i remember it vividly seeing tarzan, fred astaire, the chaplin films, musicals, mgm. because of my mother. she was interested in everything and she took me to the opera and ballet. there was a piece of meat which i really smelled from the audience. there were children on stage. there was a hook and i swallowed it. i said i wanted to do with these kids do. i was 6, 7, 8. tavis: we have your mother to thank for all of this. has this career, i'm going to rephrase that, has this life, and this life, from those humble tortured beginnings, in some ways, beautiful with your mom, but those tortured beginnings, as this life turned out to be what you thought it was? has it exceeded your dreams? >> i never thought about those things. in russia, it is torture. children are animals. when my mother died and it was the father remarried, it was kind of awkward. i never was unhappy. i was a happy kid because i fell in love with the the theatre. kids create such a thick calluses. especially in the arts, something happens and you blame your present behavior on your parents, the way they

>> caller: hi, i was wondering what you thought of mgm resorts international. >> i think mgm's okay.been a big las vegas sands backer more than wynn because of the internal dispute, i want to stick with las vegas sands. let's go to mehrad in washington. >> caller: washington boo-yah to ya, jim. >> what's going on? >> caller: what do you think about dlth? >> we're building a lot of cars, that said, this stock has had such a run, i want to buy it under $30. that's not that far from here. do be price sensitive. johnny in california. johnny? >> caller: boo-yah, cramer. from beautiful wine country. >> do love it there. what's on your mind? >> caller: what do you think about portfolio recoveries praa? >> i'm worried about it because they're covering people who defaulted. i'm not going to be a buyer. let's go to jerome in my home state of new jersey. jerome? >> caller: yes, jim. when i'm in las vegas i always like to visit caesar's. i went and bought the stock, what do you think? >> i like caesars now. that stock is heavily levered company. they can fix up the balance sheet which makes it o

former mgm animators, they realized there was money to doing television as long as they could keep lostsure a profit. the first was rough and ready. >> the aesthetic values were missing. it just didn't have the quality that let's say the animation of tom and jerry had, but we were able to reduce the costs let's say of a six minute cartoon from about 30 or $40,000 for a tom and jerry down to 3 or $4,000 for the same amount of time. it was a dramatic reduction in cost. >> rough and ready became quite popular eventually running for seven years on saturday mornings on nbc, but their next project was the one that led to their dominance of kids' tv. the huckleberry hound show was a prepackaged half hour program sponsored by kellogg's that was first syndicated to local stations in 1958. containing three cartoons, huckleberry hound, pixie and dixie and yogi bear, the show ran once a week in most markets monday at 6:30 p.m. it was an immediate hit and within a few months they began to spin off characters and duplicate the format. yogi bear got his own show soon followed by quick draw mcgraw. as t

peninsula and the north bay pirie if >>mark: a man making his 90 delivery broke up an armed robbery at the mgm gas station. that is where will tran and is right now. he has more on this story. >>will: let me show you what happened. the fuel truck delivery guy was outside dropping off his shift. for whatever reason he looked inside the store. he looked through the windows, he saw what was calling on and jumped into action. here is video, apparently a woman inside was brandishing this gun. he went inside quietly, he did not draw attention to the woman, he got behind her and basically bear hug her and wrestled with her, getting her to love the thought away from the cashier and ultimately dropped the gun at the scene. but we believe the woman fled the area on foot. we spoke with the oakland police department and here is there a description of the suspect they are looking for this morning. >> a black female adults. five of 5 in., a medium build, 140 lb.. she was wearing a black hood the in the black or dark colored jeans. >>mark: no one was injured but the oakland police department says they're gla

so you can go back to the 1930s, for example in the most successful financially mgm series ever was thedy family series, one of the few things that louis b. mayer really pay close attention to. and it offered a very conservative worldview. if you want to see the roots of reagan this morning in america, you can find them in the hardy family series. and when you get to wartime, whenever you are in a war, hollywood is always making a pro-war film except where were they totally avoid other than the green beret. but world war ii was making progress soames, world war i. and they were trying to make pro-war films during iraq and afghanistan and discovered they just didn't work. and so they just stuck making them. >> next caller from longview texas. this is wanda appeared welcome to the conversation, wanda. >> hi, this is really interesting. i wanted to ask mr. ross is he a thing -- of course they do have lots of money behind him and try to influence us on a lot of things and a lot of people say no, just entertain us and i'll be lecturing us. do you think that there is a lot of info in? you thi

across the street from mgm studios. i quit working for elvis. i was doing my film editing stuff, and i had gone to bed, i think. yeah it was saturday and the phone rings. and i go, who is this? it's me. so i realize it's elvis presley. nobody else would say it's me. and call in the middle of the night. i don't know. you know, i was always glad to hear from elvis. so i perked up. he said, jerry, i'm changing planes in dallas, and could you pick me up at the airport? i said who is with you? he said nobody. this is a guy who hadn't traveled without an entourage in 15 years. he said i don't want anybody in the world to know where i am. i said okay. you know, i said -- and elvis has given me his flight number and what time. he doesn't do those things. people do those things for him. he had it all down. i said, okay. i'll come in my car. it will not draw any attention for sure. and he said, well, if you want to, we had a limousine driver named gerald peters that elvis trusted because he used to drive for winston churchill. and elvis -- when elvis foun

in 2005, in the case of mca -- of mgm studios, they decided that file sharing companies were in violationpyright. >> what the programs do is to allow any two individuals to transmit information from one to the air by means of the internet. >> maxtor and others were targeted --napster and others were targeted. ♪ once in a while ♪ may be will feel the year- break international copyright law >> i am personally an abuser of copyright law. a lot of corporations get me mad and production companies and people who recorded the songs were trying to make money off of it. in that respect, i think that, if you can buy a cd, you should buy a cd. >> it is a tunnel by which this all goes through. what was passing sitter, they have been shut down because of violation of copyright. >> because of social networking, you can say, hey, i really like them. here is the whole cd. i do not see a difference between file sharing and youtube. >> if we allow them to make profit on what they do, then you're stifling creativity. once you discover it and you produce something, you lose the rights to it because somebody

i had a gig at the mgm the night he was shot, and little did i know that would be the beginning of his career. especially in the hip hop community the violence can come back and the holograms can shoot each other and nobody gets hurt. >> it eliminates violence. this is a great idea. dana, as a massive tupac fan you have the tatoo on your back that says thug life forever. what are your thoughts on his res resurrection? >> i didn't even know he was dead. actually i didn't know who he was. i kind of heard about him. this reminds me about what you said about the future of the word and -- world and the future of the internet. if all you have to do is sit at home and send your hole gram to do -- hologram to do stuff for you, what are we doing here? >> and then if the future the holograms will create their own consciousness and then communicate and turn against us and kill us. right? >> this is the massive illusion we were talking about. >> i am telling you this is going to happen. >> this is actually freaky. everybody should be worried about their job. >> i think so too. hole raw grams don't

mike tyson has a one-man show starting on friday at the mgm grand hotel in las vegas.lled mike tyson, undisputed truth. he's been doing interviews to promote this. mike was telling steve that he was inspired to do this one-man show by a show done on broadway called the bronx tale. if his show is half as good as the interview, it will be a major hit. >> it's my favorite movie. i love this movie. because we went to see the play. when we saw the play, i had no idea. it was better than the movie. >> it was a one-man show. >> it was better than the movie. can you imagine one guy making a play better than the movie? it's so overwhelming. breath-taking. you could hear a needle drop on a haystack, it was so mesmerizing. [cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: he really hit the nail on the button with that one. he's the best. we got a good show for you tonight. james van der beek is here. we have music from brooklyn from josh baze. and we'll be right back with ll cool j so stick around. ♪ we're testing new degree, the only antiperspirant activated directly by movement. activating prot

this is the mgm, jordan and porter. andrea loves reese witherson. that is her favorite actress.a big room. we got this shows where everybody is. great shot. >> greg: looks thrilled. >> kimberly: yeah. we went to fd her. tracked her. a stocking mission. we found my first husband by accident. gavin. very interesting. earthquake there were so many to pick from. >> bob: dana why didn't you go? >> dana: it's always an honor to be invited. it jus not my thing. right, i am loneliest in a crowd. it's always freezing cold. you can never get in any of the parties. it takes forever. i had an honor to go seven years in a row, i loved it. but i haven't been since. i watched "veep." "bridesmaids" and the last half hour of "ferris buehler day off" and my husband came home from two-week trip and my role is never miss a homecoming. >> kimberly: sister from another mother. i love her. >> dana: in watching that, a trash magazine i get, there is, they are just like us segment. it was like a whole version of that in reality. >> eric: eric went up -- >> bob: eric went up to mrs. obama. >> eric: this

mayer at establishing the first relationship between studio and party and he turned mgm as well as many studios in l.a. into a money source for hollywood. it wasn't until the 30s that the democrats really came into hollywood. and now we have a situation where within the industry at the left is getting money mainly on actors. the right is getting money mainly from studio executives. .. >> we'll be back all gay tomorrow here at the campus of usc for coverage of the los angeles festival of books. we'll again be covering non-fiction books and have call-in programs with the authors. today's book program is reaired tonight on booktv gipping -- beginning at midnight. [applause] >> well, thank you, author, it's a real privilege to be here. i voted at about this time, yesterday, you were on "the view" being interviewed, and i hope we can elevate things a little bit, that was a low bar. >> quite the experience. >> it's good to be here in part because this is a wonderful book, and author touched on your personal story. i brought with me two of my daughters today because i think it's so important f

i think he is growing and the growth they are seeing, i like mgm. it's a value play.nd i know it's 95% u.s. the business doesn't seem to be growing and the margins had value in the space. >> a programming note, the fast money halftime report is heading to vegas as well. we will broadcast live from the conference on may 9th and 10th. a very big name investor. details to be unveiled soon. he is excited about that. tune in for the first stock draft. seven traders including pete contrarian. 21 stocks and one winner. tune in to get the details. a route map shows you where we go. but not how we get there. because in this business, there are no straight lines. only the twists and turns of an unpredictable industry. so the eighty-thousand employees at delta... must anticipate the unexpected. and never let the rules overrule common sense. this is how we tame the unwieldiness of air travel, until it's not just lines you see... it's the world.

if you want vegas exposure, mgm has had a nice run.s to foxwood in connecticut and that has major debt trouble right now. macau just reported a 24% pop in gambling revenue for march. wynn is well-known and strong in both places. 15% or so year-to-date to the upside. las vegas sands basically came back from the brink because of the bet on macau. look at this chart. i had to do it. since the market bottom they're up 4,000%. it's unbelievable. the stock is still running this year. and they're opening a new $4 billion casino there later this month. two other quick ones. if you like macau but thing lvs is top pi, crown ask a pure play and up 44% this year. and as macau and parts of the u.s. continue to expand, this is the one i wanted to point ut. companies that make the machines, igt, for example, based in the u.s. and has a global footprint. again, put the slot machines for people to waste their money, tyler. they make them. >> thank you very much. and don't miss mary thompson live, yes, she'll be live in atlantic city's new resort casino

the undisputed truth, the show opens at mgm tomorrow, correct?et's see how it goes. we'll be looking forward to see how you do. >> thank you so kindly, ma'am. >> you bet. >>> parents of toddlers or infants could be putting their child in jeopardy every time they get in the car. how natura answers both at powerincooperation.com. >>> time to go to stories making news at street level. columbia, south carolina where governor nikki hailey is facing an ethics inquiry. a democratic party employee complained her campaign incorrectly reported more than $1.3 million in con bugss and failed to list the occupations and addresses of some of the dono donors. the lawyer calls it a ree teen matter. she could face fines of up to $2,000 for each violation. >>> michael bloomberg is blasting the national rifle association saying it's reasonable for the stand your ground laws. >> all americans already have a right to defend themselves with a measure of force, but these shoot first laws have nothing to do with that or with the exercise of second amendment rights. inst

there he went, i think to mgm, and he's in a movie. there he was.. walter pigeon, edward g. robbins. he was well in the movie business until world war ii breaks out. but what he did was, he never had the money to ride horses when he was in college and all that. so they had the program that is rotc. he became a lieutenant in the calgary of the united states. he got to write the best horses in the world for free. for one weekend a month. the calgary became the armor. it looked like he was going overseas, but his [inaudible] was so bad that they said you can't leave the united states. he figured out who he was, they put him in the motion picture division. he sat there in san francisco and collected all of these technical guys in all these studios. they would build replicas of tokyo or cities in japan that they were going to bomb -- exact replicas of the cities that were as big as this room -- he did well at this. he went back into the movie business in 1945 when the war was over. and it had changed a lot. the studio system was starting to break up. the

in 2005 in the case of mgm studios versus nappes sir, they discover that there were in violation of copyright. >> with these programs do, as if by magic, is to allow any two individuals to transmit information from one end to the other by means of the internet. >> they were targeted because they were the avenues by which people were able to access internet, access to these sites, and allow them to transfer digital copies over the internet. once in a while ♪ >> i am him guilty of illegal file sharing. i'm sure many others are. the people are trying to make money off of it. in that respect, i think that if you can buy a cd, you should buy a cd. it is the state title by which it all goes through. being a tunnel in the internet is not illegal, but what is passing through is ultimately illegal. and a number of them later, those sites have been shut down because of violation of copyrights. >> you can be like, hey, here is their whole cd. i cannot see that big a difference between file sharing and things like youtube. if we make a profit off of what they do, then you're stifling the creative force.

in 2005, mgm studios versus grocster, they decided that the napster and other music sharing sites wereiolating cop pit. >> they allow any two individuals to transmit information from one to the other by means of the internet. >> napster and grokster specifically were targeted because avenues by which people were able to access the internet, access the sites and allow them to transfer digital copies over the internet. ♪ . >> once in a while you will feel the urge to break into national copyright law ♪. >> i personally am a user of file-sharing. i have tons of songs and i'm sure everybody else does and, a lot of corporations get really mad and like, production companies and like the people who recorded the songs, they're trying to make money off of it. so in that respect i think that if you can buy a cd you should buy a cd. >> the will be grokster doesn't do anything. this is tunnel which this all goes through. being a tunnel on the internet isn't illegal but what was passing through it and allowing to pass through ultimately through grokster and napster and a number of them later, those

there he went, i think to mgm, and he's in a movie. there he was. they wanted to change his name, but he says, look, i don't know what you know about me, but i am pretty well-known throughout the midwest. people make fun of reagan. i watched a movie -- it was a very good comic, but it makes the man look like a fool. when you watch things that were a movies, this guy was a very good actor. william holden and william powell and john wayne. all these guys. walter pigeon, edward g. robbins. he was well in the movie business until world war ii breaks out. but what he did was, he never had the money to ride horses when he was in college and all that. so they had the program that is rotc. he became a lieutenant in the calgary of the united states. he got to write the best horses in the world for free. for one weekend a month. the calgary became the armor. it looked like he was going overseas, but his [inaudible] was so bad that they said you can't leave the united states. he figured out who he was, they put him in the motion picture division. he sat there