and hbo, which is a fantastic place. i mean hbo is great. fantastic. so i turned it over. and i said okay, let me go with this. i'll go with it and give it a shot. i did. and there was no script. and we were telling all these -- all about my life, you know. >> your stories. >> yes. the only thing i did is call my friends and ask them to come and do it, and they all came. and then i stepped aside and i came to work every day and did what they told, sit, sit, sit over there. i said i don't want to sit over there. no. sit over there. >> let me get your take about the business end of it. the financing of movies. so the financing has changed. >> yes. >> you worked on three recent "ocean's eleven" movies and the actors in that case regularly command what, $20 million a movie? >> yeah, a lot of those. >> $20 million a movie, individually. >> right. >> how do you afford those salaries now? and tell me how the financing of the movie business has changed. >> well, you can't afford those salaries now or then. you couldn't afford those salaries. i got them all together in a room, and

[ cheers and applause ] he's got a new special on hbo. he's very funny.ng a song from their debut album, tres mts., everybody! if you like king's x, if you like pearl jam, you're gonna like tres mts. it's gonna be a great night. it's gonna be fun times. hey, you guys, spring is finally around the corner, and one of my favorite things to do in spring is grab a few of my favorite books and sit outside, reading the day away. but what if you don't have anything good to read? you definitely don't want to be stuck reading a stinker of a book, so, as a service to you guys, i'm going to show you some awful books that i've read, i think that you should avoid. it's time for the spring cleaning addition of my "do no read list." here we go. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: and before we start, i just want you all to know that every book i'm about to show you is 100% real. these are actual books. you can see them on amazon, you can check them out at your local library. they are real. all right, let's see what's on my "do no read list." here's the first one here. th

watch it starting april 4th on hbo. jimmy: your tie looks good. i don't note about that gyllenhaal. he doesn't know about ties. >> very strange. strange tie. >> jimmy: i know. maybe i'll start a new thing, you know? this could be my version of lady gaga's meat suit. >> if you sign it for me, i can sell it on ebay. >> jimmy: yeah, sure, you can probably get $8 for it. great to see you. the documentary is fantastic. very entertaining. >> thank you. >> jimmy: george clooney told a story about you in this documentary, i should say, just to tell people, you, movie producer, music producer, managers of some of the biggest stars, elvis, you name it, you were with these people. sometimes you weren't entirely honest with your clients. true? >> no. >> jimmy: what about john denver, who is -- >> well, john denver. >> jimmy: that's different. >> you talk about the ferguson story. >> jimmy: yeah, john denver. >> well, john denver was a little upset with me at one point in his career. and he was paying me a lot of money. and he was a

it's just under hbo.ompany has been under a lot of pressure from hollywood and cable companies. they are down right afraid of netflix to be honest with you. we heard soothing language as they reported profits saying netflix is not leading them to cut their cable, they want to be an alternative for cable and satellite customers. netflix is being very humble as it makes the biggest profit in nine quarters. >>> play station network, which has three times as many registered users as netflix is still down this morning. it's a disaster for the company that has been hacked. the unnamed hacker may have been able to access private information including credit cards. sony did not say that was the case. under law, they have to say it happened and they have to say it very soon. marla. >> thank you, scott. time is 5:26. >>> the local university warning people about peeping toms this morning. that's coming up. >>> a business owner firing back about the safety of his club after a deadly shooting, nearby. >>> good mornin

bored to death, the show on hbo, congratulations, you got picked up another season?man -- >> great people, very funny times. >> jimmy: and did you just start shooting? >> about to start shooting april 4th. actually zach came to the book party for the book last night. >> jimmy: let's talk about this book. >> let me tell you a little about zach's little joke. >> jimmy: yeah. >> he said, wouldn't it be funny if mary and i were taking a romantic boat trip around the island tomorrow and there was a little etty of my books floating in the river. [ laughter ] isn't that cruel? >> jimmy: i love it so much. he's very, very funny. no, but this is a cool, this is a cool thing, i do like this subject. what you're talking about here. you also have oceana.org. but what is the book about? can you tell that? >> yeah, if we can a serious campfire moment together right here. it does feel campfire, doesn't it? >> it does. it's fun. it's like camping. yes. >> it is. all right. its very neat. so there's a lot of scary stuff going on with our oceans that need to be taken care of. this boo

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here's the first photo of julianne moore playing former vice presidential contender sarah palin in hbo's upcoming "game change." look at that. i just could not picture it and they did a great job. >> does this lessen tina fey because that's a spitting image. >> nothing can lessen tina fey, nothing. >>> this comes from ksl 5 news in salt lake city, utah, where in nearby bountiful a group of women gathered to show a teacher the impression of music left on them. they often get together to reminisce decided to track down their elementary music teacher. as they were doing some digging they were reunited with their 101-year-old mentor. almost 70 years later the piano instructor still had a lesson for the class, that the love of music lasts a lifetime. >>> i'm lynn berry and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day. >>> an extremely rare animal has become anything but at one zoo in serbia after the addition of four newborns, the zoo now boasts a total of ten white lions. fewer than 300 are known to exist worldwide and the breeding program has made the animals a star attraction. th

. >> coming up what youtube is about to have in common with abc hbo and show time. >> and the surpriset could have you rethinking hand >>> thursday morning, welcome back. you are looking at a live high definition shot from the roof looking out towards the bay bridge looking out to the embarcadero. we've got showers. more coming up. >> "wall street journal" reports that youtube is working on a major site overhaul. plan is to add a number of premium charges featuring programming so youtube will be ready for the time we get our television from the internet. according to the journal, they are putting $100 million in the effort but a spokesman tells us that while they are, quote, always working on updating youtube we don't have any plans to change the site in the near future. >>> govern brown turns 73 today but he started the celebration early. ♪ [ laughter ] >> his staff threw a mini celebration and appeared on youtube channel named for the first dog. >> virginia man is having second thoughts about a piece of furniture he got secondhand from a friend because of what came along with it. tak

hbo just released this picture from the new movie "game change" which follows the john mccain senator campaign and how he chose sarah palin as his running mate. you might want to check it out. >>> thanks for watching us at 6:00. 0.'ll see you back here at :011>>:0 bye-bye.

told you a few weeks about the hbo movie they're making based upon the book "game changer" and the 2008e role of sarah palin in the movie. well, there is julianne. >> you're kidding me? >> that's her on the right dressed up as sarah palin. i think the resemblance is pretty good. shooting the movie this week so it's looking pretty good. julianne, a nice spitting image there. >> you will though i love tina few. hard to beat tina fey. guess who is getting married? we are talking about goldie hawn's daughter, kate hudson of course. she used to be married to -- oh, gosh from -- >> the rocker. >> robinson. >> black eyed crows. black eyed crows. >> no, black crows. just the black crows. right. >> sorry. >> there's her new hubby-to-be. this is matthew bellamy and they're expecting their first child together. she already has ryder. her little cute son who had the longest hair for the longest time. check out bling. that's like j. lo size bling. it's hard to miss. that is the ring. i don't know how many carats that is. >> a lot, a lot. that's good for her. she's a sweetheart just like her mom. the

netflix is almost as big as hbo. scott mcgrew that's just amazing. >> it is. netflix says it has more subscribers than show time and cinnemax. netflix has been under a lot of pressure from hollywood and cable companies. they are really, honestly, afraid of netflix. netflix had soothing language as it reported its profits saying it's not leaving people to cut their cable. netflix wants to be an extra alternative to cable and satellite customers. netflix, as you can sere is being very humble as it makes the biggest profit in nine quarters. meanwhile, the place station network which has three times as many registered users as netflix is still down this morning. it's a disaster for the company. people are worried the hacker could have had access to private information and credit cards. under california law, sony would have to indicate it's happened and would have to say so, soon. now, the question here is just how big is play station. there's play station when compared with brian williams on "nightly news." we'll get rid of that word there for you to see. brian wi

. >> jimmy: now, the other thing i've got to say, and i said it backstage quickly, but this hbo documentaryisten to this you guys, i'm not kidding. it's called "bird and magic." >> yes. >> jimmy: they're making it a broadway musical. [ light laughter ] i mean, wait. so explain this to me, please. how are you going to get a singing and dancing larry bird on broadway? [ laughter ] how is this going to happen? >> or magic johnson. >> jimmy: no, i didn't say that, come on. i think you can do it. >> no. i can go left to right real good. that's on the dance floor. but it's really -- what respect, to have bird and magic be on broadway. >> jimmy: yeah. >> people are saying that they respect how we play. neither one of the -- neither one of us will be acting in it, trust me, or singing in it. >> jimmy: what does larry think about it? i mean, he's got to be like -- >> larry was nervous. you know what he said? he said, magic, i can't believe a hick from indiana is going to be on broadway. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i love that. >> so it's cool. he's excited. he's excited. and it takes a lot to get larry e

." >> yeah, i did that for hbo. those guys are hysterical. >> jimmy: oh, i love them. now, with "the mighty boosh," and all those guys. >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: chris morris and all that stuff. it goes from british comedy, now you're directing this movie "trust." >> yes. >> jimmy: this is a serious -- this is an unbelievable movie. great job, by the way. >> thank you. >> jimmy: it was phenomenal. you want to tell everyone what it's about? >> oh, yeah. sure. it's clive owen and catherine keener play the parents of this regular 14-year-old girl, who meets a boy online. after a few months, really develops a very intense romantic relationship with him, and then when she finally meets him alone, he turns out to be in his 40s. and what happens next really affects everyone in the entire family to a traumatic effect. >> jimmy: it's awful. it's really -- it's insane. i think you picked an angle that i haven't seen. it's like what would a 14-year-old girl think -- it's hard to even describe, because he like brainwashes her through online stuff. you don't know who to trust. you d

this week those of you who watch a lot of c-span or in this case hbo have had the opportunity to see john kennedy's address, as well as the number of the press conferences that he gave. i wrote a book in significant measure by kennedy. i like john kennedy. but there are a lot of problems with the things he did there. a lot of very significant problems. one wonderful thing about john kennedy was the rhetoric, and the inspiration track move them and put their lives in the direction of the arch of justice. barack obama did a wonderful job of that during the campaign and stopped on day one of the presidency, and got involved in the legislative debates over, you know, which rule was going to be included in which draft of which bill. i think that was a terrible mistake. i don't see why he could have done both. ronald reagan did both. there's no reason that obama wouldn't have done both as well. beginning in tucson, he started that man return, the one that brought tears to our eyes in denver and other places is back. i think it'll be a terrible mistake for him to return to the style of the

. >> jets had a reality show on hbo. >>gary: these guys were hungry for attention.t's why i know you. the non sports fan will say i'm going to watch that turkey. i don't know if the giants have enough turkeys on their team. >>jacqueline: i don't know have you seen those beards? i think the nesting in those beards. >>gary: i don't mean to knock the giants, i think they're too nice to make this thing sell nationally. the japanese baseball has been dark since the tsunami but they're back out today for the first time since the earthquake which claimed of some 13,000 lives, left 14,000 missing. if today there was a moment of silence and the two teams played. fans happy of course for the diversion, a sellout crowd and they love their baseball in japan. if it's hockey playoff time. it's funny how jackie time in this. san jose thursday night, saturday night san jose home or going to host and the los angeles games tuesday and thursday in l.a.. this makes me laugh. this is long before the giants. of role the beards. if people talking vote we have to have beards, we have to ha

a year- and-a-half ago they did a story on hbo, they do these great investigative pieces.rnia. i guess it at that time, i guess it was the same house he was pawning stuff off. if this house was worth 30 million and he had no furniture and the wife and family left him. once upon a time the sky could really play and now he's an awful lot of trouble. the sacramento kings are not gone yet. the nba has granted joe or relocation to anaheim. they were supposed to file this week but delayed the action after hearing from sacramento officials. the nader is a former cal bears star in and be a all-pro he's trying to keep the team there carried the bottom line, they said you guys did not want to help us build the new or rain, we will go somewhere else. it jerry rice is fronting a pga minor league called the event here in the east bay. he is in last at plus 17 with a few holes left to play. really, today celebrating her seventh birthday a young lady who is probably the most loyal kron 4 of your we have. my kids say well that's what dad does, isabel left pays attention. today dad perform

james gandolfini is producing this film for hbo. >>> all right.o how do you like the gig for jeff ranieri out there in -- >> oh, my goodness! >> why aren't you out there? >> i've got to get his agent. >> what happened? >> exactly. where's my agent, get him on the phone right now. we've got stuff to talk about. it is a busy, busy day. giants, giants, more giants, something about the world champions. we'll do that today. it's opening day in baseball. giants and the dodgers, can anything be better than that? we'll bring you a slice of the opener from stadium, plstadium, us get you ready for the sharks. they play host to the dallas stars at the tanks. [ banker ] when ashley's violin teacher told her parents she was gifted, they were thrilled. she's a natural vibrato. oh. we started saving for this music camp in vermont. so i told them about some of the wells fargo online savings tools like my savings plan, which helps them set up and monitor a savings goal. until we found out that maybe her teacher uses certain terms a little bit loosely. rebecca is c

. >> reporter: he turned the experience into a special for hbo called weapons of self-destruction. >> which is a pig valve which is kind of cool because you're already inoculated for swine flu number one. and one of the side effects is you can find truffles which is kind of cool. >> reporter: he ended up choosing a cow valve. how is your heart by the way? >> doing well. i mean the cow valve is interesting. it's crazy. i don't eat much meat because my body is going it's one of us. don't do that. >> reporter: on the cuss-of 60 and still going strong, robin williams is happy and thankful. do you look at the world differently at 59? >> i mean, i just take it a little bit slower. i'm traveling at the speed of life right now. it's nicer to say you've got the kid. you got to play wonderful wonderful financee, i have a great life. just enjoy it. there's no rush. [ male announcer ] when mike rowe heads home, his family knows what to expect. hun, mike's coming -- let's get crackin'. [ male announcer ] but what mike rowe doesn't know is that his parents have armed themselves with unquilted viva®

. >> reporter: his four comedy albums and five hbo specials once earned him the title of entertainmentamerica. but being funny has its limitations. >> i would say this when you're a comedian, people just have an automatic opinion about you. especially if you use profanity in your work. like you don't curse at your kids. like you don't curse at your kids. like pass the m.f.cereal. people think that's what you are sometimes. >> reporter: so rock sought to counter that by writing, producing and directing his own films. >> i've got one more thing to say. >> reporter: like the 2003 come dehead of state. >> big and bright. ♪ deep in the heart of texas ♪ >> head of state showed you there was once a point in the very, you know,.... >> reporter: recent past. >> in the very recent past that they thought of a black man being president was funny. so the company gave me millions of dollars to make a movie about it. like here. >> reporter: to make fun of that idea. >> ha-ha-ha. >> how many of you work in a city you can't afford to live in? that ain't right. >> reporter: and just five years later....

but elf ears have made for good comedy in hbo's "bored to death." >> you have the sexiest guy i've everife to have real pointy ears. or elf years. >> it's one thing that i thought would be fascinating. i wasn't a trucky. but all of the sci-fi. it fit my personality. >> reporter: steve performs the procedure. he calls himself a body modification artist. he slices part of the cartilage and then sews it back together in a point. >> there's a lot of people out there who have an inner vision of themselves. and they want to express that to the world around them. i'm happy to be an artist that can provide that kind of work. >> reporter: many of the comments we found in online forums were flip about the seriousness of this type of procedure. one person wrote, i want elf ears, too. but i'm not sure what season to indict. >> i thought about it for 18 months. it's something, once you have it, it's there forever. >> reporter: and you better really want to look like an elf because doctors warn, sculpts cartilage is dangerous. >> the real risks is, one, major deformity of the year, which is very easy

it's "pelican 895," a documentary that airs tomorrow night on hbo.loss with the louisiana department of wildlife and fisheries. what's the future of the birds here? >> we know the birds that were rescued and rehabilitated last year, nearly 100 of them have been seen flying around the coast here. that's really good news. and not one of them has been found dead. >> we're continuing to clean the coastline and the marshes of louisiana to ensure a better habitat for the future of these wildlife. >> thank you for being here. we'll link you to information on our twitter and facebook about that documentary. let's get to the boards. one or two quick things going on this morning. we have big weather happening. not only are there 14 or 15 states that are forecast to have severe weather today, from texas to michigan. but 11 states are under winter weather warnings or advisories. wildfires. and the forecast in texas is hot and dry. and we are live in louisiana all morning long. our friend, philippe cousteau, is coming by in the next half hour. robin? >> looking f

hbo's hired him to do a pilot for a detective series. so he interviewed a yemeni store owner who we've been trying to get to our meetings for years. and every time he comes i said all the murders taking place on your block, crime and everything. he didn't know anything about it. he told the guy who interviewed him thing he didn't tell us, that he's making $200,000 a year in profit, that these yemeni guys have a traditional family, and they have a babe -- baby mama family. in other words, poor black women are exchanging favors for credit. so they have a baby mama. now, you don't get that in the news. you get these journalists who live in the such bushes, a lot of them -- suburbs, a lot of them live in connecticut. and they come in and make forays into the ghetto. they write stories that are based upon a weak analysis. but living in a inner city neighborhood has been an eye opener, and i think it's probably several of the people from cambridge or georgetown get here all the time to talk about inner city life. if they lived there for a few

accurately reflects the lives of old people because it's a downer, and even not in popular culture, the hboduction, alzheimer's project, the first real tv series to really examine alzheimer's and produced by maria shriver's father who just died from it and there's a lot wrong with the series because it presented only nice long term care facilities or it was horrifying enough, it did accurately show what people in the last stages of alzheimer's are like, but there was always a caretaker, a home, a woman -- there was nothing in that about the people who have no caretakers in the late stages of alzheimer's. people who are not in a nice nursing home, whose life savings have run out and are in nursing homes in medicaid, and i've done articles on those nursing homes, and they are not nice places. in a way, it shows the worst case individual scenario. there's always a caretaker. there's always a woman who gave up her job in minneapolis to care for her mother. who will care for that woman of the years she's lost care taking? that is a very, very serious issue which is -- >> host: you mean because o

this president which is he had forgone the bully pulpit this week for those of you that what c-span or hbo have had the chance to see john kennedy inaugural address as well as a member of the press conferences i wrote a book about kennedy. there were a lot of significant problems but one of the wonderful things about john kennedy was the rhetoric he brought to the country. the inspiration he brought to people to move them through to put their lives in the dark in the direction of the art of justice. barack obama did a wonderful job of that during the campaign and then just stomped on day one of the presidency and got involved in the legislative debates over which rule was the and to be included and which drafted which bill and that is a terrible mistake. ronald reagan did both and there is no reason obama couldn't have done both as well and beginning in tucson, in tucson he started batman returns, the one that brought tears to our eyes, and i think would be a terrible mistake for him to return to the style. >> can you talk about your thinking of the title of the book, and the second one, a

this president which is he had forgone the bully pulpit this week for those of you that what c-span or hbo have had the chance to see john kennedy inaugural address as well as a member of the press conferences i wrote a book about kennedy. there were a lot of significant problems but one of the wonderful things about john kennedy was the rhetoric he brought to the country. the inspiration he brought to people to move them through to put their lives in the dark in the direction of the art of justice. barack obama did a wonderful job of that during the campaign and then just stomped on day one of the presidency and got involved in the legislative debates over which rule was the and to be included and which drafted which bill and that is a terrible mistake. ronald reagan did both and there is no reason obama couldn't have done both as well and beginning in tucson, in tucson he started batman returns, the one that brought tears to our eyes, and i think would be a terrible mistake for him to return to the style. >> can you talk about your thinking of the title of the book, and the second one, a

accurately reflect the lives of so people because it is a downer and even not in popular culture, the hbo production alzheimer's project which is the first real tv series to really examine alzheimer's and produced by maria shriver of course whose father recently died of it. there was a lot wrong with that series, and one of the things wrong with it was, it presented only nice long-term care facilities or people -- it was horrifying enough. it didn't accurately show with people in the last ages of alzheimer's are like. but there was always a caretake. there was nothing in that about the people who have no caretakers in the late stages of alzheimer's. people who aren't in the nice nursing homes, whose life savings have run out and are in nursing homes on medicaid and i have done articles on nursing homes when i was angry and they are not ice places. and so it did not in a way, show them that the worst-case individual scenario. you lose your life but there was always the caretaker. it was always a woman. there was a woman who had given up her job in minneapolis to care for them other. who is