the same thing happened backstage with lyle lovett.tared at him. [ laughter ] >> jay: wow. >> yeah. one time i was on a red carpet, and brad pitt and angelina jolie came up to me and they said, "hey, we just watched 'sarah marshall,' we just wanted to say hi, great job." and my response was, "oh, my god. it's you." >> jay: wow. [ laughter ] >> yeah. [ applause ] >> jay: and you know, i noticed, yet -- yet you have no trouble talking with me. i find that interesting. [ laughter ] >> no, not at all. >> jay: you seem very relaxed. you seem to remember the whole conversation. >> absolutely. this is very easy for me. >> jay: well, you know, that's quite flattering. >> yes. >> jay: now, also you're gonna be hosting "saturday night live." is this your first time? [ cheers and applause ] that's very exciting. >> thank you. this is my first time hosting "saturday night live." i really, really wanted to do it my whole life. it's on the list of childhood dreams. >> jay: you have a list of childhood dreams? >> i do. >> jay: okay, so this is one of

there is this traditional sibling relationship, which is both lovette and chris -- which is love and resentment. they had a very complicated relationship. vincent was the older brother that was supposed to succeed. there were all kinds of crosscurrent of affections and resentment. tavis: gregory white smith, thank you, sir, the new book is called "van gogh: the life." steven naifeh and gregory white smith are the authors. good to have you on. >> thank you so much. tavis: up next, a conversation with marie lu. tavis: marie lu move to the u.s. at the age of five. she had recited set on becoming a writer. her first novel will be in stores in just a matter of days. a film adaptation is being planned already. could you have you on the program. how old are you? >> i am 27. i was living in beijing as the time. i do remember a little bit of it. it was early summer, i think. we lived a couple blocks away from the square. a lot of the locals would see it as a tourist attraction. the students were protesting for a good couple of months. my aunt would take me to see the crowds. tavis: the book -

montgomery county, then i'm thinking you might get an inch or so, same story around leesburg and lovett -- lucketts. but two to three. the higher elevations, you get to 1500 feet here into frederick and out on the mountain. cumberland, martinsburg, winchester, one to two. might see an isolated amount higher than that. doesn't look like a big storm except for main the mountains in far western maryland. today, in the 50s and dropping with the rain. the flood potential real this afternoon and this evening. tonight, we're in the 30s and upper 20s far north and west. still a breezy day. friday, 47. a cold saturday. army navy game, 39. main 40. mid-40s on sunday and decent monday and tuesday. well, we've got a nice, warm chocolate treat for you coming up when 9news now at noon rurns. [ female announcer ] more people are using wireless devices... in more ways than ever. and our networks are getting crowded. but if congress frees up more wireless spectrum... we can empower more people to innovate... putting momentum behind our economy. and we can reduce the deficit... with more than thirty bill

. >> you have maybe the best head of hair since lyle lovett. >> maybe i should shave it? >> no. rub our fingers. >> americans like this hairstyle. i love that hairstyle. >> we like this. >> i love it. >> anil, thank you. come visit us again. >> i love visiting you. >> have a lovely new year, too. "mission impossible, ghost protocol" in theaters right now. >>> coming up next, last-minute stocking stuffers for everybody you can think of, right after this. >>> good morning. tracking the weather as we head into christmas. there was a glimmer of hope for a white christmas in the northeast. it looks like most of the snow will stay in higher elevations in upstate new york. we will have rain in new york city, into philly. d.c. looking at rain today, down into the south. that's your forecast for friday. the snow will be in new mexico, even parts of texas. the coldest air still in the west. even for this time of year it's not terribly cold. 62 in atlanta and in the wake of the storm, still holding on to the 60s, falling into the 40s in the northeast and christmas eve, quiet for the majori

wcjb's cory lovett reports now from gainesville. >> a new kind of medicine. ♪ >> reporter: music, sciencen work. >> the people in africa, do they have homes? if not, could you give them? ? >> reporter: it looks like cooper is getting a jump-start on his dream of becoming a biologist who would help people through science. in october he scored above average on the s.a.t. math subject test. stacking up with much older college-bound students. >> it was easier than the ones in the books. >> reporter: cooper's reading list is more like a high school senior or college freshman than a typical 9-year-old. >> to me, he wasn't special. he was just lucky. i was with him all the time and teaching him all the time. >> reporter: qualifying to take college-level courses didn't happen without hard work. irina collier, a psychotherapist, always home schooled her son. she says untraditional approach with variety is why cooper does so well. >> i am always willing to change. as long as he is learning something new at advanced level, at the level he is capable of learning. >> 0.48 x 11. >> reporter: when do yo

>>reporter: some passing by lovett others, not so much. >> it aggravates the community and ultimately works against the cause. >>reporter: some say they support the 99% they disagree with the methods. >> so many people that it affected are the people like us to try to work on a daily basis to area >>reporter: the occupy protesters say they plan on staying for days if not weeks. the rain in oakland on sunday and it has been very cold so the question now is how long can these occupy protesters last.train --oakland police officers stopped by the there was not a lot they could've done so they left. >>james: at 539 occupy oakland is trying to shut down the port with other demonstrators across the entire west coast, but the group in oakland will begin marketing art from the west oakland are stationed headed to the port of oakland. >>james: and other news around the bay area to were injured, only about eight blocks from each other. both victims are in stable condition and the police are searching it for a sudden this morning. we will take a clear break with the live look from the adjacent fr

. >> you have maybe the best head of hair since lyle lovett. >> maybe i should shave it? >> no.on't touch it. >> i don't want it like that. >> we want to rub our fingers. >> americans like this hairstyle. i love that hairstyle. >> we like this. >> i love it. >> anil, thank you. come visit us again. >> i love visiting you. >> have a lovely new year, too. "mission impossible, ghost protocol" in theaters right now. >>> coming up next last-minute stocking stuffers for everybody you can think of, right after this. >>> good morning. tracking the weather as we head into christmas. there was a glimmer of hope for a white christmas in the northeast. it looks like most of the snow will stay in higher elevations in upstate new york. we will have rain in new york city, into philly. d.c. looking at rain today, down into the south. that's your forecast for friday. the snow will be in new mexico even parts of texas. the coldest air still in the west. even for this time of year it's not terribly cold. 62 in atlanta and in the wake of the storm, still holding on to the 60s, falling into the 40s

gretchen: the three of you sitting this on the stools playing guitar, it was you, me and kris and lyle lovettthere at the white house. >> steve: a workshop, like a free university thing in the east room? >> yeah. we sat around, it was a bunch of students. we talked about song writing and played songs for them. >> steve: that's so cool. >> brian: there is something about your music, it doesn't seem cookie cutter country. it seems like you put your own stamp on it a little bit. >> yeah. that's the only way i think i can do it. i'm not trying to be anybody else. i just want to make the songs and records that i like. so i try to put as much of me as i can into the songs. >> brian: it's a little rock? >> i'm always a little bit rock. >> steve: charleston, 1966, what's that about? >> that was the year that my favorite -- i was born in charleston? 1966 and my favorite country record of all time is a record by randy foster called "del rio, texas." >> steve: so you stole his idea? >> i stole his idea. >> gretchen: coming up later in the show, you're going to be performing for us. >> yes. >> gretchen:

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