david: do a long shot on lee hawkins's pants. take a long shot what lee hawkins is wearing.l that? look at that, man oh, man. >> there you go guys. david: wearing that when you interviewed him. >> i didn't but wore something similar. i got to be me, baby. david: lee hawkins, "wall street journal" celebrity business reporter. love you being you. >> love being on the show. david: tropical storm iselle hitting main island of hawaii and bringing strong wind and some would say hurricane hue low is not -- rule hoe is not far behind. dierdre: could be a transformer-like robot. we'll show you cool pictures and tell you all about it when we come back. ♪ shingles affected me tremendously as a pilot. the pain in my scalp area and down the back of my neck was intense. it would have been virtually impossible in that confined space to move to change radio frequencies. i mean it hurt. i couldn't even get up and drive let alone teach somebody and be responsible in an airplane. as a pilot that meant i was grounded. when folks think about wthey think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produ

adam: lee hawkins, thank you very much. don't call it new age music.set. >> he doesn't like that because he created the music and didn't have a name for it but a corporate meeting was held and they sided to do that. dierdre: we'll say yanni. adam: bingo. dierdre: thank you, lee. just like we say lee, lee hawkins. >> call me the hawk. dierdre: gotcha. there we go, lee hawkins joining us there from the "wall street journal." >>> it was a summer of box office bombs for the most part. hollywood movie studios were hurt, receipts depressed. we'll tell you what is keeping americans out of the movie theaters and why "guardians of the galaxy" was an exception. adam: will institutional investors save the housing market? jeff flock is in a suburb of chicago with more. jeff? >> it is a suburb where a full 20% of all of the homes purchased here have been purchased by one wall street firm. do you want to know which that is? you will have to wait through the commercial. back in just a moment. ♪ when your favorite food starts a fight fight back fast with tums. relief

wall street journal entertainment reporter lee hawkins. thank you for being here.mains that robin williams had four projects that were still yet to be released. how do the producers of these films handle a situation? >> a very tasteful way. it they try to put together a movie that will reflect the artist's work without exploiting it. and i think there's a whole business around a lot of these celebrities. a lot of them are worth more dead than they are live. michael jackson is a good example. he made over 700 million since he passed away. jimi hendrix left with a hundred unreleased songs done. ashley: seven albums after he died. so these are prolific people. there are artists. robin williams was no exception. a person who believed that it was cathartic to use, the as a way to deal with personal trauma. ashley: did you meet him? >> i never got to meet him. i spoke about this issue all of these comedians tend to mask all of their pain with comedy. he was one of those people. ashley: philip seymour hoffman. we lost him and his movie came out on long after his death. th

joining me now is lee hawkins, "wall street journal's" celebrity business reporter.y, writer of "boulevard," one of rob williams last films. thanks for coming in to be with us today. i was struck by something jamie mazada said. he is founder of the laugh factory where robin williams used to go to try out new material and have fun. he said he was always in character. i knew him for 35 years and i never knew him. what did you make of that quote? >> well, he, first of all, i have to say he was one of the nicest men i ever met. he was a real person. such incredible affection for everybody on the set. our particular film was a drama. i think the character he was playing in our film was a bit subdued and somber. i think he was so into what he did and such a great actor that the robin that knew was very subdued and wonderfully friendly and warm but was always, just a little bit, i didn't see that side of him but have these wonderful bursts of humor occasionally, this showed that side of him. david: that is very interesting. lee, he did do a couple of serious films that were

no surprise to you that the company may have plans to go public of the "wall street journal's" lee hawkinse is what he told us. >> is the company going public at some point? >> i do, yeah. i mean i think that's not out of the question in couple of years. >> not out of the question. you heard it right there from miss alba's mouth. we are joined right now by the president or principal rather at institutional venture partners. one of the investors who helped raise the $70 million. eric, thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you for having me. dierdre: we heard jessica say longer term, going public not out of the question. obviously the company has to grow a little bit more first. what do you think the money will be used for, this 70 million that you personally helped invest? >> well, we've been investors in the company for all of its financing round. the one thing that they have done is continue to expand the product line. we got started with diapers and five other products. now we have over 50. so i think we'll continue to build new products that our customers want and demand and probab

liz: "wall street journal" celebrity business reporter lee hawkins called this partnership after his interview with 50-cent. watch. >> he is trying to establish a relationship with a blue chip company that will get them into the headphones market and maybe they can expand from there. but the key is, he has got that relationship he is going to announce that will be established. >> and you can see an interview with intel's top guy. he was with stuart varney this morning on foxbusiness.com. the headphones will hit the market this fall. david: this is great stuff. great stuff. idea, sound canceling stuff need batteries. you no longer need batteries because of work of intel. liz: great. david: notice these two liquor bottles. liquor companies done well with high-priced brand of vodka, bourbon even tequila. rum has not had quite a break-through until now. americans began drinking more premium quality rum sales which rose 5.4% 2013. liz: entire privateer rum. this is small by high quality distiller based in all places, massachusetts. looking to find its place on the crowded top shelf. joini

lee. >> aye. >> commissioner frost. >> aye. vice president hyde. >> aye. >> good luck. >> next is we received an email to move to september 16. >> i move that to sept 16. >> i second that. >> this is daniel hawkins and actually ryan is here, his bar manager. they are apply other for a mechanical amusement device and on 16th street. they had several mechanical amusement device for years and now coming into compliance and you will find letters of support and mission station has no objection to this permit. >> come on up brian. >> hello. >> hi. >> so you're getting a mechanical amusement device, huh? >> yes. >> do you want to tell us about it? >> we have six machines in the back of the bar and that's about it. we have a pacman machine up front. >> okay. great. you can have a seat. >> okay. thank you. >> it's a big night for you. >> it usually is. okay. so i sent ahead the recommended approval on the mechanical amusement devices because they had them for a hundred years and i think it's a great way for the commission to have a foot in the door to enforce the good neighbor policy. with that being said it was brought to my attention that abc has done several under cover operations where they have boug