it's a really wonderful letter. >> stephen: what about paul newman?nd i would write each other all the time. and we had a really funny relationship. and he-- he was still racing his cars. that's what it is. and he wrecked one of them around the same time that my movie came out. so he had the-- the poster sort of super-imposed on to his crashed car and the poster of my movie, of "leatherheads "and he sent me a picture of the crashed car and said, "it happens to all of us, pal." he was funny -- >> stephen: fantastic. >> also gregory peck and walter cronkite, and paul newman, you know, you want them to be who you imagine them to be and they were. they were ever bit the person you wanted them to be. >> stephen: one last thing, i just-- you have been showered with accolades throughout your career. but you're "g.q." man of the year this year. you're "people" magazine's "man of the year." who is your icon of the year? >> that's a good question. >> stephen: thank you. >> i have to think-- you know, you're a professional. i will tell you this. i think there is

paul newman's character, he's a hustler. he's always going to hustle.wed you all i got. what the hell else do you want? that's it. that's all! >> tom cruise is terrific. newman finally gets an oscar for it. >> tom cruise has a very specific agenda in his career, to spend the '80s working with the best directors he can find. so he's going to work with scorsese and barry levinson. >> i'm not going to go back to cincinnati. you don't have to go to cincinnati to pick up boxer shorts. >> what did i say? >> kmart. you hear me, i know you hear me. >> you don't fool me with this shit for a second. >> these are too tight. >> ray, did you [ bleep ] hear what i said? shut up! >> movie stars often need to prove over and over again they can act. i think he really proved to the world he can act and then some. >> i like having you for my big brother. >> yeah. >> let me see some i.d. all right. you're under arrest. >> the 1980s introduces us to the character of john rambo who is one of the iconic cinematic characters of that era. what people tend to forget is he was in

it was paul newman, the story i tell in the book, who told me "if you have a pulse, you have a purposethe whole context of the story to understand what you say it, but that stayed with me. and then when i held my husband, who had passed on just a few moments before, and i found him gone, but gone to glory, this look, and i said, oh, my god, he saw jesus, and jesus took his breath away. i was sobbing, but it wasn't tears of anguish, i was rejoicing with him, and that is what i tried to explain to regis before he died. he came to lunch at my house, he goes, where do we go, what happens to us? and we had yet another talk like we have had, you know, this 35 year friendship. >> martha: i'm grateful for your time tonight. the book is called "it's never too late." thank you very much, kathie lee. >> bless you. happy holidays. >> martha: bless you, too. that is "the story" for tonight. we will see tomorrow night. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." christmas is almost here, the best week on the american calendar, the happiest time that we have. this year, of all yea

and his favorite, by the way, mass produced pizza is paul newman's four cheese frozen pizza.ust fyi. brian: take that tree tavern. ainsley: or amy's. steve: frankie borelli is his cameraman on those. franky borelli is that guy's son. so it comes full circle. one thing we should point out is the coronavirus is not going away. in fact, yesterday was the deadliest day, almost 3700 people died just yesterday. it has impacted 17 million americans. that's about 5% of the total population. brian: before you blame any government or any person, australia, sydney being locked down again, germany being locked down again. sweden they have losing a smaller number of people but not in percentage of their population. their king came out and said i think we failed the people. i have news for you, everyone, it's impossible. japan and south korea also dealing with outbreaks again. there is one country to blame a. it is china. and they still haven't come clean on how this thing started. that would have helped us fight it by the way. steve: just one other thing regarding the infection rate, it's