. >> reporter: an intentional homage to marlon brando sending a native american woman to collect his oscar in '73. >> i'm representing marlon brando this evening. >> reporter: cyrus bought jesse a suit, a hotel room and took him for a burger after the show. and in just 24 hours has raised over $200,000 for a homeless charity. most classless moment -- kardashians engrossed in their phones during the michael brown tribute. bronze medal for dancing while seated -- lorde. silver -- taylor swift. gold -- j-lo, who also wins best dressed. worst dressed -- katy perry and riff raff, an apparent denim-on-denim-on-denim tribute to brittney and justin's look way back in 2001. worst audience reaction -- rita ora watching nicki minaj. a face that speaks a thousand words, most of them unrepeatable. ♪ yes, beyonce was great, but upstaged by her pint-sized protÉge, a little blue ivy mimicking her mamma from daddy's lap. and a kiss for daddy. scotching those rumors, with one pucker, that they were about to split. nick watt, abc news, los angeles. >> and we thank you so much for watching. we're always

india right. >> i want to see marlon brando twerking.ut seriously, this is, a great move by her, these award shows are usually exercises in narcissism and egoism. she just twisted it a little bit and brought attention to actually a pretty serious problem that a lot of people don't know about. tracy: veronica, we have to go but thus this make you the twerking incident? >> no. think we'll forget that. that is burned into our memory. tracy: that now we recapped it. thank you. we love our morning cup of joe but can you guess who loves it the most? zoom to be home of will be world's tallest building. they actually drink more than their fair share of coffee. i thought it was italy. i tell you, it is not. >>> game, set, match, u.s. open gets ready to kick off. you have to hear how champagne maker mow wet and shan done giving people something to celebrate. at the end of the day it is all about money. ♪ she inspires you. no question about that. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use

. >> reporter: paid homage to marlon brando who sent a homeless woman to collect an award.st against the movie industry's treatment of native americans. jesse and his speech asking people to check out miley's facebook page where she posted a video about youth homelessness. >> right here in l.a. a few miles from where i live there are young people who are just like you and me with huge dreams. >> reporter: after the show, miley instagramed a picture with the man she called her hero at in-and-out burger celebrating her big night. she's received wide-ranging prays from supporters like maria shriver the whiting, smart use of air time. and susan sarandon, thanks miley sigh yus for making the invisible homeless visible. a shark different from the media firestorm she generated from last year's widely panned performance. the vmas are synonymous with shocking surprises. who could forget kanye's outburst against taylor swift a few years back. >> beyonce had one of the best videos of all time! >> reporter: or britney and madonna's infamous girl kiss. miley says this isn't a one-time m

. >>> our "instant index" begins with marlon brando, the godfather and tonight hollywood remembering godfather of makeup. dick smith who transformed brando into don corleone, his work etched on the faces of hollywood history, di near row in taxi driver and linda blair in the exorcist. smith worked his magic with ingenuity and secret recipes for fake blood and latex foam. he won an oscar for his work in amadeus. he was 92. >>> a cautionary tale, not everyone wants to be in on your selfie. watch this as a man tries to snap a picture with a swan. trouble is, the swan is having none of it, goes on the attack. watch it again. he did get his selfie, but at a price. >>> the next time you're cramped on a plane feeling sorry for yourself, think about this one. small plane, big athletes, 29 sumo wrestlers crammed into a tiny jet and later a tiny bus on route to a training session. these images tweeted today, the faces exasperated but still smiling kind of. sort of. >>> up next, we search out the truth about that traffic button at the crosswalk. is it hooked up to anything at all? stay tuned. t

marlon brando. ♪ >> good morning, vietnam! >> mr. aladin, sir, what will your order be?d a friend like me. >> the woman needs an enema. >> you do a slel cel brags of a dance. you do marshal gram. or michael kid. or madonna, madonna, madonna, but you keep it all inside. >> work, play, friendship, family, these are the things that matter. slowly forgotten the simplist things. ♪ p÷úññ @úñx >>> hello, everyone. this is "the five." >>> now whenever a comedian dies tragically, the headline always reads sad clown. it's the cliche, laughter is born from suffering. but comics are like construction workers. once in awhile a great one falls, like last night. remember when you first saw him. >> remember me? you once called me the nutso from

. >> marlon brando said, just drop out. drop out. just walk away. just take off.but i studied hamlet to play that part. he said, i never got a chance to play it. >> you do not play hamlet, hamlet plays you. it has to be feelings of life. the questions he raises, the experience he is going through is a map through life. >> i am pleased to have been brantley back at the table. >> thank you very much. >> it is such an obvious idea for a theater critic or anybody interested in great theater. why this piece and how did you shape it? >> it was an assignment that was thrown out to the culture critics in general. imagine if you could curate your of exhibit or parade elements anyway you like. it could be fantasy -- the series is called "imagine this." imagine if you could use any combination of elements whatsoever. i have seen probably 20, 25 hamlets over the course of my career. hamlet was the first shakespearean figure i was aware of and got a hold of my imagination. the way sports figures sit down and say, what if it were babe ?uth we tend to think in those terms too. i

[mimics marlon brando] this man. robin. i don't know. it is crazy. "do you have any butter?" he's an amazing guy. all of these guys have so much to tell and teach. brando put together an acting class. >> didn't he get guys like you to help him? >> what he was doing was sharing what he sometimes he will ramble on. i don't know what that means. sometimes he will say something and you go whoa. there is that buddha moment. there's that zen -- show business in those days. there was no movies. we were doing this in front of the cave wall. how many cro-magnons does it take to light a fire? you have to get it on tape. it helps to have people being like a catalyst and they will let them go. they want to tell you stuff, and it is important because it is like a verbal and visual record. they light up because you see them talk about it and they remember it. it's like, yeah, baby. >> they have an audience again. >> it is the audience again combined with remembering it again. >> science is an interest of yours. >> i was always kind of fascinated by it. my brother started off as an optical p

simpson, the claus von bulow trial, the trial of marlon brando's son. he has also written numerous books, published articles in national and international medical journals, he's been featured on an hbo special on the topic as well. and to say that the people of ferguson are frustrated is an understatement. you only had to watch today's news conference held by, as we talked about at the top, the governor and also local law enforcement leaders there to see that. they had trouble keeping order. many times they had to stop and wait for people to voice their concern. many people jumping in and demanding justice, demanding answers. watch. >> excuse me, governor, you need to charge that police with murder. >> yeah! [ cheers and applause ] >> the task that we have at hand, the task which i have been tasked to lead, is a task, first of all, that represents the people of the state and the people of this area. but also to make sure that we have peace and security. >> even though you're in command were you not aware s.w.a.t. teams were being deployed? did you know

. >> marlon brando practically begged me to drop out of hollywood, walk away, for a year, take off, go to london, study hamlet, play that part before it's too late because he said i never got a chance to play it. >> you don't play hamlet. hamlet plays you. there's a part of you in him. it has to be you feelings of life because, indeed, the questions he raises, the experience he is going through is in a way a map through life. >> charlie: i am pleased of ben brantley back at this table. welcome. >> thank you very much. >> charlie: this is such a good and obvious idea for a theater critic or for anybody interested in great theater and in great playwrighting, but why this piece and how did you shape it? >> it was an assignment turned out to the culture critics, by the amateur of the times, which was imagine yucke you could curr own exhibit or developments any way you like. it could be fantasy -- the series is called "imagine this," so try to imagine you could use any combination of elements whatsoever. so i'd seen probably 20, 25 hamlets in the course of my career at the times and hamlet

and did you catch miley cyrus channeling marlon brando?ke one year she has the foam finger and the next year she's doing brando. this is like amazing transformation. >> one didn't have to watch the vmas. they just needed to follow you on twitter. interesting night. >> retweets are not endorsements, by the way. >> all right. next up as we mentioned, the s&p crossing that seminal 2,000 mark. it's been a long, slow climb. we'll break down what exactly got us over that line today. "squawk alley's" back in two minutes. dsl myth #1. it can help your business save money. false. the truth is when you compare our fastest internet to the fastest dsl from the phone company, comcast business gives you more for your money. why pay more for less? call today for a low price on speeds up to 150mbps. and find out more about our two-year price guarantee. comcast business. built for business. bulldog: ibut my friends i are learning skillsnt! that can change a life. that's why mattress discounters good deed dogs is raising money to help train dogs like suzie

marlon brando, shakespeare can be different. you can also imagine maybe john wayne as macbeth going, well, is this a dagger i see before me. >> in the late '90s, he won an oscar for his role in "good will hunting." >> you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable, knowing someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like god put an angel on earth just for you, could rescue you from depths of hell, and you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to of that love for her, be there forever through anything, through cancer. and you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months, holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms visiting hours don't apply to you. you don't know about real loss because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. i doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. >> even when you didn't see him, you sure heard him in "aladdin," where as the voice of the genie, he ad libbed so much. >> rule number on

(imitates marlon brando) you need to make her an offer she can't refuse.hing-- (clears throat) (normal voice) if there's anything i can do to help, you let me know. i will. i will. (beckett) mr. carson, you worked for graham morton for over 25 years. i understand that you were very close with his grandkids. well, as--as close as one could be while still maintaining the employer-servant relationship. so when the victim called you and invited you to the "night of dance" taping on wednesday, you said yes. i was delighted. she asked me to meet her afterwards and said that she had a question for me, but of course, as you know, they canceled the show, and i didn't find out until the next day what had happened. i had no idea that that girl wasn't odette and no idea why she wanted to talk to me. she wanted to talk to you about the day that graham morton died. why would she care about that? it seems she had some evidence that mr. morton didn't die of natural causes. i don't understand. are you saying that he was murdered? you were at the house that day, weren't you

. >> on an imagined conversation between our friends marlon brando and jack nicholson. >> that's the i told cugo not to go out. >> now marlon, what have you done now? put him on a leash. come on in, robin. >> he was simply the best, an overpowering talent with a huge heart. he went from the streets of san francisco and scaled the heights of broadway and hollywood. along the way, he endured personal crisis. you're okay today? >> totally. okay? well, that's not -- i'm better. and also i feel great. >> but did you go through a certain kind of whatever? >> yeah, i went through a certain kind of whatever. whatever. what do you think? welcome to the whatever center. hi. i want whatever. simply stated there was no one like him. in a leg of giants think letterman, carson and so many is other titans of tv and movies, he was there. >> the cameraman is going, where's he going now? [ laughter ] ha, ha, ha! [ cheers and applause ] >> we all know he was unique, so talented it took your breath away. a guaranteed laugh. so smart and so quick and so inventive. i did hours of television with him. and y

marlon brando one time as we were talking about depression, something he was an expert on, this is int was in his bedroom, in fact. showing me around his house. i said, do you ever get it? i mean, i did a show with laurence olivier recently and all through it, i thought, they're going to come over and take me away. i didn't care that i was with lawrenurence olivier for god sa. i knew my pauses were 10 and 20 seconds and they were going to usher me out and put me to bed. i said, did you ever watch that show? i said, no, how could i. he said, do me a favor, watch it. back to new york, watched the show. i looked fine. not there. it was as if they had reshot it. i said to him, again, calling him, i said, what happened? he said, it's called automatic pilot. we all have to have it to get through this lousy business of ours. some days, you're up, some days you're down. he had an interesting phrase, he had a gift for language. he said, i've been in the emotional backwater for about a month. but he had to perform. he said, when you come off stage or off the set, there it is, waiting for you ag

. >> on an imagined conversation between our friends marlon brando and jack nicholson. >> that's the ed? marlon, your dog killed my dog. >> i don't know what happened. i told cugo not to go out. >> now marlon what have you done now? put him on a leash. come on in robin. >> he was >> 3, 2 1. >> here's what's brngeaki today on the doctors. >> i have had two other procedures. >> why this botched transgender wants to go under the knife. >> what you need to do before pu tting your child in the car. >> olivia goes wild baring her breasts, but it's not what you think! ♪ ♪ doctor, doctor gimme the news ♪ ♪ ♪ [ applause ] ♪ ♪ >> audience: whoo! [ crowd cheering ] [ applause ] >> hello, everybody! >> yeah, baby! it is show time! [ crowd cheering ] [ applause ] >> thank you, guys! >> thank you! [ crowd cheering ] [ applause ] ♪ ♪ >> audience: whoo! [ crowd cheering ] [ applause ] ♪ ♪ hello, everyone. and thanks so much for tuning