davis --ined by geena tina davis. a company with $6 billion cash on their balance sheet.t explains this falling out of favor with the market? >> i think if you are an investor you are looking at the cash and saying i want some of that and exxon has not been distributing it so far. a lot of oil companies started to say oil prices up now. it's feeling good. we are feeling more flush. let's start to do buybacks. exxon has been much more careful and much quieter than the other companies have. they had a number of quarters this year or they did not perform up to expectations and they have gotten outsize retribution. they are in the midst of a long-term transformation. exxon is a really big ship so to turn it around takes a long time. taylor: are exxon and other oil companies prepared for a wti at 45? oilt depends on what company you're talking about. the vertically integrated companies like exxon can do well in some portions of their business when oil prices are low. exxon and other integrated have refinery operations that taken oil and create gasoline for your cars. if the pr

we talked about media and geena davis' work. 15-one boy programmers to girl programmers are that teachesterrible. what can we do to help media represents women? the study is about female lead films making more money at the bronx -- the box office across every budget level from 2014 to 2017. emily: you found that movies starring women make more than women -- movies starring men. megan: correct. looked at the data, look at films and data sets, who is first on the call sheet. if it is female lead versus male lead at all box office levels, they made more money. so there is a lot of common wisdom in this. it is more risky -- the data doesn't say that. dellyou heard of the back cdel test? it is a funny test. over 300 films, these top grossing films, over 40% of them couldn't pass this little test. it is there is to women in the cap -- two women in the cast, they have a conversation not about a man during the entire movie. we found if you can pass the moree test of having dimensional women, you actually make more money every single box office level. so getting this through is economic opportuni

love you geena davis sweeted, i'm terribly sad to hear the news of penny passing.orever grateful for to her for letting me be part of "a league of her own. she had a heart of gold, tough as nails she could play round ball with the best of them penny marshal died of diabetes related complications. she was 75 years old >> and a genius. >> absolutely. >> we always thought of her for laverne and shirley not realizing until later had, she's an actress not realizing she was a director, producer, screenwriter >> fantastic >> remember she was brilliant in laverne and shirley. she was the first female director to direct ai movie that grossed over $100 million. that is in the '80s. you make that 2018 money that, is a huge box office. >> it was "big." the whole thing on the floor with the music fantastic. >> really well directed movie. >>> coming up, we're going to talk taxes democrats may be pushing back on the gop tax law in a way that you and your property taxes in new jersey, new york, massachusetts, you're going to want to hear this story. >>> also, 2018 is thankfully al

>> brown: and then "a league of their own" in 1992, also with tom has, alongside geena davis, rosie o'donnell and madonna. >> no crying in baseball. >> brown: marsll continued to make films, tv and documentaries up until her death, which came last night at her home in los angeles from complications with diabetes. she s 75 years old. >> woouff: and what a talent. still to come on the newshour: a ay in court for former national security adviser michael flynn president trump's charity is shutting down foowing a lawsuit. on the ground in yemen athere's hopeeasefire may subdue ongoing violence, and mu more. >> woodruff: there were surprise developments today in two court cases that involve the president. first, at the federal courthouse here in washington today, we were expecting michael flynn, president trump's first national security adviser, to be sentenced on a criminal count brought by special counsel robert mueller. william brangham begins our coverage there. >> brangham: that's right judy, a year ago, michael flynn tpleaded guilty to lying f.b.i. about his contacts with the russian ambassad

>> reporter: actress geena davis who played dottie, paying tribute.f women would be told that they couldn't direct a sports movie or they couldn't direct a big drama or a movie starring tom hanks, and so a lot of the top filmmakers we see today, these women cite penny marshall as someone who inspires them. >> reporter: she admitted to barbara walters behind the exuberance and pioneering personality she sometimes struggled with confidence. >> what's the biggest misconception about you? >> well, i do have a thing of being insecure and all that which i am but underneath i'm a lot stronger than that. >> reporter: this morning the women and men in hollywood sharing their admiration for marshall's trailblazing career. bette midler tweeting, it is the end of an era. visionary director ava duvernay thanking her for the trails she blazed, and josh gad saying her movies are classics made by a director who was simultaneously setting up shots while breaking down walls. >> i lived. i didn't hurt anyone, i don't believe. so -- and i have a great family. my legacy i

love you and geena davis tweeted, i'm terribly sad to hear the news about penny passing.orever grateful to her for letting me be a part of "league of their own." and danny devito said she had a heart of gold, tough as nails. she could play round ball with the best of them penny marshal died of diabetes related complications. but she had already had a bout with cancer as well. she was only 75. 75 >> i was shocked >> when i saw that, i was, too she didn't seem like she was ill. >> i knew she was sick before. >> at 75, i don't think of as old. >> yeah. >> coming up, china kicking off the key conference that expected to provide some insight on the trade skirmish with the u.s. we'll talk about the potential impact on your money that's next. here's a look at yesterday's s&p 500. winners and losers the future of technology investing lies beyond the tech sector. it's about technology transforming every sector. ♪ at pgim, our bottom-up approach uses a technology lens to identify long-term winners. from energy... to real estate... to retail. finding such opportunities for alpha is