scott fitzgerald. i chose it in part because there's a new "great gatsby" manufacture the same way when the movie "life of pi" come out, i read the number pi to the 500th decimal. spoiler alert? >> spoiler alert-- 2. after that it gets kind of repetitive. but, folks, it's nost just because there's a movie coming out. we're also reading "the great gatsby" because it's believe to be a classic of american literature. the modern library calls it one of the five novels of alm time and amazon reviewrl "the jakal," gave it three out of five stars, rating: decent. ( cheers and applause ). she's good. a lot of jackal fans here tonight. ( laughter ) now, tonight to explore this book, i will be joined by pulitzer prize-winning novelist jennifer egan. and to discuss his movie, i'll be talking to director baz luhrman, who you may remember, for having written william shakespeare's "romeo and juliette." ( applause ) now, of course, since i have known for the past two weeks that i was going to be stussing this book on

scott fitzgerald. when we come back, the big question of the week the the economy is p chris: welcome back. friday's jobs reports -- report is the latest sign the me and coming back the our big question, should the democrats have brag rights for 2014? >> if it continues on this trend line, yes. >> catty kay? -- katty kay? >> yes. loud yes. >> obviously if it continues. >> if it continues, if -- but there is time for it to go down again before 2016. hold your horses, hillary. chris: once i start this, i got to continue. that's the show. thanks for watching. see you back here next week. >>> hi, everybody, welcome to "on the money." i'm maria bartiromo. we can work it out. the latest numbers on jobs. and the stock market touching new highs. how both numbers impact washington and wall street. >>> the disintegration of syria is a huge threat to the region of the middle east. >> tony blair on the risks to the global economy. what britain's former prime minister says is europe's biggest problem and what it me

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scott fitzgerald. look for it in bookstores between e.e. cummings and g. gordon liddy.t's clearly a towering pillar of western literature because it is now a 3d movie. and i hope you've started reading, folks, because on thursday pulitzer-prize winning author jennifer egan will lead my book club discussion, and i will be joined by director baz lurhman. like all book clubs we'll open a bottle of chardonnay, talk broadly about themes and then launch into a heated discussion about the neighbor who leaves his trash bin out on the curb four days after pick up. you're already out there to get the mail, alan, how hard is it just to bring it back in? seriously. unfortunately someone has already ripped off my idea to rip off oprah's idea. this week the b.b.c. world book club is also featuring the great gatsby. well, i'm not surprised. the brits are always copying our best ideas. they did it with the office. da ali g show and downton abbey which everyone knows is based on friends. it's so unrealistic. so unrealistic. there is no way those kids could afford that abbey. so if you'r

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. >> its director's lavish take on the classic novel by a scott fitzgerald. "the great gatsby" is not in the running for the big prize, but 20 other films are competing. >> this year's lineup features a champions league list of directors -- steven soderbergh, sophia coppola, the cohen brothers, and of course, as women, who opens this year with a 3-d blockbuster period piece -- of course, baz luhrmann. it appears after three weak years, the festival is determined to set down a marker to prove that it still the greatest film festival in the world. >> the oil painting "cathedral squirm along" was purchased by a private american collector for nearly 29 million euros. -- "cathedral square milan." we will be having more on the trial of the surviving members of a suspected neo-nazi group at the top of the hour. stay with us for that. >> be sure to keep it here. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> welcome to "newsline." . it's thursday, may 16th. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. members in tokyo have approved a political resolution

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scott fits zwrerld fitzgerald was right. they are different than you and me.hat's my great gatsby conclusion, the dow is recovering from yesterday, s&p climbing .37%. nasdaq.69%. frankly, fits, it's an easy conclusion to reach. because two months ago we introduced the great gatsby here on "mad money" like he would be anywhere else. guess what? it's killing the s&p, killing, i'll give you an almost double return for that venerablet index, extraordinary out performance that says a tonne about this market and perhaps where it's going. first, the backtrack. we know that for all the back and forth drag about how strong ore weak the consumer is, most people in this country, they are still hurting. >> boo! >> they struggle to buy home, they don't have the credit score to get a home. they worry about jobs. we don't have big commercial real estate programs going on. small business the principle generator of new hiring, nowhere. these people have a hard time getting loans to start businesses because their credit ratings aren't strong enough in this world the stressed mi

scott fitzgerald story that it's based on, there's so much eye candy there and baz herman had so much could carry it. >> i'm going to go, because it's an aussie director and i'll support my homeland. thank you very much, sharon. >> "the great gatsby" is bringing the roaring '20s back to life. so that naturally got us thinking about the markets back then. brian shactman joining us now with a trip back, and there are actually companies trading now that traded then, sort of. >> there's a lot of them, when they went away, and what they became, and it's an interesting little set of streams that have gone away. take a look at 1922. that year, the dow jones industrial average gained about 21%, a pretty good year, had a high of $103.43, a low of $78.59, just amazing to see those small numbers. i checked on sell in may and go away, nope, it went up about 5% that month. i also looked into all 20 of the companies to see what's happened to them. each, of course, has a story. studebaker was gone entirely by the '60s. several industry businesses simply shrunk and folded into bigger con gglomeratcon

scott fitzgerald's life. >> he didn't deny himself or deny zelda much of anything. >> fitzgerald's questisy buchanan. to win zelda, the midwest morning fitzgerald needed money. he finally arrived courtesy of the saturday evening post which many identify with the famous norman rockwell covers. >> as far as publishing we were the 800-pound gorilla and there's never been anything to match it. there were a few magazines here and there but nothing that aimed to approach all readers anywhere in america. >> fitzgerald wrote 68 stories for the post over a course of 17 years earning him a total of $2 million. in today's world, that's about 20 million. from one magazine. >> he was earning $400 in 1920 dollars for those two pieces. by the time they got to 1829 he was $4,000 and he stayed there for quite a while. >> how did writing and short stories from 1920 to '37 in the post change? >> he was a very much an entertaining, humorous romantic writer in the '20s. very commercial which doesn't diminish its quality. it was very much magazine fiction. over time he started incorporating more modernist ton

scott fitzgerald's favorite rapper. "the great gatsby" opens in theaters tomorrow.tobey maguire. [ applause ] >> jimmy: how you doing? >> good to see you. >> jimmy: the family is good? >> family is great, yeah. they're wonderful. >> jimmy: i hate to jump right into a subject, but i have a great picture. i have to ask you about it. this is a photograph of what appears to be you in the middle. >> yep, yep. >> jimmy: who else is in this picture? >> well, you've got don che a dle, potus, me and george clooney there. me, george clooney and potus were playing basketball against team cheadle. >> jimmy: how did this happen? >> everybody doesn't play basketball with the president? >> jimmy: not as far as i know. >> so it was the night before i was sitting next to george clooney at an event and the president was there. and george clooney actually was up and came and sat down next to me and said the president just asked me to put a basketball game together for tomorrow morning at 6:00 in the morning. >> jimmy: wow. >> he was kind of saying it like excited and bummed at the sam

scott fitzgerald's great gatsby, no small deal.ng person to adapt such a delicately rendered story. and his 3-d feature plays like a ghastly roaring 20s blowout at a sorority house. >> ouch. >> i don't care about mixed reviews. i think it is just going to be entertaining to see the period and the costumes and buildings. i think it will be great. >> i want to see it. all right. now to the latest offering from tyler perry. "peeples" starring kerry washington. washington's character he is a little out of place in her upper crust family. >> this is wade walker. everybody. >> guilty. >> yeah, and he is my friend. >> how wonderful. >> and also, we're in a relationship. >> ha-ha. reviews on this one mixed from the critic of the "l.a. times." an infectious warm comedy of family and communication. these peeples are people one should be happy to meet. this slam from the "st. loui post dispatoediaout privileged esse colors "peeples" is palatable ii acid. i think he is referring to >> yowsa. >> out of the two i will s >>> this morning on "worl

scott fitzgerald's 1925 classic. >> gatsby is the seminole american novel.ica in the 1920s and at the center figure is this very complex, mysterious character known as the great gatsby. >> leonardo dicaprio of course is hardly the first to play the opulent icon. >> how do you do, old sport? i'm gatsby. >> you see i'm gatsby. >> i'm gatsby. >> you are. >> i think everyone has a little gatsby in them. >> seems so, old sport. there have been at least five adaptations of the story. the newest ups the party factor with rapper jay-z. you could say it's a slightly different sound than this silent version of the film that debuted just a year after the novel's publication. fast forward a few decades and there he is again, gatsby butler hopping for gold in this computer game from an outfit called film shaw industries. so what is it about this guy that keeps studios beating on? borne back ceaselessly into the past? >> it's never been done perfectly or even maybe arguably well before. so in each new generation there is some talented, ambitious director who says, i can f

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i think it coming out obviously based on the scott fitzgerald book about the '20s and the excesses attime. new money and old money and that whole world. i think it is coming out at an interesting moment when we are at a place when income and equality is back to the levels that we had in the '20s. obviously, the '20s were precrash. now we're in a post crash world. i wonder if that has a strange familiarity to a lot of americans. >> i'm looking forward to the great >> we've got baby sitting lined up, so we're going to be there may 10th, but the film i'm looking forward this year, the new film from neil bloomcamp, who made district 9, one of the greatest films of that year. it was about apartheid or segregation with aliens. this one is is about class w warfare with matt damon and jodi foster. this guy's into edgey scripts, really smart take on science fiction and something that's coming out in 2014 that i'm looking forward to. american sniper, a friend of the show chris kyle, a late great sniper. this is going to be directed by spielberg and starring bradley cooper as kyle. bradley coope

scott fitzgerald's the great gatsby, one of america's most influential novels.he movie critics... ♪ in here it's entertaining). >> reporter: ... with such a senseless bombardment for the first time in my life i was grateful when someone's cell phone rang. his gatsby is a bombardment too but fitzgerald comes through. for all its polish, the book has a healthy american val garrity. but the genteel '74 gatsby with robert redford and mia far owe didn't get. >> how do you do old sport i'm gatsby. >> reporter: but luhrman throws money at the screen in a way that is positively gatsby like. ♪ will you still love me >> reporter: he wallops you with the theme of product gal waste. it's all handed, but yet it brings to mind the great unfettered imagery of silence movies. >> you must be crazy. she never loved you. reporter: leonardo key cap pre-owe is is a good gatsby, healthy looking for my taste but moving. he was the most grown up of juveniles and is now the most youthful of grown-ups. >> i've gotten all these things for her. >> reporter: as the poor boy turned rich man

scott fitzgerald's the great gatsby makes it to the screen for the sixth time. >> it is a great story best efforts of the movie makers for decades. we'll cross our fingers that this one works better. >> reporter: this one is in 3-d with leonardo dicaprio, carrie mulligan and tobey maguire. >> can't repeat the past. you can't repeat the past? no. reporter: of course you can repeat the past. hollywood does it all the time. >> osgood: just ahead... that goyness right there, that is the sign of an absolutely delicious grilled cheese. >> osgood: say cheese. ,,,,,,,,,,,, sandwich lovers are going through a bit of a meltdown these days. bill geist shows us why. >> reporter: the grilled cheese, humble, simple and inspencive has never sought the spotlight. suddenly grilled cheese mania is sweeping the nation. really. >> i declare the 2013 grilled really. >> i declare the 2013 grilled cheese invitational officially open. >> reporter: the sandwich was treated like a rock star during a recent appearance at the grilled cheese invitational in los angeles. >> we all like grilled cheese, i think you

scott fitzgerald's classic, this is the tale of the rich or try to pass for ridge in the roaring '20she lived next store to a mystery gas. who needs nick to get close to his beloved daisy. some aspects of the fillmore, including gorgeous sets, fabulous 20's fashion, a strong performance by leonardo the caprioledi caprio. this is n intoxicating as jazz, adult and sex and what of gas east parties. bad news, a crazy idea to put in modern music, a lack of emotional when the suns, as if the director baz lehrman released the. , but from the book a burden. carey mulligan is submit test or misdirected as daisy. she is mopy, dole. this daisy wilts. this should have been the great gatsby, instead of its good gas be. i give this movie to and have had spirit >> my winners out for full screen is, 42, the sapphires, at any price, kon-tiki, the company you keep, scatter my ashes at b ergdorfs. >> the investigation into the cleveland kidnap and rape case continues this morning. newly released dna tests confirmed that the suspect ariel castro is the father of the victim amanda berrys 6 year-old daught

scott fitzgerald movie opened with a solid $51 million.here, u. smps. investigato looked into the political leanings of groups when submitting their tax exempt status. they must mainly promote social welfare. last year many groups said they had unfairly been targeted. on friday a top irs official apologized by action that was started by lower level employees and not higher political appointees. >>> mark zuckerberg's group from forbes left. musk quit. launched in march, it's focusing on immigration and education. david sacks left also. musk is the chairman of the solar energy company, solar city. >>> march has become something of a drag for richard branson. he doned makeup and a stewardess account on a flight to malaysia. he took a bet on who would win the 2013 grand prix. he found out that things are a lot harder than his staff made it look. >> i think i've honored my side of the bet. >> yes. i see how stewardesses are going. anyway, well done to him. he's still a consummate publicist, whatever he's doing. >>> we just had news out of china

up next on the big screen, f scott fitzgerald novel, "the great gatsby" will get a 3-d makeover and leonardoaprio will get the lead role. with tobymac geyer and kerry mulligan and starring. this film takes place in the roaring '20s, a time dicaprio calls epic. >> this is the amazing time period amazing emergence of the superpower the democracy that is america and has the frivolous on pew lens wealth and you feel like it is a endless party. >> the great gaat by is in theaters today. jon: julie banderas, thanks we'll be back with as a kidid, i made a a list ol ththe places i i wanted toto . m mars, but thananks to hotwtwire's incredibibly low traravel price, i can affoford to crososs more things offff my list.. this year r alone, we went toto the top o of the e statue of f liberty, enoughgh to go to texasas-- to a a real dude rananch! ececks the coetitioion's rates s every day, lolow prices.. so w we got our r four star r ts for half p price. nextxt up, hollywood!d! -w-w-i-r-e ♪ ♪ hotwiwire.com save up toto 70% on any weweekend stayay. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy com

scott fitzgerald died in 1940 the great american novel wasn't considered so great.5,000 copies. >> no way. >> it picked up through the years and today 25 million copies have sold worldwide and this week, thanks to buzz surrounding baz's film, the 1925 classic is the second top selling book in the u.s. >> "the great gatsby." >> absolutely. i'd start reading it again. if you get a chance read it before you go see it. it is a terrific. >>> and a big honor this morning for this girl. robin roberts, our beloved robin has been named "reader's digest" most trusted person in tv news. [ applause ] >> so well deserved. we always knew it. so glad america does, as well. she graces the cover of the june issue and inside tells how her parents inspired her to live with integrity and character. go to goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! to find out who else made the list. robin, love you. >> we say congratulations. >> we love you. thinking of you always, my friend. >>> and over 78,000 people applied now. this is an update to a story you all had many questions about. remember the show -

scott fitzgerald plaza.ter: baz luhrmann gave us strictly ballroom. transported us to paris in "moulin rouge" and directed a young leonardo dicaprio in his version of "romeo and juliet." now the two team up again to take on an american classic. >> gatsby. >> i can feel the hunger, you know, sometimes it's not there, it's there. >> it's the film. >> the book. the fitzgerald thing whips everybody up. >> who is this gatsby? >> reporter: perhaps it's the glamour of the era or the legend of jay gatsby. >> turns into a dark psychological journey. gatsby is the hamlet of america. that's what attracted leonardo. he has natural screen glamour. he can't help it. early on that made him very successful very quickly. he could have cashed that check very easily and lived comfortably but he's only interested in complex challenging acting. >> reporter: it is a part tailor made for the 38-year-old oscar nominee, but the role of daisy buchanan was up for grabs. >> that was a "gone with the wind" search and everyone wanted to

scott fitzgerald bought, companies are undoubtedly hoping the marketing will translate into sales.ld buy your wife a lovely tiffany headband for $200,000. >> yes, if my kids don't want to go to college i certainly could. ahead on "starting point," angelina jolie's shocking revelation about surgery to prevent breast cancer. an important story to so many women. just what is this cancer gene she talks about and what women should know about it. it's personal for us here. >> and dzhokhar tsarnaev is accused of a deadly terror attack but he's developing a strong and passionate fan base. that's right. women who are attracted to this suspected killer. >>> and then, speaking about attractive, prince harry visiting the jersey shore. will he be able to keep up with chris christie? you're watching "starting point." mine was earned in djibouti, africa. 2004. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve milit

scott fitzgerald's novel "the great gatsby" is on track to pass the $100 million mark at the box officeekend. the cinematic exploration of the 1920s era of decadence of privilege of the spoiled rich gives us the 99% economic divide. even as gatsby is playing in multiplexes across the country, a resurgence of protests is being ignited among the nation's lowest wage workers. fast food workers in five cities tajed high-profile strikes walking off the job to demand a $15 per hour minimum wage. dorian warren wrote for mcclach i newspapers, how ironic while the film is recreating a past era of excess and greed, employees in the fast food and retail industries across the country are engaging in unprecedented strikes over today's flow of wealth from working people to the rich. joining me now to further dig into that is dorian warren associate professor of professor -- at columbia university and fellow at the roosevelt institute. scott ross of wisconsin now and kassim silver a burger king employee who took part in the strikes in new york city. kassim, i'll start with you. you've got kids? >> yes

scott fitzgerald bought. investment would go far beyond the box office. >> it's not altruism. >> no, it is not altruism. but look, james bond and his breitling watch, you can see product placement, this takes it -- >> i just went into brooks brothers because i was looking for a suit with my son, sure enough the grt grt everywhere. you feel like you walked into the film. >> if you're traveling, you reserved a nonsmoking room, you think you're avoiding smoke pollution, but guess what? you're probably not. new research from san diego state university found cigarette smoking anywhere in a hotel exposes everyone who is staying in that hotel to smoke. even people in nonsmoking rooms. in a random sample of budget to mid range hotels in california, the study found nicotine levels in the area 40% higher in nonsmoking rooms in hotels that allow smoking. researchers recommend staying in hotels that are completely smoke free. the good news is that a 2011 study by "usa today" and american -- aaa, the american automobile a

scott fitzgerald were writing about it he would write about him instead of gatsby. >> across the bay or the like, those kind of square footage numbers would garner a much higher price. and this house, 25,000 square foot, you know, we're looking out at billy joel's island. incredible view of the harbor. $11 million. there's a lot of value here. this is good value especially given the history of this area. >> you mentioned the foreign money. some parts on long island, a lot of chinese money, asian money. taiwanese money. i wonder if that's an element there, too. >> it absolute is. the north coast is russian. further south is feeling more chinese. but definitely a lot of asian buyers. and there's a london buyer, actually from scotland interested in the house. it's really a global market. >> robert looks like he could fit in. >> right there. daisy right behind him. >> have a great weekend. we'll see you next weekend. if you're joining us this morning, here's what you missed earlier on. welcome to hour three of "squawk on the street." here's what's happening so far. >> it's so clear the r

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princeton and got into the archives and got to see the original manuscript and a lot of zelda fitzgerald's letters and scott it? >> a daisy -- well, sort of the simple plot in daisy's store and her character, so baz really wanted moo he to look at zelda fitzgerald and was one -- lo looking at her life and genova's family and putting those three together. >> she put the kardashians in mind? >> the kardashians are sort of a reference in that daisy's purpose in life is she feels her purpose is to look very beautiful all the time and to constantly be on show so what i was trying to imply was that there's an enessence of part of the amazing business they run as the kardashians is looking beautiful a lot and looking very present presentational and perfect. >> first time working with leonardo. >> he was so incredibly generous and sweet and was helping me the wohl way through improvising in character to help me and the whole way through he was so supportive and sweet. >> and it shows on screening. carey mulligan, thanks very much. "the great gatsby" opens in theaters nationwide on may 10th. coming up it's the bigge

lucky and got into the archives and got to see the original manuscript and a lot of zelda fitzgerald's letters and scottisy cocktail. what is a daisy cocktail? >> a daisy -- well, sort of the simple plot in daisy's story and her character, so baz really wanted me to look at zelda fitzgerald and look at ginevra king and those were the two inspirations so looking at her life, looking at zelda's life and looking at ginevra's life and putting those three together. >> you put the kardashians in mind? >> the kardashians are sort of a reference in that daisy's purpose in life is she feels her purpose is to look very beautiful all the time and to constantly be on show, so what i was trying to imply was that there's an essence of where it's sort of part of their job, the amazing business they run as the kardashians is looking beautiful a lot and looking very presentational and perfect. >> you did a great job of it and working with leo. is this the first time? >> yes. >> and? >> it was amazing. i loved it from the very first audition he was so incredibly generous and sweet and was helping me the whole way through