damon eve

the script was tight you and ben affleck -- obviously, everyone loves you guys together. jimmy: look at this when you won the oscar for "good will hunting." [ cheers and applause look at how happy. look at that yeah [ laughter ] >> we don't look too excited >> jimmy: you've got to be what's going through -- do you remember this? >> i do. well, we don't -- the weird thing about that was that we -- like, the year before, we were watching it on tv. it was, like -- we had no -- there was no adjustment period where we went -- like, we just suddenly were kind of there in the front row. and billy crystal sang a song with our names in it we were like, "what is happening? >> jimmy: "what is going on with our lives?" >> yeah. and we hadn't -- we hadn't talked about a speech or anything like that because i think as kind of life long red sox fans, you don't want to jinx anything. >> jimmy: yeah [ light laughter ] >> because i think both of us, without even talking about it, we were like -- 'cause later we talked about it. and it was like, i had this feeling, if i ever said, "hey, we

i couldn't help, but think of how the was to pick some of the meet the nice ben affleck's. all guy is a depiction of a rod made by people who have never been through the lot of tv shows and a lot of films that have not aged well the space. you'll never see the way that black communities in america has been impacted in the way that we talk about law enforcement and the way that we talk about violence and drugs. the the and he thinks about asian americans talk about things like sexuality and desirability. i didn't order anything, i don't even you when he talked about women and you talk about women being in roles and in positions whether or not empowered that sort of reinforcing this idea of that, that gender disparity between men and women. and when you think about the entertainment industry, there hasn't really been a focus on the cultural sensitivity. that's changing. as movie junkies, the people who actually sit through the closing credits will tell you there's a new category. scrolling by the cultural consultant, hollywood has been using outside expertise for years. and t

ben affleck in detail film premieres, vanonse from maryana varenkova. beauty is a matter of taste, but the morning in a beauty salon is a matter of habit. we know how the administrator svetlana kovaleva meets him , only the correspondent alisa boyarskikh pro instructs. how to behave on the beach today? well, she will also learn and skid from tomorrow's broadcast. where will svetlana borovskaya go to go on a safari and try the most delicious bread? well, that 's not all either. we are waiting for andrey usanov to visit with the premiere of the song kupala bonfires and the charming performer vlada with exclusive shukami. i’ll tell you all this a little later, but right now our brest colleagues are in touch with us and we pass on the word good satchel to them. and what's new? good morning. good morning colleagues, friday is in touch with you, brest and we have some interesting news prepared for you in gantsevichi, a skatepark for lovers of extreme sports has appeared; the arrangement of a new sports ground for young children is being carried out on the eve

he talks about with chasing his show business dreams with ben affleck. >> it seems you knew early onobably by the time i was 13. we had the best teacher, i think, in the world who came into our lives at that point. he taught us how to write improv. exactly how ben and i write now. >> you can catch the two-part with matt damon tomorrow on "today." we will talk more about "oppenheimer" and more coming up. >> congrats to willie on 300 sitdowns. >> a lot of celebrities. >> a good one. >> thank you, joe. >>> still to come, nothing like getting up close and personal with the birds. we tell you the story behind this adorable video. >> we'reack with that afte br >>> just ahead, will it be tom cruise to the rescue? how the movie industry needs a badly needed boost. badly needed boost. >>> and how trivia is takin i was stuck. unresolved d depression n sympts were in mymy way. i i needed morore from m my antideprpressant. vrayaylar helped give itit a li. addiding vraylar toto an antidedepressant.... ...i.is clinicalally provenn to h help relieveve overerall depresession symptpt. ...betetter tha

his friendship and movies with ben affleck.00 congratulations! >> 300 shows >> 300 years >> 300 sunday sit-downs with actors, musicians, writers, politicians, and no one does it like willie does >> thanks, guys. it's not a traditional celebration of 300, but we'll take what we can get we wanted to go big, so i got together with matt damon to talk about his career and his latest role in the upcoming movie "oppenheimer," he plays leslie gross jr., who is tasked with supervisors "oppenheimer" on the manhattan project, the secret operation to create the world's first atomic bomb. >> why don't you have a nobel prize? >> they're making me one for this >> perhaps i'll have the same luck >> a nobel prize for making a bomb >> have you heard of the general? did you know anything about him? >> i wasn't familiar with all the details.military's very nec need to compart and how fraught this whole situation was with the differing philosophies the military's very necessary need to compartmentalize versus the scientists who share all their info

escaped and the two of them were filming a movie, 8.00 the scene from the film disappeared, in which ben affleck'sracter hides his face under a baseball cap, they could not film 4 the day the actor and the director were arguing about this. maybe about what should be a baseball cap more precisely. well color. for example, what team is there on the baseball team will be written on it. what baseball team. here in this form. i accept the answer, the logo of which team will be on the baseball cap afflex is a fan of the boston redd sox, and the director wanted a baseball cap, new york, jans, a thousand movies are being made. the events of the novel take place in the netherlands , the director mikhail lokshin moved the action of the film to st. petersburg, and on the set, the actor fedor fedotov was very useful for children hockey. silver skates quite rightly, the graph of changes in the average temperature on earth in the last thousand years for its peculiar shape was called the gymnastic ribbon no. but i took a chance, let it be a club. that's right, he was nicknamed the hockey stick. and the musical i

damon on his role in the highly anticipated new christopher nolan movie "oppenheimer" and his buddy ben affleck winning the oscar. >> did you feel like scrappy screenwriters? >> yeah. to be fair, example of sylvester stallone, but stallone like our, that was our kind of code word basically. so we'd go into meetings and these people would say, can't play the part. i mean, come on. they wanted brad and leo. you know? sylvester stallone, we were like. yes, we can play the part. we are playing the part. >> our 300th sunday sitdown with matt damon, plus the morning's latest headlines and another life well lived when "sunday today" airs at 6:00 a.m. in the bay area. not up at that hour on a sunday set the dvr and we will see you whenever you're ready for us. kira? >> wow, willie. 300? congratulations. if you are awake tomorrow morning, hope you can catch willie at 6:0 a.m. and then stick right here for your local news with us on "today in the bay" right after willie at 7:00. >>> turning to a quick look at top stories following here in the bay area including an 8-year-old boy in grave condition after

we will see ben affleck, but as the world box office shows, not much.d the public because the budget. millions didn't pay off, and so we know that the fees are not always show about quality in the center of the plot in the police poems rur initially we find him at a reception with psychotherapists 4 years ago a terrible event happened in his life that destroyed everything and marriage and the psyche of life, in the end his little daughter was kidnapped right from the playground by evil turned out to be unpunished. she is a corrupt believer that his daughter is alive, having taken on a series of crimes. he finds a way out. and here's what you find out for yourself in the cinema chair. from the cinema world, i suggest you move smoothly into the world of fragrant lavender, purple provence has been pleasing lovers for several years now. not only fragrant shrubs, but also instablogers. well, by the way, each region of belarus has its own lavender field. for example, in the grodno region. they are located in the vyevsky district and in the agro-town of luskav

i remember talking to ben affleck's grandfather was marine and he said, when we heard about the bombe with the fact that -- but this is what they are telling us. they were going to fight until the last man and that we were going to -- covered in your book, 250,000 and the million americans. >> you read my book? >> i did read it. >> it's called countdown 1945, and it's available on amazon. >> it really is, not to be shamelessly pumping your book, but it really is great. what would you have done? i probably would have had a head of gray hair, presidents hair goes white, you know. it's funny because when you look at it, you think there's already one choice to make, but you look at the people who made that choice, i mean i don't think grows ever lost a night of sleep, he fulfilled his mission to and -- that oppenheimer, and a lot of the other scientists, once they went through the tests they, started going oh my god, and it was like a shock wave going through them. >> i mean, that is so fascinating, to think about that. what a difficult question. and you can see the way that this movie m

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ads on youtube. [ light laughter ] let me just see him one more time [ laughter ] he looks like ben affleckammys, you know what i'm saying [ audience ohs ] [ rim shot ] meanwhile, earlier today, marjorie taylor greene and george santos both showed up outside the courthouse, and it was absolute chaos it was basically the craziest thanksgiving day parade. [ light laughter ] even times square elmo was like, "if they try to engage, just walk right past 'em." [ laughter ] "don't even -- don't engage with them. yeah, as soon as george santos showed up outside the courthouse, he was swarmed by reporters. take a look at this photo. yeah trump -- trump saw the media following santos, was like, "hey, get your own arraignment. [ laughter ] marjorie taylor greene was then interviewed about trump's indictment and she made an interesting comparison listen to this >> i mean, think about -- gosh, think about this - president trump is joining some of the most incredible people in history being arrested today. nelson mandela was arrested, served time in prison. jesus, jesus was arrested. [ laughter ] >> jimm

and also became a hit film starring ben affleck and rosamund pike.tale of a woman who vanishes, leaving a trail of evidence to frame her husband for her murder. that said he saw jennifer's greatest manuscript but he will let us see. it >> is it gone girl? >> no, but it is close. what you are doing about this manuscript in her state of mind? >> desperate, frantic, concerned that fotis might want more child time to children will do anything to prevent. that creative, and that ability to think outside the box. we don't know where she is, she may well have killer self. we don't know. we are investigating it. >> no surprise that jennifer's camp was out rage by the calm girl theory. >> i think it is irresponsible and untrue. her friend became the spokesperson for jennifer's family. she said the novel is not at all with pat's describes. >> it has nothing to do with her relationship with fotis or her marriage. it has absolutely no parallel with the plot of gone girl. none. >> written before gone girl. the draft was finish 17 years before she disappeared. and

electrifying appearance at last night's grammys [ laughter ] well, it electrified everyone but ben affleckdrink that much dunkin' coffee and still look like someone stole his bike? anyway [ laughter ] the balloon was all anybody could talk about after it was spotted in the sky on thursday and made quite a trip across u.s. airspace. >> the balloon has travelled for days, from western alaska to the midwest. >> it traveled thousands of miles across the united states >> it started in alaska. the aleutian islands, alaska, and then came down through canada and it just crossed into the united states in montana >> it was spotted here in billings wednesday it is still on the move this morning hovering over the northern u.s >> the balloon is likely somewhere over kansas after sightings over montana yesterday. >> it drifted across nebraska and then into the midwest today, spotted as it made its way across missouri. >> from idaho, to montana, all the way down to the carolinas. >> it was about six nautical miles off the coast near myrtle beach, south carolina >> seth: first of all, we should stop calli

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we're going to begin with jennifer lopez celebrating her one year wedding anniversary with ben affleckng. she revealed a snippet on the j. lo blog. here it is. ♪ you whisper in my ear looking at our tears we can disappear tonight ♪ ♪ a trip to vegas just me and you baby driving a pink cadillac nothing changes ♪ >> the lyrics go on to say she's glad her and ben kept it and laughed til they cried at their surprise ceremony. it is part of an upcoming album called "this is me now." a follow-up to her 2002 film album "this is me then" which gave us the classic "jenny from the block." also in top news, we are getting new music from britney spears. she's teaming up with will i am for a new single. the pair made the song "scream shout" 11 years ago and it has 1 billion plus views on you tube. you can see why they might want to work together again. this is called "mind ya business." will i am teasing the song on instagram and emphasizing the word tease. take a look. ♪ mind ya business mind ya business ♪ >> that's a tease. >> you're welcome. the full song drops this friday. last year she teamed

reporter: jennifer garner telling savannah and hoda she gave the same message to her three kids with ben affleck >> reporter: hgtv hometown stars taking a stance. posting, research tells us social media is addictive and destructive for developing brains now, they're launching a nonprofit called osprey to help kids stay off social media through high school. celebrities know social media can have a dark side, the mcconaugheys hope their son is met with kindness and kbras. >> you're getting a very cool and respectful young man coming at you i hope you all can do the best to treat him the same way. >> reporter: their son racked up more than 150,000 instagram followers. now, research shows the impact of social media on kids can be mixed. it can be community building for them but regular uses also associated with higher rates of anxiety and depression in kids experts say the best advice is if you're going to let your kid on social media, make sure the lines of communication are open and that they can share their feelings, let them know it can be good and bad and make sure you know -- >> so hard for ki

we talked about that movie, "air," which came out with ben affleck, where affleck directed his old friendbout the shorthand they had. joe, i think you'll attest, just a truly wonderful guy, matt damon. that's his reputation in hollywood, but when you have a chance to spend a bunch of time with him over the course of a day, you see it up close. his resume is staggering. when you sit down with matt damon, the problem is, you don't know where to begin. you know, from "goodwill hunting" forward, it's 25 years of great movies, great choices, great performances. it'll be fun to let people see that conversation this sunday. >> it really is remarkable, his career. this sunday morning, jack and i, we've already talked about this, he's going to get some hot swiss rolls. >> oh. >> what? we have the cocoa, right? he's going to come in, because he told me the other night, "papa, papa, this is uncle willie's." get this -- >> huh-uh, okay you two. >> jack, by the way, jack, you haven't seen him in a while, he is 6'5" now. seriously. >> i know. >> he is. i still have him, like, in his little swish shorts