sharon waxman, some thoughts about the impact of this man's career. it's hard to avoid the use of super latives because did he it for so long, and he did high impact stories and interviewed everybody from presidents to he once asked ayatollah whether he was crazy. >> good question. >> he interviewed ayatollah and it gives you a sense of his longevity and his ability to sustain, you know, that -- those really hard-hitting interviews. i mean, his mental strength, i mean, really all the way through until he retired was something that was really remarkable. i'll just recall -- the first time i met him in person, he was stripped to -- he was bare to his shorts and walked in glowing. it was on a summer day. the east coast on martha's vineregard. i was at someone's house, and he came in, and he immediately started peppering me with questions. who was i? where was i at? where did i come from? he was just a natural intufr, and he had this dazzling smile. he was late in his 1980s. he was just a remarkable person. >> force of nature. final thought, marissa guthr

joining me now, sharon waxman, the editor of the wrap.com, who broke the story. ou, as soon as i read this, i forward ed it to a screenwriter friend of minute who worked with mel gibson and read everything in the letter and said, yes, this is the kind of thing i heard. this makes sense to me. he wanted to add to your file. he said the theme in here that you constant lly hear is how ha it is to be mel gibson. here is a quote, in the first 20 minutes of knowing him, whatever i say about the jews, a thousand rabi's around the world would come after me, because of this pressure he is under, he has actually had a face mask made by the hollywood experts that can make face masks, he has made a face mask made so he can go out in public in restaurants and he said that it works perfectly. he goes out in public in restaurants with a face mask that disguises him perfectly and he went on to say, he is a constant conspiracy thetheeoris and believes that there were drones that brought down the twin towers, it's madness run wild, i'm giving you an additional source, but the spiri

let's get to sharon waxman from rape.com. you've seen the show. do you like it?thing different. >> so give me the premise of it. >> it's definitely for women. these are women who are young women in their early 20s who are not gorgeous, not glamorous, don't have great jobs, and in the episode last night they spent half of it at an abortion cli clinic. it has the feeling of an indy movie instead of hbo. there is explicit sex and a lot of anxiety in the show all the way through about the sexual lives of these young women. >> which i guess is where those comparisons to "sex and the city" coming from. where some of the criticism comes from is the entire show takes place in new york city and, yet, they really don't have much diversity, if any diversity on the show, right? >> there's a lot of different ways to short of parse the show. that's definitely one aspect that is a little bit strange for people who live in new york city which is this wildly diverse city. "sex and the city" had the same issue. it was very, very white. by the way, every time television does this y