ted turner?oo interesting, too much going on! and then five years writing my memoir and then i decided i could maybe find joy in acting again. what drew you back? what gave you that belief that you could still enjoy it? the process of living with ted for ten years and writing my memoir! he taught me ever so much. and he gave me a lot of confidence and then writing my memoir taught me a lot also about myself and about life. and ijust wanted to take on the challenge of acting again. do you think you had forgotten some of the frustrations that had perhaps encouraged you to stop acting in, i guess, it was around 1990? it was all from inside me. it had nothing to do with what was going on in hollywood. when you have been in the business as long as i have, you get used to it. including the sexism and all that. well, i want to get to the sexism but let's start with ageism, actually, because you have also said that the movie business does not cater for the ageing demographic? your face and the faces of p

host: you say ted turner gave him $1 million? to do what? prof. taubman: to build a building for the foundation after the first building, which the government let him use, for a while. i think less than one year. it was taken away. boris succeeded him as president. the two hated each other. yeltsin had granted him the building of -- on the condition that gorbachev would not criticize him. gorbachev could not keep quiet. after yeltsin bombarded the parliaments with weapons and after inflation boomed and unemployment grew, gorbachev started criticizing him very severely and yeltsin got mad nd took away his toys. host: i want to show you video of a press conference he had at the end of the coup attempt and have you talk about the queue. >> a number of people came and demanded a meeting with me. i do not know about such meetings. no one warned me about it. and why these people were here. the head of mike darda said he knew about it, and i said why did you let them through? he told me the head of the kgb and administration he was with them. host: he is

you start reading about ted turner saying i could be a guy like that?, absolutely. >> and that's why you were reading those books, they were inspirational? >> definitely. why not me? why can't i do this? >> when you were in junior high maybe, you were an overweight stamp collector. >>bue pretty much. >> were you bullied? >> a couple times. i had great friends but, yeah, i remember one time getting punched in the stomach and not responding. i remember one time playing pick-up football, and some dude kicked me, and, you know, i kind of went at him, but i had no chance. he just threw me down. >> i also read on occasion you bullied others. >> one time. >>lt tell me about it. >> his name was bobby walker, and i punched him in the stomach. immediatelyab after, i felt horrible, just horrible. andsc i remember not saying anything about it for years, but my first high school reunion that i went back to, i saw him, and i apologized to him. he was like i don't remember any of it, but i'm like, yeah, i did, and it bothered me. >> what'd you get from that? >> that i

i would read books about ted turner. i would read books about famous entrepreneurs. harvey: when you were a kid, you start reading about ted turner - saying, "i could be a guy like that." - yeah. yeah, absolutely. and that's why you were reading those books? - yeah. - they were inspiration. they were definitely inspirational. it was like, "why not me? why not me? why can't i do this?" when you were in junior high, maybe, you were a, um, an overweight stamp collector. - pretty much. - were you bullied? a couple of times. i had great friends, but yeah, i remember one time getting punched in the stomach and not responding. i remember one time playing pick-up football and some dude kicked me and, you know, i kinda went at him, but i had no chance. he just threw me down. i also read that you had, on occasion, bullied others. - one time. - yeah, tell me about it. his name was bobby walker, and i punched him in the stomach. and immediately after, i felt horrible. just horrible. and i remember not saying anything about it for years, but my first high school reunion that i we

one is the one that there's a little bit the tip but ted turner did cut a half of the troops we know or cuts doesn't have any benefits. i just. want to my friend dr shapiro introduces me to a friend who's at the hospital on a post natal liver birth order days ago so there are interesting bits of the circle that start. with a midwife and know the harmful effects of for only cutting from passing experience . something else all. the time. so if you. want to eliminate i can't. close. my for that or secondly you are coward why don't you talk. the first of all the way i feel in sixteen years. the minister should secondly. i feel. bad you don't get to see this problem this is. the same circle communication i feel when i see linda took on the question when a marriage. did go for the cut and never fuck that to me he. said if it. did you feel any resentment towards your mother and your grandmother yeah but to my mother she did no question. of them leaving somaliland i feel privileged to have met a woman who share their stories with me. i'm overcome with emotion as i realize virtually every wom

>> there is nothing wrong with it people forget that we used to be on pbs ted turner came into me andd, if we get 30 million subscribers on tnt, will you sifr suffer a reduction in viewership to help us grow. he used that to grow tnt to where we moved over from tbs to tnt. at some point, the distribution of content and games is going to have so many outlets available there will be such a bidding war, as you mentioned. it won't be from netflix but it will likely be from someone else >> all right, mr. stern, thank you very much. we appreciate your time as always >> pleasure to be here >> i wonder about the exclusion there. shares of amazon up 34% to more than $1,000 a share. as the company pursues the next big thing, it pushes the stock even higher. is it spreading itself too thin. speaking of which, we are live in seattle with a look at how amazon is trying to improve alexa. hey, deirdre >> reporter: it may look like we are just hanging out in my apartment today. we are on the 30th floor of amazon's corporate headquarters. after the break, we are going to tell you why this is nothing l