i want to speak a little why janna and i decided to do this. i wanted to talk a little bit about what we experienced as a similarities between our fathers and our own experience as children of authors. just to get us started to frame about what we want to talk about so i'm just going to list some of the similarities and how they played out. number of one, the influence of growing up in a write's home and world as children, we protect from intrusion, never to interrupt while they wrote, and early on, to understand the need for privacy and solitude, the privacy in solitude in which they retreatedded in the writing days. the second similarity having to do mostly with the childhood is they used stories and allegory as a way to communicate meetings to each of us. two, switching to the similarities and how they played out in the adulthood. both of our fathers maintained that it was a taboo against making the connection between the writing and the living. we were brought up to subscribe well in adulthood and overcame it with trepidation. the third sim

janna, courtney, kate, alyssa.l look like the same even though it was ten years ago. >> what is your favorite show? >> apple tree or "guys and dolls." >> do you want to sing? i'm not doing this right now. we want to have some viewers when monday comes. >> chris, as we said, i've known you for a long time and one thing people might not know about you, you used to be extraordinarily sexy and i have the proof here. >> oh, yes, we did. >> it is. i am not making this up, because i frankly couldn't make it up. "people" magazine in 1997. one of america's sexiest people alive with the hair there. >> why are you bare foot? you didn't need shoes. >> that was the look. >> the late '90s. >> i think he's blushing. >> rarely speechless. >> could you sign this so i could have this in my office. >> did you never think you would have to pay for that ever. >> i was in a different place in my life. >> when you sat in this chair and you looked at the camera, what were you thinking? >> i don't know what i was thinking. probably hung ov