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paul newman was a great and loyal friend and supporter. his partner in crime, robert redford, has been a supporter. we have a circle of 100 people who give each year. 30,000 associates give little each month above the subscription price in the belief it is not just a media institution but a community. there are 40 discussion groups around the country. [applause] >> these people obviously support it for what it espouses and believes in. do they all know that you have dirty martinis and marvin gaye? >> you have to keep perspectives. everyone's work is demanding. it is trying to make sense of these times and keep some hope. if we were meeting this time last year, it was a bully -- bleak time. we were coming off an election with the tea party claimed it had a mandate. i try to read history, drink dirty martinis, listen to marvin gaye, watch "true blood." vampires, everything. >> this has been fabulous. our thanks to katrina vanden h euvel, publisher of "the nation." [applause] we want to remind everybody that copies of her book are on sale in

and other things she is working on including a well-known camp for sick kids that paul newman started turns out the way we listen to music has changed radically not in the past decades but the past few years. pick your music. >> the internet has done so much for us. right now the music industry focus is online. our other bridget carey of c-net.com is here. >> it used to be simple you buy your music and own it and now so many things you can do. >> there are essentially three categories here, right? >> yeah. first, start with what we know. you go to itunes. you buy your song. and that involved going into amazon to buy your song and now you can go to google music and buy your song and you don't have to save it on your computer and save it on google's computer and access it from any computer. let's move on to the music you don't own. streaming radio like pandora. it is one of many that are gaining popularity where you just basically create a station, kind accustomed to you. let's say you like the beach boys. pandora will make a personalized station that likes the beach boys and whatever a

. >> dave: i think you talked about this before, paul newman helped you into into competitive car drivingbeat him on the race track and beat him in pool. >> dave: was he a better driver or better pool player. >> he was a hustler, newman. he always played everything down. everything was oh let's play some poochlt i haven't played in awhile. my elbow's hurting and then-- you know, you get the beers out and the stories start going and the next thing you know i'm getting creamed. it was the same on the race track. i remember we were on the track racing i thought finally i passed him on the inside and went down and i thought this is it he is going to have to concede finally and he just ripped past me on the runway and gave me the finger as he crossed the finish line. that's newman. >> dave: interview with a vampire, brad, you were in that with brad pitt. how did that go? >> went well. >> dave: are you buddies with brad pitt. >> yeah, he's a talented, terrific guy. >> dave: don't you think he must be miserable at home? (laughter) >> no, i have to say, he is always incredible with my kid and he

you can get nominated, everyone's going to say, you know, this guy's been up here -- it's like paul newmanhow many times are you nominated and you don't win? peter o'toole. he probably got more nominations than anyone in history. never won. >> when you heard the magical words, "winner, morgan freeman," honestly what were you thinking when you heard that? >> you want the truth or you want me to make something up? >> the truth. >> i knew it. >> really? >> yeah. see, to me an academy award is for best actor. best supporting actor is a runner-up prize. >> so it doesn't count really. >> it does because people can still say you won an academy award. >> but to you you still need to win the best actor. >> well, as i say, i'd much prefer to be nominated now for best actor. >> is that one of the things that continues to drive you to work so hard? because you don't need to. >> no. no, no, no. awards you'll get if you're good enough or if you get the public's attention. but no, working is working. it's just that. i always wanted to be in the movies. i'm in the movies. i want to stay -- keep doing it.

that's like the time she got her picture in between paul newman and robert redford and she just kindt she had -- you know and she still says i got my picture -- i can't compete with these guys. >> what you should have done was smacked him straight on the nose. >> yeah, right. >> that's what any real man would do, harry. >> somehow i don't think i'd be doing this interview if that had been the outcome. >> actually, i think you probably would. let's turn as i've been desperately trying to do for some time now to politics. >> okay. where did you get that tie, piers? >> are you political? i mean, you were very motivated by what happened to your hometown of new orleans. but generally, do you get fired up by politics, by what's going on to your country? >> i like to watch sort of from afar and learn what i can. just as a citizen. but for me there's a very definitive line between having strong feelings about where our country's going and actually being vocal about it. i mean, i'm not going to lie to myself or anyone else and presume that i have a great wealth of knowledge, like you or other

. >> i think one of the greate, the greest to me personally is the director was working with paul newman loved cars. >> he loved cars. he loved racing. he was so passionate about it. he and i became great friends and we would talk. we would-- we would sit in the recording studio and i would just have the tape rolling. and i just wanted to hear his voice and talk, passionately about racing. and i kept going back and rewriting the scenes, you know, we did, because of the inspiration from how he talked about it and so that is correct really is him, really is him. he became so passionate about this movie. and what no one, no one could see was that it was his last film. and i'm so proud to be a part of that. a chance to get to know. >> yeah. >> is there any sense that, are you fully comfortable with the place that animation had, you know, in our world? >> well, what's interesting is that i believe animation is as good as any film made. in the industry, though, it's always still kind of in a separate category. and i don't quite understand that. because you know, these films they do las forever

many of these stars were there like frank sinatra, paul newman, sonny and cher.a poll taken the next day on election day saying humphrey would win. my question is do you think that if these stars and this telethon taking questions on air, that humphrey might have pulled it off if they would have come to him earlier in the fall in 1968? >> it probably would have helped if he had come earlier in the year and joined the humphrey campaign. nothing else was going on at that time besides the telephone. they thought they had peace in vietnam the weekend before his poll ratings just kept going up. he almost passed nixon in most polls because peace in vietnam would have won him the presidency. richard nixon convinced the south vietnam's leader to not come to the peace talks because richard nixon would give him a better deal with president. this is documented all over the place. he backed out of peace talks. many people think that is what lost the election at the end. >> right behind you is a campaign poster for george wallace. when did he come into the race and what block

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newman. and the executive director of the american values institute, alexis ma gill johnson is here. senator, we begin with you. so far, the ads, somewhat positive outside ron paul they have to be saying what they stand for. that's romney's big problem. no one knows what he stands for and so the republican voters aren't happy and they're going all over the place right now. they started first with perry. he went down. then they went to cain. he went down. now they're going to newt and it's a question of when he goes down if he goes down in the polls before the own or whether obama takes him down. but he will be going down. >> brian: i guess romney is being urged strongly to start getting negative on newt. he hasn't really done that. >> once looked like the man in charge, he wants to have front runner status and he's trying to play it that way. he wants to look presidential. not stoop to negativity. but in these debates, there has been plenty of negativity in those debates. those have been free ads for all the candidates. so maybe we're just seeing the other side of the coin in these ads now, which is you've seen us all try to beat the tar out of each other. now m