and, there's a new memoir, in which she describes her turbulent years at the top as a deal with the devilou've sold your soul to become famous and you paid a price for it? >> yeah. that's the deal that all celebrities make. they decide, well, these are safe topics that i can speak out on. >> reporter: there's a photo spread on you that pushes the edge a little bit, maybe -- >> which one is that? >> reporter: the hitler mustache, baking cookies in the shape of jews? >> people said it was in the shape of jews but it was not jews. it was palestinians. >> reporter: at age 58, she knows who she is. she's delighted to be a grandma, and for someone who struggled so much with the high notes, she's started singing again. kids songs. she recorded them on dvd. her star may have fallen, but roseanne barr seems to be enjoying a pretty soft landing. i'm david wright for "nightline" in los angeles. >> roseanne barr's new book is in bookstores now. >>> when we come back, is health care in trouble? that's the subject of tonight's closing argument. but first, here's jimmy kimmel with what's coming up next.

this after the "wall street journal" published an excerpt from chua's new memoir, "battle hymn of the tiger mother." in the book, chua, a yale law professor and daughter of chinese immigrants, extols the chua forces her daughters to practice the violin and piano for hours on end and demands they make all a's. in school. if they fail to meet these expectations the girls are called garbage, a disgrace, or worthless. chua, says the stereotype of the smart asian is just that: a stereotype. since her book started stirring controversy, other asian authors have said publicly their emotional lives were ruined by overlytrict, cutting parents all right, you're not exactly chinese. [laughter] >> i'm asian. >> is the -- is she right, is it just that asian parents tend to be more harsh, more strict, more controlling, more driven? >> my mother raised me like that. the tv room was locked, we didn't get to -- we got to see one show after homework was over. and my sister, who has two daughters, has drilled them on their piano is with them in -- you do things by rote. the daughters are very successful

ron reagan makes the suggestion in his new memoir excerpted in ""u.s. news & world report"" saying his father would have stepped down had the diagnosis been made in 1987. reagan was diagnosed with alzheimer's in 1994, five years after leaving office. he died in 2004 at the age of 93. a state of emergency has been declared in to nearby sha, the tiny nation the u.s. considers an ally in a fight against al qaeda and islamic terrorism. this morning the capital is in ruins after violent protests toppled the long-time dictatorship. our correspondent elizabeth palmer is following developments from london. >> reporter: for weeks, angry civilians, young and educated have battled day after day with government forces demanding an end to corruption and unemployment. amnesty international estimates 55 people have been killed. last night, the protesters won when the man they depies most, the president, fled with his family to saudi arabia. the country's prime minister went on national television to appeal for calm and to promise political reform. today, the capital is

tim pawlenty, his term as governor ended and he will speak to promote his new memoir.t live on c-span. >> on television, on radio and on line. c-span, bringing public affairs to you. created by cable. it is washington your way. >> the house debated a resolution today honoring the victims of saturday's shooting in arizona including gabrielle giffords. house speaker john boehner introduced a resolution. here is part of the debate on the measure. this is two hours 40 minutes. mr. boehner: i ask for the resolution and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: house resolution 32. whereas on january 8, 2011, an armed gunman opened fire at a congress on your corner event hosted by representative gabrielle giffords of tucson, arizona, killing six and wounding at least 14 others. whereas christina taylor green, dorothy morris, john rohl, and gabriel zimmerman lost their lives in this attack. whereas christina taylor green, a 9-year-old daughter of john and roxanne green, was born on september 11, 2001, and was a third grader with an avid intere

new colonialism. the history of the kievan revolution and prevails rise to power i described in the memoirs of witnesses and in photographs today one can find these publications of bookstores in the center of havana historian thomas d.s. is a frequent guest here some new books including foreign literature and human history have appeared here more recently. this book reminds me of my youth. it was printed in one thousand nine hundred fifty nine you could usually find these cards in gather an entire collection of these cards in the told the history of the cuban revolution. local historians claim to have been moving three hundred fifty attempts to assassinate fidel castro the leader of the cuban revolution according to them the cia was the main offender. almost all one of the three hundred fifty six assassination attempts on saddam's life was supposed to take place in mid september one thousand nine hundred sixty during his visit to the united nations headquarters the thing is there was a poison cigar out there the policeman responsible for the operation refused to obey orders they just awarding that cia o

disclosing national defense information to a "new york times" reporter several weeks after the cia rejected his request to allow the publication of his memoirsthe obama administration is responding harshly to all information leaks by government officials following the recent disclosure of thousands of u.s. diplomatic cables by wikileaks. >>> the number of people infected with the h1n1 influenza is rising in japan. the virus is now blamed for over half the number of infections. the national institute of infectious diseases reported 9,863 cases of influenza as of december 26th. the figure is based on reports from about 5,000 clinics and hospitals across the nation. the number of patients rose for the tenth straight week mainly in northern and southern japan. the institute says the h1n1 strain of the flu virus was responsible for 62% of all new infections in december. until that month, the majority of infections were attributed to seasonal strains. >> translator: the h1n1 virus could become the mainstay of this winter's flu epidemic. if it prevails in major cities, it will quickly spread around. >> in 2009, the h1n1 virus triggered a pandemic a

disclosing national defense information to a "new york times" reporter several weeks after the cia rejected his request to allow the publication of his memoirsthe obama administration is responding harshly to all information leaks by government officials following the recent disclosure of thousands of u.s. diplomatic cables by wikileaks. >>> the number of people infected with the h1n1 influenza is rising in japan. the virus is now blamed for over half the number of infections. the national institute of infectious diseases reported 9,863 cases of influenza as of december 26th. the figure is based on reports from about 5,000 clinics and hospitals across the nation. the number of patients rose for the tenth straight week mainly in northern and southern japan. the institute says the h1n1 strain of the flu virus was responsible for 62% of all new infections in december. until that month, the majority of infections were attributed to seasonal strains. >> translator: the h1n1 virus could become the mainstay of this winter's flu epidemic. if it prevails in major cities, it will quickly spread around. >> in 2009, the h1n1 virus triggered a pandemic a

new year's resolutions. pat. >> publish my book that's just done and get to work on the nicks on memoirs to come out and to correct the record about richard nixon for his centennial date, which is 2013, 100th anniversary of his birth. >> eleanor. >> i resolve to do more to embrings the future, post more on my facebook wall, tag my friends, and tweet. >> monica. >> last year i resolved to do a world war ii tour of europe, and i'm sad to say i didn't do it this year so i'm going to say it until i do it. >> is you're going to repeat the resolution? >> until i do it. >> mort. >> i'm going to have my children start to learn chinese. >> my new year's resolution, next august, in nevada, in the blackrock dessert, i will attend the burning manifest value. the festival is an american original. bohemians gather and salute america's artistic freedom. if any of you are there, say hello to me. >> if i recognize you. >> i will have a lengthy white beard and new year, bye-bye! life. >>>

i think it's more casual than your average memoir, i think that's what the reviewer in "the new york times" said. >> host: and you agree with that? >> guest: i do agree. he's got a lot of humor in there. she noted the fact that he's got a dog poop story towards the end of the book where a few hours earlier i was on air force one, and now at the end of his presidency he's chiening up his -- cleaning up his dog's business from the neighbor's lawn. there's a lot of humor in it. up with of the readers said there's even sort of potty humor in it. -- i think he's kind of at ease in a sense that he's not running for anything else down the road. he's kind of done with politics. he just wants to say this is what i thought, this is what happened to me, and i think that majors it -- makes it a very readable memoir. >> host: dr. brown. >> guest: i would agree it's a very readable memoir. i'm not sure how enlightening it is. i think really from my perspective i very much enjoyed reading it. i came away thinking much of what i've always thought which is george w. bush is a likable person. he is so

new york are to contribute or wayne madsen says it has information that could prove damaging to u.s. officials. i think if victor boot was allowed to write his memoirs and it was made into a movie it would be a blockbuster because he knows enough to maybe point a finger at a lot of u.s. officials and especially in the bush cheney administration he says he's getting a lot of bad press of course he's getting bad press from the wall street journal from fox news you know the same people who have interests with war toward books that merchants of death and washington post reporters and whatnot is going to get a fair trial here a lot of people question whether the rule of law actually even applies to the united states anymore since we have federal judges and prosecutors probably feel more at home trying cases than equitorial guinea or me and maher and i doubt he's going to get a fair trial here still ahead this hour the ex russian spy who is a cold and. chapman lends her lands her own show find out what she is revealing in just a few minutes. first though russian born maria amalie has been calling norway her home for almost a decade she achieved academic s

new ragen revolution can restore greatness today. when you see march of 2011, what stands out to you? >> guest: i think that the trend that we saw over christmas of, you know, a lot of political memoirs and more of the conservative ones, i think that that sounds like that's what's going to stand from what's comes out soon. we have conservative political memoirs and, you know, the rogue books like we had and the "warmth of other sons" and the books just for fun. it sounds like that pattern is going to continue. >> host: one of the books coming out, and i want to ask you if you have word on this one yet. donald rumsfeld's autobiography, "known and unknown". do you know anything about this book? >> guest: yeah, i got a little information on this today. i believe it's coming out february 8. there's a huge amount of media going to be going on about this. the suggested printing that we're hearing is half a million copies. that's pretty big, and i think, you know, the interesting thing that donald rumsfeld did is that he did not accept an advance for this book because he wanted to write it at his own pace. i thought that was interesting. i think it's also interesting that all of proceeds fr

conferences and if it was held in new york i probably wouldn't have bothered but the opportunity to go to mongolia was completely driven by my recollection of pablo's memoirsrence when i had a day and a half to go out and explore the country and see the horses -- of course, the horse ran away with me and i road a camel and the one light, their latern on the top of the stop and the driver had driven off the -- off the road, up the step to meet this incredible family who talked about the challenge of modernity versus their traditional nomadic way of life. their oldest son would inherit the herd. the second son was going to go to school. he had been in school already. and he wanted to go and study in germany 'cause he had learned german, it was just an amazing opportunity to see close up what it means for people to face this kind of transition in their country. and then they gave me a whole bowl of fermented horse milk and said, see how you do with that. and i'm glad to see that i did not -- i would not have made pablo embarrassed, i think. i managed to get through about a third of it. >> host: would you drink it again? >> guest: it depends on the circumstanc

new one that's come on. but no, i've read other people's biographies like, oh whoorks he is his name. >> charlie: what about keith richards, he's written a brilliant memoir. it's fabulous. >> i must read that because i like to read them and how they do it and maybe i can imitate their style. >> charlie: the thing is being authentic. it's all the things you tell the actors, you go there where you are. this is where father lukas warns michael that the devil still has him fooled. here it is. >> it is the devil. >> this is a very very sick girl. she doesn't need a priest, she needs a shrink. >> still has you fooled. doesn't he. >> you've got your bag of tricks. >> michael. isn't this evil. >> charlie: the film is called "the rite" it opens on january 28th, next week. thank you, great to see you. >> thank you very much. great to see you again. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

memoir. "just kids" is the story of an extraordinary relationship she had with photographer robert mapplethorpe. he died of aids in 1989. maureen dowd of the "newk times" called it "la boheme" at the chelsea hotel. two hungry artists figuring out whom to love, how to make art and when to part. it won the 2010 national book award for non-fiction and the book is number one on this sunday's "new york times" paper back non-fiction list. i am very pleased to have patti smith back on this program almost one year after the book was published. welcome. >> hi. glad to be here. do you know what the very first words you said when we first met like, ten, 11 years ago? >> rose: no. >> we sat here or at a table like this and you looked at me and you said "robert mapplethorpe.". what did those words mean to me? and i thought it was so great we're here again. >> rose: where did the title come from? >> it came from... there's an episnowed the book where when robert and i first knew each other we went to washington square park and we had no money but sometimes we would, you know put on our favorite things and walk around the park and a couple, an older couple sa

there were memories and memoirs, and now you could -- although the nixon white house was accessible in this period, they were not exactly reveling with us. it was a whole new venture. i ended up with a whole new view and take on nixon, and even on watergate. the other question implied in there is why do we need another book on nixon, and i would say that virtually all, i don't want to leave one out of the books that have been published about nixon since he left office probably many of them before he left office were about segments of nixon's life and presidency. they were about his domestic policy. they are about his foreign policy. there's a new one about nixon and kissingger. there's a new one about agnu. it has those relationships in it, but it's the entirety really of his life and presidency. obviously, with choices having to be made, but here 1 this 150 page -- here is this 150-page book about nixon. >> well, what did you learn by revisiting watergate from the inside out? >> i learned two kinds ever things. one -- i learned to kinds of things. one was we all knew there was a slightly comic aspect to it because the watergate burglars, the four cubans a

memoir. >> it struck a chord. a lot of parents deal with this anxiety of what is the right thing? >> and her daughter came out. you saw this in "the new let me do this. she let me do that. and i completely understand the chinese thing. i grew up in a very chinese home. and you know, chinese parents, just like jewish parents, push their kids. >> and one of the things we're learning, the other reason it strikes a chord, as american kids are falling behind in math and science, chinese are rocketing to the top. >> we always got the -- we were the scholars, you know? >> we greeks like to think the same thing. >> you were the original scholars. >> let's talk about this -- we -- earlier in the program, the woman who fell into the fountain. >> yes. >> at the mall. and when i first heard she was thinking of suing the mall, i thought what? how can it be? but she made a pretty good point. the security guards are laughing. and you can't help but laugh. put it on youtube. and the whole world was laughing at her. >> i think she has a point there. but if it extends into the question of wounded pride, i mean, if everybody who suffered from wounded pr

memoir, "me," is in stores right now. it's in stores, and it is so readable. i love the way you start with a quote from mahatma gandhi. so fantastic. and his newded right now on itunes! bye, everybody. bye, everybody. great. [captioning made possible by king world] [captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org--] to the scene shooting begins. there's new questions about whether law enforcement missed signals from such a clearly troubled man. we've learned that last year alone, campus police were called five times for classroom and library disruptions involving loughner. in may, a teacher requested police protection after he became very hostile and intimidated her. >> did the community college police ever make that information available to your department? >> no. that came to light as this investigation occurred. >> the official said there was in no reason to pass the information along. sources say loughner has been sitting in his jail cell, still smiling, still smirking. pierre thomas, abc news, tucson, arizona. >> and our coverage of the tucson tragedy continues throughout the morning. you can get the latest on the impact of

memoir,"decision point." tonight at 8:00 on cspan's "q &a." "washington journal continues. host: we want to welcome tom ridge. welcome back to cspan. let me begin with some of the newseek. your successor and homeland security announced changes to a system you put in place. let me show with the original system look like this was the color coded terrorist system. it has remained high for the last seven years brett was your reaction to these changes? guest: it is long overdue. is the third iteration of how the country and the president and the department communicate potential terrorist threats to the country. whether you have two levels which i believe they have which is 5 and the russians have three, informed the public about the nature of the threat and tell them what they are supposed to do. in years ahead, there may be further refinement. we have to look at how we can more effectively communicate to the general public about the nature of the threat. you also have to tell folks what you'd want them to do about it. if this advances those interests as a country, i am comfortable and pleased. i remember going out with john ashcroft and our warnings did not work. we cam

new series called i always wanted to. our anchors will tackle the hobbies they've always dreamed about. >> and then early next weekend we're going to have early coffee with the author of the best-selling memoirlbert. she'll be right here with us to enjoy. exactly. >> we got that covered. >> this is actually usually a summer drink, and it's so delicious in the winter. >> 8:00 in the morning. >> sounds fantastic. thanks for coming. >> have a great weekend. >>> we end with our saturday spotlight. this week's story comes from los angeles, california. edward lawrence reports on new technology designed to make sure you never forget where you parked your car. >> reporter: the garage at santa monica place is unlike any in the entire nation. the latest technology helps drivers not only find open spots, but also their car when a spot is open the light above it stays green. >> it's helpful because you can look so far ahead and see if there's a space available further up or down. >> reporter: signs at the entrance tell you in realtime how many spots are on each floor. the technology will also direct you to your car. >> i think it really is great and really helpful. because you know, we do forget where w