, and i said, how easy was that, jayne?office, and he searched the bag, and tried the shampoo. and if field him, it is going to fool everybody. i said, we are going to make this. michael said that there a payment of $8,000 when we get back to england. >> and you will get an envelope with 8,000 pounds in it. >> we had been through all of the terror and the pain and if we don't deserve 8,000, who does. let's take these drugs, get them over it into england and spend the money. >> and i looked at david, and i said, let's just go the rest of the way home, and drop the bottles off with them, and pick up the cash and go. >> within three days, we had become international drug smugglers. [burke] hot dog.seen it.covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> hi, i'm richard lui with the hour's top stories. moments ago, police giving a briefing updating the evidence against a suspect involved in the d.c.-area shootings this week, eulalio tordil is being charged

jayne: they have it.ps people, gives hopese to people's own and aspirations and fears. jayne: it is a beautiful gift to receive it from audience members rather than talking about this person was so funny and i sure did like when that happened. you know? they are talking about themselves and their real concerns and it is quite beautiful, that phenomenon. charlie: is it the connection that makes it so real for the audience? >> well, i guess in some ways, i feel it my job is to just tell the truth. in this case in writing about a family i care about very much a -- i think it has become a kind of mirror for a lot of people. so many people have told me that jayne and reed are their parents. and people from all walks of life, every single kind of religion. i think that is the best gift because in creating one mom and dad, it is overwhelming to hear the people that identify with this family. you are writing the screen adaptation of "the seagull." stephen: you are starting with a masterwork. so getting to spend t

. -- director jayne houdyshell reed birney and jayne houdyshell.bout taking about this and what you wanted to do. by two right about the things that were keeping me up at night and i started by thing about how we all of us cope with our basement fears. the first impulse in terms of story was constructing a family that in which each family member an existential human fear like fear of poverty, ill health, failure, criticism, -- the wholeas point is that these are things that we all at some point or another are grappling with. charlie: you take this one family and they go in for thanks giving dinner in manhattan. a real-time play. charlie: when you get this guy who is as good as director as there is anywhere around, it is true, coming how you approached it. what was it that you knew, you know you have a family and it is part comedy and part tragedy and part said and part funny. it is part about who we are as human beings. can have not think you that kind of pressure weighing on you when you walk into work every day so what you do is you cast billion

i mean, so many people have told me jayne and reed are their parents and people from all walks of lifeit's kind of the best gift, because, you know, in creating one mom and dad, it's overwhelming to hear the people that identify with this family. >> rose: you're also writing a screen adaptation of the seagull? >> i am. it's actually done. >> rose: house of that a different experience for you? >> well, first of all, i mean, you're just starting with a master work. so getting to spend time with chekhov, you're learning every second. it was my first time working and having a film made, annette bening was the star and others. >> rose: house o >> rose: how was that? it's very different. it's different to switch your playwright brain off and switch on the puzzle brain. >> rose: puzzle brain? screen plays are more like puzzles. plays are like poems and you can get lost in beautiful ways. >> rose: congratulations. so great to have you here. for me, it's a great honor. everybody i know is saying wonderful things about it. i just want to make sure that i have all the things right here about, it'

he will be jayne king a al temple church on monday. >>> well a deadly accident left a 27-year-old woman dead and her friend charged with manslaughter and driving under the influence. >> this is coming as yet another bay family is mourning the death of a loved one, killed by a drunk driver. his mother talked only with us about how much their life has changed since then. >> it's just very hard. not to have him in our life because of a mistake. we hope that others don't make that mistake again >> reporter: for her, it's a reminder of the day ten years ago when her life changed forever. >> it feels like yesterday. >> reporter: her son 25-year- old jacob martinez was only a few blocks away from his home. >> the tow truck was only a moment away from him. >> reporter: everyone in the car of the driver survived. >> she only got two years for what she did. >> when my dad was here, he was the best dad ever. >> reporter: now he's a 17 year old and had to grow up without a dad. >> it's put a burden on your life. >> reporter: for years she couldn't drive on the freeway. >> now i drive by and say i l

the problem, according to economist gerald jaynes?eam america doesn't actually exist. read his full critique on "making sense." all that and more is on our web site, www.pbs.org/newshour. >> sreenivasan: and again, to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in iraq and the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are two more. >> sreenivasan: tune in later tonight: on charlie rose, a look at new york's museum of modern art's new exhibit of the works of edgar degas. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on thursday, making sense of great vacation deals using budget airlines. i'm judy woodruff. >> sreenivasan: i'm hari sreenivasan. join us online, and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. >> fathom travel-- carnival corporat

our jayne wells is live joined y walter robb. >> hey, guys. this is a big gamble for whole foods.gling with lower priced competition in general, smaller store, fewer products, fewer employees, lower prices, what is the biggest difference? and who's your target here? >> i think what we've done is created something that's a fresh, fun, contemporary convenience shopping experience. you're in the space now, you can feel the sort of unique nature of the experience. i think we create a new experience for existing customers and hoping to attract new customers as well. we've really got quality in a new sort of imaginative way, a new expressive way for whole foods. >> i would say it's like a larger industrial sort of euro trader joe's. i mean, there's no tiki party kind of thing going on, but it has kind of a similar feel to that. is that your target? trader joe's? >> i'd say we've taken ideas from all the sort of value format players, but i would suggest to you it's really unique in terms of what's out there in the marketplace. it's got our touch on fresh foods and prepared foods. you can