they were like harvey weinstein, who is tough and serious, but he loves movies, and he is a showman.hink the old studio heads, who, incidentally, i worked for, like jack warner and sam goldwyn, they love to movies, and they love to to produce different kinds of films -- they love movies -- loved movies, and they loved to produce different kinds of films. it has been going on for two generations now. i t tnk that even television started out as a promising. in the 1950's, there were great writers writing, wonderful directors, like john frankenheimer doing "playhouse 90," and then they got the idea it of doing half-hour shows, and we had 40 or 50 years of that, so the audiences have been taught to expect sort of sameness serials, and situation comedies, and some of them were absolutely great, but they made the audience is more anxious to see the same thing over and over again. tavis: so how difficult is it to move to "tetro," breaking the mold, doing something different when you know that audiences have been trained to expect something? >> it is certainly very hard to get financed to do

always a showman, playing it up for the crowd, blowing some kisses.hen funk for birdie and a championship. with the day he had he deserves a birdie and he got it. he shoots a final round 65. wins with a record score of 20 under par. his family on hand to celebrate. funk wins the u.s. senior open, the biggest victory of his career. >> i just was trying to keep the pedal to the metal and go down as low as i could get. i didn't let mark tell me how i stood til 17. he said don't look at the board. i've got the blinders on. i just feel so blessed that i've been able to do this. >> fred funk. u.s. senior open champion. >>> our next bit of business is baseball. with josh willingham in the nats' every day starting lineup, production from the hammer is an every day occurrence. today he drove in three runs helping the nationals snap a four-game losing streak. you got to watch out for the kids in the berg. dressed up like a pirate. top seven. nats trail 2-1. willingham at the plate with a man on. a no doubter. over the wall for a two-run home run. actually, ther

school that sees that he is being sort of cavalier and reckless and in it to make money and a great showman, but has no real substance. but in both cases he is fairly cynical and not terribly attractive character. and when i started reading the letters, i am hesitant to read from the book, but i am going to read one letter from the book that he wrote his mother. he was traveling to europe on a ship. his mother, phoebe hearst, is a very impressive woman in her own right, one of the leading hostess in washington at the time. a great philanthropist. been giving away millions in her husband's money for years. she has a bigger reputation in the world at the time than her son does. and she wants her son to go out and be a regular english gentleman and marry into a good family. wanted the title. he would have none of that. this was a letter he wrote her. lady canard is on board. she is at my table. she is a mess of things, but kind of lightheaded and chatters lovely with the turkey gobbler by the name of dennis, a jiggering idiot by the name van alton and he does not make anything except a wholly

>> when it's live and the camera comes on -- glenn: then i just before a showman! i got to be on time every day at 5:00! i think we start with dessert, something yummy. >> then the moon comes out and you're a werewolf. glenn: i don't think that's compliment. >> when you go on, and you do your thing, there is an equal part serious and there is an equal part fear. some people use that against you. how has your life changed since you came to fox news? >> a lot more security. >> a lot more threats? glenn: oh, yeah. >> but nobody watched cnn headline, and i'm not saying that disparagingly. glenn: no, he says that with all the love in his heart. >> you have six times more viewers. glenn: i think we have entered a time where america is just on edge, an -- >> absolutely. glenn: there are people on the right that hate me, people on the left that hate me and this just magnifies it. >> does that weigh on you personally? glenn: yeah, it does. i think people think that i'm just -- oh, he's just a silly clown or whatever. you've got to watch this show or your children may be kil

. >> then i just become a showman. oh i have got to be on time every day at 5:00?h desert. something yummy. >> moon comes out and wear wolfe. >> i don't think that's a compliment. [ laughter ] bill: when you go on and you do your thing, there is an equal part serious and there is an equal part theater. some people use that against you. how has your life changed since you came to fox news? >> a lot more security? >> nobody watched cnn headline. i'm not saying that despagingly. he says that in all the love in his heart. bill: audience here is five times, six times. >> more than that, right. >> no, i think that we have entered a time where america is just on edge and. >> absolutely. >> people on right that hate me and people on the left that hate me. this magnifies it. bill: does that weigh on you personally? >> yeah. it does. i mean, i don't -- you know, i think people think that i am just -- oh, well, he is just a silly clown or whatever. >> you have got to watch this show or your children may be killed by clowns beating them to death with those giant clown shoes. >

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i think president reagan saw a great showman, investment to the word. great political actor. and someone who was committed to his ideology in the way that president reagan was committed to his. >> we just saw a shot of cia director leon panetta. jon, you are a historian, pulitzer prize winning historian, maybe too early to say this but we look back perhaps this time period, 50 years from now, 100 years from now, and -- and look at reagan. and kennedy. and as the two men that defined the past 50 years of american history. the same way we look back on british history. and think of -- israeli and glad stone. going back and forth. pulling britain to the left and pulling britain to the right. >> i would -- yes. i think that you have a kennedy mystique, you have a reagan mystique. you have a kennedy ideology that evolved. have you a reagan ideology that revolved in many ways. what's also striking about this is the other great family in american politics at this level, the bush family. which will also be studied for as long as the english language spoken in the corner of the globe a

as a showman, could market and promote them better than almost anybody i've ever known in the news businessthat show tonight with a couple of pithy phrases. >> hewitt: see that, go back. >> kroft: the tease-- the 45- second block at the beginning of the broadcast that condensed the night's stories- that was don's particular domain. >> hewitt: wait a minute, wait a minute. give me the line- "they demanded justice." keep going. no, no. wait a second. "that someone." perfect. couldn't be better. >> kroft: don rarely looked at a script until a script had been edited and turned into television, so he could actually watch it. >> hewitt: go back to the end of the interview. forget that. put what we just did on the top of it and let's just keep going. >> kroft: he had an uncanny ability to look at something for the first time and know exactly how to fix it. >> hewitt: stop. i think there's better stuff up earlier. >> kroft: he saved some of his best performances for the formal screenings attended by the producers, correspondents, editors, and his senior staff. it could go very smoothly or, as was t

. >> showman-like.ty good. >> alysin: up against my shoulder to when i got it into the camera to make it look like a pro soon. thank you. i think i just hit it, lets go back into clayton at nine. >> clayton: get the cops out there right now. thanks alysin she is outside this window, which is all approved lesson is when the on the show because of his top domestic priority of his president obama using the politics of fear to move healthcare reform forward. karl rove says yes, and he will explain areas. at least, even if the outside of the gun. (announcer) crest whitestrips has created a revolutionary strip... it sticks to your teeth so well... you can even drink water with it on. crest whitestrips advanced seal. get a dramatically whiter smile... while you do just about anything. satisfaction guaranteed. both cost the same. but only the new pringles super stack can makes everything pop. same cost, but a lot more fun. everything pops with the new pringles super stack can. five co-workers are working from t