one thing that happened was steven anthony jones helped me a great deal with the african american character. we took it to sundance and what happens when you go to sundance is you bring some actors and some are given to you. i hadn't worked with the actors who we teamed up with at sundance, both excellent actors but people we didn't know so we didn't have a working relationship. there were moments where we worked where i could tell that the fellow, in particular, wasn't happy with his character because i had him standing there while the african american character went on and on. finally he said, phillip, i would not stand there and take that crap. the moment he opened his mouth, i would say stop. okay. so it wasn't contentious but what it was that area of discomfort. racial politics are very tricky this day and age and if you want to really address certain things, you have to go to that area of discomfort and you have to go to the area beyond discomfort of being slightly offensive of each other. as long as you are in a context of trust and say this is an art piece we are working on, we are

gallons opting for the twenty six year old in the starting line up now with record caps a rare steven jones moving to the bench as backup wales seeking to end a difficult run against the french having been in six of the previous seven meetings i can see. we're going farai is preparing himself in case he's called out for kicking duties on the weekend the flyhalf ready to take over should the regular man which is surely really be unable to recover from the finds real time yesterday has had a full three days without practice but is now on a light training chain french coach marty bahamonde hoping whoever steps up competition the boot in what is the country's test straight world cup semi final appearance. they detroit tigers are once again licking their wounds on the baseball diamond after nelson cruz delivered a game breaking performance for the texas rangers the reigning american league champions now with a three one lead in their best of seven semifinal series but tiger faithful weathering the storm with the game delayed for two hours teacher in a gale helped clear the air of a school this g

steve jones, america is staying, who the hell is stevens jones?e know about this guy from wales. >> i'm 6'4", 200 pounds, i like romantic walks in the park. i'm just a regular guy. a guy who enjoy what is he does and enjoys life. i've never been more happy. >> you've got this gig, it seemed out of nowhere. how did this happen? how does steve jones get to be the host of the hottest new show on tv in america? >> well, simon approached me about four years ago to work on a project which i couldn't do because i was under contract with a different channel. and he said, i'll come back to you. and two years ago he said, how would you like to host "american x-factor." and i said, yes. i met all the people at the production company. it was a long, long road. it was a bit hairy towards the end because i didn't actually secure the job until two days before we started filming. >> when i asked simon why he'd finally gone for you. and he said, because he's taller and better-looking than ryan seacrest. >> that's a matter of opinion. >> you are a lot taller and a

. >> reporter: steven jones' business is old news.expert in teletype machines. >> my great grandfather was a telegrapher. my grand father was with western electric. >> reporter: he started vol unitearing in georgetown after getting laid off from the wireless business. soon, hollywood called. >> puerto rico. came down here looking for a story. >> reporter: the producer of a johnny depp movie. >> in the case of "run diary" they wanted a model 15, receive only teletype. >> reporter: jones shipped the machine to puerto rico. the film crew couldn't get it going. the prop master said can you fly down here the i said sure. >> reporter: on the set his machine even impressed johnny depp. >> he commented how he liked the aesthetic of the teletype running and the sound. >> reporter: he worked on four movies including x-men fill temperature. >> in x-men they needed about the most fragile teletype that was ever made. >> reporter: actually one of the museum's more modern models. >> that section right there is pretty much what was shown on the film.

. >> steven anthony jones is known as an actor, now, he's the executive director.t's a theater focuses on african american and multi cull trap play wrights. >> i call it doing plays of who we are all are. >> so it is named after a play wright of the raisin in the sun. this is one of the longest running african american theaters in the country. they were forced out of the old theater and co-founder and director died. and there is a a few your production called free choice this, company after being left homeless found a new theater. and it suits their production, ideally. they're changing it into an intimate theater. >> we've cleared the hurdle. yes. very important. so now, we need to address of course issues of money. >> the other is award winning day of absence by douglas turner ward. >> he said we should use this path to illuminate the present. >> that is about a new era. >> we're now in the process of creating the next 30 year autos in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> and raider goesing on offensive to help their defense. coming up next, a former number one draft pi

. >> steven anthony jones is known to bay area audiences as an actor at act.arry executive director. >> i call it doing plays about who we all really are. >> it is named after the playwright of a raisin in the sun. she wrote it while living in the bay area. the hansberry is one of the longest african-american theaters in the country. they have had rough times. they were forced out of their old theatre and then their cofounder and director died. >> the future is called rejoice and that might be the appropriate word here. this company, after being left homeless for a couple of years, has found a new theatre at 450 post, and it suits their productions ideally. >> they are changing their new home into a 400 feet intimate theatre. >> we've cleared that hurdle. it's very important. so now we need to address, of course, issues of money. >> the other play they are doing is the award winning "day of absence" by african-american theatre legend douglas ward. >> he said we should use the past to illuminate the present. >> that is about a new era for this company. >> we ar

. >> steven anthony jones is known to bay area audiences as an actor at a.c.t.ansbarry executive director. it is a theatre that focuses on african-american and multi-cultural playwrights. >> i call it doing plays about who we all really are. >> it is named after the playwright of "a raisin in the sun." she wrote it while living in the bay area. the hansbarry is one of the longest-running african-american theaters in the country. they have had rough times. they were forced out of their old theatre and then their cofounder and director died. >> the future is called rejoice, and that might be the appropriate word here. this company, after being left homeless for a couple of years, has found a new theatre at 450 post, and it suits their productions ideally. >> they are changing their new home into a 400 feet intimate theatre. >> we've cleared that hurdle. it's very important. so now we need to address, of course, issues of money. >> the other play they are doing is the award winning "day of absence" by african-american theatre legend douglas ward. >> he said we shou

jones established houston endowment it has donated $1.5 million to help create a community where the opportunity to thrive is available to all. >> houston resident steven fenberg has written about jesse jones. "unprecedented power: jesse jones, capitalism, and the common good" is the name of the book. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> a couple hours of live coverage continues from here in austin. a few minutes we bring you prud'homme talking about "the ripple effect: the fate of fresh water in the twenty-first century". a good issue for texas in the drought they are facing. dana priest will talk about her book "top secret america: the rise of the new american security state" after that. we will be back with live coverage from austin in a few minutes. >> spend next weekend in knoxville, tennessee with booktv and american history tv and look behind the scenes at the history of literary life of the marble city on booktv on c-span2. the university of tennessee's body farm is four acres of decomposing human remains. dr. william pass on a real live csi. a look at routes author alex haley and his life in knoxville. and cathy long on how

jones. did you know he could do it virtually, too. see the hollywood hero in action. well, kind of. >>> stevenht it was robots taking over the world -- >> what's next? >> duck pocalypse. >> you think that's a lot? >> oh my gosh! >> where are they going? occupy duck street! >> i've never seen so many ducks in the same place. >> if you were driving down this road, normally there's like a little family of ducks across the road, like one or two. there's like literally 500. >> so this is a video of harrison ford playing a video game. >>> he recently made this 30-second commercial for a playstation iii video game called "uncharted iii." >> he's playing the game, making sounds and everything, but it's kind of come under a bit of scrutiny here. because his controller is actually not on while he's playing. >> well he's an actor, of course. >> i have no problem with that. but the cool thing, there's a seven-minute-long video of him really playing the game. >> is he any good? >> he seems to be pretty good at the game. he gets through the whole thing. >> would be cooler if he was playing like an indiana j

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steven kornacki, welcome back. >>> coming up, can newt gingrich, mr. mephistopheles himself, become the next mean president. that's up from david corn coming from mother jones, you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. ♪ [ mrs. davis ] i want to find a way to break through. to make science as exciting as a video game. i need to reach peter, who's falling behind. and push janet who's 6 chapters ahead. ♪ [ male announcer ] with interactive learning solutions from dell, mrs. davis can make education a little more personal. so every student feels like her only student. dell. the power to do more. >>> big news today. it's filing deadline in new hampshire. the last day for candidates to get on the ballot in the first in the nation primary. mitt romney and rick perry were among the candidates who filed in person today, but long-shot candidate gary johnson, the former governor of new hampshire, didn't expected to be there. johnson's campaign missed an earlier deadline to allow third parties to file on behalf of candidates. so johnson, who was campaigning in arizona yesterday, traveled to new hampshire to file in person today. we'll be right back. with no vegetable

follows in the footsteps of carol browner, anthony van jones, who also supported increasing taxes on america's energy, as well as energy secretary steven chu. you remember steven chu, the president's energy, who said, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels of the price in europe." that's about $8 a gallon. so it's the intention of this administration to race gas prices to either reduce -- force them into some other type of energy or to -- or to stop people from having the freedom of driving, as we always have in this country. but that was the energy secretary who said that we've got to bring our price of gasoline at the pumps up to that in the -- of europe. then we had also allen krueger. allen krueger is the -- has been nominated by president obama to be the chairman of the council of economic advicers -- advisors, as yet another example. and during his time at the department of treasury under president obama, mr. krueger made it clear his opposition to the development of traditional domestic energy. he even went so far as to say -- and i'm quoting now -- "the administration believes that it is no longe

steven kornacki, welcome back. >>> coming up, can newt gingrich, mr. mephistopheles himself, become the next mean president? that's a question posed by our own david corn, who's coming right here from mother jones, you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. [ dennis ] allstate wants everyone to be protected on the road. whether you're an allstate customer or not. all you have to do is call. [ female announcer ] call allstate now and you'll get a free lifetime membership in good hands roadside assistance. [ dennis ] shop less. get more. make one call to an allstate agent. [ dr. ling ] i need to get the results from the m.r.i. see if the blood work is ready. review ms. cooper's history. and i want to see katie before she goes home. [ male announcer ] with integrated healthcare solutions from dell, every patient file is where dr. ling needs it. now she can spend more time with patients and less time on paperwork. ♪ dell. the power to do more. >>> today is the filing deadline in new mexico, the last day for candidates to get on the ballot in the first in the nation primary. rick perry was one of the candidates to file in person today, but candidate gary johnson, the former governor of new hampshire