use a francisis ford coppola, ad you say that the first time, -- you say francis ford coppola, and youthat the first time, and then you just say franceis coppola. i wish somebody would call a francie. i asked my wife about why she will not call me that, and she told me she wanted to be married to a strong man. tavis: some of these members of your family tree, no particular order, your sister from "rocky," your daughter, sophia. >> this is her third day shooting her new film. there is steven dorf, and a girl with the last name of fanning. tavis: is that dakota? >> no, i think it is her youngest sister -- younger sister. tavis: and then there is your cousin. >> yes, and robert is a rock star. my son is a director and producer in anototr movie, and then there were orchestra conductors, a famous opera conductors, and there are morbid there are relatives the people do not even know of -- how orchestra conductors, famous opera conductors. -- there were orchestra conductors. i think it came from the previous generation. we had some very talented people. both of my grandfathers were really ext

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but if there is, francis ford coppola would know.e anything we don't know about "apocypse now"? it seems that it's been written about everything that happened on the set to keep that project from being made. is there anything we don't know about the making of that film? >> well, you know, i always like my children to be with me. so i had a little rule with my wife that if ever i was going to go somewhere for more than two weeks, i want to take the kids out of school and have it there -- have them with me. and it was a good decision. but my wife was an artist. and she didn't like just being the director's wife. so i bought her a camera and i said you shoot something. really what i wanted her to do was to stay. so she was making this documentary about "apocalypse now," a famous documentary. and i would come home and say, god, this movie is terrible, i hate this movie, i'm going to flunk, this is the worst movie i've ever made. hoping she'd say, darling, it will be fine, just wait and see. instead, she said wait a minute, i want to get

. >> larry: something about you, in 1986 you were driving a speedboat, crashed and killed francis ford coppola's son. the trial judge you had a history of lying with little respect for others. is that statement true in 1986? >> well, i never met the judge before and i didn't know if i had a history of lying or not, but i probably did. i -- that was one of the hardest times in my life. i did lie. i said it wasn't me that was driving the boat. and i owned up to that. and i will live with that every day. >> larry: you -- this whole life has been incredible for you. you must look in the mirror and say -- >> i try to avoid mirrors, larry. >> larry: you are angry about alana stewart, too? >> i don't trust her. she was selling farrah's stuff on ebay the day farrah died. i am disgusted with those people. i thought they were exploiting her. i think that they will continue to exploit her through the farrah story 2 and alana's new book. >> larry: we are almost out of time. get one more quick call in. detroit, hello. detroit, are you there? >> caller: hello. >> larry: quickly, go ahead. >> caller: i want to

peter: francis ford cop la, they couldn't do -- coppola, they couldn't do it better.a production. steve: bill clinton had had help from the past, tv producers made some of his films, "the man from hope" and stuff like this. he got another hand from hollywood yesterday. it was made for television. way to go. gretchen: and it was a great moment for those families. peter: happy moment. gretchen: a couple of the headlines. the senate now poised for a historic vote this afternoon barring a surprise. sonya sotomayor will be the first hispanic supreme court justice by the end of the day. 30 to 40 republicans plan to argue she will bring a liberal bias and personal sympathies to the high court but they do not have enough to stand in the way of the confirmation. steve: meanwhile, the wife of the guy who went to north korea, secretary of state say s the mission was not a breakthrough but could help get back to the six-period of time talks. right now the secretary of state is in kenya where she sharply criticize the leadership for corruption and failure to follow-through on powe