charile: dalton trumbo was one. bryan: oh, yes, and not just in entertainment or news-gathering entities. educators were also targeted in a variety of different colleges. there were really thousands of people that were targeted and put on the blacklist or gray list, depending, and there was a lot of innuendo, suspicion. charile: any reason to believe we could fall back into that kind of -- bryan: i do not see why not. i think it is up to the citizenry to stay vigilant and protect these first-amendment over andat were fought bloodshed to establish that as a foundation of our government, and the checks and balances were specifically initiated in the branches of government to prevent anyone branch of government from being too powerful, and it works. at this point, they push that aside and took it upon themselves to be all-powerful, and that is a dangerous position. charile: what can you make of the debate -- which is a different debate, a very different debate -- that exists today between privacy and security? the deba

to dalton trumbo back to l.b.j. to shoot the film, and there is a lot of similarities between these two men. if you drew a diagram, the comparisons are remarkable. >> larger than life. than life characters. they're both storytellers and had hearty laughs. they loved to indulge. they didn't take care of their bodies. they were hyperfocused on their profession and they were extremely good at it, both of them, both very prolific, both ambitious as hell. both had a lot of down sides. i think there was a tremendous -- >> rose: insecurities. insecurities, an emptiness, a desire to be respected and loved, and exceedingly talented. >> rose: what part of you misses walter? >> i don't miss walter. >> rose: at all. no. >> rose: even though it changed your life completely? >> it changed my life completely. i miss the people. >> rose: do you miss that guy? i don't miss walter because "breaking bad" had a beautiful beginning middle and end. it's like if you had a great meal, the appetizer, salad, meal, dessert and coffee and some

i don't think dalton trumbo would look at himself as a hero. he was practicing self-defense. he didn't want this fight. the fight came to him. he was subpoenaed to testify under the threat of incarceration. and forced to let his first amendment right goss by the wayside. and he thought that the questions themselves were unamerican. an he kept saying, have i committed a crime? do you have any evidence that i've committed some crime? i would love to hear that. but that was not part of the agenda. >> i thought at least as a person who didn't succumb and who was victorious in that he kept writing until he embarrassed the studios, won two academy awards with "spartacus" and "exodus" and helped break the the blacklist, so to me there is something heroic about that. >> but along with that was a tremendous amount of pain and suffering, people who not only were not able to... were taken away their personal freedoms, sent to jail, or taken away their ability to pursue their own career, which means you cannot support your family. it put tremendous pressur

. >> fire dalton trumbo. you have tickets, headlines, and boycotts. we will put you right out of business. >> we? >> the motion picture alliance for the preservation of american ideals. >> when i was really young i was very inspired by the hollywood 10, i wish i could aspire to that courage. he stood up for his beliefs. he was an animal at the typewriter. anyone that writes has my admiration to begin with, and as ll as he did, and as prolific as he was, he was an amazing guide. >> a child acrobat! how long were you in show business? >> until i was 15 but it was >> i am inspired when i come out the film and feel possessed or excited or changed. i think this is one of those stories, and one of those people, that does inspire people that way for our rights. believing in what america is, and is brian said, having the right to be wrong, if you choose. >> if there is another name on it, don't believe it. >> fire dalton trumbo. >> i don't think you and me are going to be pals. >> we will be back with more of >> dear rose, i miss you and mother and think abou

now we will talk about a different d.t., dalton trumbo.bryan cranston opens tomorrow, about the screenwriter during the blacklist era in midcentury hollywood. roach,m's director, jay a personal favorite of ours, "game change," talks about how he sees this movie set in 1957 kind of like about 2015. jay: over and over, people try and usepolitical hay fear to get other people to conform. seems like that happens all the time. seems like an old trick all politicians use, all people who have cause to get you scared to get you to behave. john: during this period, two things happen in america that young people would be stunned could occur in america. japanese internment camps and blacklisting of people in hollywood. explain the dynamics, and how it could be that in america such a thing could happen. jay: that's what drove me to this. i remember it vaguely, but i associate it with the mccarthy hearings. i did not realize that in my own industry, people turned on each other and tried to destroy each other's careers, using the idea that a sort of tru

the new movie brings those days vividly to life telling the story of dalton trumbo, who was forced toing blacklisted as one of the hollywood ten. >> the highest paid writer in hollywood. >> my husband. >> a registered communist. >> dangerous. >> radical. >> dad. >> rebel. >> genius. >> are you not or have you ever been a member of the communist party? >> many questions can be answered yes or no only by a moron or a slave. >> subpoenas have been issued to those we believe have knowledge of the ongoing communist threat in hollywood. >> congress has no right to investigate what we think or how we make movies. >> i'm joined now by emmy and tony award winning actor bryan cranston who plays dalton trumbo and the film's director, jay roach. welcome, both. this is quite an achievement. tell me what inspired you to want to bring this era as i described it, a shameful era, to life. >> well, it's just that. like any good novel, i read this script by john mcnamara and it told the story of a dark era when civil liberties were capitcast aside and men were sent to prison and denied their ability to

. >> fire dalton trumbo. >> i don't think you and me are going to be pals. >> we will be back with more of >> dear rose, i miss you and mother and think about your everydyd. the most important news is that i have a job, and i am in a boarding house. >> i was glad to see you got letters from home. >> after leaving ireland, she finds herself caught in a love triangle with donald gleason and every: in brooklyn. >> i have and rolled you in a night class at oakland college. -- brooklyn college. three nights a week and i paid your tuition. >> why? not thank you? >> sorry, thank you. but why? >> every single person on the journey i could relate to. i was going through it meself at the same time. it was the first time ever that there wasn't any kind of esespism in playing thisis role, or. it was a much more vulnerable place to be. that feeling of homesickness, and the sense of l being at a -- being at the loss when you come home. once you have e de that step you have to commit to it and adapt to it. it is different than working from home. when you move away, it is an incredibly different experi

dalton trumbo. i've done this on television before, i gave great credit, i hope enough, to kirk douglas for ending the blacklist. we had a special segment on that one time, when he put his name on that -- right up there on the screen and said dalton trumbo wrote "spartacus." >> that kind of broke the spell, right? it broke the spell, threw the water on the wicked witch. that's that shot of helen mirren at the end. >> i love what the movie's saying, i've got this movie called -- thank you so much, bryan cranston. and jay roach. love your stuff. "trumbo" is in theaters now. "hardball" back after this. automated voice: to file a claim, please state your name. carnie wilson. thank you. can you hold on? ♪ hold on for one more day really? hey, i know there's pain. why do you lock yourself up in these chains? ♪ this would be so easy if you had progressive. our mobile app would let you file a claim and help you find one of our service centers where we manage the entire repair process. things will go your wa

dalton trumbo.his on television before, i gave great credit, i hope enough, to kirk douglas for ending the blacklist. we had a special segment on that one time, when he put his name on that -- right up there on the screen and said dalton trumbo wrote "spartacus." >> that kind of broke the spell, right? it broke the spell, threw the water on the wicked witch. that's that shot of helen mirren at the end. >> i love what the movie's saying, i've got this movie called -- thank you so much, bryan cranston. and jay roach. love your stuff. "trumbo" is in theaters now. "hardball" back after this. compared to the alternatives. push! i am pushing! sfx: pants ripping how you doing eddie? almost there. small steps. at axa, we'll help you take the next steps, with more confidence. for advice, retirement and insurance, talk to axa today. across america, people like badominique wilkins...er ...are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes... ...with non-insulin victoza®. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood su

that became the judge, jury and executioner was suspending first amendment rights and sentencing dalton trumboother men to prison, committed no crime, contempt of congress. they weren't pleased with their answers. >> rose: this is also, as we have seen before, the time of joe mccarthy and the time of edward r. murrow. >> right. >> rose: and all that where people of conviction had to step forward knowing that they faced an onslaught against them. >> yes. it was -- >> trumbo was one, murrow was another. >> and not just in entertainment or news gathering entities, educators were also targeted in a variety of different colleges. really thousands of people who were targeted and either put on the black list or a gray list, depending and there was a lot of innuendo, a lot of suspicion. >> rose: any reason to believe we could fall back into that kind of period? >> i don't see why not. i think it's up to the citizenry to stay vigilant and protect these first amendment rights that were fought over and bloodshed to establish that as a foundation of our government. and the checks and balances were specifi

(sot bryan cranston/dalton trumbo)he loved to gesticulate and tell stories and hold court 5:05 // he also loved the first amendment, freedom of speech and assembly and religion and politics and when those were challenged he went to work. for the next 13 years, trumbo worked in the shadows winning two oscars under false names. (nats i hear the rumors clip) whisper a movie you've written in secret. maybe i've even heard of it. maybe you have. among his enemies was the powerful anti-communist gossip columnist hedda hopper played by oscar winner helen mirren. (helen mirren/hedda hopper) (from the premiere) 18:13 i don't agree politically with these people at all but 18:18 i do believe they thought they were being patriotic 18:24 despite a dark chapter, trumbo's story eventually has its own hollywood happy ending. suzanne marques, cbs 3 here's what we're talking about on facebook this morning... a rare movie featuring walt disney's first character oswald the lucky rabbit was just discovered. what's your favorite disney movie? 3 3 this morning... one of the country's most sweeping social c

charile: dalton trumbo was the highest paid screenwriter during the 1940's.acklisted by hollywood for nearly a decade after being accused of having communist ties. this did not stop him from winning the oscar-winning films, "roman holiday," and "the brave one." on the roleon takes in the new film, nina tassler --"trumbo

charlie: dalton trumbo was the highest paid screenwriter during the 1940's.by hollywood for nearly a decade after being accused of having communist ties. this did not stop him from writing the oscar-winning films, "roman holiday," and "the brave one." bryan cranston takes on the role of the famed screenwriter in the new film, "trumbo." the wall street journal said trends -- said princeton attacked thet.

start to finish and i think many people don't know about your character, dalton trumbo, the fact he wrote all these great informant movies. how. did you know about him. >> that he was a member of the communist ten, member of the communist party of america. political wing of unions and he was very active, v@ry prolific, beautiful wordsmith and at the top of his game in 1947 he was the highest paid screenwriter in the word. and then the house on american activities committee subpoenaed asked them that infamous question are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party and dalton trumbo was trusting that the question itself would be found to be unconstitutional. freedom of speech, freedom to assemble. freedom to practice whatever religion or political affiliation, it doesn't hole up. they sent him to prison along with the other ten and after he got out of prison for a year, he couldn't work. there was a blacklist. no one who was a known affiliate or even suspected to be associated with a known communist is off the list. you can't work. trying times. >> but you know what, when

so dalton trumbo went to jail for a year but committed no crime. thing. like the thought police of the time, and the fearmongers, and it was a real honest to goodness scare at that time. and this clip, i think, is when he's just come out of prison and he can't work under his own name, so he has to use a a pseudonym. and he goes to john goodman, who is a guy named frank king, movies. doesn't matter. to try to get a job using an assumed name. >> jimmy: we have a clip. bryan cranston in "trumbo." take a look at this. >> trumbo, we can't afford you. >> well, how much did you pay for the script of that bad men of tombstone? >> $1,200. >> all right. i'll write you a movie for $1,200 then. >> and you don't want your name on it. >> no, you don't want my name on it. >> you got that right. >> especially if you're still up to stuff. >> i am. perpetually. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: wow. that's not you. that's not you. >> that's some other guy. >> jimmy: that's fantastic. >> thank you, man. >> jimmy: more with bryan cranston when we come back, everybody. [ chee

but dalton trumbo in particular, you know, i didn't realize the incredible sacrifice that his family went through and the fact that he beat them at their own game. >> he won academy awards with >> two oscar ss under otr names and brought the system crashing down with the help certainly of kirk douglas and otto preminger. we get to revisit history very accurately in this film and laugh while we do it thanks to jay roach. >> one moment where i was particularly impressed with your skills were your juggling skills. did you know those -- did you have those prior? >> don't ask me to do it. i did not. i, in fact, took lessons before my first meeting with the director for the part. >> there you go, look at that. >> yeah. make sure -- >> speaking of juggling acts, i don't even know how to bring this one in because you got -- we actually had a guest star that you brought in for the day today. >> her name is peggy, right? >> peggy. >> peggy the sheep. >> can you please explain -- >> she is my rock star. thank you so much for allowing her to come on with me this morning. she represents one of th

she plays the wife of blacklisted screenwriter dalton trumbo imprisoned in the new moved "trumbo" and holes the family together when his cause threatens to tear them apart. take a look. >> you have no idea what you could lose. >> oh, please. my career, the first amendment, our country, am i missing anything? >> us. you're losing us. >> oh. >> since prison, you don't talk or ask. you just snap, bark. i keep waiting for you to start pounding the dinner table with a gavel. >> and welcome, diane lane, to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i was watching this movie yesterday and i kept thinking the whole time, your character, cleo trumbo, was a saint. i mean, truly a saint. >> in a way, i think you might be right about that. i mean i got to spend certainly a good amount of time with her daughters who advised us on the film. wonderful nikki and wonderful missy and that was the review i cared most about representing their mom well on film and i got a thumbs up so i'm allowed to talk about it this morning. >> big thumbs up from me too. the film tells the true story of a period in americ

bryan cranston is playing dalton trumbo.sed on the story of a writer black listed in hollywood. he wrote plays like roman holiday, spart cuss and two won academy awards. he wasn't allowed to take credit for them until many years later. i watched every episode of breaking bad and to be able to see him take on a different role and forget he played that in show proves he's an amazing actor. he becomes the character on camera. jay roach directed this. he directed meet the parents and austin powers. this blends comedy and drama. definitely shows his diversity as a filmmaker. overall, i love movies about movies. it's interesting to to learn the history. i gave it a 4 out of 5. cranston is unbelievable. you did a story how breaking bad donated objects to the smithsonian. the cool thing about that, the if you look at the pictures, bryan cranston is wearing a breaking bad tie bar. i gave that to him. dalton trumbo smokes a lot in the film and i asked what they were? >> i'd love to wear that tomorrow night. >> do you have it with you?

>> dalton trumbo was the highest paid writer in hollywood after world war ii. when he was blacklisted and denied work for having been a member of the communist party. >> any questions can be moron or a slave. that. playing the title role in trumbo gives bryan cranston his shot as the oscar, the movie is worth seeing for his performance and also for the performances of diane lane as his wife and elephanting as his father -- elle fanning as his daughter. louis ck is his friend and fellow writer and a welcome surprise as well. the biggest film opening today i haven't forgotten is of course "spectre." i'll have that review for you on eyewitness news at 4:00. dave, lauren? >> you have fantasy there and the other one is based on ally. >> reality. >> often real life stories are the best kind of stories to tell aren't they? >> those two you cannot go wrong. >> wow. thanks sandy. >>> well, coming up, woman accused of killing her fiancee >> i knew that i was someone and i had hi breaking point and >>> well, now to a mystery on the hudson. a woman accused of killing hi fi

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bryan cranston stars as the title character in the biopic. 1940's screenwriter dalton trumbo was blacklisted in hollywood for being a communist.((sot bryan cranston/actor))"he didn't ask for this fight, the fight came to him, but he defended himself and his civil liberties."((vo))the real trumbo won two academy awards - for films he wrote using a pen name. ------------------------- ------------------------- ---------------------(narr:) ((standup bridge: suzanne marques, cbs news, west hollywood))another true-life drama premiered in west hollywood - shining a "spotlight" on investigative journalism.michael keaton, mark ruffalo, and rachel mcadams lead the ensemble cast of "spotlight," in theaters friday.the film tells the story of the boston globe's pulitzer-prize winning investigation into the catholic churcrcsex absue scandal.(nats - "how do you say no to god?")((sot - michael keaton/actor or mark ruffalo/actor))((vo))before filming, the actors spent time with the globe reporters they were portraying. ------------------------- ------------------------- ---------------------(narr:) and snoop

we talked about the cigarettes that dalton trumbo spokes. >> i would love to wear that tomorrow nightould you. >> you have another one. >> it is all yours, man. >> i'll wear this tonight. >> is there cross purposes. >> we will have them hide. it is an herbal cigarette that is meant for just that for smoking and movies on stage. a week in i'm getting my throat that is horse and i'm's coughing. i realize i'm an idiot. this is not good for me. >> interesting to see in the next day a at the the smithsonian event and brian cran ton's wife pulls me aside and said brian is wearing your tie bar tonight with the breaking bad smithsonian event. i almost started to cry. then when he sees me, it was greatest moment in my life. he wore my tie bar. this entire historic event. coolest thing ever. >> give me the stars with the angelina a jolie and brad pitt. >> two and a half. little slow. not as intriguing. they are good together but overall ending did not give you what you wanted and deserved for two hours. it was well shot though. >> kevin, before we let you go we have to say congratulations, you

. >> you are now playing dalton trumbow in the movie "trumbo," quins dentally. not earn knows who he is. explain why he is an important figure in our culture. >> in 1947 dalton was the highest paid screen writer in hollywood. which was the world. and he wrote beautiful movies like kitty foil and 30 seconds over tokyo, a guy called joe. he wrote the quint essential antiwar novel johnny got his gun. >> stephen: oh, god. >> and he was also a member of the american communist party. >> stephen: i've heard of him. >> you have heard of him. and it was really popular, grew and it was really supposed to be an arm of the unions to have some clout in washingtonment so he joins this. and after post war, post world war ii there was a huge red scare in the united states. and the house on american activities committee haf, c c was overreaching their power. >> stephen: he was a member of the communist in the 30see when the comeies were our friend against hitler. as soon as we won the war they said hitler was bad but the comeies were really bad. >> the truth is that stalin was th