this is with judy and maggie smith.ack a look at this. >> this is where you'll stay. >> on my own? >> i know you're off your game, dear. lost your confidence, maybe. but you are a thoroughbred. you'll be back. >> what about you, mrs. greenslade? >> what about me? >> we haven't talked much, have we, you and i. will you stay? >> not surwhat i shall to of do. nothing here has worked out quite as i expected. >> most things don't. but sometimes what happens instead is the good stuff. >> rose: so when you watch that, my dear, what were you thinking when you watched that? >> what was i thinking? i was just looking at it and enjoying seeing mags very much. >> what do you have toay about that scene, when ol an iwere working on the script, you know, the story as you know is about six or seven or eight or nine different stars intertwine, and should have these characters bump into other characters measure others, if you see what i mean. as we were approaching completing the work i said to ol, what are we doing? we have judi dench a

i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we examine dueling political strategies with former ohio governor ted strickland, a democrat, and former missouri senator jim talent, a republican. >> woodruff: then, we get an update on the blastoff of the first-ever commercial rocket to head to the international space station from science correspondent miles o'brien. >> ifill: we return to joplin, missouri, on the mend one year after a deadly tornado ripped through the city. >> woodruff: margaret warner talks with two pakistani women about their lives in the city of karachi, constantly interrupted by sectarian violence. >> imagine you meet a american the morning and the news you get there the afternoon is that he's no more. so, of course, it's fearful. it's really uncertain situation. >> ifill: and jeffrey brown explores the merits of a liberal arts education with columbia university professor andrew delbanco, author of a new book called "college." >> the college classroom should be a place where students le

a round of applause for judy. [applause] she also makes the best brittle you'll ever taste in your life. marie is not in the room, but she is really behind today's event. she helped with last year's event. have fun. i am reminded that we really are here today to have fun. i think our next speakers are really going to show us the way in that, and then we have a whole afternoon of playing and getting on with things but it is really my privilege not to introduce a lady to you who i have watched really from afar. i have really just had the pleasure of meeting ms. davis in the last few years. i can remember when i first saw her on tv and thought, here is a woman filled with dignity and compassion, so articulate, and she really helped us to understand what was happening in the world. you know, most of you know that ms. davis was the first black female journalist in the west. and she really did change the face and focus of news. she has recently written a book that is very important, both for her but for us, because it r

on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor, judy miller, syndicated columnist, john thomas and jim pinkerton, the magazine and daily beast columnist, kirsten powers. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on now. >> at a certain point i've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same sex couples should be able to get married. >> jon: after a bit of hemming and hawing there, president obama making it crystal clear where he personally stands on gay marriage. here is a quick look how the media reacted. >> president obama today became the first american president to say he approves of same sex marriage. >> president obama's stand on same sex marriage completed its evolution today, changing from opposition to support. >> announcing something no u.s. president has ever said, that he supports same sex marriage. >> the president did not mince words. he didn't say there was work to be done or his position is evolving as i said so often before. he said in no uncertain terms that he thinks that same sex marriage should be legal. >> ev

in which he stars with judi dench, maggie smith and others. >> i have always had a job with mostly there were periods i didn't when i was young, like most actors, but i was, you know, i mostly have been lucky, i think it is probably better this way around. had i been this visible and this kind of noticeable when i was younger i don't know that it would have been too good for me. >> i am old enough now, i don't need an excuse, i did actually retire, i was in the bathroom or something and there was another cool thing you want to do as shakshakespeare and i basically struggled wit and if i was younger and needed anything to increase my reputation, my agent would say come on, you know, and i would have to struggle with it, and then i got a point where i thought you know what? i retire, i think i even made a phone call to my agent and said i retire from any form of shakespeare. >> i think you were like 41 when you did this. >> i think i was, yes. >> you know. >> is also, there is also the phone call where you know you are 41 because they phone up and say it is hamlet, it is -- and you go, no,

next up, we have judy. >> judy, judy, judy!rd peplum top from h & m. judy's someone that at first was like i'm not sure if i want to put the extra volume around my midsection. she realized it really helps carve out a waist. if you turn to the side, you'll see it gives her a booty pop, too. if you're bigger on the top, add a necklace or something that will draw the eye line up to the middle so you won't feel like it's overpowering. >> thank you. >> i love it. >> that leaves julie. she has peplum jacket. >> what i really like about julie's looks -- these are classics, blouse, jeans and blazer. the jacket if she turns to the back you'll notice it has that cropped little peplum look. what i really love, you can create this in your own closet. if you just put a belt over any blouse. i do this a lot on the show when i wear a pencil skirt. i'll pull my blouse out. just belt it and leave it over the jeans. you can create that feminine hourglass shape without having to go buy it. you can really do that today on your way out the door. >>

judy tenuta, and an accordion right?te with us this morning. hi, judy. as you said about marriage equality it could happen. >> it could happen. i have been performing gay marriaging during my show for i don't know how many years -- >> a woman ahead of our time. and you jacki schechner. >> let's hear the news from jacki. ♪ [ laughter ] >> good morning, stephanie. good morning, everyone. . the president isn't planning to just announce his support of gay marriage and move on they have released a new video working his stance into the forward frame. >> let me say this 3,000 years of human history shouldn't be discarded so quickly. >> the president points out the rights that mitt romney would deny would be health insurance, adoption, among others. up until today, many in hollywood were a little hesitant to give money to president obama accusing him of compromising on key issues but in light of yesterday's announcement people are opening up their wallets. normman lear and his wife gave the max they could, $80,000 within just mo

. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, we go inside the town of houla with alex thomson of "independent television news," the first journalist to report from there. >> brown: then, we turn to the 2012 presidential match-up on track to be the most expensive contest ever. >> woodruff: we examine the internet virus known as "the flame" that may be able to snatch data and eavesdrop on computer users. >> brown: in the first of two reports, paul solman assesses the true cost of student-loan debt, now topping $1 trillion. >> reporter: beth hansen has just started making loan payments: $468 a month. will she ever pay off her loans? >> i may die first. so. in which case, they would need a copy of my death certificate to finally cancel my loan. >> woodruff: ray suarez talks with dolores huerta, honored with the presidential medal of freedom for her efforts to secure higher wages and better working conditions for farm laborers. >> i came to the homes osome of these farm workers. their furniture was orange c

i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the trade deal gone wrong, and assess whether the stumble bolsters the case for more federal regulation. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez examines a drug used to treat aids now approved by an fda panel to prevent the disease. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: and margaret warner talks with prize-winning reporter leslie maitland about her powerful and personal tale told in a new book, "crossing the borders of time." >> i had to grown-up all my life fascinated, spellbound by my mother's stories of war, escape and lost love. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is the at&t network-- a living, breathing intelligence bringing people together to bring new ideas to life. >> look, it's so simple. >> in here, the bright minds from inside and outside the company come together to work on an idea-- adding to it from the road, i

dane judi dench. >> yes. >> rose: what does she have? >> well, she has something, dane judi dench has something that is inexpressionable there are books written about how she a chiefs what she a chiefs, somebody has asked me this question before and i came up with an idea, one way of putting it which is, she somehow, she does something which very few people are involved in, and it is something that very few people attempt which is she arrange somehow to arrive on stage as it were unarmed. she then allows the play and the evening to happen to her. it requires enormous courage, and very few people are at it. >> rose: when you said that i didn't quite know what unarmed meant. >> i know, wha what it means is without tricks, without a plan b, it means without some sort of strategy or safety net that is going to get you out of trouble, he is rare. you know, she has a great -- and i am trying to avoid being lame or saying sort of, you know, kind of clumsy things, but she does have -- it seems there is courage there and it is great courage and i