it inspired terrence mcnally's place, master class. the play examines love and loss and the sacrifices made in the service of great art. a new production is now running on broadway stars tyne daly is the diva. ben franklin of the "new york times" calls her performance one of the most haunting performance i've seen of life after stardom. here's a look. >> -- when i came to the words -- i talked with the general manager. and threw the world at him. i don't know what came over me. i was possessed like a fury and i went down to the stage and i said, the audience gasped. they say it was the greatest ovation in the history of a scholar. he ordered them to bring down the fire crackers to stop the applause. why deal with someone like me when you can have them. i did. but i don't know. >> charlie: joining me now tyne daly and the playwright terrence mcnally. i'm delighted to have them here. the idea of this, what you told me before. tell me again, why. >> the idea actually came when i was teaching at julliard and playwrighting. it's tremendous

during his reelection campaign of 1999, terrence hallohan said that they would not seek the death penalty for any offense in san francisco. he was reelected by a close margin a few years later, and she took the position that she would not bring any death penalty case. and she was reelected with the same conditions as part of the reelection campaign. harris was elected to be the state of the new general, and gavin newsom elected george gascon to be the district attorney. when asked his position on the death penaltiy, hy, he said he wouldn't rule it out. this raised a lot of concern among opponents of the death penalty who thought this would be a step backward. he has written against the death penalty, and adheres to san francisco values. san francisco has not had a jury return a death verdict since 1989, which was 10 years before he said his office would not seek the death penalty. we thought this particular issue wanted a discussion and we are pleased to have a palace here today. let me introduce them more at length. geroge gastcocon has had a long career in law enforcement, and he works

during his reelection campaign of 1999, terrence hallohan said that they would not seek the death penalty for any offense in san francisco. he was reelected by a close margin a few years later, and she took the position that she would not bring any death penalty case. and she was reelected with the same conditions as part of the reelection campaign. harris was elected to be the state of the new general, and gavin newsom elected george gascon to be the district attorney. when asked his position on the death penaltiy, hy, he said he wouldn't rule it out. this raised a lot of concern among opponents of the death penalty who thought this would be a step backward. he has written against the death penalty, and adheres to san francisco values. san

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iran is welcoming of russia's latest proposal for restarting international talks on terrence disputed nuclear program now under the proposal major powers will reduce sanctions against iran for each step to take stores opening its atomic ambitions to international inspection president ahmadinejad praised the initiative at a meeting with russia's chief security official in tehran iran is a logger heads with world powers over its nuclear aspirations the latest round of toil to stop the talks stalled in january without agreements well ways to renew the negotiations will also be on the table when russia's foreign minister meets is iranian counterpart in moscow later on wednesday now syrian security forces have reportedly opened fire on thousands who gathered in various cities calling for president assad to go of human rights activists claim that over eighteen hundred people have been killed since the uprising erupted in march but as many of the national reports the problems aren't as black and white as they're made out to be. residents of the eastern city of theirs or have taken to the str

iwans on president obama by the terrence group poll. approve 43 percent. disapprove 52 percent. our colleague dick morris said you can't get reelected if disapprove is above 40. his disapprove is above 50. >> it is not election day. >> who are they? >> they are high. that is high. >> that's the national average. it is about the same. >> that must be bitter for president obama, because iowa voters were the one who gave him the initial push and gave him victory over hillary clinton and gave him the perception of momentum going into this . to see the numbers has to be bitter. but the truth is, iowa is suffering as everyone else in the country. >> fox polls found it is not just iowa. president obama's approval rating nationwide. 48 percent, look at this poll. 48 percent disapprove and 42 percent disapprove. do you remember a last time a president running for reelection had a disapproval. >> george h. w.. >> he lost. >> but also one of the reasons that george h. bush lost and his approval rating to record lows was because he broke his pledge not to raise taxes and the economy started

judge didn't seem to understand that what we did was wrong allowing her eight-month-old charge, terrence mcclan to sit in his stroller in the bed of the pickup. stunned motorists starting calling 911. >> 911, what is the emergency? >> a truck going down mason avenue headed east with a baby stroller in the back of the truck with a baby in it. >> 911, what is your emergency? >>. >> caller: there's a baby in the back of a pickup truck. >> one motorist stayed with the pickup as it headed south on nova road for several miles finally turpg on to orange avenue where police picked the truck up. what a sight. imagine if the driver hit a bump, if he had an accident. there are any number of horrible scenarios. >> i got my first child when i was 16. >> davis explained to the court she's been baby-sitting without incident since she was a teen. didn't realize police would consider this endangering a child. >> it's not like they give you a handbook or anything on what's neglect and what's not neglect. >> davis' public defender argued that it's too har much saying the baby wasn't hurt. the state and the

i want to work with terrence malloy. where's my chance? >> are you a frustrated movie star?the kind of looks for it. you've had a stab at movies. >> i don't think i have the looks for the leading man. i could be a best friend guy that comes in, hey, you guys should get together. i could be that guy. i don't know if i'd be the guy. i tried to give it a shot. i had two great shots, "taxi" with queen latifah, which didn't do that bad. in fact, most people recognized me on the street from "taxi." it's kind of funny to see how it's grown on cable because people actually like it. it's silly, it's ridiculous, but so is any movie. what isn't? i mean, "speed," that's a hit. come on. jumping over a bus with sandra bullock. it's just crazy. it's a movie. it's supposed to be fake. >> what i find about stand-up comedians or anyone who's done that is how you would ever have the patience for movies. >> i don't like it. the fun thing about doing my show now is it's immediate gratification. instant gratification. where you do a movie, you have to be quiet, everyone on the set is quiet, no on

sophistication, and they did not call clarence darrow, but the attorneys from the communist party called terrence darrow and said would you defend the scottsboro boys? arrow said, well you know i'm the founder of the naacp and i have to check. so we talked to the naacp and the naacp of course a well if clarence darrow has to go down there and defend the skies he is to do it for us. for six months and one of the sorriest cases in naacp history, they struggled with the communist party of america to try to get an edge and public opinion, tried to convince these four defendants that you know if you went with us you would get darrow and if you don't you won't. and darrow went down there and this all happened in the summer. he went down there from in december and met with the defendants and he met with the communist labour party. he said look, we can defend them jointly. i can defend them as individuals. the only thing i want to is i have to have the assurance that i'm going to be able to design the defense. and so if what you are asking me is to, and he said i will leave the defendant for you but if w

terrence o'sullivan, president of the laborers' international union of north america. welcome, sir. >> thank you. i would like to thank you chairman boxer, a ranking member inhofe and all members of the committee for the opportunity to testify today. our perspective on critical infrastructure investment is crowded as an organization of the half million men and women who predominately do the work of building america. our roads, bridges, transit systems and other fundamental pieces of the backbone of our nation's economy. like all americans, we are concerned about falling behind in the world. we are concerned that china, for example, will invest almost 9% of its gdp almost $680 billion, in infrastructure this year, while we are struggling to catch bottles. -- to patch potholes. there are millions of men and women who are ready, willing and trained to rebuild america's crumbling transportation systems, but through no fault of their own, are jobless. through nearly two years of delay in passing a robust highway bill, it is not a recipe for economic growth and competitivene