and oddly enough, mike nichols stayed mike nichols, and...but i sort of trusted mike. i didn't think he was going to allow them to really screw it up. and what happened, finally, by some great fortune: there was no screenplay. i mean, there's this guy, ernest lehman, who is credited with the screenplay. but then again, he produced the movie too. but i think he changed two sentences of my entire script and maybe cut about five minutes, so the text was intact. and i am told all sorts of apocryphal stories about hollywood and film. i am told, for example, that a screenplay was written in which the nonexistent child was changed into a real deeply retarded child that they kept upstairs somewhere. i don't know whether i believe stuff like this or not. but anyway, i was quite amazed when i went to see a rough cut of the movie that it was what i wrote, very much what i wrote, except those two dumb sentences: "hey, let's go to the roadhouse" and "hey, let's come back from the roadhouse..." [laughter] which destroyed the claustrophobia that was very important to me in the film.

they found their way into the frames of the greatest new york directors, mike nichols, woody allen, sometimesd they always made their statement, they always said new york ever bit as strongly as the accents in the movies. dan meth, a new york director has cut footage from the towers taken from their 30-year movie career and posted it online. you can find it on our blog, because you will want to see this more than once. dan posted this note along with the video. from 1969 to 2001, the twin towers made countless cameos in hollywood films, sometimes featured prominently in the foreground, sometimes lurking in the distance. this montage celebrates the towers' all too short film career with songs that capture the passing decades. man, i miss them. keep an eye on the lower left of your screen for the titles of the movie clips that you're watching. when you see the towers as our great directors saw them, it will once again be hard to believe that they are gone. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> spectacular view, isn't it? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

john nichols of "the nation" magazine will have the latest and mike. entonoi on and heidi harris battle over what is class warfare. >> great to have you with us tonight, folks. drunken sailors and president bush finally, is turowed take them on and make them pick up the tab. the president drew this line in the sand this morning. i loved it! >> i will not support -- i will not support any plan that puts all of the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary american, and i will veto any bill that changes benefits for those who rely on medicare, but does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans and corporations to pay their fair share. we are not going to have a one-sided deal that hurts the folks who are most vulnerable. >> you know, this is what should have been said during the lame duck session of the congress, but i'll take it now. the president let republicans have what they wanted for the last nine months. you know the bush tax cuts that didn't work. it hasn't create good jobs to their satisfaction. someone needs to pick up the

mike: no, doesn't hurt. in 1974, a great song and still a great song in 2011 and people are still singing it at their weddings. [applause] >> roger nicholssic and lyrics. and had the beginnings of a bank commercial. that was originally a bank commercial, yeah, american ingenuity. >> mike: another one you did and recorded it, a big, big hit for a little band called three dog night. >> three dog night, remember this one. i wrote this song. you have to trust the lord. i wrote this song for the carpenters. they hated it. they didn't listen to an all the way through. okay. my mama used to say the lord will slam one door and get you to open other. and carpenters, wish they'd done it, but-- ♪ just an old-fashioned love song playing on the radio ♪ >> three dog night ♪ and wrapped around the music is the sound of someone promising they'll never go ♪ ♪ i'll never go ♪ you've heard this before that slowly rambles on ♪ ♪ no need bringing them back they've never really gone ♪ ♪ just an old-fashioned... >> a wonderful song. we've got to do at least one more. i don't think we can close the segment talking to you, one recorded by many people, but the pe