tavis: gwyneth paltrow's mom and meryl streep's daughter are in the cast with you. >> both of them ares, but as talented as their mothers and daughters. i have known blythe for 45 years. i can remember the day i heard she was married. [laughter] she acts like me. she is very spontaneous, and she never repeats herself. so there are two moments that i will not tell you about, where she pulled something off on me in the scene, that had i been called upon to say anything, i would not have been able to, because i had fallen in love with her. she touches my cheek at one point and i just -- tavis: you mentioned earlier that you went from having a love affair with being a thespian for 45 years to just having a friendship with acting. how do you decide what it is that you want to do these days? >> i knew when i was 12, i was in love with america. i was a man who -- i read every book>çirw howard fast ever wrot. he loved america so much, he would make you weep when you read about it. i was going to go into that when i stopped acting. -- i knew i was going to go into that when i stopped acting. th

meryl harris was approached by a homeless man who asked for cash.e didn't have any but she had her platinum american express card. she gave it to him, waited, and ten minutes later he returned after buying a soda, cigarettes and gave her back her card along with a hug for her kindness. that's pretty kind to give somebody your platinum american express card and let them take it, wait for them to come back. >> and he came back with it. i'm sure he bought what he said he was and returned it. wow, you don't hear that very often. ashley posterior son, thank you for that. >>> straight ahead, your friday morning weather. >>> in sports, tiger woods tries to get intak into the swing at the pga championship. into the swing at pga championship. [ male announcer ] fact -- when doctors are in pain, the medicine in advil is their #1 choice for pain relief. more than the medicines in tylenol or aleve. use the medicine doctors use for themselves. one more reason to make advil your #1 choice. and then there's most complete, like what you get from centrum ultra women

claiming that everything it's ok it's ok to go in the water reminds me of the movie jaws where the other meryl was forced to stand in for the water and say it's ok to go in here but of course the water was toxic and it was not safe to go and well absolutely i mean this is part of a larger problem here basically the way our oil spill pollution laws are written you know b.p. was given it was you know was granted the you know the ability to dump these chemicals in there. would have to know what was in the chemicals it took us weeks to even just get a sense of what the chemical components were. there protected by business privacy laws and they don't even have to let us know what they're dumping in the water this is just part of a bigger problem with our chemical policy here in the u.s. right and of course reports are circulating that quote black water like mercenaries were dumping the carex it in the middle of the night so presumably. if the carex it was safe and they would not need to traipse about middle of the night was some kind of undercover operation to dump the corrected into the water i do

that -- you know, not everything i do is easy breezy. [ light laughter ] maybe you've heard of merylheers ] >> jimmy: yeah. >> they don't appear in that. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: at all. they have nothing to do with that ape in the football helmet. >> jimmy: that was "warren the ape," which is a spectacular show on mtv. dan milano, sean baker and spencer chinoy created it. and they were old friends and lucky -- i was lucky enough to be on it. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: yeah. >> check it out. i got to have a mustache. >> jimmy: let's talk about -- >> let's talk more about my mustache! >> jimmy: "eat, pray, love." >> yes -- yes. that's another thing i was in recently. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: in not necessarily -- in not necessarily in that order. >> i don't understand that. >> jimmy: well, maybe it is in that order. she eats -- julia roberts -- >> uh-huh. take me through it. >> jimmy: -- she eats first. [ light laughter ] >> did you read the book? >> jimmy: yes. [ audience ohs ] >> what kind of research do you do for these shows? did you see any part of the -- >> jimmy: is it

. >> jimmy: you don't hang out with like meryl streep?wn. now, you moved to new york city? >> no, i live here. i've always lived here. i'm from here. >> jimmy: but, you moved to a new apartment? >> yes, yes, i moved into my first big girl apartment. i like, live alone and what not. >> jimmy: oh, yeah? you live by yourself now? >> yes, thank you. >> jimmy: before you were with -- >> i had roommates. >> jimmy: oh, that's right, you did. you had roommates. that's right. so, now you are by yourself. how is that? >> uh, it's really -- it's scary and it's fun, but i like to -- like i have some time off so now i like shop for furniture and stuff. >> jimmy: yeah. >> which is fun. >> jimmy: you have nothing in there right now? >> hardly any. i have couch and i have cable. and that's it. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: that's all you need. >> yeah that's really all i need. >> jimmy: i remember i had this one apartment in l.a. where i bought a tv and i put the tv -- i took the tv box, folded everything back up, put a sheet over it, and put the tv on th

so, a seat filler has to come and -- >> "meryl streep?they get 35 bucks. and i think you get it cash, like, kind of like a drug deal. [ laughter ] and so, i just think there's something funny about, like, poor kyra sedgwick stuck next to me because kevin bacon went to the bathroom. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. >> and then, you know, maybe she and i talk, or i just let her be, or tell her she has a nice handbag, but it's never been done. >> jimmy: never had a celebrity seat filler? >> there's never been a celebrity seat filler in the history of awards shows, to my knowledge, and i'm acting like i'm doing it 'cause i'm cool, but really i just don't have a ticket to the emmys. but i would like to do it. i think it would be fun. >> jimmy: i'm not sure if i can make that happen. >> oh, no. i'm not asking you. but i'm just saying -- and putting it out there to the academy, and also, you do know that, to win, i'm offering hand jobs to the voting academy members. [ laughter and applause ] ♪ all right. now should we start the real segment? '

old-fashioned, if my husband cheats, i leave, i write a tell-all book, it becomes a tv movie with meryltreep, and i'm happy. let's start with you, bethenny. do you believe if you or your husband stray it will make you stronger? >> it's a cancer in a relationship that at least one person will never be able to get over. marriage is not a negotiation. it's a commitment. if you want to sleep around sleep with everybody in town, don't get married. if you want to have kids, have kids alone. you don't have to be married and embarrassing yourself and your children. >> holly? holly hill? >> i completely disagree. a marriage -- i completely disagree. you shouldn't be negotiating everything in the relationship. and that if you -- if you bring out your man's competitive nature, which is part of his biology, your marriage will be much healthier for it because he's not going to want someone sitting at home dedicated to him 24/7 that's got the kitchen apron on and has let herself go. if you're both out having other lovers it's the sure way to keep the marriage alive and healthy. >> holly, let me ask y

[applause] >> thank you very much, meryl. thank you, general casey, for joining us today. general casey's already been introduced, but just to give you his last two posts. one, he was in iraq for 32 months during what i think everyone would agree was pretty much the roughest years of the war, including that awful year of 2006. for the past three years and change he's been chief of staff of the army and of course the joint chiefs are responsible for thinking forward about the future of the forces as well as making sure that they are supplied with all that they need, both in goods and strategy. and so in the next hour, we hope to cover the range of issues that general casey can discuss in that regard and it's a great time to get him because nine months from now his term is up and he's off to the next stage of his life. general casey, let me start with probably the most general and broadest question. we have seen probably the biggest changes in u.s. army in the ten years since 9/11 than at almost at any point in history since the end of world war ii. and so i'd like to ask yo

his first salon in 1989 frederic fekkai has become the stylist of choice for many celebrities from merylom he created a dramatically different look to other a-listers who continue to line up at his chair. >> along the years sig northerny weaver, barbra streisand to scarlet johansson. >> reporter: and when sandra bullock walked the red carpet at the oscars her hair had help from team fekkai. his talent and charm have made him rich. i feel like you could do this all day. is this play for you? >> oh, yes. >> reporter: for frederic fekkai physical beauty is not so much a business as a consuming passion. when you walk down the street, you really do look at people's hair? >> i can't avoid it. i can't help it. simple. it jumps to my eyes whether it's the color, the length, the layered wrong. >> reporter: you know i'm very self-conscious because you said you look at everybody. but life hasn't always been so beautiful. boorn in the south of france, frederic fekkai showed an early interest in art and was accepted at a prestigious art academy to study sculpture. his father was not amused. >> my dad

[applause] >> thank you very much, meryl. thank you, general casey, for joining us today. general casey's already been introduced, but just to give you his last two posts. one, he was in iraq for 32 months during what i think everyone would agree was pretty much the roughest years of the war, including that awful year of 2006. for the past three years and change he's been chief of staff of the army and of course the joint chiefs are responsible for thinking forward about the future of the forces as well as making sure that they are supplied with all that they need, both in goods and strategy. and so in the next hour, we hope to cover the range of issues that general casey can discuss in that regard and it's a great time to get him because nine months from now his term is up and he's off to the next stage of his life. general casey, let me start with probably the most general and broadest question. we have seen probably the biggest changes in u.s. army in the ten years since 9/11 than at almost at any point in history since the end of world war ii. and so i'd like to ask yo

. >> good afternoon, my name is meryl chertoff -- [laughter] >> -- and i'm a fan of walter isaacson'soo. i'm the director of the justice ansociety program at the aspen institute. the justice and society program is the oldest ofhe seminar and policy programs in the institute. the justice and society seminar for the summer is full, but for many of you are interested in 2011, we have already started to assemble people who will be attending. we hope to welcome some of the next year. it is my very distinct privilege today to welcome general george casey, who is the chief of staff of the u.s. army. general casey will be interviewed by david sanger, the chief washington correspondent for "the new york times." david has reported from around the world. he covered the, five-year art of the bush presidency and now covers the obama administration. he is the author of the recently published "the new york times best seller, "de inheritance." i want to recognize that he has brought with him the secret weapon, and that is his wife, sheila. as we know, military spouses also served and sheila has her o