i get your fascination with polanski as a film maker. how much then does the script play in making a decision to work with a director who you have been in awe of your entire life? >> well, technically speaking, a lot, because the script is really what it's supposed to be. tavis: polanski could have asked you to be in a piece of crap and you would have still said yes? how much did the script have to do with it? [laughter] >> with the decision, i have a differentiate, a little. with the decision, it didn't have that much to do, you know. but, with my enthusiasm to play this part in this play, everything was like piled on, you know. it was like one bonus after another. i felt like a wall street banker. tavis: uh-huh >> bonus after bonus after bonus and i questioned why me. [laughter] tavis: great analogy. they think the bonus. nobody is asking on wall street why me. >> why him. tavis: yeah, exactly. i saw the play. and i saw that it was being turned into a film and nothing amazed me in terms of what hollywood can do, but i was really intere

. >> roman polanski made "the pianist" here.had tanks shooting into the sides of the house is. >> the film is about a jewish pianist in poland during the nazi occupation. it won three academy awards and also draw attention to babelsberg, where the streets became world famous. >> after that, we turned it into paris and an san francisco for 80 days, and then we turned it into new york. >> this is very much a story of their success. one explains why they still need studios like this. they provide a quiet environment with plenty of artificial light, and they are extremely flexible. >> when you are making films, you need big sets you can dismantle quickly, and you need a big a department. you basicalally need everything. a sculptor. you need every trade. >> and another other selling points is therere exrienced crew. they are particularly in demand for films that during the second world war, such as one from clinton tarantino. he even had a street named after him at the studio. >> we thought long and harof it, but now we e arelad he i

sharon tate polanski was eight mozprog pregnant. >> he changed my life forever. >> he had led a model life in prison. he hasn't been disciplined since 1973. he has earned a college fwree degree and been in a 12 step program. they say he a low risk to society if he released. >> he was rated as low for violence. >> i know i devastated lives by causing such agony. for all of this i sincerely apologize. >> despite of his release, the victim's family says watson has a second chance when all death sentences were commuted to life in prison in 1972. >> it's devastating listen how a college degree or involvement in self-help groups are weighed against the value of my uncle's life. >> after 30 minutes of deliberation, watson got his 16th parole denial. they said they wanted him to answer questions directly to determine whether he is truly remorseful and would not re-offend. his attorney advised against it. >> if any crime can be defined as the crime ofhe century, hideous, horrible crime, this one is. >> the parole board he can ask for parole again in five years. >> when we come back, the san fr

chris polanski was at the cuba mall in wellington, new zealand. he's here, trying to make a statement. >> 15 years i worked for the chairman. rural bank of new zealand. it meant a lot of stuff since then. i've had enough. i'm going to make the car disappear. >> we're talking aut magic here? he's going to magically make this thing disappear? >> t exactly. you can i the back of his station wagon and light something. >> oh my goodness, wow. >> he was trying to blow his car up and he was really close to injuring a lot of people. >> oh, [ bleep ]. >> he was charged with two counts of threatening behavior and police believe that this action was just part of his way of protesting. >> yeah. >> pretty dumb protest, he almost blew himself up. [ explosion ] >> he put all of those people in danger. there was guy if one of the stores somewhere around there who said, you need to put that out. >> what a dumb thing to do. like i'm going to go blow up my own car in protest. >> and clearly, the car worked, because he got it into the middle of the mall. >> why was t

and speaking about risk of flight, we know what happened in the roman polansky case and after all, conrad murray was born in grenada and has a the lot of contact outside of california and i suspect a high profile case like this, the judge didn't want to take any chances at all. let me bring in sunny hostin to get her reaction it what we just saw unfold. were you convinced he would be found guilty, sunny? >> well you never know so i wasn't convinced, but i certainly believed, wolf, that prosecution proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt. i thought the case was very significant against dr. murray. i agree with jeff, i was very surprised they remanded dr. murray. that is something that didn't always happen. it is up to the judge. but certainly i think, in my experience, what is usually considered as the risk of flight. and i didn't think that that was -- there was a grave risk of flight in this case. but it was up to the judge and the judge used his discretion. so i guess we will find out what his sentence will be. i think what is interesting though is that because of the overcrowding s

a roman polanski movie, not exactly a thriller, but i watched that instead.his morning, i did watch the clips from the republican debate. time and time again, to karen's point, they didn't answer the question. two or three questions, i can't remember how many on italy, on greece, and none of them, none of those candidates, for the leader of the free world, would answer the question. and i bet you, maybe one of two of them only actually understood the issue. that's pathetic! >> the fact is, in ten months, we're going to be saying the same thing about the answers we hear from republican and the republican nominee, because both are only going to have 60 seconds to respond. >> i don't agree with that, actually, susan, because the presidential debates are structured -- part of the problem here is that they have so many people. at some point, this field needs to be just on a very tactical level weeded out so you can actually have a little more time to answer. and i do think in the presidential, at least those debates, there are guidelines to make sure that there is

among the dead, roman polanski's wife, sharon tate.he was eight months pregnant. >> she'd been stabbed. repeated stab wounds. one of the victims had a hood placed over his head and the word "pig" was written in blood on the door. >> but the carnage wasn't over. the following night, police found two more victims. >> leo labianca, a supermarket owner and his wife, had both been stabbed to death. repeated stab wounds. on his body the word "war" had been carved in the chest. then with blood, the killer had scrawled on the refrigerator door the words "death to pigs." hoods had been placed over the heads of both victims. >> despite the obvious similarities between the two murder scenes, los angeles police failed to make any connection. until jailed manson follower susan atkins began talking. her story was chilling. >> a lawyer for a girl involved in a peculiar gang which may have killed sharon tate and her friends described the killings today. the lawyer, paul caruso, said five people dressed in black entered ms. tate's home after cutting th