the one to ask me who i am, i am gene kelly? second-best to spencer tracy, but i am gene kelly. nobody taught me how to dance, i just danced. clark gable dance that his screen tests, but if you were good enough, you started acting in the didn't dance anymore. so i got to be pretty good at acting in the stock and dancing, but i loved to watch gene kelly and all of those dancers. hailed at the same thing. coffee, coca-cola, camel cigarettes, and baby ruth. i wanted to be right there in the middle of that. there was something spectacular about dancing, about being able to make your body do something beautiful. i don't mean just yoga or something, dancing is the most primitive form of art. i was always mesmerized, particularly by gene kelly. i could tap dance, and anybody can tap dance. it is a mathematical fang. but when you can move had hypnotized people, just with your body, that is fascinating. tavis: we have about two minutes left here, it has been a wonderful conversation. you said that maybe three or four times, if i were so sick, i know what you mean by that. let me ask whet

argentinian, i believe, and please do not forget the magnificent jean duhardine who is i think gene kellyagnetic to watch. at the movies these days i'm use today week after week being visually assaulted by 3-d and bright colors. >> yeah. >> and things coming at me all the time. and this movie was such an amazing reminder that there was a time in film where actors just used their faces to tell you the story. >> right. i saw an interview with john goodman and he said he really loved this because he didn't have to worry about memorizing the script but it gave him a chance to improvise in a whole different way, stretch himself, and just exaggerate movement and like you said facial expressions. a lot of fun by the actors too. the other movie "like crazy". you want to set us up for it? >> i'm sorry. "the artist." >> oh, the grade if i were a silent film star this is what the grade would be. >> okay. give me that expression one more time. okay. that's an "a" for sure. >> absolute "a." >> okay. good. so set up "like crazy" for me. >> "like crazy" stars antoine elchin and felicity jones as a young

you see certain movies, and you see -- you see sinatra dancing with gene kelly. >> it's more like -- >> no, no, darling. >> granddad at christmas party. >> no, no. >> sammy was a proper dancer. >> sammy was extraordinary. michael was extraordinary. there are maybe three or four in my lifetime that were extraordinary dancers and singers and actors and performers. so i -- i think there are probably three or four. and i knew two of them very well. and both are gone. >> my grandmother always said to me, the worst thing about getting old, by old she meant anywhere after 40. >> right. >> is that you start to just lose a lot of people that mean things to you. she was so right. whether it's family, whether it's people that you worked with, whatever it is, the death count goes up. >> well, you know, probably when she said that, that was correct. but if you are 40? are you about that age? >> you're flattering me, whoopi. >> may i ask? >> i just turned 46, but i'll take the first guess. i may cut out the correction. >> people my age, you know, we came through a period where we suddenly saw lots

thinking about americans in paris and the whole part of gershwin's repertoire and the movie and gene kellyand all that and thinking about paris, paris, paris. i don't know where the idea first began. maybe back when i was in high school. c-span: one of the things you read through the book that is over 500 pages, lots of different characters, you read about central paris and today there are 11 million plus people in that whole paris area. we have got some photographs we want to put on the screen so that you can describe where the czar, where this location is. we just throw out anything that we have of that area. the palais royale, what a ball that? i mean, how much of an area did you write about? >> guest: well right now we are looking at, it looks like the trailer he gardens and the trailer he gardens are very important in the story of all of the people that i've written about. and they are right at duluth. they lead up towards the shonta lycÉe. you can see it in the distance there. the general neighborhood of this book is very much the same today as it was then. that of course is the i am

kelly's court takes a look. and china is making a new space push we'll tell you what they are doing and why astronaut gene certaind. he is our guest live. see you in seven minutes. jamie: fox news alert for you now. there are some arson fires in california and a lot of questions surrounding it, what caused them and why. rick folbaum is joining us now with more detail on that. hi, rick. >> reporter: jamie, this is an active situation and fire officials in los angeles, california, are urging people to be on the lookout for anyone they think may be suspicious. this after about a dozen fires in the hollywood area of los angeles were set overnight. all reported early this morning and in most of these fires, parked cars were torched and then flames spread to nearby homes or apartment buildings. the police were put on tactical alert around 5:00 local time this morning to help secure crime scenes and protect evidence and boost patrols. at least 15 cars have been set on fire. in at least some of the locations more than one car has been burned here. and as i said, the police and the fire officials are saying to everyone as