our conversation with steve martin, coming up right now. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: pleased to welcome steve martin back to this program. the iconic comedian, actor, and writer is also a musician. his latest cd is called "where bird alert -- rare bird alert." he is also an avid tweeter. is that a word? >> it is now. tavis: his new book is a collection of some of his favorite tweets, "the ten -- make that nine habits of very organized people. make that 10 -- the tweets of steve martin." >> it is a good title to read, not to say. you have to kind of look at it rather than say it. tavis: especially with the lines and the circles. the high loved this book, it fits in your pocket. >> you would not really want to put it in your pocket. i think of it as perfect reading for a train, although nobody really goes on a train any

el senador steve martin, dijo que su propuesta busca asegurar que el dinero de la asistencia social estetinado correctamente para apoyar a las familias y los ninos... la medida requeriria una investigacion inicial de todo aspirante a la asistencia, seguida de un examen, si resulta sospechoso.... los negocios de la capital esperan salir favorecidos con las compras del dia del amor y la amistad... mas adelante tendremos la ampliacion... y en argentina, ex- soldados protestan para ser reconocidos por su sacrificio durante la guerra por las islas malvinas... temperaturas minimas en los 37 grados y se incrementa la nubosidad para esta noche... enterese si llueve o no, despues de la pausa comercial... y recuerde que noticias univision washington esta al alcance de todos... solo visite nuestra pagina en la red... www.noticiasdc.com... tambien siganos en facebook y twitter, bajo noticias dc... ya volvemos!!!!!! y en este dia del amor y la amistad, los comercios esperan que los consumidores gasten un poco mas para complacer al ser querido pero, ante la actual economia hay muchas personas que esta

. >> there's steve martin and tom hanks, hey, nice job, really good jobs, >> announcer: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight -- martin scorsese. kenneth branagh. and music from angels & airwaves. with cleto and the cletones. and now -- here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's right. how are you doing? thank you. and welcome. hi, i'm jimmy. i'm the host of the show. thank you for visiting. thank you for watching. thank you for making love in front of the television set. i'm glad you feel so comfortable with me and i with you, by the way. i take it it was a beautiful day here in hollywood. sun was shining, got up to almost 70 degrees -- i got to wear my dolphin shorts into work which was a treat for my co-workers. it would be fun to have some snow, though. i was talking to somebody who said it was snowing back home and, well, this is from marquette, michigan, it's called street skiing. it's just like regular skiing only you do it on the street. got caught on the sign. well, let's slow that down and watch it again because it's worth seeing here. see, he g

i love that helmet. >>> coming up, steve martin. >>> steve martin is a musician and cheed kran, actorhere. speckly, he's an avid tweeter. recent ly tweeting, if i can't think of anything interesting to say, i'll just go on twitter. it's called the ten -- in make that nine habits of very organized people. steve good enough to join us. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> i had to be pulled reluctantly to twitter. when you first hard of it, what did you think? >> i thought it was ridiculous. what could you say in 140 characters? >> it became an exercise in brevity as a writer. what was it for you? >> i actually thought it was going to be a commercial vent e venture. meaning i could talk about projects i was doing. promote things. i disbanded that. because i found that people that they're just completely uninterested. >> and so you have 2 million people plus. what to you find they're interested in? >> comedy. they like tributi contributing jokes. it's reflected in the book. we use a lot of people's responses. >> does it dismay you when somebody may have a better one u

join me next time for a conversation with comedy legend and best-selling author steve martin on his next book. that is next time. we will see you then. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more.

join me next time for a conversation with comedy legend and best-selling author steve martin on his next book. that is next time. we will see you then. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more. >> this is "bbc world news." funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. and union bank.

>> we were both -- we met in washington, d.c., when a steve martin -- in 2005 or to adults and six, he won the mark twain award -- it thousand five or 2006. there was a big show. i was one of the presenters. alan was a waiter. no. [laughter] no, alan was a writer. >> i helped larry david wright his speech. >> when we were far away from larry david, he says he wrote his speech. anyway, we like each other. we became friends and saw each other off and on over the next few years at conferences and stuff like that. alan kept saying -- >> we should do something together. >> i did not know what he meant. [laughter] he was very vague. he is kind of in the film-tv world, and people always say they want to do something. i said, ok, let's do something together. but i do not think we would. then he had this idea. >> his daughter played soccer. she was 11 years old. i had three children, all of whom spate -- played sports, little league, whatever. but he was 1,600 miles away from me. i was in new jersey. he was in florida. i can give you his home number later if you wish. [laughter] i said, listen,

>> steve: martin truex, jr.'re so concerned with running out of fuel. the 56 plans on taking four tires. denny hamlin the same. krista? >> krista: as greg biffle roles in. two tires on o the last stop. the plan here to pack it through as much fuel as possible. the crew coming around to take four tires on the stop for greg biffle. >> matt: aric almirola is in. adjustment on the 43 and he is away. >> mike: who wins the race off pit road? looks like regan smith. a collision in the pit lane. >> darrell: the 33 couldn't find his pit box and he was wandering around in pit road and caused a bottle neck right there. >> larry: we had 28 or 29 drivers on pit road at one time. >> mike: cato new york's regan smith puts himself in position out front. >> mike: under caution at daytona with 69 laps to go. let's go down to the university of farmer's and jeff hammond. >> jeff: all during the race i have been listening and washing what is going on. here in the latter part of the race what i learned is you have to find your dance p

tonight, our conversation with comedy legend steve martin. he is now also a favorite of the twitter world, with more t

. >>> plus, steve martin has found a new way to the funny. his tweet to you. josh talks to mr.bout the stars behind the scenes. this morning, the costume designers transforming ordinary people to extraordinary people. >> reporter: her well-dezind duds soared in mt. minority report." remember steve car rel? she designed that shoe, too. >> the old call forwarding. >> reporter: i know from my own career that putting on a good costume can be the key to getting into character. >> max? >> reporter: oh, hi, hundred. can we take to. that was my wife. how did she get my shoe number. that's thanks to deb scott. nice to see you. i met up with deb in the "avatar" right room. i learned what interviewing a costume designer meant. a fun day of playing dresup. >> you're not as big as he is in real life. it's like war paint. you're supposed to like slowly get into character. >> reporter: as i geared up, i learned that all of the digital warrior design started out as hand-made objects. >> as much as computers can do, you can't draw the way it moves unless you know how it moves. >> reporter: how

we both had kind of an affinity for steve martin. was from a steve martin record. somebody says that explains judd's e-mail. >> i e-mailed him when i got home. we kind of kept e-mailing each other for a year or so before we ever met. >> i talked recently to a filmmaker who said that she really likes to make movies with places like hbo and cable rather than for -- she thinks that most of the new movies are really tailored for a young audience and most of the movies are comedies. do you have a sense of that? >> i think that's -- never having made a movie for hbo, i do think that sometimes with cable channels and this is true of their shows now, i think that some of the best things. they do seem to be made -- with a specific point of view that they're high quality and sometimes with films, they get test -- they go through test screening in a way that shows, maybe movies for hbo don't. a lot of the changes come about because i want to see a happy ending. i want to see -- it can get watered down i is there a story, you want to make, if yo

>> steve: martin truex, jr. in. good news for him, mike. no handling, no overheating issues.gano has run in the top five virtually the entire race. his car needs an adjustment. >> matt: an air pressure adjustment for the 18 of kyle busch. left side clean. the car very impressive. felt like an early going in the race. >> mike: david reutimann and ricky stenhouse also stopped. here come most of the leaders led by jeff burton, regan smith. kezelowski, kenseth in. steve? >> steve: regan smith on pit road. right-side tires. krista? >> krista: steve, greg biffle was worried about getting hot but told his team no, it's okay. four tires. matt? >> matt: the crew going to work on the left side. no chassis adjustments for burton. solid stop so far. his teammate biffle is away as well. same time. >> mike: elliott sadler also stopped. >> darrell: we haven't heard a lot about heating problems. the cool air of the evening running at night helped keep the engines cooler than the qualifying races. >> larry: we are about 20 degrees cooler. >> mike: a big lockup for dave blaney in the yellow nu

i had people like from peter sellers to steve martin to jack lemon all over the map. >> to be a comediann't your great burning ambition as a kid, you were going to be a lawyer or had career paths lined up. >> yeah. >> what was the moment when the light was on, no, i will, a be a comedian. to me, it seems like a soulless profession, making people laugh, the hardest thing to do. >> it was when i started getting paid to do it. if i can make a living as an actor, that was my goal. the fact over time i realized i was making more money being a come come -- comedic actor than dramatic actor. >> do you feel the pressure to always be "on." when you go out and people meet you, they want to say, hey, you know, what was steve carell like? when they meet you there must be this horrible pressure for you to be constantly hilarious? >> no. i constantly set the bar really low. going on a talk show, i see some comedic actors, going on and swinging for the fences in terms of their bits and what they're doing. i early on decided, i'm going to be congenial but i'm not going to try to do any more than that. i

transportation company that makes both air planes and locomotives, they have two-thirds of the john candy-steve martins and automobile troika. it doesn't trade here, trades on the toronto exchange. you recognize brands, lear jet, bombardier, big train business, expanding in emerging markets like china, india, brazil, building new transportation infrastructure. on the arrerospace side, c-seri jet, super fuel efficient plane could represent a major competitive threat to boeing 737. no other similar size airplane comes close to their c-series in terms of fuel efficiency. bombardier has a 55 billion dollar backlog, which gives them a ton of visibility, easy to see how much money they can make. let's check in with pierre beaudoin and get a read on the transportation business. welcome to mad money, you were initially a snowmobile manufacturer you're the sleeping giant of transportation around the world. can you tell me first of all, how the world is doing you have government, you've got corporate, you have infrastructure probably the best barometer to come on "mad money" to tell us where we are in this worl

. >> reporter: in the film steve martin plays, what else, a sadistic dentist. ♪ i'm your dentist ♪ and >> "little shop" is probably the most completely fabulous experience of my career. it was the first. it was the coming of age together. >> reporter: menken wrote the music. the late howard ashman wrote the lyrics. it was ashman who brought alan menken into the world of disney to provide the sound track for what turned out to be a new golden age of animated musicals. >> certainly what we did was brought musical theater, original musical theater back into film, for sure. >> reporter: how would you describe your own style, your own work? >> my songs are infectious, vulnerable, unguarded, joyful. it's basically kind of child like in a way. i do my best work when i'm serving something bigger than myself. >> reporter: he thinks his best was for the hunchman of notre dame. menken has written the music for a dozen disney films over more than two decades. but not all of his scores have been for animated films or for disney. his latest is for "mirror, mirror" opening next month. >> mirror, mirr

. >> reporter: steve martin used to do an old bit about how to be a millionaire. step one, get a million dollars. the new version, how to be a billionaire? step one, create something in your dorm room that changes the way human beings interact. >> if you were the inventers of facebook, you would have invented facebook. >> reporter: it's the stuff of movies. we live in a world where a college stuntd can hatch an idea written in computer code and before he's 30, have a company worth more than mcdonald's or disney. >> you ne what's cool? a billion-dollar valuation. >> reporter: the social network undersold it. it could be worth $100 billion this week. making mark zuckerberg the richest 27-year-old since the pharoahs. >> reporter: the best gesdss put his worth around $24 billion. comfortably above most of the princes of saudi arabia. about 1,000 facebook employees stand to become multimillionaires. in less than a decade, over 800 million people have signed on. that means that if face bk were a country, only china and india would have more citizens. most of their citiz

touch for a years or two before that through e-mails because we both had kind of an affinity for steve martin he said, that explains judd's e-mail address. so we kept e-mails for a year or so before we met. >> i talked recently to a filmmaker that said she really likes to make movies for place like hbo and huge cable rather than for cinema because she thinks that most of the new movies are really for a very young audience and most of those movies are comedies. do you have a sense of that? >> i think that's -- never having made a movie for hbo, i do think that sometimes with cable channels -- and this is true of their shows now. i think they're some of the best things. they do seem to be made for -- with a specific point of view. they're high quality. sometimes with films, they get -- they go through test screening in a way that shows for hbo maybe don't. a lot of the changes come about becuse i want to see a happy ending. so it can get watered down. >> is there a story you want to make? if you had an opportunity, somebody comes and says i want to bankroll a movie, what would you do? >> i have

. >> steve: carpet sample fun fact. martinmy: okay, very good. keep that in mind. it might come in handy later in the game. >> okay. >> jimmy: not sure it will, though. step to the end over there. hey, how you doing? nice to see you, buddy. everything going good? >> that's right. >> jimmy: very good. i love your -- i love paper towels there. i gotta say, they're fantastic. >> thank you. [ laughter ] >> steve: the roots like it. >> jimmy: hey, buddy, thanks for being here. what is your name, where you from? >> i'm casey from east nashville, tennessee. >> jimmy: you're a good man. thank you, casey. thanks for coming here and being on our show. >> absolutely. >> jimmy: appreciate it, brother. now, she has 963 points, which is the most you can possibly get. do you think you can top it? >> absolutely. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: all right. what sample do you have your eye on? >> i actually -- i like the zebra print. it's -- sexy. >> jimmy: cheeky zebra, yeah. cheeky zebra. best of luck. let's spin-that-wheel-of-carpet- samples! go for i

steve jobs. bill o'reilly and martin dugard are fourth followed by nfl quarterback tim tebow's memoir, "through my" number six is "unbroken" by laura hillen brand. then the influence of human thought processes in "thinking fast and slow." followed by jodi kantor's intimate look at the first family in "the obamas." sally smith is ninth with her in-depth look of the queen of england in "elizabeth the queen." and then catherine the great: portrait of a woman, by robe >> for more on these bestsellers good to nytimes.com. each year booktv brings several events from across the country. here's a look at some of the upcoming fares and festivals we plan on covering this year. the first will be the fifth annual savannah book festival for president's day weekend. live coverage on saturday, february 18th will talk about several presentations including pulitzer prize finalist sec quinn. on march 10th and eleventh booktv will be live from the tucson festival of books on the campus of the university of arizona. festival coverage includes numerous author talks and poets ranging from the great depression to forens