still to come, we will hear from the disney ceo bob iger on expanding into china and rob reiner getsed in new york city. that will be coming up. ♪ >> this is "lunch money," on bloomberg television, streaming on your phone, your tablet, and bloomberg.com and now available on apple tv and amazon fire. i am adam johnson. today's media dish -- disney ceo bob iger scored a victory buying maker studios mets part of his global plan. we caught up with him at the milken institute global conference in los angeles. >> i am very invested and not just disney today but disney long-term, will be on my tenure as ceo. any ceo needs to do is not just manage a business successfully in the moment before the quarter or the year but manage the business for success long-term. among the decisions we made collectively as a management team was to invest in china and not just plant seeds but to let plant big trees that will hopefully feel enormous growth for the company long-term well beyond my tenure. it means a lot to me because when i think about carrying out my responsibilities and partially my legacy, sha

where harry and sally would be today and the pair made the appearance to honor the film's director rob reinerrd. >> such a great movie. >> yes, it was. >> tony award nominations are out and this year they are most notable for who's not nominated as much as who is. >> broadway is packed with a-listers. denzel washington, ian mcclellan, patrick stewart, james franco, michelle williams to name a few. it was a musical with no big names that grabbed most of the nominations. "gentleman's guide to the love and murder" got ten nominations, including best musical and two from best actor. there were notable names in the pack, bryan cranston up for the best actor for his role as president lyndon johnson. denzel -- men zell for best actress and neil patrick harris "hedwig and the angry inch" is up for eight awards. >>> should we see which celebrities have birthdays today? let's take a look. cloris leachman, she is 88. >> she's will 88 years old. she never ages a day. another man that doesn't seem to age, willie nelson 81 years old. >> on the road again. >> cool as ever. >> akon turning 41. >> really. >>

you had rob reiner, the movie direct, chad griffin, a young political op pra active and the pairing up of these super lawyers ted olson and david boies who was his adder have usairy in bush v gore. i wanted to know what does it feel like to be the face of -- in a major civil rights case. >> brown: and the strategy which is part of -- much of what you write, the strategy they pursued of controversial even within the gay rights movement, right? tell us how they decided to good for the federal lawsuit? >> at the time there was a real feeling that the supreme court wasn't ready, the country wasn't ready and what the activities were pursuing was this ten, ten, ten strategy to have 30 states with some form of marriage recognition before you went the federal route. this group thought it was time to do something different brownch the danger was its could be become fire. >> it was a gamable. a lot of visitities working for years on this issue were extremely upset by it. there was a scene i describe in the book where they were called to reiner's home in brentwood, several of the lawyers on this

gary marshall put me in pretty woman now rob reiner's company is the producer of seinfeld they can't find george and gary says to rob i think there's a god i showed him showed in a thing he's very funny you should look at him so they put me on tape in new york i had no script i had three pages from the pilot script i didn't know what i was you know jerry i didn't know joe i mean i've seen jerry perform and i don't know and i not knowing what this is i thought it seems like a woody allen movie seems very woody allen so i went out i got the glasses i did very blatant woody allen impression and i put it on tape and i figured i'll never hear from these guys again and then they called me out to l.a. and said come out and well in essence you were the larry david character do you think i was what turned george is in essence the alter ego of larry david i didn't know that going in it wasn't until several episodes in that i started to piece that together and then i started doing a blatant larry david imitation but why did seinfeld work. if we knew that we'd do it again larry again on the page

they said that after multiple takes meg still was not getting the feel of it right so rob reiner actuallyactly how meg should do the old strike the table thing. billy said, i can't believe he said this, but he did, that the exercise left him a little excited. >> rob reiner. >> that's disturbing. >> video of him doing that. >> i want to see the outtakes. >> here's one we've been dreading. we mentioned it is national honesty day. it was apparently chosen for the last day of april, as we said, because this month begins with a bunch of pranks and lies on april fool's day. roker? >> savannah you go. >> okay. my dream this year is to be a zombie on "walking dead." >> really? >> i don't want to die. i want to be a zombie on "walking dead." >> i'll join you. >> don't stop. your turn. >> that's good. okay. got to get something off my chest. >> something we don't know. >> maybe something you do. i have a little bit of a shopping bug. occasionally when my husband asks me, is that new, i lie. >> oh, wow. >> yes. >> it's all right. >> you say you mean, this old thing? >> i've worn it. >> i got it on s

they were on stage celebrating rob reiner.alk about on morning television. but i knew lara -- i put it into the script. but maybe lara can. >> thank you. teeing me up. >> i'll have what she's having. reiner's mom delivered that line. >> we know what follows. we can just leave it there. >> everybody out there, you know what we're talking about, right? >> wink, wink. yeah. >>> when you think burrito, you probably think beans, meat, huge tortilla. and you probably think of it being consumed by a human. ah. what we have been missing. this culinary craftsman carefully and lovingly prepared these tiny burritos for a hamster. apparently the little man loves them, apart from the -- he did complain about the cilantro. but now -- >> got any guac? >> he'll have to hit the hamster wheel for an extra 20 minutes today. >> that's pretty good. >> i mean, look at that. it looks like a snake consuming a whole animal. >> oh, wow. >> chopped up into little pieces. >> beautiful, dan. >> what will they think of next? >> just love when you pop. >> r

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