and i always admired her. me up to me after i said that and said now ask her about menstruating. and i did. and they got so mad that they expelled me. i felt bad but in a way, i loved this girl -- >> why did you get expelled again? >> no, no, the first time -- >> so this was number two? >> this was number two. >> what was number one? >> nothing really -- my mom had gotten a divorce and we were still in catholic school and there was this priest father cunningham and i really liked him and he would walk up and down by my third grade class. and i would always try and catch up to him. i would say good morning father cunningham. he would say good morning sylvia. i said cynthia. and he would say sylvia. after a while i was like, fine, sylvia. and after a while i went to confession to him because he was my friend. and he started yelling saying my mother was going to go to hell because i didn't go to mass. i said to him in the confessional, what do you know about my mom? you doesn't know anything about my mother. she's

>> i think so. >> i always felt embarrassed. ow to talk and everybody's tried to help me. >> why would you want to change it? >> because sometimes it sounds like i could hear the clothesline, the sheets being pulled from the clotheslines. because that's what it sounds like to me. i don't know. i have tried, though. i have tried. they say, you need to relax your mouth and speak softly. who the heck -- who is going to be -- >> no one wants to hear you talk any other way than this. >> i don't talk like that. >> yes, you do. let's talk politics. you are a little fire brand and i bet you are about politics. the current debate is president obama, should he get another go or has he basically blown it? has all of the hope that he came in to power with evaporated? >> may i? i googled it. it is like, listen, i sell music, right but i try to make it real so that i can actually really help people and make them feel better. but, you know, you watch the advertisement and you listen to a speech where the way they talk, here's some fact. when cl

i always imagined as a player that the music was in my fingers. now i know is in the brain. it is a neuro-representation of the figures. music is in every part of the brain that we have mapped. there is no part of the brain that does not have something to do with music. i found that very surprising. i wondered if you find that surprising as a player and what your own intuitions were coming into it. >> i think my intuition is that music is something that gets received in some sense or another, like radio, like something you pick up. it is a vibration. when i have written my own music for the guitar, a lot of times it is the result of having experienced something and having to absorb it like you might absorb a vibration or light our experience something rhythmic like walking down the street. >> a lot of composers say they feel like they are not really creating the music. they're channeling it. roseanne cash talks about holding up her catcher's mitt and catching one as it goes by. someone else talks about how the music is everywhere for anyone to take, that you just have to tun

i always think of that town at the the prototypical steel string guitar sound. itish isles, a caltech music. i learned all the paul simon songs. as i got older -- >> he is a hell of a guitarist. people do not realize. he is not flashy, but if you try to learn his tunes, they are really hard. >> he is a brilliant guitar player. i eventually got interested in jazz, world music, everything. maybe that is one of the reasons. i enjoyed so many kinds of music, i did not have a preference. i did not want to be anything in particular. i just wanted to play guitar and get that sound that i was hearing in my head. >> is there a particular song of yours that you can trace back to and influence, sound that you were trying to get that you heard somebody else use and you wanted to use it? >> i will play you a few bars from a piece that i wrote in the 1970's, very much influenced by the british isles style. this one is called "inverness." ♪ >> i am cutting it short, but, to me, that is the quintessential british isles style. >> although, in your hand, it is more harmonically co

>> one of the things that i have always, you know, and steve and i have always loved is the new technologying to us, and keep pushing it. but what we never forget is the fundamental basics of what a movie is. and that is the story and the characters, and so when you look ahead to where it is going, it's really the technolo, as we develop it at pixar, is always driven by the nds of the story. now when you look at "toy story", our first feature film t was at the infancy of the medium. and there are certain things we could not do at that time. that's why choosing the subject matter of toys, made of plastic, was perfect for computer animation of the day which kind of made everything look like plastic anyway. the things we stayed away from were the human characters. if you watch "to story", they are really kind of stylized but also, we don't show them that often. now, the human character is something that we're making films with. because the art form and the technology has advanced that far. but 's constantly driving the technology because of what the stories need. every major development, it's

>> i guess i have always been passionate about civil rights and equality for everyone, and i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality and other issues, but i guess i have always been someone that is vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, and having to listen to many perspectives before making key decisions. as an activist in chinatown, i have always felt that working families and people who work in our neighborhoods need to have much more support. it is always about giving more voice to immigrants or the underserved and workers in the city. that is what drives my passion as a supervisor. >> tell me about the process of running for supervisor. what did you learn from the campaign process? was anything surprising? supervisor mar: i had to move from being a regular person that barely gets his kid to school on time and makes her a healthy lunch to having to go to a photo opportunities. i was on the school board for eight years, i had some training. and i was in the democratic party central committee for years before that and wa

it's always a tough choice. i learned at that time responsibility. you know. your personal sorrow and struggles can't always define you and what you do. and i learned a great deal about responsibility. and i grew up being responsible for a lot of things and so it was just another lesson for me. and there's no way that i could have, you know, deserted everybody and caused everybody to lose money and be out of work and i probably would have been sued, i don't know what would have happened. there was just no choice. tavis: how did your growing up in indiana without your mother and the story now of your father's passing, not being able to bury him, how did all of this, if it did, influence the way you played or portrayed the character as the mom on "the brady bunch"? >> i think i portrayed carol brady as the mother that i always wished i had. i think it affected me greatly and you know, that story, you know, all those stories of "the brady bunch," they're sweet, they're gentle. i think they're seen through the eyes of a child. i think that's why it's lasted so long

i was always politically involved. when i was a college student, i worked on the initiative to get rid of affirmative action in our public government system. currently, we have 3 legislative items that are pending. the first is going to be coming to a final vote on tuesday, our mid-market uptown tenderloin task exemption legislation. it is basically an incentive to encourage businesses to come to mid-market. in particular, where we have the highest commercial vacancy. and then when i graduated, moved out to san francisco about 12 years ago. i always loved sanford cisco in college, and i just wanted to try it out. i started working in economic development policy. i was a community organizer for six years. i worked with young people, parents, and families around issues that concern our neighborhoods, whether it was improving muni lines, affordable housing, public schools, or just planning issues in neighborhoods. we just had a hearing last week, and we are trying to do some work around bedbug enforcement, which is a major

and where i always had a problem, i always look at the rules, and i say, okay, can i do this? can i get, can i make the flow work? can i use these rules, maybe construct a way of using the rules and not violate the spirit of the rules, but use the rules as a way to add some follow-ups, stuff like that? it's hard, no question about it. and you've got to make sure that you don't get involved in that. in other words, on the air you don't get involved in trying to manipulate the rules and whatever. but it's not easy. >> host: when the candidates break the rules, what can you do? >> guest: well, you've got to call their hand. and you have got to call their hand in front of millions and millions of people. and it's, that also is not easy. you need to do it in a gentle, professional way. you need to do it on -- also, you've got to tell people ahead of time what the rules are. the very beginning of a debate. okay, here's what the rules are. so the audience is with you when you stop them and say, hey, billy bob, you're going over, your time's up. the candidate -- the audience realizes,

i have always wanted to have a long career and i think it helps with longevity. tavis: the prevailing wisdom is to not take too many risks, make money, how do stuff that people will like you in. >> i did do spider-man. [laughter] i was in bring it on. i have had some fun. tavis: i digress on that point. >> i like, isla fisher -- comedies with isla fisher, night long dirty comedies. i better have fun, be cathartic, have something for me to want to express or i would not be very good. tavis: could have you on the program. finally tonight, a few words on the heavy d that divide the new era of hip-hop in the 80's in the '90s. i love those guys be . heavy d joined us years ago for a terrific conversation. you can revisit the entire conversation on our web site at pbs.org. until then,th k kp eee >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together w your community to make every day bet

i would always look forward to that call. i would always -- you do a show for millions of viewers. look forward to that call. mainly because she always genuinely got it. this wasn't just somebody from an older generation saying, i love it because you did it. no. she got the jokes. she was just a wickedly dark person. got all the -- the jokes. it was impossible to offend her. and in a way it was like weirdly, you're kind of like putting that really, really expensive macaroni drawing on the -- on the refrigerator, you know, every week. so that was -- that was -- i miss that very much. >> jack, do you have an impact person? >> yeah. my -- it was definitely my parents as well. >> really. >> they were both -- they were both entrepreneurs. my dad started a pizza restaurant when he was 19 with his best friend. and it was called two nice guys. >> where? >> in st. louis, missouri, where i'm from. started doing really well. they started to need to hire some help. they made one rule which was they would not date the wait staff. they hired my mom a month later. and my dad fell in love with her,

like i always liked that sort of creative process and it's just sort of interesting after like years and years that i am starting to actually get to do storytelling with robots. some ways i'm getting to author characters that physically exist in the world world and can do way more than just maybe what's on a page. when i was a freshman at m.i.t., i decided i wanted to get a campus job and i went home to my like living group or whatever and someone was like, hey, do you want to work in a robotics lab? i went into this lab and they were building these awesome social robots. it's like, there was something about social robots that captured my imagination and like from the first project that we did in that lab, we had built this interactive sort of ter rarium. there was a robot that didn't look like a person, almost had like a hand sort of thing at the top. if there were people around suddenly that sort of hand becomes a face. not that it had eyes, just in how it's acting and checks out the people along the way. curious. simple behavior system but one we get right away. people what come ba

but i haven't always had the opportunity to do that. sometimes i have the fried chicken dinner that i'm sinking my teeth into as if it's the fill fillet mignon and i would love for it to be on the page and for me not to infuse it with humanity that may not have a chance to develop in the course of a story it that makes sense. this was the chance to do that. if you read the book the voices of these women are very realized to me. i knew these women. i knew abilene and minnie and rarely does that happen. i always say there are certain adjectives they say for black women, dignified, soulful, sassy, wise. >> charlie: why do they choose those adjectives? >> i don't know, that's probably a better question for them but i just felt a -- i feel a general sense that people -- that there's a fear and not necessarily from a caucasian people but this is a three-hour conversation but that there is only certain things that we can be that there is not complexity to us and i think that's probably why even kathleen stockett wrote the book finding out of wh

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i always kind of avoid... i keep my private life private.e been doing it wrong all this time. and i'm going start naming people. (laughter) i'm not going to name herman cain and newt gingrich and all those folks because dick cheney... >> jon: i'm going to name them for you. >> well, everybody has done that. but i think it's kind of exciting that i can just go... the only one little drawback is i'm going to be 90 in january... (cheers and applause) it isn't anything i accomplished. it just happened. (laughter) but i... when you get to be that old you can't remember the guys you've had. (laughter) i go back and think i remember the where but who was that? i think i'm going to change my whole approach thanks to you. >> jon: you're very, very welcome. you know, you could always work with just head shots. just have them leave a head shot, put it up and then you'll always have it. like a comedy club. that's what we used to do. >> oh, yeah, that's good. but i don't always want to have it. >> jon: (laughs) i'm excited. you got your television show,

>> yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i always think of the -- [ light laughter ] i always think of the juddi know who he is. >> jimmy: oh. [ laughter ] well, he was on -- i think he was on howard stern -- >> i'm not -- i don't live in a cave. >> jimmy: i don't know. well, you never invited me over to the house. you could, i don't know. but he -- [ laughter ] he -- he tells this story about how he loves you and he found out where you lived in california, and he -- he -- >> oh, right, yeah. i know this story. >> jimmy: you do know this story. >> yeah, but you can tell them. they don't know this story. >> jimmy: so he goes over and he -- like, he gives -- puts fan mail in your mailbox or something like that or -- something like this. >> no, i can tell you this story. [ laughter ] i lived on a street in beverly hills, so i had a rule that i -- if somebody came to the door, i would not sign autographs because it would -- it could be an endless thing. so this, you know, 11 or 12-year-old kid came to the door, and i said, "i'm really sorry. i can't sign autographs at the door." because it would be