we'll get george stevens to direct." i said, "whoa, hold it, forget it. we won't get george stevens to direct, because if we want to get this, tommy grise, who's writing it, wants to direct." he said, "well, that's what i said. we'll get tommy grise to direct." [cattle mooing] >> what's your whole name, will? >> penny, will penny. >> you got any family? >> no. >> joan hackett is superb in it. it's not a large picture, but it's a very good one." [both sing "deck the halls"] >> oh. stay, will. >> i've seen what it was meant to be like. but it--it's too late, cath. too late for me. i ain't a good gamble for you. >> the kind of work he enjoys doing most is something for which he has to stretch a little. the really finest performance he's given is "khartoum." >> i had the chance to work with laurence olivier, and it was the kind of part i understood--again, an heroic loser, a man who died trying to defend khartoum, as i think he knew he would. and the chance to--it's a good film. again, not an extraordinarily successful one. >> streets prohibited to non-permit

like to also acknowledge the co-chairs of the president's committee on the arts and humanities, george stevensjr. where's george? there he is. [applause] as well as margo lion -- where's margo? good to see you. [applause] as well as members of congress who are here today, all of whom support the arts. but we are primarily here to acknowledge these incredible individuals. and, frankly, this is just fun for me because i feel like i know you all because i've enjoyed your performances. your writings have fundamentally changed me, i think for the better, marilynne. i believe that. at first glance, this is a pretty diverse group. we've got incredible singers and dancers. we have poets and producers, musicians, playwrights, scholars. they come from all across the country, all around the world. and yet, for all their differences, today's honorees have one thing in common -- and that is they are teachers. whether they realize it or not, they've taught us about ourselves and about our world. american philosopher will durant once wrote, "the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things

. >> just heard from two legendary filmmakers, george lucas and steph steven spielberg.movie theater to the living room and it is already happening. back at the table filmmakers thia and carl. and david edelsten. joining us to talk about the changing television, "huff post editor," chris, i'm fascinated about the way netflix is reorienting tv and the fact that people i know, young creative people, are talking about making tv shows, like, what i think 15 years ago, people, everybody had a screen play that they had in their drawer and a movie they wanted to make and people now all have an hbo pilot and want to make the next "sopranos." >> basically netflix is what hbo did 20 years ago and giving people what they want that they can't get on broadcast tv. >> they got all these emmys. they are now a place where it seems to me, i mean, there seems like -- they have 14 emmy nominations, and it seems to me like there's money and resources there. we're talking about how you can't get a certain kind of film made in hollywood and something like "orange is the new black" or "house o

when steven spielberg and george lucas say on a panel-- as they did two weeks ago-- "there's no room for us in this industry" for the little art films they like to do. (laughs) >> something is screwy. now the irony is that they created this blockbuster thing 35 years ago. >> some of these films do great in europe. i don't know what it is about the europeans. they love the films. the d.v.d. sales some of them may be failures domestically but they go on to make money. we ceci quells. studios won't do sequels unless they thinkedly there's money in it. "grown ups 2" opens today. (laughter) clearly not a -- bad memory. but clearly the first one made $162 million domestically. so clearly there's a market for this film and they're going to make a sequel and i'm sure they've set it up for the third. >> speaking of comedies, "the heat" that you mentioned before. i saw a rather extraordinary statistic somewhere on the internet recently where someone had put together a list of all of the commercial release this is summer from the big studios. w a female lead character and the list was one movie

steven colbert's has not. especially now that we have a name. his royal highness, prince george alexander. ing, with his battle with speech, was depicted in the movie "the queen's speech." the full name of the queen is elizabeth alexandria mary. but die hard royal watcher steven colbert says none of that has anything to do with the royal nomenclature. >> welcome, cheerio, jolly good to have you with us. as you can tell, i'm still in the throes of royal baby fever, which has me worried because you're supposed to starve a royal baby cold and feed a royal baby fever and i do not want to eat english food. me and the royal baby have so much in common in that both of our fontanelles are not closed yet. once the heir arrived there was only one question on every newsman's mind, how long is this still news? the answer, of course, until we get a baby name, dammit. >> britain's new prince is named prince george of cambridge. his full name is george alexander louis. >> oh, there is going to be another king george, that makes me want to establish our independence again, who is crazy? who peed blue? geor

hollywood system, we have seen high profile industry collapsing under its own west and seen the george lucas and the stevenle tent model is not sustainable, and do you see the crack there. >> yes, and that is why you brought up steven sodderberg, and he pledged $10,000 and he is no longer work ing ing in the fe films and working cable television to be honest, most of the stuff is on cable these days. >> yes. >> and this is so interesting when dan nun goes up to danny aiello and says, i need two slice slices. >> extra cheese. >> thank you for coming in, spike lee. >> thank you, everyone. >> and check him out on kicksta kickstarter to get to the $1.2 million. >> simon. >> in the meantime, when apple and google are competing, we will talk to the ceo of the iphone to take a look at the smartphone industry. >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street." i'm bertha coombs, and bearish number coming in on the inventories after four weeks of decline we saw a slight build of crude supplies up 430,000. we also saw an inkrecrease in ts of the gasoline of 770,000 barrel barrels. however, there's one bit of a silver linin

more from the roundtable joined by george will, peggy noonan, former counsellor to the obama treasury department, steven rattner. and katrina vanden heuvel. let me go back, the president is not going to negotiate over the debt limit, but it's going to work out. the white house is betting that the republicans are going to cave. >> the republicans know this is a weak lever to move the world. the debt ceiling always gets raised. what interested me about what he said was, he's looking back and saying the recovery is as bad as it is, and it is bad, is what happened in the summer of 2011 over the debt ceiling. that's pretty -- >> that did hurt confidence, didn't it? >> let's look at the recovery, george. now in the fifth year of a recovery. there are 2.2 million fewer jobs than there were in the pre-recession. four and a half years in now, and after the recession of -- of 1981, '82, we were back in 12 months. 31% of americans 18-35 are living with their parents. that ought to scare parents. >> that's one of the reasons the president gave the speech. he said he wanted to break this destructive damaging framewo

steven spielberg and george lucas were talking about this a couple weeks ago at usc on how there is going half a dozen mega budgets will go crashing into the ground. they were talking about summer 2013. follows in the steps of "white house down." >> steve: i think we've got a graphic that shows how much some of these big summer block busters cost and how much they took in. "the lone ranger," a stink bomb, cost a quarter of a billion dollars. brought in a tenths of that. >> a tenth of that and hoping to recoup some of the money overseas. westerns are a tough sell overseas and tough sells with younger audiences. >> brian: too much tonto and not enough lone ranger. >> my mother has a way of nailing it. she said, it was too long for something so unimportant. >> brian: how do you really feel? thank you. >> she's fine. she's a fine-up standing citizen. >> gretchen: let's talk about soap operas. we keep hearing they're dying. what's happening now? >> fans of "all my children" and" one life to live" have something to celebrate. they're both coming back on the oprah winfrey network. new especially

. >> and steven spielberg and george lucas tell you it's a tough business. >> it is. >>> trending onntry, but bill cosby is asking us to think about sweaters anyway. dr. cliff hugsable was known as his array of sweaters. and now cosby wants you to vote for your favorite on his website. it's like an ncaa bracket. 32 knits battling it out for top honors in categories that include arguiles, cashmeres, cardigans and pullovers. and the winning sweater will be crowned the champion stitch. >> can i just say i loved that show, loved his character. he had some ugly sweaters, though. there were some bad sweaters. >> really championship ugly sweaters. >> right. >>> finally trending on yahoo! the stones keep on rolling. mick jagger, keith richards, wood and watts return to hide park saturday, the first time in 44 years. a triumphant concert to honor the band's past. ♪ >> all right. i may kind of a little fan of the rolling stones. in addition to its only rock and roll, the stones wowed with midnight rambler and satisfaction. rave reviews. some called it stunning and charismatic. >> that was just

and steven bradbury, head of the office of legal counsel in the justice department during the george w. bush administration. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> james bamford, we heard earlier this gwen's discussion about new revelations what, do you think of those and what do they tell us about this role of the fisa court? >> these new revelations are really an expansive look at a much more expansive eavesdropping capability. we looked before at the telephone and the e-mail. now, this is pretty much the internet. and it's very worrisome in the sense that people when they communicate on the internet are communicating basically their thoughts, their deepest thoughts in their minds a lot of times. their thoughts sometimes that they don't want to share with anybody else. if you have this megacollection that's going oagain, it raises will the question of what oversight is there and what checks and balances are there? we didn't see there were very many checks and balances on the other systems. and maybe the same thing applies here. >> brown: we'll walk through some of those issues, b

steven hayes, fox news contributor. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: colonel georgeol, what authority did he have in north africa last year. >> members of congress want to question him on, what exactly his rolly was as events of that night unfolded. they had been trying to get in touch with him as you point out and have him testify for months. his was a name you heard early in this investigation. then he so the of disappeared for a while. there was renewed interest in him because of some things he was saying behind closed doors, suggesting to people that he might have insight as to what happened that we hadn't yet heard. bill: okay, now, he has said that immediately he thought it was terrorism but then he's also suggested, that you know, sending a rescue team in there was not possible. you wonder just how much he will give up of that today. would you expect big headlines from this witness? >> i don't honestly. i tend to think that if he was going to say something explosive we likely would have heard it by now. i could be wrong about that but i think, you know, the li

george zimmerman's case was built on a claim of self-defense. that has prompted questions about what constitutes self-defense and how it differs across the country. we spoke to steven clark, nbc legal analyst, to explain. >> you are allowed to use self-defense to defend off an imminent peril. and you're allowed to use deadly force if you're going to either be severely injured or killed. the difference in each state, though, is whether you have a duty to retreat or escape before you use deadly force first. and in many states, you have no duty to retreat, and you can stand your ground and assert deadly force without escaping, even if that would have been easier to do. >> the department of justice has now agreed to investigate for possible civil rights violations in the george zimmerman case. clark says trayvon martin's family can also bring a civil suit against zimmerman. >>> breaking news just coming into our newsroom, an early morning scare for people living in an apartment complex in san mateo. fire broke out just before 1:00 at the bridgepointe complex at highway 92. no one was hurt but several people were forced out of their apartments while the fire was put out

george zimmerman's case was built on a claim of self-defense. that's prompting questions about what constitutes self-defense and how it differs across the country. we spoke to steven clark, an nbc legal analyst here, to explain. >> you are allowed to use self-defense to defend off an imminent peril, and you're allowed to use deadly force if you're either going to be severely injured or killed. the difference in each state, though, is whether you have a duty to retreat or escape before you use force first. in many states, you have no duty to retreat and you can stand your ground and assert deadly force without escaping, even if that would have been easier to do. >> of course, the jury's verdict will stand, but george zimmerman's legal saga is just beginning. we'll tell you what's next for zimmerman and why he could end up in court again. that's coming up at 6:45. >>> it is 6:04 right now. this morning crews are setting up a blood drive at san francisco international airport for victims of the asiana air kra crash who remain in the hospital. it starts just a few hours from now, and bob redell is at the airport with how you can help out. good morning, bob. >> good mo

pediatrician turned producer joins forces with steven spielberg on a new show 19 years after they teamed up on e.r. wow. up next, nbc's lisa bloom with the latest from the georgehere's todd. with a check on the forecast. >> all right, mike, thanks so much. wanted to keep a close eye on the situation for the fire fight in the hill fire. still dealing with areas just west where there are excessive heat warnings in place. keep in mind, vegas, if we hit the 117, that would tie the all-time high record in phoenix. forecasting a record high. the fire itself, that area dealing with light winds today, could see a shower. they could deal with gustier winds. vegas, just after 5:00 in the morning, just under 90 degrees. notice the one cluster of thunderstorms through northwest jersey. that could make its way in towards the northwest side of the tri-state. enough to maybe slow things down in the skies. otherwise, we're dealing with a chance for thunderstorms across the east coast into the afternoon. the low cloud ceilings. this is manhattan right now. laguardia an hour and a half delays. philly coming in just over two hours. more "morning joe" on your way next. ♪ that's m