. >> he did a great supporting role in jackie brown. he is just a beautiful human being. i have come to love the man. i got to know him over the course of making the film. i love dancing with him. i just copy his moves. [laughter] tavis: there is a guy named michael jackson who he got most of that from. >> he is such a great person. i would love to work with him again. tavis: so you have a son who is obviously managing this every day. why choose to put this out as a screenplay, as opposed to not putting it out? everybody who has somebody close to them who is struggling with something like this, that is a personal decision. it is a personal battle, private affair. obviously i am glad you did, and the nominations and award speak to the fact that people appreciate it, but you could have left that as a private affair. >> as a writer and director, you have to trust that the best work sometimes comes from your own heart. it was such a big part of my life and my son's life and his mother's life, too. you go through quite an injured trying to hold together the family, trying to h

jackie brown is totally in conversation outwardly. an interesting black/white relationship going on which is completely taboo in american cinema. >> oh, absolutely. i mean, this is a way to talk about the various ways that race and race simple just manifests in society, whether it's in your sort of low-life criminal type in reservoir dogs or whether it's buddies who are interracial friends. obviously vincent and jules in "pulp fiction" all the way up to django. i think it helps people see something familiar. people see something familiar from their own lives. >> it's interesting the way that, you know, slavery gets smooshed into our face here and we are just -- it was always the thing we didn't want to talk about, but now we can't stop talking about it. >> there's a west african proverb and it goes only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. so how can we tell stories in order to be those historians for the lions, the people who have not had the voice and who not only have not had the voice but who have had their

jackie davis from p.r.i. partners. we have gifts from bobbi brown, h bloom, flowers out there somewhere. we can get those for you in a few minutes. we are so glad you came. there are wonderful things inside. even things from nbc 4. we look forward to you opening those up. inside, there are promises for makeovers for all of you. wonderful gifts. our regular dermatologist is giving you all facials. knee man marx has wonderful presents and new hair cuts. you can find out all about it when you open them up. we'll be right back in a few minutes. first a look at some stories we're following. keith? >> that's awesome. truly awesome. let's look at some of the stories we are following on news 4 this afternoon. jim handley joins us with a preview of things to come. hey, jim. >> coming up, a busy afternoon a at 4:00 and 5:00. we continue to follow the announcement from the pope today that he'll step down at the end of the month. we'll hear from local parishioners and what they have to say. the action heats up today on the season of "the biggest loser" tonight. we catch up with one of the contestant

. >> and it is interesting, jackie, because i started this by talking about the "brown" case, and particularlyhe kenneth clark dahl studies and the supreme court saying we have to integrate, and if we don't, we will end up with african-american children having a negative sense of themselves and black children picking white dolls, and we saw these studies replicated in a little film of " "girls like me" and we saw a replication of that. i want to look at that for a moment, and then come back. >> dr. kenneth clark conducted a doll test with black children. he asked them to choose between the black doll and the white doll, and in the majority of the instances the children preferred the white doll. i decided to reconduct the test as dr. clark did and find out how we have progressed since then. can you show me the doll that you like best and that you would like to play with? >> this one. >> this one. >> i like that one. >> this one. >> so -- is that solved by integration? >> you know, it's -- i think that it would be very beneficial that we see in the reporting down there that it is beneficial when

jackie kennedy wore when her husband was shot that sounds like the greatest job in the world. i've spent four year at national archives going through the great attic of america's memories. >> brown: and the research you're doing, we're not going to go through and give away the whole plot here but you're looking at an assassination attempt. >> that's right. brown: were you going back through time and looking... >> what happened is basically over two dozen attempts on the life of the president of the united states. four have been successful. what the plot is is a serial killer who is meticulously recreating the crimes of all the presidential a sass ins from john wilkes booth to lee harvey ons wall. the fun to me is the research looking at what do they have in common in real life. >> brown: the traits and the way they went about it. >> exactly. if you look the secret service studied and said if you look at all the people who have attempted to kill the president nothing in common. every age range and socioeconomic range but look at the four who have successful done it and the overlaps start getting creepier. you'll see three out of the four are in their 20s. they basically are all m

jackie robinson was a friend. he was the sort of point man on the 1957 civil rights bill and he could speak up right after brown versusppreciate nixon going out supporting nixon's civil rights. >> he didn't think it would help him in the south. ike did not like that supreme court decision. he thought that it was -- things should stay as they were. it would disrupt the society to have this -- ike understood the constitution. yeah, so there was no -- >> but he was made uncomfortable by it. >> he was. >> i thought it was fascinating because even lbj when he was running the senate got angry because he thought nixon was too far out there on civil rights and said nixon was running the propaganda arm of making the civil rights bill more than it was. >> johnson was playing all sides of that point. mark can tell you he was running for president. on the other hand, didn't want to offend the southerns like dick russell. they wanted a bill but there was a clause in the bill about voting rights which he did not want and it got through in a slightly weaker version than the republicans wanted but a stronger version than johnson and

jacki sheckner in the current news center. >> good morning. two departments running to fill john kerry's former seat in the senate are signing the same no super pac pledge that senator elizabeth warren and scott brown and ed mary are agreeing to discourage you said groups from campaigning on their behalf. while the agreement is neither legally binding nor enforceable it stipulates if a third party airs and ad in favor of one candidate, the candidate then has to pay half the cost of that ad to the opponent's charity of choice. they are encouraging any republicans to sign on to that agreement, as well. so far, two possible candidates have popped up on the republican side an gabriel gomez and dan winslow. they need 2,000 signatures apiece to get on the ballot. the primary would be april 30, the special election june 25. harry reid has started the confirmation for chuck hagel. sixty votes are needed to avoid a filibuster. despite republican opposition, it looks like reid may get what he needs. others have said they will at least vote the end a filibuster. we are back after the break. stick around. billy zane stars in barabbas. coming in march to reelz. to find reelz in your area, go to reelz.com [ ♪ th