it is called grandpa. -- it is called "rant." the word palace was a greek city-state. you cannot write a single line without a cosmology a cosmogony laid out before all eyes. there is no part of yourself you can separate out saying, this is memory, this is sensation, this is the work i care abuot, this is how i make a living. it is whole, it is a whole, it always was whole. you do not make it so there is nothing to integrate, you are a presence, you are an appendage of the work, the work stems from hangs from the heaven you create every man, every woman carries a frimament inside and the stars in it are not the stars in the sky without imagination there is no memory without imagination there is no sensation without imagination there is no will, desire history is a living weapon in your hand and you have imagined it. it is thus that you find out for yourself, history is the dream of what can be, it is the relation between things in a continuum of imagination. what you find out for yourself is what you select out of the infinte sea of possibility no one can inhabit your

and you, don't call me grandpa, not now. >> what should i call you? >> no, that is what i call my dad. >> where is this one? >> don't look, you will screw things up. she is checking me out. tavis: that you have on the program. >> thanks. tavis: "solitary man" is about? >> it is about a very successful, tristate car dealer who thinks he has a serious medical issue, but rather than really following it up, he says you know what, i am going to live each day like it is my last. he leaves his wife, susan sarandon, and gets together with his girlfriend, mary louise parker. it is beautifully written and very funny. tavis: this is very different. you have played some characters who come to mind now whose lives have disintegrated around them. what is it about disintegrated lives and michael douglas that goes so well together? >> i try to figure out why my whole career is contemporary movies. i have only done one period movie out of 50. somehow, i seem to love these movies where you put a character in an impossible situation and try to watch him get out of it. f

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>> hi, grandma and grandpa. >> is this the start of a big career? want to apologize to somebody. go ahead. >> for getting everybody up this morning to tell them we're on "good morning america." >> that's not -- you should be up watching "good morning america." i take back that apology. >> it was 4:00 in the morning when i called her. >> oh, that's it. sorry to call you at 4:00. but still. let's get to the boards -- you all right, by the way? let's get to the boards. one tropical wave to talk about here. should it develop, and the hurricane center thinks it will. it makes its way toward the miami coastline by friday. all should be keeping an eye on this storm. it's heavy rain and there will be a pickup in wind there and rough surf. there's heat in the northeast and the east coast again. we haven't had a break of it this summer. from the deep south, in philly, to 93 degrees. boston gets to 92. new york in the 90s, as well. warming on the west coast. keep an eye on the storms. the areas we have highlighted in red today, could be strong and severe storm