joining me now is cuba gooding jr., director lee daniels and lenny kravitz. you must be the happiest man in the world because this movie is a smash hit and your name is in it. congratulations. >> i am not happy because i am sitting next to the three stooges here. the two stooges here tonight. we are over the moon, actually. >> stop it. >> we're over the moon happy. it's been -- it's been -- we didn't think that it was going to be -- we didn't think that it was going to be what it was going to be so when we reached that number, we call each other very humbled by it. it was wonderful. >> you cried. >> i did cry. >> you cried like a little girl. >> lenny, your acting is getting so good. we're almost for getting that you sing as well. i mean, you must be loving this, aren't you? >> it's been wonderful. and, you know, i have to give so much credit to lee because he's the one that brought me into this by casting me in "precious" and working with me in such a magnificent way and the beautiful thing is that a lot of people don't even realize that it's me. it's the bi

cuba gooding jr. does. everybody does. look at how pleasant it is going to be in the northeast. od morning, i'm mike nicco. total sunshine except the coolest, that's the coolest. the >> this weather report brought to you by chevy certified service. i got a pickle from them. can you help me out? i'm getting a sneak peek. >> save one for me, ginger. thank you. >>> i'm having a great time out here. what a day on "gma," right? cuba gooding jr., sitting with me right now. serving up his own brand of humor in a terrific movie. >> woo. >> lee daniels -- getting very excited. lee daniels' "the butler." show me the money, is now showing forest whitaker the ropes as the leader of the white house serving staff. here's a clip from "the butler." >> what's your name, my brother? >> cecil gaines. >> i'm carter wilson. head butler. don't worry about that behind you. his brother, merrill, will be here. james hathaway, he's my second in command. >> shake the man's hand first, before you start asking difficult questions like that. >> love it. and you provide some comic relief in a movieing film. i

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. >> did you see cuba gooding, jr., has been here before, says there's a disconnect with the civil rights movement and history of it, and i think the movie opens that dialogue so you can make your decision as an african-american or an american. what is the difference? am i italian, irish, the decision as a white american? >> people are still trying to figure out what you are. >> i am a hybrid, okay? >> can we update a story here, stop and frisk update in new york city, showed the largest gun bust in new york city history. we have a table with the guns laid out. do we have that picture? >> picture a table full of guns on it. >> exactly. >> brian, there was a 911 call or e-mail. >> there are the guns, bolling. >> there you are. thank goodness. >> 45 guns that were confiscated from someone who said they were concerned about walking around with the guns because they're worried about stop and frisk. >> they get an intercept. it was released yesterday. here is the quote from one of the guys in charge. i can't take them to my house. i'm in brownsville, new york. we got like watch ma call it, sto

and cuba gooding, jr.were a lot of great people -- did you notice my son, i have two sons -- >> jimmy: who is the one who plays your son? >> it was elijah kelly, when you go to see the movie, not all of his lines, not every one of them. all the funny stuff was ad libbed, he was cracking us up all the time, after the big fight scene -- >> jimmy: there were a lot of funny moments, and funny moments where you would not expect there to be funny moments. >> and the movie has everything. >> jimmy: we'll take a break, when we come back we'll look at a clip from the movie. and oprah winfrey is here, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> the jimmy kimmel live concert series is brought to you by sony. all year long. le wait for this promotion and now there are endless ways to love it... from crispy to spicy to savory. [ man ] you cannot make a bad choice. [ male announcer ] red lobster's endless shrimp! as much as you like, any way you like! you can have your shrimp. and you can eat it, too. [ male announcer ] tr

eastern where we'll interview lee danielson and actor cuba gooding jr.k at what's next on "news nation." >> hi, chris and kathleen. great job today. we'll see you later. coming up in our next hour, of course we'll continue to follow the latest out of egypt, including the effect the chaos could have on gas prices here at home. a lot o cover there. >>> plus, developing news. the clock is certainly ticking for san diego mayor bob filner to get back to work. will he show up amid the petition drive to get him kicked out of office? and if he does show up, will he even be able to get in? >>> and after fighting for his country, a u.s. marine is now fighting for a chance to play college football. how joining a recreational league while he was on base is now keeping him from his dream. this one is a "news nation" gut check you've got to see. from stouffer's starts with freshly-made pasta, and 100% real cheddar cheese. but what makes stouffer's mac n' cheese best of all. that moment you enjoy it at home. stouffer's. made with care for you or your family. that's a g

. >> jimmy: cuba gooding jr. >> very funny. >> jimmy: lenny kravitz too. >> i know. you know wholesale was really good? did you notice my son? >> jimmy: he was my favorite in the movie. >> there are two sons. >> jimmy: they were both very good. what is the kid's name who played your young son? >> elijah kelly. and you know most of that is ad-libbed. when you go to see the movie, not all of his lines, not every one of them. all the funny stuff was ad libbed, and he was cracking us up all the time. >> jimmy: he's very funny. >> after that big fight scene what he says afterwards, isn't that a hoo-ha? >> jimmy: there were a lot of funny moments, and funny moments where you would not expect there to be funny moments. >> so the movie has a little bit of everything. it's not just a big old -- >> jimmy: we'll take a break, when we come back we'll look at a clip from the movie. and oprah winfrey is here, everyone. we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> the jimmy kimmel live concert series is brought to you by s

cuba gooding jr. plays another butler at the white house.neighbor. i recently sat down with lee daniels to talk about the movie and the movement. he is the first african-american producer of an oscar winning film, and a true hollywood groundbreaker. lee, we're so happy to have you on the show tonight. let me ask you, why did you want to make this movie? >> father and son story. father and son story. you know, when i got the script, my son was 13, and he said black, i say white, he say black. i say day, he say night. i say go to bed, he say hell no. and when does it stop. >> right. >> and it transcends, race, you know, the father and son story. and it wasn't until i started shooting the movie and we started seeing the atrocities that happened to these kids that i realized it was bigger than a father and son story. it was a movie about civil rights. it's a movie about heroes. >> and it was still a movie about father and son. i mean, how important was it to tell eugene allen's story to you? >> so important, because he was an unspoken hero. and

joining me right now is academy award winning actor cuba gooding, jr., and director lee daniels.t. last night i saw it in d.c. you got one customer and when i start selling a movie, i never stop. what i loved about it was the education. are you guys having a conversation without me? let me in on this. >> first off, thank you for all the wonderful things you said about the movie. we love to you death anyway. >> i couldn't hear a thing. >> he couldn't hear a thing. his ear piece -- so i was saying it to him. >> he's repeating what you're saying. i'm helen keller right now. >> here's the story. what i came away from not just the sweetness of the characters, you popped, cuba. you popped out of that room from that first scene. every once in an while, i'm getting down with forest whitaker's character because he's like job. like an old testament character. how much more crap can he take? in history from his kids, from his wife who's cheating on him? how much can he take and he keeps taking it. you have this effervescence and you're enjoying who you are and helping the kid out when he's

awesome. [ light laughter ] tuba gooding jr. right there, ladies and gentlemen. >> steve: come on!l right, this is very controversial. it turns out, hawaii has approved a plan to send homeless people back to the mainland in an effort to reunite them with their families. bad news for hawaiians who are trying to get back on their feet, but great news for tourists who can only afford a ticket to hawaii. [ laughter ] i guess i'm homeless now? i just hang out? [ applause ] and finally, over the weekend, washington, d.c. hosted a meeting for people who are interested in traveling to mars. it got a little weird when biden showed up in his buzz lightyear costume. [ laughter ] and even weirder when he had no idea they were meeting about going to mars. we have a great show tonight. give it up for the roots, everybody! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh, we have a great show tonight! [ cheers and applause ] he is one of my favorite people. love this guy. wonderful man. he has a new animated show on hulu, i think it is, called "the awesomes." and we're going to play

. >>> good evening, when martin luther king jr. stood up to address the nation on the steps of the lincoln memorial, his words did not use the phrase "i have a dream." he had used those words before, but they wanted something different. and then, mahalia jackson said "tell them about the dream." and he said the words that still resonate today. two young african american girls went to the gathering, and had a message. today, they talk about what has changed and what has not. >> ♪ ♪ >> with songs and symbols from the struggle, a new generation of the faithful. >> and we thank the mighty god for giving us a martin luther

forest whitaker, jane fonda, cuba gooding jr. . you were in the role. it took a minute to realize it was you. >> that's a good compliment. i appreciate that. >> how has the experience, not only being involved in this movie, so many use one word, important. but also playing that character, who is so elegant? >> it was great. i love working for lee daniels. he's a great director to work with. and he's responsible for getting me in film. >> right. >> my role in "precious." and encouraging me to be in film. as far as the film, yes. it is an important film. it's an important film for all of us to see. especially, i believe the youth, to be educated on all of these things. you think that because people go to school, they're being taught, think they. there's a lot of people that don't know about the freedom riders or civil rights in general. >> it takes you from the civil rights to the inauguration of obama. >> and people have lost their lives, people of all colors. >> the character that you play, a lot of people didn't know existed. we

once i even tried to stab another youngster with a knife as in the movie depicted with cuba gooding jr plays my part. but after that incident, i locked myself in the bathroom and i stood contemplating my life and realized trying to kill somebody over nothing that i was seriously deranged. and i prayed and i picked up a bible and it had all these verses about fools and i said that sounds like me. but it also had a lot of anger and how there's no point getting angry if you're going to get right back into it. a man to control his temper than a man who can conquer the city and verse after verse and chapter after chapter it seemed like it was written for me. while i remained there for three hours i came to an understanding that it was not a sign of strength to punch somebody, it was a sign of weakness. it meant that you could be controlled by other people and by the environment. and i would want to be in control but i also came to understand that it was my selfishness because somebody was in my space and doing something to me. it was always about me and i and if you can step outside of the

cuba gooding jr. >> a cast of thousands.in october but the company moved it up to august to generate all this oscar buzz and it is doing just that. >>steve: you know why i want to see the movie in addition to it being historical in nature is the fact that robin williams plays eisenhower. how crazy is that? >> he pulls it off. and lee schreiber is lyndon baines johnson. >>gretchen: opening? >> next thursday -- friday, august 16. you can catch more coverage of the red carpet on in the spotlight.com. >>steve: thank you. >>gretchen: have you ever wanted to tell the president what you think about the state of our country? one new jersey man did 300 times. he's going to be here next. that's a lot of letter writing. >>steve: her story is including this beauty queen busted for throwing bombs at car windows. she's in trouble. ♪ ♪ okay, a? b? b. a? that's a great choice. let me show you some faucets to go along with that. with the latest styles and guaranteed low prices, you can turn the bath you have into the bath you want. good choi

very good thing and so the narcan jr script became famous really our son was part of a narco junior sikh yes i see because they were young men that grew up together since go to. their own families well known here in tijuana. but we parents never realized anything. everyone talked about drum on set and were look the man who had just got here took care of his family take it as a family let book at the end which he needed had money and always bought them all the drinks. less maybe this and found them the best table in the joint. that's a rotten apple fell and drawl to everything. most of these voices being told a lot for violence or theft. but we broke the window climbed in and tried to start at the. dump. pushed it a little way here we were drunk. and soon you're an alcoholic nearly all of them are homeless orphans no money or relatives. are you going to without me. for a moment but there it felt like i was back in those street hooligans are going to beat me up at any moment. as i turn my back i couldn't help wondering about my safety. isn't a warden he's there the father you could say tha

. >>> good evening, when martin luther king jr.ation on the steps of the lincoln memorial, his words did not use the phrase "i have a dream." he had used those words before, but they wanted something different. and then, mahalia jackson said "tell them about the dream." and he said the words that still resonate today. two young african american girls went to the gathering, and had a message. today, they talk about what has changed and what has not. >> ♪ ♪ >> with songs and symbols from the struggle, a new generation of the faithful. >> and we thank the mighty god for giving us a martin luther king, we thank the mighty god who brought us a long way, from disgrace to amazing grace. >> the famous? >> he challenged us to see how we are all more alike than we are different. >> the powerful stood before the lincoln memorial. >> the march on washington teaches us that we are not trapped by the mistakes of history. that we are masters of our fate. but it also teaches us that the promise of this nation will only be kept when we work togethe

forest whitaker, jane fonda, cuba gooding jr. to realize it was you. >> that's a good compliment. i appreciate that. >> how has the experience, not only being involved in this movie, so many use one word, important. but also playing that character, who is so elegant? >> it was great. i love working for lee daniels. he's a great director to work with. and he's responsible for getting me in film. >> right. >> my role in "precious." and encouraging me to be in film. as far as the film, yes. it is an important film. it's an important film for all of us to see. especially, i believe the youth, to be educated on all of these things. because people go to school, they're being taught, think they. there's a lot of people that don't know about the freedom riders or civil rights in general. >> a it takes you from the civil rights to obama. >> and people have lost their lives, people of all colors. >> the character that you play, a lot of people didn't know existed. >> as members of the negro community, what are your biggest concerns? come o

the scene is will depicted in the movie "gifted hands" which cuba gooding, jr. play mist part. after that incident i locked myself in the bathroom and i started contemplating my life and i realized, trying to kill somebody over nothing, that i was seriously deranged. and i prayed and i picked up a bible in the bathroom, and i it had all these verses about fools, and i said, how, does that sound like me? and it also had a lot of verses about anger. prove verbs, and verse are verse, chapter are chapter, seemed like they were written for me, and while i remained the the bathroom for three hours i came to an understanding it was not a sign of strength to punch somebody or kick down a door. it was a sign of weakness. it meant you could be controlled by other people and by the environment. and i didn't want to be controlled. but i also came to understand that it was my selfishness, because somebody was in my space, somebody was taking my things, somebody was doing something to me, it was always about me and my and i. and i said if you can step outside of the center of the circle and

the other family was across the street, and that was cube baa gooding jr., and lawrence fish burn wasis father. and he turned out very differently. and john singleton did a second movie called baby boy which he talked about the sexual predatory behavior of young black men, and john singleton is from the same area that i'm from. he's talking about the centrality of fathers and the lack of fathers being the central problem in south central and, in my opinion, the central social problem in america. >> host: next call for mr. elder, we have about seven minutes left in our program. dennis in sharon, massachusetts. hi, dennis. dennis? >> caller: yes. can you hear me? yes -- >> host: please go ahead. >> caller: okay, great. i'm a great fan of c-span. i watch booktv every weekend. my father was born in 1892, i was his first son. when i was born, he was in 60 years old. he left macon, georgia, as he told we because he saw a black man being burned in the fountain of downtown macon, georgia. the point i would like to make is that i really believe it's, obviously, the father being in the househol

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jr. >>> a day of celebration and tonight a call to action. good evening. m doreen gentzler. >> i'm jim vance. 50 years after dr. martin luther king jr. told us his dream for america, we are reminded of how far we have come and how far we still have to go. just as 50 years ago today started with a march. thousands of people walking, some hand in hand, demanding jobs and justice. >> on the steps of the lincoln memorial where dr. king gave his most famous speech, we heard from congressman john lewis, the last surviving speaker from the 1963 event. members of the king family and former presidents bill clinton and jimmy carter also addressed the crowd. >> bells rang across this country at 3:00 this afternoon. 50 years after dr. king called upon america to let freedom ring. president obama honored those who marched for all that we have today but he also said the march isn't over. >> the universe may bend toward justice but it doesn't bend on its own. to secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance not complacency. whether by challenging thos

. >> dick's sporting goods being removed from jr. pm's focus list.ts third-quarter earnings reported next tuesday. >> this is interesting for dick's. talking about retailers, specialty ones, cat lifts throughout the year, back-to-school, the christmas shopping season and if you have an item like dick's and they can't meet their results or people turn negative that says a lot about the consumer. very discretionary spending. you don't go out there and buy food, yes, you do, but you don't go out and buy soccer balls, and uniforms. >> and the weather comes into play. >> and that could be a big deal for these particular retailers because it does weigh on going out there and buying a new set of cleats or sports or anything like that. >> a big deal and also deal brinker. they are not alone. seen a lot of price targets for this company. >> priceline is a juggernaut, a stock on a tear for quite some time but not all travel stocks or sites are treated equally. priceline has really been a standout in attorney parts of the in markets. a lot of ref mousse come fr

only good thing he did: staying away. petey jr. ever go looking for his dad? seek out the hero?eal job. never mentioned pete again. vera: tommy connell, pete doyle's wingman. you're a real sweetheart, tommy. been reading your record. you can read? ooh. laugh riot. you and pete pulled some crazy jobs back in the day. oh, the nostalgia file. that's 20 years ago. don't got nothing recent? what about te doyle's murder? i heard about that. it's a damn shame. you can do better than that, tommy. i took it as a blow. we was like brothers, me and pete. he went down hard for that check-cashing heist back in '85. we know you were the second man. could've got five years had he gave you up. did 12 instead. real stand-up guy. so maybe pete starts thinking you owe him. you figure it's easier to clear the books. if what you were saying was true, and i admit nothing, i'd have been grateful. one way of looking at it. other way, a debt like that becomes a burden hanging over your head. shows what you know. i did everything i could to help when he got out, but he wouldn't accept. this was a differe

jr. was arrested on good friday in birmingham alabama that april. that arrest is remembered because while he was in jail in birmingham, a group of mostly white clergy in alabama spoke out and published an ad calling on dr. martin luther king to stop the protests, to work inside the system and stop organizing these demonstrations. to stop being the outside agitator, he responded with a letter from the birmingham jail which he wrote longhand in the margins of the newspaper in which he was able to read the ad and read the stories of his fellow ministers criticizing his tactics. his arrest was one component of a big activist plan for birmingham that year. birmingham was seen as being among the most impossible places for progress. it was the most stubborn, the most violent, the most rigidly opposed to desegregation. the plan was to push there in one of the worst places notice country. and see what happened. see how they responded to pressure. and after what they thought was a slow start of sit-ins and protests in the first eight days a total of 150 peopl

jr.'s iva dream spee >> good to have you with us. there may be more evidence of what appears to be a chemical weapons attack last week in damaskas. three hospitals supported by the international humanitarian group say victims started pouring in wednesday exhibiting neuro toxic symptoms. medical staff say they treated 3600 patients in a time span of just three hours of those patients, medics say 355 people died. wednesday night's attack has prompted president obama to discuss potential military options in syria. the new president of the syrian national coalition has called for an international military intervention in syria. the syrian government denies it launched the attack and has released this footage right here. state tv says at this evidence after chemical attack. earlier today we spoke with sophie delaney in new york. she described what medical staff in syria have been seeing. >> the symptom with -- been reported about are symptoms including some blurred vision, some headaches, and in the most severe cases, some convulsions and

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jr.'s key lime pie recipe was not very good. but that is crazy, isn't it? se paula deen herself is an admirer of martin luther king jr. in fact, she named her last cookbook, i have a dream sickle. but the paula deen controversy issue is a divisive issue. so we decided to use it to confuse people out on hollywood boulevard. so we went out on the street and asked a paula deen question, where do you stand on republicans who say they have a higher opinion of paula deen during shark week, and does this negatively affect your opinion on obama care? and powerball? and here is what they had to say in response. it is our confusing question of the day. >> where do you stand on the georgia republicans who say they have a higher opinion of paula deen than martin luther king jr. during shark week, and does this negatively affect your opinion of powerball obama care >> no, it doesn't affect me. i hope everybody receives their benefits and everything works out for everybody. the benefits, kids and everyone. >> even during shark week? >> yes. >> where do you stand on the ge