i like physical guys i like guys who are feet to me was the best robin williams you know i love the i love him there's a genius and yet there's what about wouldn't give me the story of would mean i like that show thanks yeah we were she you know we would kick around at the clubs together i mean she knew we knew each other she's like my best friend one of them and we would she just like she told me she's like i wrote a sitcom and i want you to play my boyfriend and i was like ok you know something you hear in hollywood a lot is like haven't you this thing i want you to be in your life and then you're right i want to who's going to end up who's who's playing it but she meant it and she did an audition a few times and for n.b.c. and they liked me and i did it and we desire like your acting yeah i like acting i mean you know if if i could do one thing for the rest of my life would be stand up but acting to me is it's cool it's another way of kind of like being a part of an audience and getting that she told howard stern recently she felt there was a negative backlash. the she said i think

. >> osgood: ethan hawke first won wide notice with his performance alongside robin williams in the 1989w does he relax in his moments of down time? that and more in this sunday profile. >> nice one. >> not nice enough. table's open. trust your inner voice, right? >> i'm trying meet actor ethan hawke for a friendly game of pool. you'll see it's not about whether you win or lose but how you play the game. >> the important think not to sink the ball. important thing is to look good while you do it. >> he's no hustler, either. >> just kiss it right there, that's what you want to do. >> easier said than done. very well done. >> we met hawke at the players in new york city. a 125-year-old social club for people in the arts. which as you'll see is what hawke is all about. his portrait is on the wall next to members christopher plummer and carol burnett. >> how did they approach you about this? >> i don't know. i could do without. >> but at 43 hawke's earned his place there. it all began with an audition in manhattan not too far from his boyhood home near princeton, new jersey. >> my mother tho

. >> reporter: who can bring sofia vergara, robin williams and jennifer aniston to the table?, someone's feeling a lot better. >> reporter: marlo comis can. >> a woman came to me and said would you give this to jennifer anton? i want her to know she saved my daughter. she went to her doctor and said i want an mri for my child i think i have this disease that jennifer aniston had. >> reporter: is it the force of your personality that you got these companies to come together and buy into the thanks and giving campaign? >> i don't think it's the force of my personality. people want to do something good. you just have to show them where. >> reporter: st. jude children's research hospital was founded by marlo's famous father danny thomas with a big promise. >> no child would ever have to pay. and we would immediately share our discoveries with the scientific and medical community worldwide. >> a hospital for children of all races and creeds. nonsectarian. and free. >> so every kid will have a fair chance. >> reporter: that's bold. >> yes. >> reporter: bold is in the thomas dna, mar

. >> my winner, in part because it reminds me of an old robin williams joke.d to make a sport in olympic because they wanted to see what they could come up and de blasio was designed by scientists to be unwinnable, the parity of a left-wing figure and yet he won by over 50 points, this huge margin and he is a winner because of the successes of rudy giuliani and michael bloomberg and the way the city is safer and prosperous enough it can afford to bet its values on someone like de blasio who is to me mind just slightly to the right of the jackovines but he lucked out. and anthony wiener couldn't control him. >> and we talked about this off camera. the daughter coming out with the addiction problem. they got that off the table got this off the table very well. >> they got a lot of things off the table. his formerly gay wife. if you were in a -- trying to come up with a scenario for someone how wouldn't think would be able to win, you would think he would have. >> it's new york, joan jonah. >> let's go to brooklyn for his winner. >> pope francis extraordinarily h

not going to sue chef so-and-so for participating in chef a with chef be and probably not sue robin williams for recognizing the in formal rights of some other stand up comedian. but if i got larger i think would run up against an antitrust problem. [inaudible] >> thank you. how are you? [inaudible conversations] >> booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with guests and viewers. facebook.com/tv. >> you are watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs. weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights watch key public policy events. and every week in the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at a website, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> booktv continues with karima bennoune. she profiles muslims around the world, including in the u.s., who are fighting against islamic fundamentalism. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon and welcome to today's meeting of the commonwealth club of california. i'm dina inrahim, an associate professor of broadcasting at san francisco state universi

gregg: amazing stuff like the robin williams movie where he became human eventually.movie. >> reporter: i hope they don't turn on me while i'm here. gregg: phil keating great. jenna: great to have a camera there if that happens. we don't wish it, please. >>> new study about fathers in the united states disputing old myth that is the fathers are detached from their families. harris faulkner is live with this. harris? >> some key findings in this. 90% said they bathed, diapered, potty trained or dressed the little ones at least several times a week. look at that little one. high number played with eight meals with their children. the majority of those dads said they read to their kids several times a week as well. you wonder why this is such a big deal. researchers and behavioral experts show is a dads are more involved in their children's lives than society think. we know children are academically successful and fewer behavioral problems and healthier eating habits with dad spending more time. moms are wondering, i'm not seeing that kind of help at home. worth noting a

we talked about chris rock and robin williams. >> the first time i saw a live comedy show at the improvemillan. i said go go up and talk on stage and people pay money. i'll take that. you moved her but before that in mum buy, bombay, what did you find that people thought about jews. >> not everyone knows there are jews there. >> i was growing up people asked me what i am. i would say i'm jewish. they would say what is that. they didn't have a point of reference. and the explanation came through an old boliwood movie. and everyone knew the movie. they said i know i remember the movie. and do you know israel. palestine i goet it. one in the same. >> all the same. >> i think it is great you went into comedy even though you are working at silicon valley. >> that keeps me from being homeless. >> being jewish from india what is your quality because you are jewish? >> i don't know. it is a novelty. i didn't now i was a specialty until i came to america being jewish in india. it is what i am. i'm not special. i'm glad you did and you got me haoáerz. >> and. >> you are here because of the 26th an

suspects tried escaping on a boat. 58-year-old starzoff from american canyon and 52-year-old wayne william robins are accused of wounding a man near highway 37. the u.s. coast guard caught up with him when he hoped into a small boat and sailed away. robins has not yet been caught and the victim is still in the hospital. >>> police in san francisco have identified a suspect that was involved in the killing of two cats earlier this week. someone threw a woman's cat carrier into the bay on monday afternoon drowning the two animals inside. the suspects you can see there described as a white man about six feet tall and carrying a skateboard. >>> we are learning new details about a plan to move residents on treasure island because of toxic chemicals that may have contaminated the ground be -- beneath them. they need to move so the navy can clean up the toxins that seeped into the ground when it was a dumping site when the island was a naval base. >> the issue was out for some time, but it is now time for the navy to move forward with their activities. they need 20 vacate the buildings to facilitate the

robin roberts publicly acknowledging that she is gay. joining knee now from charlotte, north carolina eboni williams and from boston michael graham, both areio talk show hosts. that makes three of us, guys. michael, let's start with you. robin roberts, now, i got to know robin roberts very briefly. we both got an award for breast cancer at the cancer center years ago. delightful person. great, great, great great gal. she sent out this acknowledgment after a really tough health year saying basically, you know, my girl friend has been supporting me through this and thank you. and i didn't know it was a big news story but, boy, it's really caught fire. what's your reaction? >> i haven't been in shocked since clay aiken came out. what's interesting to me is how -- it's interesting that it's a media story but i don't know how many americans -- the fact is we know there are so many people public life openly gay now. it's not that big of deal. this is the great break through that glaad wanted from the beginning. the notion that they are going to lose a single viewer. either you like good morning america or find the concept of george stephanopoulo

robin island. the work withs of william shakespeare. and alongside his signature, n. mandela, he has marked the words of julius caesar. a coward, he says, dies a thousand times before his death, but the taste of death but once. it seems to me most strange that men should fear seeing that death a necessary end will come when it will come. and remarkably, that amazing courage to stand up to evil stood with this lack of bitterness that has been described already today, forgiving his prosecutors, the would-be executioners, and the most amazing story that he told me was on the night before they left prison calling all the anc prisoners together and saying, yes, they would be justified in acts of revenge, retaliation and retribution, but there could never then be a strong, successful, multiracial society, and that was his second great achievement, to achieve change through reconciliation. but, you know, there was a didder achievement, refusing to rest or relax when he gave up the presidency. he had great achievement to his name. he himself wrote that in the first part of hi

robin roberts, actress and from lawrence, as you heard earlier. and actress jennifer lawrence, as you heard earlier, and the stars of the duct honesty show. also, william and kate's son george made the list. be announced on december 18. guess you could be fascinating when you are four months old. there's is not a lot to say. a big announcement today. good morning america weathercaster sam champ in his leaving the network and heading over to the weather channel. he tweeted this morning that only aim an amazing opportunity like this one could take him away from his abc family. he will anchor the weather channel's new morning show and beating networks managing and work. -- managing editor. the price tagat is on amazing opportunity. >> you can only guess. >> maureen bunyan is here with a look ahead. >> happy monday. a new delay for the opening of the metro silver line, what is behind it and how long it would last. les, a new problem for those trying to buy insurance through the federal health insurance exchange. this time, it is a positive sign. >> thank you. >> if you thought november was really cold, you are right. it was. >> we are getting a bit of a br

william earnest henley, "i am the master of my fate. i am the captain of my soul." "invictus," inspired president obama for years. he spoke, recounting the life of nelson mandela. and robin, george. it was something to see the president actually able to quiet the crowd somewhat. and he knew to whom he was speaking, the south african people there. i thought it was move wheg said, and we think about all the celebrations around the world in remembering this great man, but the president first off said, thank you, south africa, for sharing him with the world. referring to him as -- as the last great liberator of several different times and the power of taking risks and such. i thought it was difficult to try and get all the emotion as we've been seeing all morning long. it is a celebration. there is sorrow. but having troubled to south africa several times, i remember one time i of in -- i was in a-va very poor village. women were dancing. and i said, are they mourning and the interpreter said, no, they're celebrating life. >> so much going on. we're coming up on three hours now. world leaders joining together. over 90 world leaders celebrating the life of manned. thank you,