dame helen mirren was born as helen lydia miron off her paternal grandparents were russian gentry fled the country after the bolshevik revolution and she worked her way from school performances an amateur theatre to end up joining the legendary royal shakespeare company seven years ago helen was granted the title of dame by queen elizabeth the second and just three years later she played queen elizabeth the second in the movie the queen she's the only actress ever to have to trade both with elizabeth on the screen. helen thank you very much for being with us it's a privilege to have you on the show it's a pleasure first of all we know that you are of russian origin your father was of russian origin tell us tell us a little bit about it did did your russian nests really play any role in your brain he when you when you were a child i think inevitably it played a huge role i mean in in a funny way i don't mean in a negative sense that it was a bad thing but. my father had and indeed my grandfather had the understanding that they would never ever ever be able to go back to russia so they h

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and later this week -- helen mirren, paul bettany, rosemarie dewitt, john krasinski and music from littleig town and crystal castles. so join us then. our first guest tonight is a delightful young woman whom you know from film and television alike. she's getting rave reviews for her work playing a free-spirited ballerina opposite natalie portman in the new movie "black swan," it's playing in select cities now. please say hello to mila kunis. [ cheers and applause ] >> hi. >> jimmy: how are you? >> i'm good. >> jimmy: so are you celebrating hanukkah or christmas or neither or -- >> tech knolly hanukkah but realistically both. i mean, i love me a christmas tree. >> jimmy: you might as well get as much for the holidays. >> right. >> jimmy: you're originally from the ukraine. you're aware of this. >> yes. >> jimmy: are there traditional ukrainian holiday things that you do? >> not necessarily. my mom makes -- i knew you were going to talk about this. my mom's going to kill me. a specific dish for new year's. we're not -- new year's is a big thing in my family. you want to know what this food

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tomorrow night, helen mirren, paul bettany and little big town. join us for that. guest tonight is one of the greats. he's a blues brother, he's a conehead, a ghost burster and a vodka maker on the side. you can hear him give voice to jelly stone park in the new 3d movie "yogi bear." please welcome dan aykroyd. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. >> jimmy: are we having a tailgate party or something? [ applause ] ah, yes. i brought you some specimens, jimmy. and i bring you greetings from the aa albanian. he wants me to kiss you. he kisses the neck. jimmy i'm talking about. >> jimmy: of course. how are you? >> life in the western world, what could go wrong? >> jimmy: first of all, i'm a big fan, for a long time. but i know you don't do a lot of talk shows. i appreciate you coming on. i saw you with larry king earlier this year. >> yes. i felt like the hand in the fox house on that one. >> jimmy: you were there to talk about ufos. >> well, the reason i was asked to go on there is because stephen hawking actually referenced a ufo siting from

helen mirren, dan aykroyd, mila kunis, ryan seacrest, paul bettany, rosemarie dewitt, brian austin green little big town, crystal castles. and making their network television debut, believe it or not, social distortion. so please join us for that. in february, our first guest is co-host of the academy awards and he might very well be handing himself a trophy too for his terrific performance in the new movie "127 hours." please give a big hand to a man who cut his own off, james franco. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: well, first -- [ cheers and applause ] he knows. he knows. first of all, i want to thank you, because i know you flew out here from new york, you just got here a couple hours ago and then you're flying back tonight, is that the plan? >> right after this, yeah. >> i'm a nerd. >> jimmy: because you have to get to class. >> yeah. i have class -- >> jimmy: because you're still in college. >> yeah, it's not college, it's graduate school, but yeah. >> jimmy: it's graduate school. and -- >> i mean, i'm not getting school lunches or whatever. >> jimmy: your mother's not writing yo

no helen mirren. >> no. folks in from "the fighter" last week. it did well in the nominations. really enjoyed the film. who got -- we have melissa leo, nominated. >> what a spectacular performance for that. melissa leo. >> amy adams. >> amy adams. >> christian bale. and mark wahlberg. >> wow. >> what a tribute to him, a guy that kept this project going when it went through matt damon and brad pitt. he believed in this story. and he got it made. it must be great news for him. >> you have the oscars. are the golden globes a good predictor? bad predictor? >> it's the first call, i'd say. you usually see a preference for the foreign films. i don't think we'll see this kind of support for "the tourist," when the oscars come around. but we're beginning to see the competitions that might go down. geoffrey rush and christian bale. that's going to be a great battle for "the king's speech," and "the fighter." >> and for best picture, what? "social network." "fighter." >> we'll see how it gets through these awards. "bl

helen mirren, another one.> a classically beautiful woman, talented actress, there she is. always looks gorgeous. not everyone on the red carpet does. >> i bet you have a list of look zrs. >> sometimes you get it right. this looked like it was put together by a nursery school including the fingerprint. this was a nightmare. some pop stars nail it i think like lady gaga but kesha is a hot mess. >> a technical term. >> cloris leachman, i love her but this is a mess. looks like a tourist guide. courtney love, you know, doesn't always nail it on the red carpet, either. she's trying, she's trying. she needs to turn on the lights before selecting her outfits but actually put together a website this year called what courtney wore today and take as picture and i will say sometimes she looks pretty good. >> a rough train ride in for you today. >> it was. i'm a little edgy. >> break-out stars of 2010, acting and music. >> who would have thought betty white, 88-year-old woman would make her come back a. year ago she was i