i tell the story not only of ernest hemingway but ernest hemingway and his children and other people intersected with the life of this boat and it is a kind of multi biographical approach which seems to be what i know how to do, maybe the only thing i know how to do. >> host: gregory -- >> guest: gregory -- pawpaw's nickname -- he nicknamed everybody -- that is how it was pronounced -- he actually became gloria for the end of his life. he had a complete exchange and died tragically in 2001 in a woman's jail cell in miami and i knew his nickname because of the washington post reporter in 1987, i tracked down all three hemingway sons and i spent time with the eldest, with the middle son who was alive and with the third son who died in 2001. >> host: one is still alive. >> guest: patrick is 84 and lives in montana and he is the surviving hemingway son who had a lot to do with the life of his father's both which he lost. >> host: all three sense than time? >> guest: absolutely and hemingway was married four times with three wives with time on that boat, but through a combination of archi

tavis: the story is that hemingway a true story. hemingway, for years, wouldn't write.as shut down by that, was shut down by it, was depressed by it and, to your point, this is an original screenplay for this particular project, but that is a fascinating parallel. hemingway just was i suspect that could happen to you. if something lost, something tangible, something intangible is lost that means that much to you, i guess it could emotionally shut you down for a while. >> it could. it happens to the character in the movie. he never writes again. it must be terrible, that feeling. you put so much into something and it's now gone, it's gone. you hear about people rewriting when that happens. patrick leigh fermor, who was a great british travel writer who traveled down the danube before the second world war and wrote diaries and those diaries were lost or stolen at the end of the journey, he then rewrote it all and then published the book. so it can be done, but it must be a terrible feeling. tavis: i love asking this question of certain actors because i'm always fascinated

the famous cast of the hemingway meet -- katz of the hanoi museum are subject federal oversight.late court rung, the museum must abide by the same laws regulating zoos are circuses. joining me now, hat ceo. thank you for coming on the show. appriate. i just don't getthis. how is it hat the federal government thinks that it should have oversight over a museum? >> it appears that an enforcement agent visited the property and, based on our interpretation of busing simi -- exhibiting the cats, e fell under those guidelines. since that time from we have been trying to comply with licensor requests and obtning the necessary licenses. gerri: tell us a little bit because they are very secial. and also, tell us how many of there are. >> we have 44 cats that occupy our 1 acre site at the museum and studio of ernest hemingway has. their room the property along those lines, but they are unique in that the historical link between their ship -- shippers of the eastern born. they have multi toes. gerri: we saw a picture, and you can see very clearlin any kind of weird paw, oversized. extra fing

all of us wanted to be writers because of hemingway. he is the american writer. and that power of leadership is what kennedy had. he had made all of us growing up in that generation, everybody since, want to get into politics. before jack kennedy went into pl politics, it was stiff guys with three-piece suits, bob taft, nixon, guys that were really boring and who wanted to be one of them? and kennedy came along and said, no, this is the right thing to be doing. like hemingway did with writing, this is the thing you've got to be doing if you want to be a guy, this is it, and women later. and i think that really is what a leader is. and of course he got us to the moon, created the peace corps, the first real civil rights president. as my son, michael, points out, he's a real history buff, he took the segregationist party and made it a civil rights party. and he inspired people to go into public life. he said, public life is where it's at. it's not sport, it's public life. that's the one redolent reality of our lives. he's still there as the symbol of, look at bill

this is a project i have been developing a couple of years, with hillary hemingway, his niece. it deals with the last 10 years of his life in cuba, during the time he wrote "the old man and the c." it is a film we have been financing for a couple of years. i have the honor to have support from sir anthony hopkins and annette bening. we are coming not to the finish line, but to the beginning. the finish line is at the end. it is an interesting place now. if you are in independent film, you have to go which it almost span the globe over there. you have to bring money from all over the world to make a movie these days. it takes time. especially when the project is ambitious, in terms of budget. tavis: i am glad you said that. you always seem to be working on other projects, and they always seem to take years to get done. >> the lost city. tavis: you work on these things a long time. tommy why you choose to spend your life as an actor, producer, director, spending and investing so many years on these passion projects? >> i think it is a desire to tell the story. if you have an idea

you mentioned reading hemingway as a kid. >> a lot of people discouraged me, you know, reading haliebling was discouraging because i really wanted to be him and write about boxing and food and france and new york lowlife but i don't know anything about any of those things. >> rose:. >> it was his abilities as a stylist that attracted you or a storyteller? >> he was a great stylist, really, i mean, he was his own story. and it was really all about him, i think, but he was a beautiful stylist, and when i was at the magazine, they used to i had lunch once with william sean and he said it was true that aj liebling sat in his office at the new yorker and pounding the keys and he was chart chortling at his own work. >> the only person in the history of the magazine to enjoy writing. everybody else suffered through it. >> rose: a moment of great pleasure to writ write write for new yorker magazine? >> it was a lot of fun. i liked writing faulk of the town when it was anonymous, and. >> rose: yeah. >> and it was just that anonymous, curious reporter, wandering around the city and seeing whatever

but then they come back, sure luck masterpiece woody harrelson, and games change clive owen hemingwayest television series drama breaking bad amc, boardwalk empire hbo, downtown abbey's season to pbs, a homeland showtime, the newsroom hbo best performers by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture and the adams the master? sally field lincoln, and have a way to claim as a prime, not helen hunt as sessions, and nicole kidman the paperboy best performance by an actress and a motion picture comedy or musical family blunt semi-official and and the m do the dance jennifer lawrence, up silver linings playbook maggie smith court said, meryl streep hope springs best motion picture comedy or musical best exotic marigold hotel, up lemmas the ride that's correct pronunciation (laughter) moonrise kingdom, salmon fishing in the men, of silver linings playbook, that's my boy. >> best performance by an actress in a miniseries or motion picture made for television nicole kidman, and hemingway and del mar in just a lame, american or story asylum than a meddler, the girl julianne moore, game

nicole kidman, "hemingway and gelhorn," jessica lange, "american horror story asylum," sienna miller,by an actor in a motion picture drama. daniel day-lewis, "lincoln," richard gere, "arbitrage," john hawks, "the session," joaquin phoenix, "the master," denzel washington, "slice." best director motion picture, ben affleck, "argo," kathryn bigelow, "zero dark thirty," ang lee, "life of pi," steven spielberg, "lincoln," quintin tarantino, "django unchained." best motion picture drama, "argo," "django unchained," "life of pi," "lincoln," "zero dark thirty." >> congratulations to all our nominees and to all the producers of this year's movies and television. >> so, ken, surprised? >> well, i was certainly wrong about "the master," but on the other hand, "lincoln" and "zero dark thirty" got a lot of nominations. it's a very good year for maggie smith, who got nominated both in the tv category for "down in abbey aid and for the movie category for "the quartet." so great for her. >> and snubs? >> snubs? i thought "beast of the southern wild" might have gotten a nomination. >> a lot of people

there is a very noisy party at, uh, 10723 hemingway drive. yeah, it's extremely loud! yeah. hell, yes, i'll hold. it's like music has become irrelevant, you know. we live in, like, a post-music world. hey, sorry for not being sober enough to stop you from doing that cannonball in that empty pool. and sorry for being the guy to say, "hey, tommy, do the cannonball." i almost died. that was serious. man, your body is a wonder ball-- or a water bra. no-- uh, your body is a waterfall. love you, too, man. yeah, nice. aah, see, it's when i... it's when i move at any moment, it hurts. captioning sponsored by 20th century fox television captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> one of these secrets you don't have to keep inside anymore. >> speaking out. the victim of sexual abuse in the boy scouts reacts to the files the boy scouts kept hidden that are now reveal. >> more secret files accused of troop abuse come to light. including dozens from the bay area. one man's story of what happened to him during boy scout camp. >> reporter: we're talking about 1200 secret fi

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nicole kidman was nominated in both the movies and the television roles for her role in the tv movie "hemingway nominated for best actress. mer i don't know if you saw "silver linings playbook." bradley cooper got a first time nomination for that movie, hue jackman for les miserables and d denzel washington for "flight." >> i haven't seen any of them. >> would you like a date for the movies? i'm going to catch you up, because you have a lot of work to do, young man. >> maybe my indication wasn't so subtle. can we go on a movie date, nischelle turner? >> i'll get you caught up this award season. by the way, if your favorite actor didn't get nominated, they have another opportunity tomorrow. because bright and early, once again, golden globe nominations, and i will be there for that as well. >> you embarrass me. i'm blushing. thank you, nischelle. >> bye. >>> a reminder to watch "showbiz tonight" at 11:00 eastern on hln. seem great at the time... but later... [ shirt ] merry christmas, everybody! not so much. ho ho ho! this isn't that kind of deal. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress

i had grown up reading gene nelson and ernest hemingway and now i had to face propaganda eight hoursa day and i was 14 years old. what do you think honestly if having on becomes illegal. the whole political 14-year-old, yes. but you've been fun and a 14-year-old becomes political to have a good time. that's up a thesis about the protests that began in iran as early as 1980. under sharia law came into place in iran for early after the revolution and under sharia law, democracy and the freedom that the citizen is impossible. in the same sharia laws that govern iran in 1979 and 1880 are still in place. there have been some cosmetic changes here and there needs what administration you have under the presidential. what a mom is the president of iran, things are better. so now polish you could get away with. but does that really make a big difference quiz to set in iran becomes democratic under people like him? now, sustained set of laws that govern iran. under this constitution, freedom and democracy is impossible. i'm sure you all know about the american hostages. everybody knows because

i had grown up reading jane austen and ernest hemingway and now, i had to face propaganda eight hours per day. i was 14-years old. what you think, honestly, having something become illegal? what you think the average teenager -- how political can 14-year-old get? you ban fun and the 14-year-old becomes political. that was the basis of all the protests that began in iran after 1980. sharia law came into place in iran early after the revolution and then democracy and freedom of the citizen is impossible. the same laws that govern iran in 1979 and 1980 are still in place. there have been some cosmetic changes here and there depending on what administration you have. things got a little bit better but there were things you get away with like male college. does that really make a big difference? -- even get away with things like nail polish. does that really make a difference? no, the same set of laws would still govern iran. under this constitution, freedom and democracy and i ran is impossible. i'm sure you all know about the american hostages. the movie "argo" just came out after the ho

in his column a few days ago, nicholas kosoff quoted nicholas hemingway, a public health specialist, who said children 5 to 14 in america are 13 times more likely to be murdered with guns as children in other industrialized countries. that ought to be a cull to action to all of us he wrote, and i agree, let's treat firearms rationally as the center of a public health crisis. a public health crisis that claims one life every 20 minutes. if only for the sake of our children, we have to act and it needs to begin with renewing the ban on assault weapons. the homicide rate in the united states is 6.9 points higher than the rates in 22 other populous, high-income countries combined this gives me great pause when i think that the homicide rate in puerto rico is four times higher than that of the u.s. and the virgin islands is even higher than that. the last report in puerto rico is 36.to per 100,000 and the virgin islands is closer to 60. we have been pleading for more federal help, we can begin with passing the assault ban next year and the other related bills. the united states has the hi

the boat was dry dock, on a hillside at hemingway's home, and it was in terrible condition. it looked as if it were dying of thirst and only wanted to get into water, but that further convinced me i had a story to tell through the prism of this boat because when hemingway got the boat, he was the reigning monarch of american literature. he was at the very apex, and when he lost the boat, when he lost everything, when he killed himself by shotgun 27 years later, this boat lasted him through three wives, the nobel prize, and all his ruin, which is why it's sub titled everything he loved in life and lost. >> when it was built? >> it was built in a shipyard in brooklyn by the wheeler manufacturing company which in the 1930s was a very, very rep reputable fishing boat, cruiser boat, wooden hold construction boat company, and typical hemingway studied it out and looked for a long time before getting the boat, the exact boat he wanted, and he had it custom fitted, a stock boat, and it was fitted out to specifications, but went into the gulf stream off key west and began catching th

wright by the frenchman, followed by a 77 of the novelist historian by the american scholar robert hemingwayd in 86 and 1988, came my two volumes on hughes. aided by a voluminous archive left behind by hughes, i tried to tell through the lens of one crucial life the african-american story as it had existed, and exists at a certain social level. i tried to do justice to the complexity that had been discounted over the centuries, and the representation of american racial reality. the picture is quite different now. the 1990s saw a steady rise of prize-winning biographies of black americans by writers such as taylor branch and william fugate in 1994 and 2001, david lewis one pillagers for each of his two volumes on dubois. this year, a biography by the lake manning marigold won the pulitzer prize. this surge in biographical writing by african-americans is i think a dependable index is shifting and meaning of race in american culture, and also to the dignity of black americans. biographies document and complicate a sense of individual human condition. they are the opponent, faceless this of exis