ladies and gentlemen please welcome joseph gordon-levitt! ] >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about right there. it's always good to see you. >> great to be here. >> jimmy: coming up on the show. sometimes you're here just hanging out with the roots and stuff? >> you mean the greatest band alive? oh, yeah! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: yeah, i love, every time i see you i always have a good time. thank you so much for coming back. >> absolutely, man, it's great to be here. >> jimmy: i love your button out there, i know what that means. i know what that's for. >> you're the early supporter for hit record. >> jimmy: is that right? >> you're the earliest supporter in pop culture, the first time i ever got to come on national tv and talk about my little passion project hit record was on your show. >> jimmy: hitrecord.org. is this thing where it's kinda like user driven, right? >> yeah, we call it -- it's like a collaborative production company. so we make all kinds of things. and we put out books and records. and now we're working on a tv sh

please welcome joseph gordon-levitt. ( cheers and applause ) nice to see you. what a pleasure to have you on. >> it's a pleasure to be on this show. i'm a big fan of the show. i think you do a service to put this out in the world. so thank you. >> stephen: thank you very much. wow. ( cheers and applause ). >> i love your show. >> stephen: you are-- you're one of the heroes. >> thanks, man. >> stephen: joseph gordon-levitt, you're an actor, director, writer, producer. your credits include, "angels in the outfield" "10 things i hate about ow," "third rock from the sun" "500 days of summer." the of "the dark knight rises." your new film is called "don jon." >> correct. >> stephen? "don jon" you play a guy who has trouble related to women? >> hes does does. he has trouble relating to everything. he doesn't connect with anybody. his whole life is sort of a one-we street, and you see it especially with his love life and sex life because he's constantly comparing women to the images he sees on tv and movies and especially in pornography. >> stephen: especially in porn

directed by and starring jeph gordon levitt but he almost miscast himself. he is a ladies man but his true passion is pornography. more stimulated by pornography than the actual women in his life. that is scarlett johansson as the beautiful woman smart enough to with hold so he keeps pursuing her. it is funny to see these two actors playing against type. it reminds you a little of " saturday night fever." it is a great directorial dubuque and to my surprise, though film has a seth ament and -- it is a great directorial debut and to my surprise, it has a real feminist sensibility. the problem with joseph gordon levitt is he have such a sensitive look, he looks like a sensitive type and its tough to fight him as the jersey shore type of guy but the film is funny. .t earned its r-rating stars. >> thank you. we have a baltimore filmmaker whose film premiered at the charles theater. quacks thank you for having me. quacks this movie is about family but a family unraveling and the responsibilities we balance in our lives as parents and partners and providers and re

my man joseph gordon-levitt who i love, talented guy. >> yes, he is. >> jimmy: great actor.es me feel bad about myself. >> jimmy: he works to hard. you're so supertalented by the way. >> thank you. >> jimmy: i say this every time you come on. let me just remind you. broadway, you won a tony. you put a record out that was amazing where you sang. you act in giant movies like

my man joseph gordon-levitt who i love, talented guy. >> yes, he is. >> jimmy: great actor.like embarrassingly talented. he makes me feel bad about myself. >> jimmy: he works to hard. you're so supertalented by the way. >> thank you. >> jimmy: i say this every time you come on. let me just remind you. broadway, you won a tony. you put a record out that was amazing where you sang. you act in giant movies like "the avengers," you act in indie movies. you do everything. we love you. you're on the cover of magazines. [ cheers and applause ] you should feel really good about yourself. >> it's going great. >> jimmy: it's a confidence booster. it's a confidence booster. >> i feel really good about myself. >> jimmy: well, how did he find you and why did he want you to be in this role? >> i have no idea. no, i got really lucky. i was shooting "avengers" in albuquerque. i got this call that he was writing and directing this project he was going to be starring in. and he wanted to come down and talk to me about it. and i was like just happy to get a visitor in albuquerque. come on down

i strongly suspect still exist. >> i want to thank fred huff and matthew levitt. i urge you to buy a copy of the book on the way out. and before the week is done. congratulations. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. the body economic, recessions, budget battlers and the politics of life-and-death. sunday at 8:15 eastern and at 6:00 p.m. eastern we bring you a program from the booktv archives. in 1999 mark blowdone, author of black hawk down, recounted the 1993 u.s. special forces raid, that a:00, treasuries war, the unleashing of a new8:00, treasu unleashing of a new era of financial warfare. >> alison stewart presented history of the first public high school for african-american students in the united states, washington d.c.'s dunbar high school on booktv. dunbar send 80% of its graduates to collagen in 1950 with alumni that includes the first black army general and the first black member of a presidential candidate. this is an hour and 10 minutes. >> to quote the jamaican music

that's exactly what hollywood star joseph gordon levitt did.s on the lead role in front of and behind the camera. and not everyone is proud about their newest top honors. we'll have more when we come back. hi, jericho? yes? did you say, "when i stream trtrue blood on my slow intert it always buffers at the best part"? yeah? hi, jericho. oh my! i'll get you better internet if you invite me in. please come in, pam. this is crazy! pam is in my living room! [ male announcer ] with fios, america's fastest, most reliable internet, you get the ultimate entertainment experience. this makes me look even better than usual, huh? it's so much better. no pausing, no freezing, no buffering. you look amazing here, and then there, and then here -- simmer down. technology that makes life more entertaining. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities that's powerful. at 800.974.6006 tty/v. >> in today's buzz bin, meet the newest beauty queen, ms. philippines is crowned ms. world in indonesia. she beat out 123 other contestants. she is now an actre

and then ethel merman levitt, her daughter. >> riedel: anyway, you were saying -- >> mr. we dropped them off, and he was driving me up to 79th and park, anthe most wonderful thing of it was that he was on in years, especially compared to me, and he was talking to me like -- as he would a peer. and he said, you know, that he had known the real mama rose, and he said, "what you see on that stage doesn't even come near the real mama rose." he said, "she was truly psychotic." well, that's mr. ros

and then ethel merman levitt, her daughter. >> riedel: anyway, you were saying -- >> mr. we dropped them off, and he was driving me up to 79th and park, and the most wonderful thing of it was that he was on in years, especially compared to me, and he was talking to me like -- as he would a peer. and he said, you know, that he had known the real mama rose, and he said, "what you see on that stage doesn't even come near the real mama rose." he said, "she was truly psychotic." well, that's

week's prisoners, third, ron howard's slick auto racing movie, "rush," and in fifth, joseph gordon levittebuted with the comedy, don john. and again, i'm reminded of a lot of movies i haven't seen. that will do it for us. thank you for joining us. our next news cast is at 11 p.m., over on abc 7. ♪ >> this is the show with all kinds of people doing all kinds of stuff. some call it crazy. everyone calls it "bloopers." stop what you're doing, because what you are doing is watching "bloopers." let's go. ♪ [applause] >> hello, everyone. welcome to "bloopers." sometimes all you need is a friend and a tow rope, or an

joseph gordon-levitt's "don jon" will be going up against "baggage claim", "cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2" and "rush." >>> congratulations to caylee cuoco, who has gotten engaged to boyfriend of three months ryan sweeney. congratulations. >>> teresa and joe will be on "watch what happens" live on sunday talking about their fraud charges. here's a preview. >> my daughters, they mean the world to me. maybe out of all of this, i don't know, there's like -- >> you go through things in life. i don't know why. i mean, i think -- i'm asking like why? why is this happening to me? >>> britney spears gave fans a sneak peek at her new music video on instagram. does look like britney is back in fighting shape. >> steamy. >> just in time for las vegas. it is pretty steamy. >>> zach galifianakis felt honored to have justin bieber on his show. he taught bieber a lesson with a good old belt-whipping. >>> and kate moss has taken on singing, it should be called speaking with music underneath. >>> breaking news right now in prince george's county where police are searching for two intruders are shot durin

(applause) >> our recreation and park commissioners megan levitt son is here. our district 2 supervisor mark farrell. [cheering and applauding] >> our district 8 supervisor and park champion, tallest park champion in the city, scott wiener. (applause) >> our district 11 supervisor and another park champion extraordinary narc, john avalos. (applause) >> our city treasurer who does his work to make sure we've actually got the funds to pull this off, jose cisneros. (applause) ~ >> but it's the passion of all of us. and i also want to give a big shout out to the entire city family for their role, mohammed nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. (applause) >> with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] >> director of capital planning, don. our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. so, at rec

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. >> commissioner levitt son has an excused absence. real quick, as a reminder if you have any electronic sounding devices, please turn those off so they do not go off during the meet ing. we would also ask that you please take any secondary conversations outside in order to have the meeting proceed as efficiently as possible. if you would like to speak on an item today, we have some blue cards over on the table. if you could please fill those out. and then if you would like to speak on general public comment, which would be an item not on the agenda but that falls within the jurisdiction of this commission, public comment is on item 4 and it is continued on item 13. and last, please address your comments to the commission during public comment on all items. in order to allow equal time for all, neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during public comment. the commission may ask questions of staff after public comment is closed. and unless i'm otherwise stated by the president, each person will have three minutes

levitt pavilion to meet 2 a.of open lawn seating at their venues and jerry garcia and the theater and mclaren park sits on a half acre site with concrete steps and bleachers seats. a plot of land at the foot of the golden gate bridge may be home to a new museum. " star wars " creator george lucas proposal for a new museum to showcase his art collection is one of three development projects being considered for the space. the second proposal is by the golden gate national park conservancy where it will retain much of the sites open space. the third proposal is by and architecture firm which would create a hybrid museum and science and nature center. the final decision will be made by the presidio trust. we love this kitchen! what's next? great! do you have measurements? yeah, i paced it off. it's about twenty by twelve of these. so, we can measure, plan and install it for you. yea, let's do that! ikea. professional kitchen services at a low price. happy birthday! it's a painting easel! the tide's coming in! this is

joseph gordon-levitt's directorial debut. we'll see if that can branch out. and baggage claim i wouldn't be surprised gets as high as 2nd this week-- catering to the african- american audience, it's a light romantic comedy. you could see it do maybe mid teens or higher this weekend. > >thank you for coming in. > >thank you. who has the better gauge on the stock market? the analysts or billionaires? chart talk is next. ehicle. when i came here, i... i couldn't move. [male announce david was broadsided on the highway. they weren't very hopeful at the time that he would survive at all.. [male announce an ied wounded mike in afghanistan. i don't remember all of the blast... was over 500 pounds of explosives. [male announce their physical injuries have healed. the traumatic brain injuries - tbis - haven't. the way i describe it is you're just afraid. am i going to start forgetting things? [male announce tbi is as serious as any battlefield injury. you're just not the guy you used to be. [male announce thankfully va has made important advancements in tbi seeing it,

. >> commissioner levitt son has an excused absence.eal quick, as a reminder if you have any electronic sounding devices, please turn those off so they do not go off during the meet ing. we would also ask that you please take any secondary conversations outside in order to have the meeting proceed as efficiently as possible. if you would like to speak on an item today, we have some blue cards over on the table.

(applause) >> our recreation and park commissioners megan levitt son is here. our district 2 supervisor mark farrell. [cheering and applauding] >> our district 8 supervisor and park champion, tallest park champion in the city, scott wiener. (applause) >> our district 11 supervisor and another park champion extraordinary narc, john avalos. (applause) >> our city treasurer who does his work to make sure we've actually got the funds to pull this off, jose cisneros. (applause) ~ >> but it's the passion of all of us. and i also want to give a big shout

. >> actor gordon levitt has started in several movies but now he is director.lked with kevin mccarthy about being on both sides of the camera. >> you can answer this in two ways as a director and actor. i know it's a loaded question but can you pinpoint a certainea element that helps the audience lose themselves. >> to me what makes an audience lose themselves in the movie and i as a many ofy lover lose myself. what makes me lose myself is iff i care about the people in the movie. like people. p and youe know, don john is not a work of realistic per se but they feel real, they feel like real people even though they are comic interpretations of reall people.ople i think that's what makes you lose yourself. >> as a director directing thegh leading star of movie which happens to be yourself. when you set up a shot do you go off camera and make sure it's okay. cut and action. you are the director but the star? stand in for you when you are setting up the composition of the shot. the and then for me, i have always felt as an actor and especially as i've been doing i

dagen: it's joseph gordon-levitt, i'm guessing, the sony movie can bring back summer box office love.loudy with a chance of profits, the sequel expected to take number one at the box office this weekend. variety says hollywood's looking for $40 million, maybe more. that'll be better than the original opened, you know, a year or two ago for sony, and that's a after, you know, kind of a tough time at the summer box office. they had two big much-hyped film les, together they cost $180 million, they took in only $130 million in the u.s. combined, so they clearly ran a loss because the studio gets only half of that. so be news for sony for a change. dagen: which flick has the unlikely leading man? is it don jon? >> i guess it's joseph gordon-levitt who suddenly is now the hot hunk, apparently, in -- dagen: he was in 500 days of summer, he was in the dream nick, remember that? >> yes. and, jeez, he's dying of cancer, let's learn to laugh. dagen: he directed this movie, it's about a porno-addicted dudes -- >> there's a difference between porno-districted and sex-addicted. [laughter] dagen: o

ttelemetry levitt about how i came to write it and i'm going to read just a t little bit and then we'll take questions. well, as some of you know, i'm a lawyer. i'm a law professoras at harvar i went to law school but i to l graduated about 20 years ago. we i havent talked a number of peoe are now doing interesting things obama.e, like barack obama. and like most of my classmates i spent the next couple of decades just working, working, working trying to get something accomplished, trying to do something good in the world and trying to get my career started and i don't know, around 2006 i was a tenured professor at harvard and i had this book contract to write a book about civil rights lawyers get into what he did was something that people at my station in career don't usuallyth do, and i sat dy and i thought for a while. i said it's been about a year and i'm thinking, how did i want to write the book? i begin to think who was i began arriving at fort? who is my audience?ce? who did i admire? whose writing sound really, ridn really enthralled me? one the people i admired was th? person

today, star of the new film, "don jon," joseph gordon-levitt.rk gregg. plus, a performance from singer, songwriter jason derulo. ll next on "live." now, here are kelly ripa and michael strahan! [cheers and applause] ♪ kelly: thank you. thank you. oh, my gosh, hi! it's tuesday, september 24, 2013. welcome to the show, everybody. michael: yes. good morning. [applause] how are you? kelly: i'm fine. how are you? michael: i'm dandy. kelly: you're -- i'm fine and you're dandy. michael: fine and dandy. kelly: nice to see you. michael: you two, what's up? kelly: nothing. did you have a fun night last night? did you do anything exciting? michael: i just went to dinner. nicole's brother is here, and his wife. dareus and jamie. we took a 14-block walk and had some dinner. but it's funny when people who are from california come out -- kelly: oh, when you start walking. michael: walking? nicole makes you walk to the meal because she wants to be hungry when you get there and then you overeat and then she makes you walk it off. kelly: i like that. i like to wa

governor of arkansas i was part of a group of conservative governors that included jeb bush and michael levitt from education in other states. and we worked to create a program initiative called achieve. it set national standards in grammar and math and other subjects. it eventually evolved into common core in 2010 and received an enormous amount of backlash, most conservatives. one of the critics is the founder of the president of the action group kyle olson and kyle joins me now. thanks for joining me to talk about common core. it's very controversial. i had so many think i've gone to the devil because i had been supportive of the basic notion. tell me what you feel like is the biggest complaint of common core. >> well, there's several complaints and first of all, i think as conservatives, as parents, we want high standards. we want accountable schools but this goes well beyond. to me one of the biggest problems is data mining. what is happening is the federal government is recommending that states collect over 400 different sets of data on students. and so it's not just, you know -- >> that

under that the stage would have been renamed the levitt. the chronicle reporting a spokesperson announcing they passed on the site. nearly 50,000 people signed a petition earlier opposing the name change. >> a groundbreaking win as the miss america competition miss new york, nina davuluri, is the first indian-american woman to win the crown. the 24-year-old from syracuse competed on a platform of celebrating diversity through cultural competency. she performed a classic indian dance mixed with some bally wood moves. it was unique. >> congratulations. 5:21. after decades on television, bob newhart getting the hoard wear he deserves. >> we'll take you on the set of the new today show. ♪ [ female announcer ] wherever morning brings you, bring the energy you need. new nature valley soft-baked oatmeal squares. softly baked. made with hearty oatmeal and a drizzle of cinnamon. they're nature valley's brand new take on a morning classic. because when you keep going, the morning can bring you to brand new places. ♪ nature valley. nature at its most

we're talking about joseph gordon-levitt.ou thinks the terrific. >> it's a dirty minded romantic comedy. check all the boxes. >> so you know it kind of remind me of -- a thinking man's "jersey shore" in a little bit of a way. >> he resembles the situation. just a bit. although -- should i say smarter? >> time but a little smarter. so in the movie, his character meets the perfect woman in scarlett johansson and then they run into some trouble. what is that all about? >> she's addicted to romantic comedies and she has the image of the perfect man. say a channing tatum. and so -- he has different images on his computer and when she finds out he is not happy. >> so this is definitely racy one we don't take the kids to. >> you do not. [ laughter ] >> okay. you see some stuff that's -- >> actually see some things on the screen. >> for an adult audience. >> yep, be surprised. >>> speaking of the kids we'll take them maybe to this one instead. the sequels many families will be rushing to see this week. "cloudy with a chance of meatba

. >> jimmy: joseph gordon-levitt. >> he wrote this, acted in it and directed it. >> jimmy: scarlett johansson'sah, yeah. >> oh, she's amazing. she's so great in the movie. she's unbelievable in the movie. julianne moore is unbelievable. glenne headly. brie larson, another girl. this girl, brie larson. >> jimmy: yeah, write her name down. brie larson. >> this is a great -- >> jimmy: i totally agree with you. >> she's in the movie "short term 12." >> jimmy: i didn't see that yet. >> yeah, she's pretty good. >> jimmy: you hit a homer in this. >> oh, thank you. >> jimmy: and you play the dad. fantastic. and you got the wife beater on, and it's just so good. you're wearing the -- >> yeah, i know -- i know that character. i know that character. >> jimmy: yeah, you know -- yeah. but you're amazing in this. and i want to show everyone a clip of you. here's the great tony danza. >> yeah, it's a family scene. a family sunday dinner. yeah. >> so -- so i'm seeing this girl. >> what did you say? >> what do you mean, what did i say? i just said -- >> did you say -- >> she asked you what you said. what's the

"don jon" stars joseph gordon- levitt as a new jersey guy who loves the ladies. however, his deep affinity for pornography could be affecting his relations with women in real life. the film also stars scarlett johansson. "don jon" is rated r and finally - thousands of feet up in the air - one flight attendant is on a mission to land a man! that's the premise behind "baggage claim" starring paula patton as a woman with a month to get engaged - before her younger sister's wedding. "baggage claim" is rated p-g 13. for now showing, i'm ......natisha lance. coming up... fall... into flowers. the best plants you can add to your garden to keep it colorful all season long. 20:02 it's not one person wins everything. it's everybody can win. and... cashing in... on your fitness goals... how gambling could help you lose weight... you're watching fox45 morning news... weekends. ((break 6)) er.. but that doesn't mean you have to give up on having a beautiful garden. jan clark is a horticulturist with river hill garden center and she joins us this morning with more. q. now that

today, star of the new film, "don jon," joseph gordon-levitt.

and for an unusual romantic comedy, well, there's joseph gordon-levitt's directional debut don jon abouty who falls for a girl who watches too many hollywood romance films. and for the metalheads out there, metallica through the never is part performance, part dark storyline, all rated r. and if you're staying home, there's a good chance you're one of the many wondering the fate of walter weiss, that's amc's emmy-winning series "breaking bad." it is all the buzz, and it concludes sunday. >> it's one of the most live-tweeted shows that's on. people are just going crazy, and every one of the last episodes has been more intense than the previous episode. >> reporter: we're going to have to wait and see what the twitterverse has to say once we find out how it all ends. jon and jenna. jenna: my money is on jon going to the metallica movie. >> reporter: you think so? i could see you as a metalhead. were you a metalhead at any point? be honest. jon: no, not at all. jenna: that's a good question, julie. >> reporter: you? jenna: never. >> reporter: i actually used to listen to metallica. jenna: y