paul, you invoke pulp fiction but this has also been the year of forrest gump. think it's very difficult to just say here, pulp fiction renders me meaningless and the traditional audience meaningless when, in fact, a film like forrest gump with extraordinarily old-fashioned, traditional... i mean, i think it may be the hollywood style in a rather quintessential way. that film does extraordinary business and has repeat viewers. and it is really very scary because it capitalizes the whole hollywood mentality which is, um... only the naive survive, you know that if you're dumb enough, everything will work out. ( laughs ) that's a reassuring thought. yeah. apparently, it was a very cheery thought to a lot of people. still is, yes. absolutely. i mean, you know and immediately you can make an argument as gump as being an ironic hero because he is a "hero." he's like a hero with quote marks around him because he doesn't do anything. so maybe gump and john travolta are not that far apart. toback: except that one is dangerous and off center and the other one isn't. that'

i have often heard people say, oh i don't read historical fiction or i don't read fiction. if you don't read fiction in general you are missing the world's great literature of course but historical fiction and straightforward history or a stroke of writing are not enemies. they complement each other. history, well-written history, tells us that on the first day of two live men were and 88-degree heat and wore uniforms and they could hear the sounds of battle i had. well researched and well-written historical fiction tells you what it felt like to walk in the william march in the 88-degree heat, the humidity of july in pennsylvania. your canteen is empty and maybe you are barefoot and you can hear the sounds in a sea smoke. your couriers are writing back and forth. your officer seem confused themselves. they tell you to doubletime and suddenly you are ordered into a field. you really don't know where you are. suddenly you are marching forward into the smoke. you cannot see. can't see. ahead of you, qc rings of fire and arching forward the ground is broken and there were wher

writer. >> sheas dperate to write fiction. and... >> hinojosa: and one of the things that happened with aura was that she was this brilliant writer, but that she didn't believe it. i mean, you kind of lived what so many latinas go through, what so many women go through, which is, "do i have a voice, can i write, can i trust this, am i good enough?" >> yeah, i mean, you know, i've seen this not just in latin america. i teach creative writing classes. and in the past i've sometimes seen, you know, all the work i have to do to get the female students in the class to speak up, while the kind of boys sit there and sort of dominate with their... you know, it's funny with their raunchy jokes and everything. but often the most talented girls in the class, they'll sit over there in a row, they're doing the best writing, and they're terrified, right? and it's somehow... i don't know why it is, but so often, like every... so many young male students who decide they want to write think they're geniuses the minute they write, like, their f

it was a lot of fictional. fictional studies, fictional texts. >> reporter: but the principal was not a fan of basal readers and their emphasis on figure should be. she felt her student needed to know the same thing that children in affluent neighborhoods were learning. >> i felt some of the students didn't have enough prior knowledge. >> reporter: prior knowledge means? >> knowledge that they need to have to, i feel, function in society, to have conversation, just to help them understand who they are as far as their relationship to the rest of the world. core knowledge can be challenging. so you do have to do a lot of training because informational texts are complex. now how do you tear it down so that young children and kindergarten and first grade can understand about egyptian civilization? >> reporter: content is king in the core knowledge approach. books are organized by subjects like mythology, mozart and the westward expansion. topics that some say are over the heads of the young readers. i want to know

kind of this composite fictional -- somewhat fictional character or people who are speaking about theirnces being laid off from companies that mitt romney came in and bought out. you know, i think this is what this election is all about, kind of appealing to these swing voters, and which direction you think the country is headed in. if barack obama has improved things enough to your satisfaction, you're going to vote for him again. if you think that he has not made things better fast enough, then you're more than likely going to vote for mitt romney and that's what this ad ultimately is all about. >> jeremy peters, thank you very much. >>> and sources in the obama administration tell nbc news the argument -- that 43 catholic institutii institutions are using to sue the administration over birth control is not accurate. for most employers the mandate would not go into effect until 2013. joining us now to talk about it via skype, erin camone, and emily hardman. also previously filed four other lawsuits challenging the mandate. thank you both for joining me. emily, i will start off with yo

you have it in fiction as well as non fiction. some where along the line we were taught that non fiction is simply facts. it is not truth. facts wrapped around a story. facts put in a story. let's go back to that porch again, this time my mother in that soft tone of hers. she would tell hair raising ghost stories. she would start at the hour of the dark:30. that is 30 minutes before it gets all the way dark and the monsters come out. and i can hear her say, you used to be a woman who appeared under that street light over there and our heads would all go as one with the street light. it was though we were looking for the lady who walked in front of our house and didn't have a head. when she got to this street light she vanished. then in the same breath she would say, now would you go into the house and get me a drink of water? i would have to go into that creeky old house all by myself. it wasn't so bad in the living room because the lights from the front porch, but she had a table that had claw feet and i knew it was going to snat

and i appear throughout his fiction is, with kids building balls in his fiction, follow me through 27ooks, i meant there. he made up what i said, probably. but, you know, i adhere briefly as a child because he is drawing from watching me, and this is what a kid does in the country. i'm watching him from a distance. ideas about masculinity, i wanted to be a night. that wasn't the job for me. i wanted to be a night in an archaeologist, kind of a fighting archaeologist that way. i think it's a line from master and commander. be a fighting botanist or something. >> indiana jones type. >> yeah, that's a dream right there. missing the hats. yeah, those are the things i wanted. and when i was in england were i finally thought i would be embraced, i thought i could get a job as a squire, and we were surrounded by all these weapons and knighthood was just thick. we are in a castle. the queen was right down the road. so went to one of the beefeaters, red uniform on a black lace and i said, you know, and i tried to be british i said i should like to be a squire. and he said, he could tell i was

but you are off the point here. >> when we talk about julia, this fictional character, what is not fictionalthe plight of women. >> what is fictional is this-- >>> yeah? >> obama's had failed policies and broken promises and he need this is voting block. in 2008, he won women overwhelmingly. but this 2010, women gave republicans the majority. and now the president is preying on our emotions. we need to find out, what you are going to do to create a better america for us? we don't just care about reproductive right, we care about education and jobs? >> angela -- >> yes? >> sean: this runs deeper for me. >> okay. >> sean: look. i understand hyperbole. and it's a political season. but there is something wrong if you manipulate the minds in the case of the elderly or kids with autism and down's syndrome and say that republicans are going to throw your grandmother over the cliff or that run republicans want dirty air and water. or republicans don't care about kids with down's syndrome or autism or the elderly. that's just a lie. there is a difference between hyperbole -- >> yes, it is. >> sean: a

getting red white and bruised as supporters for mitt romney start a battle royale with ron paul a fiction otto's throwing around both votes and up punches we'll tell you how these

red white and bruised as supporters for mitt romney start a battle royale with ron paul a fiction otto's throwing around both votes and up punches we'll tell you how these voters are duking it out for delegates. it is monday may fourteenth four pm in washington d.c. my name is christine you're watching our teeth. well let's begin with a look at some important changes in the works all in the name of cyber security now we've been talking about some of these for months and about some partnerships that have been forming between the u.s. government and private companies to gain more access to one takes place on the web here's a headline in the washington post today the pentagon expands a cyber security exchange essentially as many as a thousand defense contractors may volunteer to share some previously classified information with the pentagon to try to crack down on cyber threats and according to the washington post this new relationship is being hailed as

slowed to not quote to writing fiction is liberating. if i want the conversation to exist, i just write it. lead toward the particular and we have to describe them. with the constant hunt for what i was saying. but that is what was important. own imagination of a similar landscape how we turn through the book. it is a great question. >> your relationship with your father. [inaudible] moet a real man does not fix everything with duct tape. and the other hand what a good man was. and the right thing about the book with a rebel yen and a response i would love for you to talk about where you shared these ideas. >> i was kinetic. different sides of the same steady. i could not stand the distance. if he would write about something in the field he would write about it from a distance where i brian out to in the field. we were very different that day. 10 kids building walls following me through 27 books he made a of what i said that to this is what a kid dennis that is the job for me. i think that is a line from master and commander. good than t

india along with several other countries like china japan and south korea aren't following on the fiction they actually have been through those four countries account or sixty percent of iran oil customers so a lot of people are saying that things aren't going to work unless washington can get these asian countries on board here with me to talk more about hillary clinton's visit and the issue on iran with washington if professor k.p. me if you can first of all explain to me why you think this has become such a contentious issue between washington and delhi and we even had president obama saying that countries that continue to engage with iran and by iranian oil could

such was the advice given to bruce willis's character in "pulp fiction."hile the leading man has plenty to be proud of, half a dozen new movies this year, a new baby and a genuine friendship with his ex-wife, demi moore, it may be the avoidance of pride that makes all of the above actually work. >> reporter: bruce willis is the red carpet candy at this year's cannes festival, just finished filming die hard five in budapest. and moon rise kingdom, open at the most prej tijious film festival on earth. we sat down on a sunny rooftop above the fray. >> just to do this part of the interview with the shades on. >> reporter: bruce says he's happier than ever, he and his wife having just had a baby girl. >> you're looking remarkably good. >> do i look tan? >> reporter: you look well slept. and more kids? >> too early to say. too early to say. mabel ray is only six weeks old. >> reporter: different from the last three? i mean, how does it compare? >> a little different and a lot more of the same. changing diapers like a champ. >> reporter: the other three are his d

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and pulp fiction, in in hindsight, i don't think i don't think it's right for the scene.nk it's a lot more sense to be with that. because you know he was so upset by the way, i'm just throwing it in. isn't this inner thigh code? >> the way it works they cut the back of the upper leg. if she brushes back, in the genital area, she has to say, i didn't mean to do that. i didn't even know you did that. [ laughter ] >> its sting operation. >> i'm assuming if this is true, wouldn't there be a better way to get his jollies. couldn't he find people that would want to participate or even the challenge of them saying no. allegedly we have no idea. it could be completely fabricated. >> i think we all learned a little something there. and post game wrap up and go to foxnews.com. i was having trouble getting out of bed in the morning because my back hurt so bad. the sleep number bed conforms to you. i wake up in the morning with no back pain. i can adjust it if i need to...if my back's a little more sore. and by the time i get up in the morning, i feel great! if you have back pain, to

a fiction. >> the syrian town which is controlled by the opposition has also come under attack from government tanks. our correspondent and cameraman witnessed the violence firsthand. you may find some of the images disturbing. >> it has been fought over many times. it bears the scars. the town is now defiantly in rebel hands. themselves for the next assault. this is the daily routine. just around the corner, a family, the father is too afraid of arrest to show his face. it is very difficult, he says, the shelling day and night. we have nowhere else to go. we submit ourselves to god. the free a syrian army to the last government post just over a week ago. killing dozens of soldiers. they had to fight for every inch of ground. all of this is happening during a u.n.-sponsored trips. the government says free army attacks never stop. the rebels said they are under constant pressure from the regime. they are surrounded. they are in the middle of what is supposed to be a cease-fire, but these men have been skirmishing with a tank all morning. they had a big battle lasting two or three day

and i sigh -- i saw a way to extend and enjoys spending at least part of my life in more exotic fictional places. tavis: what do your parents back in iowa think of this? >> i think they are a little mystified, with how did he go from here to there? how did our boy and up in new york city doing this for a living? i think is and will mystified. my mother would say, "i always knew. it is no surprise to me." tavis: every mother says that. >> and my father just shakes his head. and i thought of as my calling as a teenager. i graduated college, and i moved to new york city, and i knocked around a bit. tavis: you had an interesting life before this. >> yes. i was one of those freelance guys. i did things for the "new york times." this financial magazines. tavis: that is actually kind of fascinating. >> it was good work. what is funny is it was not any easier than if i had chosen to pursue acting. for some reason, i took and less personally. tavis: those types of periodicals and newspapers, clearly you have always been a creator. >> yes, i guess so. i think i was meant to be working in some creat

the kids building walls in his fiction books, follow me, i'm in there. i appear briefly as a child because he is drawn from watching it. this is what child is in the country. i am watching him from a distance. i wanted to be a night period that was the job for me. i wanted to be an archaeologist, a fighting archaeologist. that is actually a line from master and commander. a fighting botanist or something. >> and indiana jones kind of thing? >> yes, that's the dream right there. it was when i was in england where i would be embraced. i was in the tower of london, we were surrounded by weapons. the castle was right on the road, the queen was right down the road. i went to one of the beefeaters in a red uniform and black lace, and i tried to be british. i set i should like to be a liar. it is not in the book, but he could tell it was american. he said the american, aren't you? and i said yes. he said we don't have any work of that sort for you. he said you have to be british. i was crushed. i said to my dad that we have to do something about my passport. i

>>> is a little creepy it's almost like a science-fiction story.eople's personalities is what scientists call feline fatal attraction. by most accounts the guide to the right thing. he saw a woman getting beaten up so he stepped in to stop the attack. police are calling him a hero but elizabeth cook tells us his employers safeway suspended him. >>> brian young was doing his job as a meat clerk at this safeway when he says he looked up and saw this guy beating his girlfriend. who was six months pregnant. >>> he would turn around and pushed her or take her. i told him to calm down anti was irate. >>> he refused to stop so ryan jump in. >>> i saw that no one was intervening in the situation and i just became afraid for her safety. and also other customers safety. the guy was out of control. he was going pretty much lost in there. the police chief said chan was getting so violence if ryan didn't interfere things could have gotten a lot worse for the victim. but now ryan says safeway suspended him without pay supposedly because he violated company polic

it's a fictional medical show. programs like it make for great entertainment but some people base their actual medical information on these shows. dr. seeing goal, i believe everybody marcus wellby said. should we rely on what we hear on the fictional shows? >> yes and no. i've been writing a column for seven years looking for tv accuracy and i love to analyze "house." the first thing you mentioned, you mentioned marcus wellby. he's cantankerous, irritable, and reminds people your own doctor may be that way but even if they are, they may be giving you the right information. so don't write them off because they are a little brusk. the second thing is he has a drug problem. that reminds you doctors are real people too. and they can bring up diagnoses people don't think of. people can advocate for themselves and gives a lot of information. and i noticed over the eight years it got better and better. but what is wrong with the show is that the drama takes over and a lot of times you are left feeling that this rare dise

the kids building walls in his fiction books, follow me, i'm in there. i appear briefly as a child because he is drawn from watching it. this is what child is in the country. i am watching him from a distance. i wanted to be a night period that was the job for me. i wanted to be an archaeologist, a fighting archaeologist. that is actually a line from master and commander. a fighting botanist or something. >> and indiana jones kind of thing? >> yes, that's the dream right there. it was when i was in england where i would be embraced. i was in the tower of london, we were surrounded by weapons. the castle was right on the road, the queen was right down the road. i went to one of the beefeaters in a red uniform and black lace, and i tried to be british. i set i should like to be a liar. it is not in the book, but he could tell it was american. he said the american, aren't you? and i said yes. he said we don't have any work of that sort for you. he said you have to be british. i was crushed. i said to my dad that we have to do something about my passport. i

and it shouldn't be an issue that we debate here as if it is fiction. it's not fiction. secondly, again, i am going to underline -- you know, subquent subquent -- subsequent we will host s a classified briefing, all of you will be invited to attend. there are many misses that we hat -- missiles that we have that are under development. missiles are deployed. when you lump them together and say, missiles being tested, developed, you put them against a missile that works in the ground. i shot one off i am developing didn't work. i have one in the ground that did work. so they're 50% reliable. they're not the same missile. we should not be combining all of that information together and confusing people. we have ground-based missiles that work. and we need to, proceed. now -- i again, am going to call on people to oppose the amendment. those who have significant amount of knowledge in this area believe that we need an east coast site to protect the united states. i believe we need an east coast site. and -- i would ask you to vote down the amendment. i yield back. >> gentlema

to help us see it, his campaign has created a little fictional character. it's on the website. living an imaginary life filled with happy milestones for which she will spend the rest of her days thanking president obama. it's called the life of julia. and it's a cartoon. julia progresses from gracradle grave showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. the weak economy, unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices. the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements, all of these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon produced by a president who wants us to forget about them. by the way, what does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? >> he also went after obama saying he's more liberal than president obama. >> in a speech in upstate, new york, president obama challenged congress to make tax code changes to discourage outsourcing. >> today i'm announcing a handy little to-do list we've put together for congress. you can see it for yourselves. at white house.gov. it's ab

and despite found in a duffel bag it sounds like fiction but it's a case for friends and experts say the new dickens of using dna evidence tells of this case that to turn to a yoga expert. it's of britain's intelligence services a whole week to make this call to the police after a jr. is by didn't show up for work. police began their search on this quiet london street where it lives but as they made their way up in his third story apartment what had been a symbol missing persons in our late inquiry quickly became a desire mystery. in the bathroom and red double bags and the tub padlocked. inside its williams tightly folded naked body. detectives found no signs of a struggle in the apartment and nothing to show whether this was a homicide or suicide. please even asked a yoga expert to prove williams could lock himself as a kind of stunt unlikely said eric williams 31 years old was an athlete and as police discovered when they searched his computer he had a secret interest in bondage the security camera images of him shopping alone at the last known pictures of williams what happened a

but he's the most trusted fictional name in news the lead character of h.b.o.'pcoming series newsroom is on a mission to tell the truth in the face of u.s. corporate and commercial pressures are you aware of what makes was the greatest country in the world i don't know what you're venting their lives and their work in the myriad of nonfiction morgan holding its annual shareholders meeting america's corporate owned news networks that rarely challenge the status quo might want to take some cues from h.b.o.'s fake show and i report warns last month cnn's ratings dropped to their lowest in a decade and here are the nominees in march fox lost nearly twenty percent of their viewers and for years and as n.b.c. has consistently remained at least popular among all three if you went into the board rooms and the executive suites of these media companies they're in a panic about this. but the peter hart is the activism director at fair a us media watchdog group he says an increasing number of americans are abandoning mainstream media for alternative independent or foreign n

he said the emmer rick-brentano papers are perhaps best treated as devout fiction or well intentioned frauds. that's how her original writings evolved and were added to. so that has to be said in connection with this. >> that's right, he's drawing from all sorts of resources, he's drawing from med evil passion plays, i think he's drawing from the tradition of the horror movie, i think he's drawing from the action adventure movies, there's all sorts of sources that we see here. >> let me give you a real question here on what image may be emerging. some viewers have said that the brutalization of death and jesus leave, for revenge, could we say the new image of jesus as the savior, demands or at least inspires venn jennings, we feel victims of the terrorists of 9/11 and 311 and want revenge, we see jesus as another innocent and he's brute alized and have this feeling of revenge, is that at work here? >> i think absolutely. one part might have book is these track things in the united states and the key one we're in now is the post-911 era of war in iraq, war in afghanistan and it's not s

[laughing] now, sheldon, you've written books about a fictional defense attorney. the stories that you tell really get into, i think, the issues and stories of our time. and that's why your books have been so popular. first of all, you know, how did you become a writer? why did you become a writer? and how did you end up writing did a criminal defense attorney in san francisco, of all places? >> i was not told i would follow tony serra. i need to go back and prepare a little more. [laughing] i learned something, too. i guess i better stand up. [laughing] i'm really honored to be here. i'm the toy department. i write novels about the types of cases that lawyers like tony handle. in the daytime i work for a big law firm of the type that tony probably would not hold in the highest of esteem, but i'm delighted to be here. you know, i think if you talked to most authors, they will tell you that there is something hot-wired into our system that says we need to try to tell a story. there is nothing at all in my background. i am an absolutely accidental writer. there is no

skpaoeut shouldn't be a debate here as fiction. it's not fiction. secondly, again, i will underline subsequent to this markup we will host the classified briefing. i invite all of you to attend. you will find this works. there are many missiles that we have that are under development. and there are missiles that are deployed. when you lump them all together and say when they are tested, developed, and you put it against a missile that works, it's in the ground, well, i shot one off that i'm developing that didn't work and they are only 50% reliable, they're not the same missile. we should not be combining all that information together and cop fusing people. we have ground-based missiles that work. and we need to proceed. now, i, again, i'm going to call on people to oppose mr. g's amendment. those who have suggest amount of knowledge in this area believe we need an east coast site to protect the united states. i believe we need an east coast site. and i would ask you to vote down mr. g's amendment. >> the gentleman yields back. any further discussio

>> well, as you know, fiction is weird.ple ask me who the greatest character in the book is, the fat man. i say there really wasn't a fat man. it was mostly actually me. i started to act like that. but on the other hand, the narrator in the book is also me. >> you spent a significant amount of time since then obviously writing a lot of other books. i read another one recently called "the spirit of the place." >> good for you. >> it's about a primary care doctor who in some ways is coerced into come back to the town in which he grew up. >> a novelist is in a great position. if you can't do it in real life, you can do it in fiction. >> you can play out the life you want. >> you can play out your worst and best fantasies. i grew up in a small town in new york state, hudson, new york. wasn't too pleasant an experience in some ways, but there was one guy in the town who was absolutely essential to my development all the way up until i left for college, and he was an old roly-poly cigarette smoking general practitioner doctors. i