morgan freeman. >> here you are, morgan freeman. >> yay. >> my hour with the great morgan freeman from "glory" and "driving miss daisy" to "invictus" and "shawshank redemption." his extraordinary 40-year career. his first proper love scene. >> he gets up and plants one right on my lips. a good one, you know. and i was so surprised. >> meaning? >> that the reaction on my face was -- bob says it was priceless. >> very strong feelings about race and the state of his country. >> that's stated policy. publicly stated. is to do whatever it takes to see to it that obama only serves one term. screw the country. we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here. >> and the morgan freeman you really don't know. >> play golf with one hand. >> really? >> yeah. i can drive a ball 180 yards. >> this man can do just about anything. i'll have to ask him to do me a personal favor. >> i'm going to do this one more time. but after this i get paid. right? this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> morgan freeman is a man of great stature, a man of great talent, and as i've come to realize he's

i thought he was brilliant, morgan freeman.he's a great guy. >> hilarious. >> really funny, really, like off the charts smart, and he's got like a nice vibrato when he sings. i had an idea to do a cd, and i'm thinking about calling it "the act of song," and getting academy award winners, who aren't known as singers, to sing. like to collaborate with -- >> great idea. >> -- morgan freeman. maybe he could write lyrics, i could write music, or do a standard, do something. and i asked some of my friends like hillary swank and renee zellweger if they'd be interested in doing it. because i just think people would love to hear those great minds interpret lyrics, because they're so brilliant. >> are you going to do it? >> i'd like to do it. you never know how those things pan out, you know. >> if morgan passes, i'm available. >> where'd you get that tie again? >> tell me about the new broadway show you're in. because it sounds exciting. >> man, i am so -- i'm more excited about this than i've been in years, about a project. it's called

unexpected feelings during "march of the penguins," but i wrote those off as natural response to morgan freeman's narration. no wonder i booked elijah wood to talk about his role in "happy feet 2" and we had a sword fight. what does that mean? i don't know, but win thing is clear. we must not invade antarctica. from what michele bachmann says, i'm not sure our troops could handle the temptation. we'll be right back. >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you very much. nation, i love television, but mostly i love commercials. i personally screen every one of my sponsors' ads before we air them. not all of them can make the cut, although so far all of them have. and with the holidays fast approaching, my advertisers have a treasure trove of great gift ideas, none better than this actual commercial that ran during my show. >> if you own an ipod, iphone or digital video player, then you need tv hat, private, portable and hands-free. tv hat provides a motion picture experience absolutely anywhere. >> stephen: yes, tv hat. for the few of you who aren't watching this on your tv hat right now, i'll

unexpected feelings during "march of the penguins," but i wrote those off as natural response to morgan freeman's narration. no wonder i booked elijah wood to talk about his role in "happy feet 2" and we had a sword fight. what does that mean? i don't know, but win thing is clear. we must not invade antarctica. from what michele bachmann says, i'm not sure our troops could handle the temptation. we'll be right back. man: my electric bill was breaking the bank. so to save some money, i trained this team of guinea pigs to row this tiny boat. guinea pig: row...row. they generate electricity, which lets me surf the web all day. guinea pig: row...row. took me 6 months to train each one, 8 months to get the guinea pig: row...row. little chubby one to yell row! guinea pig: row...row. that's kind of strange. guinea pig: row...row. such a simple word... row. anncr: there's an easier way to save. get online. go to geico.com. get a quote. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you very much. nation, i love television, but mostly i love commercials.

>> i've been getting morgan freeman's mail. >> jay: i mean, do people mistake -- i don't even see howt would happen. >> well, we look exactly alike -- >> jay: yeah, i was going to say -- >> -- but other than that. i don't know why, this happens, but it does. >> jay: do you read it? >> yeah. yeah, i read it. >> jay: wow, so you do. [ laughter ] >> i open it and read it. it's super illegal. >> jay: wow. that is illegal. you can't open somebody else's mail. >> no, no, i open it right away and read it. >> jay: really? >> and i feel bad, because a a lot of times it's people who are like his biggest fan. it's like, mr. freeman, you know, changed my life or whatever and i feel bad. so, sometimes i write back. [ laughter ] >> jay: wow. >> yeah. i'm, like, yes, it was great. when we were making "shawshank," we had so much f >> jay: wow, wow, wow. that's -- that's pretty sleazy. >> yeah it is. [ laughter ] no, i'm an awful person. >> jay: yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> jay: now, you just had a a birthday this week. you turned 28. >> yeah. yeah. >> jay: 28 and moved out. wow. [ cheers ] >> yes, it's be

actor morgan freeman will be honored with a lifetime achievement award. >> to me, talk about chevron.orry. san ramon based chevron may pay millions for the oil spill. prosecutors are seeking more than $10 billion in damages for an oil spill off the coast last month. 3,000 barrels of crude leaked into the shoreline. they are also being criticized for not fully sharing information at the start of the spill. >>> scott mcgrew is refusing to use a four-letter word. >> i'll just say it once, mall. tomorrow 2,000 websites will have free shipping day to encourage even more online buying it. hewlett-packa hewlett-packard, bed bath and beyond. bass pro shop all among free shipperses tomorrow. speaking of fun gifts, you remember these computerized blocks? the san francisco company that makes them is using a pop-up store to sell them. they will be on the shell efs of regular retailers in the mall. for now the company says selling them on the street corner is surprisingly effective and very san francisco chic. >>> you have to work with the city. the mayor's office here has been really great to us.

morgan freeman, i have established over the last hour, is your story is not too sad to be told it has been a story of joyous kayious, triumph, the occasional disaster, but above all great fun. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> piers: been a pleasure. >> has been a pleasure. >>> piers, thanks it is 10:00 here on the east coast. we begin by keeping them honest. with the clock ticking to the iowa caucuses five days away, tonight the republican candidates are pulling out the stops. the latest cnn poll shows romney and paul battling it out for the lead. romney 25%, paul 22. santorum third place tripling his support since the beginning of the month. gingrich dropped to 14%, down from 33% early in december. perry 11%, bachmann and huntsman in the single digits. huntsman is not in iowa. tonight, bachmann is doing it without two high-ranking members of her team. bachmann's iowa campaign chairman jumped ship and went to ron paul's campaign. bachmann says he is a sellout and was paid to go to the paul campaign. take a look. >> i had a conversation with kent sorenson. and in the direct conver

but, morgan freeman, i have established over the last hour, is your story is not too sad to be told it has been a story of joyous kayious, triumph, the occasional disaster, but above all great fun. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> piers: been a pleasure. >> has been a pleasure. thank you very much. >> thank you. it has been a pleasure. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm zain verjee at cnn in london here are the top stories. opposition activists in syria say security forces fiertd on protesters in a damascus suburb just as arab league monitors arrived. this video said to have captured that attack. cnn can't verify its authenticity. opposition groups say at least 130 people have been killed since the observers began their mission. >>> 17 human rights groups say they're outraged after police raided their offices in cairo on thursday. egyptian authorities say they're investigating whether the groups are getting illegal foreign funding. u.s. state department official says egypt must stop what it calls harassment. >>> time has run out this year for india's proposed anti-corru

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i thought if morgan freeman was married in me shading in the morning and would win an academy award. [laughter] i make exceptions for pain gwen's. i hate those little flightless rodents. i'm not bitter or anything. it was a painfully election. i hope you go to netflix if you have a chance. esquire magazine comes to me and says we one you to be in our issue of the 40 best and brightest in america and like a what are you talking about? i don't feel like the best test or the brightest on anything i just lost and the election. let me write an election about real american heroes that we don't often see in the tv cameras or newspaper articles. let me write an article for esquire about one of the best and brightest and they said okay, editor and mark warren said absolutely. i went to interview ms. virginia jones, one of my heroes in the nation. people stand in the trenches and front lines of the american dream and do whatever they can to make this country be real, makes a promise real, standing there interviewing her and she tells me this story that shocked me. i've known her a long time at

i thought if morgan freeman was married in me shading in the morning and would win an academy award. [laughter] i make exceptions for pain gwen's. i hate those little flightless rodents. i'm not bitter or anything. it was a painfully election. i hope you go to netflix if you have a chance. esquire magazine comes to me and says we one you to be in our issue of the 40 best and brightest in america and like a what are you talking about? i don't feel like the best test or the brightest on anything i just lost and the election. let me write an election about real american heroes that we don't often see in the tv cameras or newspaper articles. let me write an article for esquire about one of the best and brightest and they said okay, editor and mark warren said absolutely. i went to interview ms. virginia jones, one of my heroes in the nation. people stand in the trenches and front lines of the american dream and do whatever they can to make this country be real, makes a promise real, standing there interviewing her and she tells me this story that shocked me. i've known her a long time at

i thought if morgan freeman was married in me shading in the morning and would win an academy award.] i make exceptions for pain gwen's. i hate those little flightless rodents. i'm not bitter or anything. it was a painfully election. i hope you go to netflix if you have a chance. esquire magazine comes to me and says we one you to be in our issue of the 40 best and brightest in america and like a what are you talking about? i don't feel like the best test or the brightest on anything i just lost and the election. let mewrite an election about real american heroes that we don't often see in te tv cameras or newspaper articles. let me write an article for esquire abouone of the best and brightest and they said okay, edor and mark warn said absolutely. i went to interview ms. virginia jones, one of my heroes in the nation. people stand in the trenches and front lines of the american drea and do whatever they can to make this country be real, makes a promise eal, standing there interviewing her and she tells me this story that shocked me. i've known her a long time at that point. served