>> he was a butler.lack domestic plays an important role in our history. >> something special is going on here. mr. president? >> i know your son is a freedom rider. >> turn the bus! >> i never understood what you all really went through. you've changed my heart. >> this there's this whole black power movement going on. i give you the green light to gut those sons of bitches. >> they're going to kill you. >> you need to go. >> what? >> get the hell out of my house. >> sorry, mr. butler, i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you are and everything sufficient because of that butler. >> rose: joining me now is lee daniels who directed the movie, danny strong who wrote the script and two of the film's stars, forest whitaker who plays the butler and oprah winfrey who plays his wife gloria. welcome one and all. >> thank you. >> rose: i'm pleased to have you here. you, sir, are at your creative best. congratulations. >> thank you. >> rose: you, magnificent. >> thank you, sir. >> rose: but you, s

lee daniels "the butler" is about a man who served many years as a butler at the white house. it's directed by lee daniels written by danny strong starring forest whitaker and oprah winfrey >> i think because of the being able to communicate without words, we're trying to carry these experiences that were painted on the script so that you can be a part of them. and i wanted to take that tapestry and put it together. >> because it's also for me a love story. a love story through the eyes of this man and one of the reasons i said yes to lee after he was relentless in asking know do it is because i wanted the tapestry the depth, the broadness of that communication between a husband and a wife and particularly a middle-class black family to be seenbly the progressive world. it's something we don't see very often. women have been the backbone regardless of race for a number of reasons and i wanted to show that level of character. >> rose: lee daniels "the butler" for the hour. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >>. >

the butler depicted never existed but he is based on a real white house butler. he died in 2010. >> for more on the real-life story that is fired the film, i spoke to a writer who wrote inut the butler who served the white house. >> i wanted to find a character to work in the white house during the era of segregation because i had this feeling that obama was going to win and i wanted to be ready with a story. for someone, that dream would be astonishing. i started calling all around the country because i wanted somebody who was -- >> it took you 56 calls to find eugene who had worked at the white house. aat was it like for him as black man being in the white house during segregation? >> i think it was very emotional for him. you work at the most powerful address in the world, then he could go to his native virginia after work and he would have to beforeegregated bathroom the civil rights bills were passed in 1964. he lived in this rarefied bubble and yet he had to return to second-class citizenship. >> which president was he closest to? >> he spoke fondly of all

>> he was a butler. the black domestic plays an important role in our history. >> something special is going on here. mr. president? >> i know your son is a freedom rider. >> turn the bus! >> i never understood what you all really went through. you've changed my heart. >> this there's this whole black power movement going on. i give you the green light to gut those sons of bitches. >> they're going to kill you. >> you need to go. >> what? >> get the hell out of my house. >> sorry, mr. butler, i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you are and everything sufficient because of that butler. >> rose: joining me now is lee daniels who directed the movie, danny strong who wrote the script and two of the film's stars, forest whitaker who plays the butler and oprah winfrey who plays his wife gloria. welcome one and all. >> thank you. >> rose: i'm pleased to have you here. you, sir, are at your creative best. congratulations. >> thank you. >> rose: you, magnificent. >> thank you, sir. >> rose: but

butler. >> everything you are and everything you have is because of that butler. joining me is lee daniels who directed the film, the and two stars, forest whitaker who plays the butler and oprah winfrey. welcome one and all. i'm pleased to have you here. you are at your creative best. congratulations. >> thank you. >> you, magnificent. >> thank you, sir. >> but you, sir, are just brilliant. this is an extraordinary performance over a span of years to capture this person, these ideas all that you have done you've really done an extraordinary achievement. >> thank you. thank you. >> rose: how difficult was it for you? >> it was a challenge. it was very challenging. i think because of the being able to communicate without words. the process of going through all these years and the aging process. trying to carry the experiences carried in the script by danny and lee to feel them and know them and understanding the history so i could take that tapestry and pull it together. but on the whole it's really -- it's a love story. so i guess trying to navigate the feeling th

>> he was a butler. the black domestic plays an important role in our history. >> something special is going on here. mr. president? >> i know your son is a freedom rider. >> turn the bus! >> i never understood what you all really went through. you've changed my heart. >> this there's this whole black power movement going on. i give you the green light to gut those sons of bitches. >> they're going to kill you. >> you need to go. >> what? >> get the hell out of my house. >> sorry, mr. butler, i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you are and everything sufficient because of that butler. >> rose: joining me now is lee daniels who directed the movie, danny strong who wrote the script and two of the film's stars, forest whitaker who plays the butler and oprah winfrey who plays his wife gloria. welcome one and all. >> thank you. >> rose: i'm pleased to have you here. you, sir, are at your creative best. congratulations. >> thank you. >> rose: you, magnificent. >> thank you, sir. >> rose: but

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in "the butler" i doesn't.wasn't until we were on the bus and shooting the scene on the bus with the freedom riders with the heat and everything that we realized when i yelled action and the kkk came out and the hatred and the shaking of the bus that i realized and i yelled cut and they kept coming. i yelled cut. i screamed at the window. they kept coming. i realized that there was nobody to say cut when those kids were there and they were heroes and this was a bigger movie than just a father and son love story. not just for the black kids but the white kids were there too. it was as oprah says her ah-ha moment. >> even some of the white actors had a hard time reenacting some of those struggles because it was so violent and passionate and emotional there. i want to play a clip here. this is when the butler first arrives at the white house. he serves eight presidents. let's watch. >> i heard you were coming. what's your name? >> see kicecil gains. i'm carter wilson. this brother is james hallowway. he's my secon

butler.'re talking about the power of history and the power of oprah winfrey. >> now everybody just sit down. >> i'm sorry, mr. butler, i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you are and everything you have is because of that butler. i think farmers care more about the land than probably anyone else. we've had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that's how we make our living and that's how we can pass the land and water back to future generations. people should make up their own mind what's best for them. all i can say is it has worked well for us. delivering mail, medicine and packages, yet they're closing thousands of offices, slashing service and want to layoff over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue while the postal service is forced

the butler is something. the butler is something. and. >> what is the butler?er stands for every servant that serves america. the butler is you. you're serving america. the butler is me, i'm serving america through my cinema. and he happens to be looked down on. that's how we look at -- how we look at class, how we address class in america which transcends race, too. >> the film itself starts with the civil rights movement and ends with the inauguration of the first black president of the united states. and yet, as we've seen with seconds 4 of the voting rights act knocked down, as we've seen in attempts to suppress the vote, as we've seen with the continuing racist animus towards this president, we haven't come that will far yet, have we? >> when i did the movie, when i began the movie,ing the words any white man could kill any black man and get away with it, the law was against us. it was notten 0 our side. when i am making a mean, i'm in a bubble. and i don't like leaving that bubble for anything. and when i came out of that bubble, trayvon martin happened.

katie butler, who was jeffrey butler? >> every but there was my father and you are holding a picture of him and me in a loving position. he was of world war ii veteran who lost his arm in the war and an amazing that's. he built cases for our living room with only one arm which was amazing and he was a professor of history. >> where did he teach? >> berkeley university in connecticut and lived a long, full, happy life. >> over the past couple years of his life? >> when he was 79 he had devastating stroke. he didn't die until he was a 85 at a time when his death would be a mercy and publishing. he was given a peacemaker year after this devastating stroke and the result was his heart kept going and he descended into dementia and blindness and misery and said to my mother i am living too long. the last five years of his life were frankly terrible. >> when the pacemaker was put in at age 80 what was the family's thought? >> it was the combination of ignorance and denial. there was no real conversation with the doctor about whe

lee daniels' the butler in theaters now. >> all right.teve martin may be one of the funniest men alive, but in recent years he's been showing off his banjo skills. now he's in a rivalry with another well-known banjo extraordinary their. ♪ ♪ >> that was okay, but i think you missed a note there. >> i think that was your note. >> the last note was you. >> i haven't missed a note in three years. >> i have no idea why we showed you that, but let's go to the main event. and the or begigins to high fiv. take a look. >> high five was invented in 1977 by a couple of baseball players. we don't actually have that footage, but you can be sure they had mustaches and tighter pants than these days. let me tell you a little story. i was at a state park with my daughter when she was 4. a lady comes up and says sweetie, give me a high five. she looked at her in the he eye and said we don't call for high fives, we either do them or we don't. the key it preserving it is early education. so i'm going to educate people after i get up off this bench. >> yeah,

>> no, the chief -- >> the chief of the butlers. >> there's a chief of the butlers? >> yeah. listen, here's the thing. what dana was saying, to say that, to suggest anything about barack obama, people hating him because he is black, i don't buy that a second. people that are racist didn't like him to start with. is racism worse today, i don't think so. it has gotten personally better since i worked in the civil rights movement, i can tell you that. >> i agree. and we should continue to move forward, not hold people down, stir up race problems and conflict just to achieve your own political purpose. i think that is reckless. i think we should try to move forward in a positive way with all of the accomplishments. we have a black president. we have many people in positions of power and influence running this country and contributing from all different walks of life, different socioeconomic backgrounds, different ethnicities, it is a great place to be. >> more poor black children today than before. >> and you have quite a bit of poor white children as well. and a lot of poverty a

and the butler is the best civil rights movie i've ever seen the great dramas i've ever seen one of the great human dramas with an incredible performance by you when did you know you could act i'm going to sit up straighter for that when he didn't when he didn't know you could i mean you were a broadcaster i go back to baltimore with you know we go way back i didn't know i could act even in the color purple larry i had these i had taken the stanislaw ski acting books with me to bungalow in north carolina were shooting the color purple in one thousand nine hundred eighty five because i couldn't figure out i couldn't balance. acting with i knew instinctively that you've got to figure out a way to let that character be truthful but how do you do that if you're acting on the word act was handing me out and i wasn't sure i could do it because i'd been an orator before all through high school i grew up doing soup sojourner truth and fannie lou hamer speeches misappropriated and public speaking so i knew i could do that i knew i could do drama positions which is very different than acting

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and lenny kravitz in "the butler." >> get on out. >> i'm sorry. i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >>> and battle over medical marijuana. chris christie decided to leave restrictions in new jersey but not for parents whose sick parents could be help. joining me now is megan and brian wilson. their 2-year-old daughter suffers from a severe form of epilepsy. welcome to you both. let me first get your reaction to the actions of chris christie on friday which many took to be very positive towards your case in particular. is that how you saw it? >> originally a little bit. but the problems we had were -- it didn't really go far enough. the doctor issue that we were hoping he would remove, he kept in there. he did relieve the limit that we had so that helps us out a lot but the probably with the edibles is he's only allowing those for minors. he's not allowing adult patients to get edibles. he's going to force them to smoke it. the problem that we have with the edibles, we don't think with the few limited pediatric or minor patients that need the e

and now a new movie about the butler's life is hitting theaters.we'll separate the fact from the fiction. >> hey, everyone. welcome back to "the lead." now to the politics lead. stop navel gazing. today he took veiled swings at two of his rivals for the 2016 republican nomination and he told his party he's in it to win. let's bring in former adviser to mitt romney's campaign, kevin maddon. cnn political contributor maria cardona and cnn reporter for people magazine, michael crowley. i want to start with this that everyone thinks was aimed at bobby jindal. he said, quote, i'm not going to be one of these people who goes and calls our party stupid. of course governor jindal, who is also a 2016 presidential candidate once said our party has to stop being stupid. >> the point that chris christie was trying to make was that we have to be in a party that is about ideas. we have to describe what it is that we're for and describe where we stand on all the big issues that the american electorate cares about. the challenge that chris christie is going to hav

the butler carried the box office of the second weekend in a row. our movie guy is here to tell us if the butler is headed for a threepeat. good to have you back on the show. will it happen again? > >it very well could. it doesn't have a lot of competition this weekend unless teenage girls flock to the theater for the one direction movie i think the butler will score a third straight weekend. > >we'll talk about that in just a minute. but here are the box office numbers from over the weekend---now, these numbers are not high but is the butler making its money back? > >absolutely. the butler was most definitely a hit and it was a very small film with 41 producers all chipping in with six pennies ofr whatever---but its definitely going to make its money back and it's a word of mouth hit so this film is going to keep going for a few more weeks. > >that's what i'm hearing. the demographic is growing on this one. also on the list...so coming up this weekend you already gave us a bit of a tip off...let's start with closed circuit. > >not a very big releas

butler, i didn't mean to make fun of your hero! everything you are and everything you have is because of that butler. >> joining me now, charles allen, son of former white house butler eugene allen, and emmy award winning screenwriting. charles, i have to ask you, what was it like for you watching this film, this depiction of your father? >> it was great, danny spent a lot of time with us. that is one of the things that i was happy about, he actually got to meet my father and talk with him extensively and with myself. and a lot of these things, he has pretty accurately captured the contention, a lot of the contention that was between my dad and i. my dad, being a very conservative person, and myself, of a more liberal bent. >> charles, talk a minute about where you -- where your conversations with your father, where would they be now if he was still with us, and now that you're an older man and you have a perspective on your youth, and you have a perspective on what your father went through and what america has gone through during

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. >> no, not as a butler, cecil.iting you as a guest. >> but the president prefers for me to serve him in person. >> don't you worry about ronnie. i'll take care of that. so we'll see you next week. you and your wife. >> my wife? >> it's gloria. yes? >> we're back. that was a scene from the new movie "the butler," which opens this weekend. the movie's inspired by the real-life story of eugene allen, a white house butler who spent decades serving u.s. presidents. in 2008, as barack obama was campaigning to become the nation's first african-american president, "washington post" reporter wil haygood set out to find an african-american who worked in the white house before the idea of a black president ever seemed possible. his article, "a butler well served by this election," was published in the aftermath of the election, and here's how it describes mr. allen. quote, president truman called him gene. president ford liked to talk golf with him. he saw eight presidential administrations come and go, often working six days

who is absolutely brilliant in one of the great movies i've seen a long long while the movie is the butler it opens on the sixteenth satisfied with is takes so glad you like the oh i love the hope we're told a story a dish and a bunch of six people even auditioned you yeah and academy award went up yes submit to an audition yeah i came in and she was already doing her lee had a relationship and i came into the hotel and i read for them but they gave me the job by the end of the audition they walked away and sky stood in this she said did you like the role right away just like the script i thought it was a beautiful script that those whose amazing i thought it was as an actor as an artist is amazing challenging as well most challenging character ever played you know and to get to do that in a movie that i think. they said light on things and says something is really special over the world working with oprah who is even though this is a third film still basically a novice and i don't think of her is a novice that's really brilliant yeah. she was startled sometimes when we do the scenes in sh

i'm the new butler. >> reporter: the butler is about america in transition and an unknown american knownidents. the movie is inspired by eugene allen, a real white how the butler that started in 1952 with harry truman when he couldn't use white bathrooms. he left in 1986 with ronald reagan and was a guest at a reagan steak dinner. >> are you political, mr. gains? >> no, sir. we have no tolerance for politics at the white house. >> his white house service ran parallel to the civil rights movement, a nation tormented by a new political turmoil. presidents tried to look away and were forced to intervene. in fleeting moments, black servants served another purpose, becoming a window on the chaos. >> did you go to an all-colored school, cecil? >> i didn't go to school, mr. president. i grew up on a cotton farm. >> we talked to the movie's writers, danny strong and one of his consultants, the first black white house chief usher, who supervises the ushers and all white house service personnel. >> the film is very much inspired by the story of eugene allen. the gains family is a fixal family. >>

the butler. >> that was a scene from "the butler," based on a true story of a white house butler whoand the tumultuous civil rights battles he witness z along the way. we sat down and asked them why they thought this story was so important to tell. >> this man is relentless. when we started working together, lee daniels, lee daniels the director, when we started working together on "precious" and i came in as executive producer because i just wanted to lift that up as high as i could, he said to me, you know, i'm frustrated, i'm frustrated with you. you're frustrated with me because i had -- >> you don't say that to oprah. you don't even wear shoestrings. how can you say that to oprah? >> he definitely did. i'm frustrating that i wasn't acting and i needed to do it. >> because of she was so magnificent in "the color purple." >> that was two decades ago. >> you were april mazing. it was one of my favorite movies of that time. >> would you like to be my maid? >> hell no. >> what did you say? >> hell no. >> that performance is embedded in my head and you get frustrated she's just sort o

she co-stars in" the butler."d. >>> and two pop stars madonna and lady gaga could face charges in russia. the latest is the group called the bloodhound gang. they have been banned from russia and could also face prosecution. kelly cobiella has more. >> a stunt on stage in ukraine last week was a step too far for the russian government. >> don't tell putin. >> stuffing a russian nag down his pants may have gotten wild cheers from ukraine, but in russia it got members of the bloodhound gang banned from the stage. they were attacked at the airport, literally kicked out of the country. the latest american act to run afoul of the russian government. madonna and lady gaga entered the country with the wrong visa after defending gays. >> where are all my gay kids tonight? tonight this is my house, russia. you can be gay in my house. >> madonna went further, passing out pinch arm bands and standing up for the band pussy riot. three of them went to prison. >> i thank have done something courageous. i think they have paid th

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