the girl said she was janis joplin and she introduced me to jimi hendrix. he said are you jewish?e said you should be a manager. i said who should i manage? >> alice cooper. >> she is a protector. he keeps the wolf from the door. >> if someone asked me who invented the celebrity chef? shep gordon. >> he wrote the book. >> get the money, always remember to get the money, never forget to always remember to get the money. >> that is something new and let's stick with it. >> we tried to do as many outrageous things as possible. everybody went wild. >> he navigated us through this rough passage. >> i was so over my head. there is nothing about fame that sells it. the ones who rose to the top got hurt the worst. i felt the stress of l.a. i had spent my life living other people's lives and it wanted to see what my life was. i never really developed a family. i am making up work. shep gordon is the nicest person i've ever met hands down. >> what is important is doing compassionate business. there are no winners and losers. it is only winners. >> they all end up in shep's kitchen. >> he te

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the girl called me over and said she was janis joplin. she introduced me to jimmy hendrix and jimmy hendrix says are you jewish. i said yes. he said you should be a manager. i said no problem, who should i manage. alice cooper. the word mensch -- >> if somebody asked me who invented the celebrity shep shep gordon. >> shep is the quintessential manager. he wrote the book and everybody else is reading from it. >> the most important thing the manager does. get the money. always remember to get the money. never forget and always remember to get the money. >> something new that nobody's ever seen before and let's stick with it. >> we tried to do as many outrageous things as we could. >> no matter what, you're the navigator through the rough passage. >> there's nothing about fame that i've ever seen that's healthy. the ones who rose to the top got hurt the worst. >> the culture what you are not who you are. >> i had spent my life living other people's lives and i wanted to see what my life was. >> i never really developed a family. growing up i

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the human right leader figures stands alongside janis joplin and garcia. his nephew, president of the harvey milk foundation, revealed the figure and said his uncle would have been proud and tickled to have been honored in this way. >>> new video tomorrow of a successful landing in denver. she's not related to the historic aviator but she shares her name and her passion for flight. this earhart wants to complete her predecessor's 1937 around the world flight and like the first earhart took off from oakland today. tonight she celebrating the first leg of her adventure in the rocky mountains, completing the trip would make her the youngest woman to fly around the world in a single engine plane. nba bay area has more from oakland. >> it feels like -- >> reporter: 31-year-old amelia rose earhart finds last-my it, museum, which dedicates a section to the other amelia earhart, pioneering her day who went missing in the pacific in 1937, attempting to fly around the world. this modern day amelia will try to complete that tri retracing much of that historic flight.

janis joplin show. these are leading role. sutton foster, kelly o'hara, long time broadway stars.fans from "glee" to see here. >> a lot of fans from the movie "frozen." that she sang the song, the anthem all the young girls want to sing. liz: one last mention, aladdin. we covered that. it is, disney, a widely-held stock. aladdin as a show is getting a lot of attention. is that other "lion king" on broadway. >> audiences go from shakespeare to "aladdin" and being people so enthusiastic. the arts lift our spirits and they also mean business. that is great about statistics we were talking about. liz: heather hitchens, the american theater wing executive director. good luck sunday night. it will be exciting. thank you so much. >> thank you. please tune in. liz: everybody watch. david, over to you. david: all right. movie star jessica alba says hollywood is a fickle business. she is planning to become the number one celebrity brand on the planet. "wall street journal's" lee hawkins spoke to jessica. he will tell us about her skyrocketing business. >>> if you ever wanted to play in the

and she was janis joplin. she introduced me to the guy she was sitting with which was jimi hendrix.hould be a manager. i said great, no prob. who should i manage? alice cooper. >> seth: welcome back to "late night." we're joined now by mike meyers and shep gordon. welcome, shep, how are you? so mike was telling us he wanted to make this documentary for 15 years. you kept saying no. what changed your mind? what made you think you wanted to be the subject of a documentary? >> you know, i had one of those moments in life where you start -- as you get older you start to think maybe you're losing things. and i wasn't getting invited to celebrity golf tournaments. [ laughter ] so i called up mike and i said, "you know, i'm not getting invited to celebrity tournaments. do you think if i did the film i'd get invited?" he called his agent. his agent said absolutely covered. and i said, "well, maybe we'll do it." and mike started racing, i guess. and i ended up in the hospital two weeks later. and he called me up in the hospital. he said, "it's great we're doing it tonight." i was really medi

grandfather, he was a guy named bobby shad, and he owned mainstream records, and he produced the first janis joplin so she can be with willard one day. and willard is 110 now. >> he's on his own smucker's jar. >> how much smucker's does he get? >> he gets paid in jelly. >> somebody just told me he's only like 52, just looks terrible. >> no! it's not true! >> one of your talents, by the way, you do stand-up. >> i do. >> did you just do it last night? >> i have been performing at the comedy cellar in new york and i'm very mediocre at it. >> you are? >> yeah, i go on and like louis ck comes on and i'm like, i'm not good. i'm not good at all. >> more about that. why wouldn't you put yourself in one of your own movies? >> well, i don't know, maybe this is the reason. i hate that i'm bald from behind, see? from the front, i'm fine, from the back i'm you. >> can't you just cut your own head out of the picture? >> i don't know. i could cgi something in. >> stunt double. >> i have to do something about it. >> a hair double. >> i only realize i'm bald when i lean back against metal. >> your kids have made it