i try to embody the character as best i can and leave it all on the table, so to speak. whatever you have to portray about that character should be burned into celluloid. >> a man's legacy is often what is not seen. i think it is an amazing thing to think about. do you feel that is the same for your business. in acting, do you think it is what is not seen on camera that makes you who you are.

but here, i mean, the jill character is such a hideous cartoon. her into this barely human thing that when the movie tries to play up some sympathy for her, it feels completely disingenuous. >> christy lemire: all of a sudden, it's a 180 and we should embrace her. adam sandler was pretty convincinvincing as a woman. >> ignatiy vishnevetsky: at least tyler perry's movies are funny. >> christy lemire: you looked like an actual person. it was shocking to me. al pacino here is actually pretty funny. making fun of himself and his volatility. he's not bad here. >> ignatiy vishnevetsky: i think it's a bad sign when the best part of a movie is like the low point of someone's career. and now it's time for hot and now, where we take a look at the movies now apparent on confidendvdon demand. my pick for hot and now this week is "outrage," a gutsy gangster revenge flick by the japanese actor/director takeshi kitano. kitano himself plays otomo, a career gangster whose boss ropes him into a scheme to save face with the head of their crime organization. otomo is

and the characters were wonderful. >> okay. your first question, first. you know to be totally honest, when i sat down to write dreaming water i thought this is the book that -- i had finished language of threads and written 4 books that took place in asia. because language of threads was a hate this word, the seekial to women of the silk i felt i came full circle and my asia period might have been done i wanted to write a book that was contemporary and set in california. i knew i wanted to write a mother daughter story line. that's what i began with. it was the first time i said, this character not necessarily has to be asian. none of these characters necessarily have to be asian. i was of mind opposite of what you are saying happened through the book. what happened was the more i started to research when i discovered warner's, ime wantedo write. i was feeling older as a person and wanted to translate that into a book. when i thought i would write about the care taking situation and wanted to write about a mother and daughter and i thought was there an ag

tavis: i love projects that get to the humanity of the characters. i think that is how we as moviegoers and film lovers get turned on by projects. something about the project speaks to the humanity and the character, and we feel that. the thing that concerned me about the project is by not -- i do not even want to say demonizing. by not telling the truth, by not putting these guys on the hot seat, i wonder whether there is an empathy that we develop for the characters but they do not deserve. i am trying not to give too much away, but these guys did some pretty big mistakes. you're getting into the humanity of who they are, the dying dog. i am trying to figure out whether we do not develop -- we do develop an empathy they don't deserve. >> when you step back and look at how this played out, there were a handful of people who were aware of an complicit in the decisions that led to all of this, but there were thousands of people who were affected by this, and the only choice they had to make was whether or not they accepted the job they took at the firm

- and i think that people are finding empathy in it because there's a lot of relateability in the characters and the darkness. >> i had chelsea handler on recently, one thing she won't poke fun at are ugly babies and people dying. do you have a similar bar you refuse to dip under? subjects? >> no. i think that, you know, you go through -- you certainly go through years, as you're coming up where you say, how far can i let the ship leave the shore before it's never coming back? and i -- i definitely took my hits in that regard. i think comedy's all about breaking down barriers and jumping over those hurdles and going right for the heart. and if that means, you know,

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and he is considered one of the great auteurs of our time. >> that is a turn on that the character is not likable? my friends saw the screening, they said that i should play a villain in the film. you don't see women portrayed in this way and you don't see depression portrayed in film because it is not usually something that is very cinematic. it is something that he could do. >> inside the actors studio kind of question. when something that isn't portrayed and it is not sexy or likable, how do you approach playing the character? >> as honest as possible. i have always had a process that i do before i get to the set or go to the location. i work privately and it almost feels like therapy. i have this in her life and gives me confidence what i am playing the role that i know every question, i know the scene better than everyone else. he is not someone to reverse much either and he doesn't like talking about things. that even fell through so we had to talk to each other on the fun. >> if i am to believe what i read, he was drawn to this project worked out that so hard because his own ba

the south. many of john grisham's characters from the south.ow is the lawyer particularly the trial lawyer perceived differently in the south than in other regions of the country? will start with you this time. >> because i'm from and northern jewish -- [laughter] [talking over each other] >> let's start with that guy. well. will, david. look. i am saying this as a no. jewish-. the southern lawyer is a more flamboyant character. perry mason is humorless. we don't even know what he likes to week. he is in l.a.. does anyone realized that he is actually in l.a. and the car he drives is all pre l.a. law? but matlock is an interesting guy. there is a guy who tells you a lot. they're the kind of wisdom, folksiness, and one can see that in the dramatic presentation of the lawyer at work, up a corporate lawyer staring at boxes of governed material or securities regulation but the court room wisdom of how far as to relate to a jury, how to function as a human being as opposed to a card in a machine, cultural perception is that the southern lawyer does i

you know, you talk about the situation and if you inhabit the characters, hopefully, in the right way you try to feel hathey would feel. >> thank you. >> we started reading your book in my classroom a couple of weeks ago. >> he's lifting the book up. they are disapointed because we haven't gotten to the part you read yet, it's okay the story is not spoiled. i want to thank bobby and alex for coming on a school night. i want to thank you, too. >> you are welcome. >> [laughter]. >> one of the things the book has done is opened their eyes to japan and japanese culture which is new to a lot of them. what are some of the more important aspects of japanese culture that you would want us to take away reading this book? we are fixated on figuring out who the samurai is we have ideas and we are trying to deconstruct the attributes of a samurai. in your opinion what would be useful for us to think about or focus on as we finish the book. we are a third of the way through it. >> one of those kind of questions [laughter]. i will tell you about an e mail i got this entire high school on the east c

the people in this film, the characters are wonderfully broken. i prefer to say themes rather than messages. at the end of the day, it is about being a ok with exactly who you are. this culture that we live then, take this bill and be happy, go on as diet, get your teeth whitened, but there's no message out there to say hey, being ok -- you're ok exactly who you are. tavis: i have said a million times, analysis of what is wrong with our culture today, the decay of our civilization. what i have said is that people would rather see a sermon that here a sermon. -- than hear a sermon. what ever struggles that we have in the faith walk, you have always been the kind of humanist that we should all expire -- to aspire to be. you have been on the front lines with protests, you have been arrested more times than i can count. my friend dr. west just got out, thank god. tavis: in new york. you have been such a soldier in that way. where did it come from? >> i have to say that they came from my catholic faith. i came back to its 30 years ago, and it is a much

the women. i don't want to besmirch their character and the way that they and a certain -- and a machine has besmirched herman's character. what i will say is that there are some very powerful forces out there and they're not just the liberals in the white house. there are conservative forces that have nothing but contempt for the tea party. they want their vote and their energy. but they don't want them at the table. >> but niger, niger, hold on -- >> let me just finish this one point, amy. and there are folk among the liberal establishment that very much know that for barack obama to win re-election, he has to divide and conquer, he has to use the race card, use the class warfare card. and herman cain's relevance in this campaign undermines that agenda and that initiative. >> but here, niger, here's the problem -- >> -- manifestations of that plan. >> amy, jump in there. >> here's the problem with that conspiracy theory which is if this is about trying to sideline or delegitimize a figure of the tea party movement, then michele bachmann who is the leader of the tea party caucus in the house, she woul

the news that is upsetting us. it was from that's that we wanted to create and develop this character. i think that was our mission statements, our plea. >> it to your point about the apathy in our culture on so many issues, these protests are growing everyday and are indicative of the fact that there is something happening. it is stirring the soul of people who are upset. the what is your sense of -- i am tapping into the social critic. what is your sense of what is happening that gives us reason to believe that people are getting more and see -- antsy about issues that are not going to sit dormant? >> i could not be more excited. i am always fascinated that people would find a voice scary. i am interested in what people have to say. that has not scared me. it is something i have long to develop. i remember when we were working on the show i thought, will people get this desperation that we are holding we are looking at the world and not seen change been deeply affected. egypt happened while we're in the middle of production. i thought, with a voice and an iphone it does not matter who

the first is to protect and enhance the character of glen park and the unique character and especially the village atmosphere that the residents love. the second is to resolve some of the challenges posed by large scale infrastructure and the third is to really prioritize pedestrian and transit movement in the village area. and with the connection to glen cannian park and between the park and downtown and looking for opportunities with high quality public space in downtown glen park. and the acts were requesting the commission today include approving a motion adopting the ceqa findings and the general plan amendments and this is different than itemized on the calendar but it also includes the consistency findings with the general plan and proposition 101 policy. and then also approving the resolutions adopting the planning code and zoning map amendments. and the ceqa findings identify the potential significant impacts in mitigations associated with the project. and they encourage the commission to make a statement of overriding consideration and in terms of bringing the neighborhood co

interviewer: as the series has progressed both of your characters have matured and developed, is the fact that your characters have room to grow important to you as actors? honeysuckle: yes if you have to do it for more than a couple of years. anthony: yeah, because you... as you learn things, perhaps as you read around an episode that involves your character in a particular aspect of the second world war, you grow as an individual. or you sort of develop and then as the character sort of experiences things in that aspect, he or she grows and develops. um, so i think, as honeysuckle said, in a long running series there is a need for the characters to adjust and adapt and change and take on board what's happened. you know... honeysuckle: because they might have had their houses bombed, their wives have left them, you know, i mean of course they are going to change. anthony: as you do in life, these things happen and you know, i've changed in the last 3 years, i'm sure you have. honeysuckle: i hope i have interviewer: finally honeysuckle, if christopher foyle acts a surrogate father fig

>> reporter: bringing back kermit, animal and the rest of the characters is an unlikely savior. >> are there muppets in this movie? >> reporter: a star from a most unmuppet-y genre. the r-rated comedy. >> are you breaking up with me? >> reporter: 31-year-old jason segel, who bared it all in "forgetting sarah marshall" is the writer and actor who has been entrusted with relaunched possibly the most beloved family franchise of the last 50 years. what's your favorite thing that jason has done? >> the new stuff. yeah. yeah. i love that. >> kermit is always doing full frontal. never seen the guy wearing pants. >> reporter: well, he does have a trench coat. >> that's right. which is even scarier. >> reporter: but it was a life long love of all things muppets that got segel the gig. did anyone ever say, who do think you are? >> i think that first there was a fear that i was going to do it with a sense of irony. but i think very quickly they saw that i truly loved them in a very pure way. >> reporter: first created by jim henson in 1955, the muppets set an impeccable standard for clever, gentl

characters who have flaws, who are attacked using the law in the new john grisham characters followedthis quality. our using the case as a way to redeem themselves, as a way to find themselves in the law. atticus finch was quite clear who he was as a father, a town legislature, who he was as a native son of alabama. if you look at our today the characters are as lost as their clients and we find them struggling with divorce and alcoholism and real human struggles and that makes a huge difference between the last 50 years that we see characters is much more textured and much worse true humanity. >> what i have seen is a campaign against voters, especially trial lawyers by the political right in america and the u.s. chamber of commerce and others find its way in fish and. when i was practicing what we do see lawyers can lawyers and trailers. they were a hundred people. when you have a capital murder case in the country, the finest lawyers in town would be appointed and will volunteer to represent this person as it was in this case here. i think the legal profession is really condemned t

i'm obviously in communion with the people that have just spoken that it will certainly affect the character of the neighborhood. it's a building that infrigs upon the open spathe -- space. it affects our light, everything about it. it's excessively big. it's going from a single family dwelling with two huge units with 4 1/2 boss each which is a lot of boss. if welessen the building even more it would impact us even less. and if you do decide to approve it, we ask that you also give a notice of special restrictions limiting it to two units because of the number of bathrooms and things. thank you. >> additional speaker in support of the d.r. requester? >> hell oh, my name is brighty newman. i live at 1237 a 4th avenue. i am on the ground floor unit. i have lived there for 15 years. the light that comes into my apartment all comes in through the back. and as it's a ground floor unit, that lighting is extremely precious to us. we don't have very much light. so a main concern i have -- i was a little bit puzzled about if you are approving the project, if the recommendation is to approve which dr

. >> within hours many were the character. the chair of the committee some individuals have interpreted -- >> it is already out there. you cannot take it back. >> the attempt to reject -- humor is not a problem bleeding president obama not a cave. >> you should have more respect. >> democratic congressman gerry connolly, and also governor bob mcdonnell called it offensive and shameful. the image will circulated any more. >> this story has produced a variety of comments honor wjla facebook page. far withd they go too this a photo? rebecca her share this with us -- --s came in from tam at can share your thoughts facebook.com. differentn now to a the one surrounding herman cain. tonight he is denying a report that he was accused of sexual we was city --e the national restaurant association. it gave sediments to female had accused him of inappropriate behavior. he denied the allegations. the restaurant accused of i was sexual harassment. falsely accused. it was concluded that it had no basis. refused to comment when asked about one

passage from the moment he arrives home and his thoughts then follow through with some of the other characters. >> these microphones are wilting. is that okay? [laughter] sorry about that. i broke the microphone. all he wanted to do was to make calls. he pave the perimeter from blast television set where the news was on to the telephone on his bedroom desk to where he was boiling water over and over again. his morning routine had been as part of the thought of beating our going to bet did not enter his mind. he dialed his secretary i will not be in today he told her and when asked why? he broke into a saab. were you broad? is your daughter missing? hall he would say is turn on the news. he took a shower under the rushing water he kept his eyes wide open if he closed them he was scared the arm in the black sleeve across his mind and not until the water hits a his body then he remembers the blow on his right side. the age of real-time news had not dawned and they were not yet looking for him but on the ordinary morning he would have wrestled in the piece with the uproar within him, this is the a

and they do make of the character, the great character that san francisco is so famous for throughout the world. i have reviewed this legislation carefully. huge kudos to everyone that has been involved. i urge you to pass it unanimously if you could. thank you. president olague: thank you. >> cindy. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am the interim deputy director at the chinatown cd. c i want to talk about a number of issues. the first is outreach. we heard about this project when it came from mirkarimi is office the second time, so in october. we worked hard to get up to speed on it. ann marie and aaron did come to our office, and i want to thank them for that. but we talked about need. we mentioned in the powerpoint that we give the recommendations but since then, we have been thinking about outreach we can do. we had not reached to merging groups in the neighborhood, to small businesses, property owners, that have not had the time for it to come back to us. but then again, started thinking more about what the problem is. we solve the problem statement in the video that was creat

you can tell by the way he coaches kaebl, that's the character -- basketball, that's the the character that you judge a man. >> reporter: capoot leaves behind a wife and three daughters. >> stay with kron4.com for the latest on the investigation into the officer who was killed, and the suspect. and you can go to our facebook fan page to post your comments and to see more photographs. >>> well , we are keeping a close eye on bay area weather. here's a live look now. we're going to take our roof camera outside. you can barely see anything. still dry in this hour. rain is moving in, though. an hour or so away from us? >> a few hours. we're beginning to see the cloudy conditions and light drizzle. but the main activity is go to the north and going to move in in the next few hours. look off shore. see the coverage how it's broken right here and that's going to mean scattered showers. you can see it moving into the northern california coastline. and it is broken there. of that's where we're going to be seeing tomorrow morning. >>> temperatures aren't going to cool from much more than where t

all of the characters that appear are real characters that are taken from my research. we are an interesting mix and i want to provoke wonder about who we are. every one of the characters are taken from actual photographs or documents that i found in my research on american history. in a lot of my banners, you conceal -- uc the melting pot, the imagery and myth that we use in our culture. talking about these reductions of all these different mixes of people, how you distill the experience. that is something i want to think about, collecting the ideas and ingredients, and i wanted to do the san francisco de lexie. -- elixir. we found a spring water underneath a church in cow hollow. we put rosebuds in the water to attract peace, and it made a meade. it was sitting in the gallery. we distill that through local herbs. it was really surprising how delicious it was, because we were mixing a lot of seemingly in congruent ingredients, and it was delicious and different from anything you have ever tasted. i would have been happy if it was medicinal. the idea was more important

, not the primary characters who tell you the most about the primary characters. and have the most honest recollections of what happened because they're not dressing it up in any way for their own benefit. so that when you're doing research on a subject, don't just look at the papers or the surviving diaries and letters of the people who are involved, who are well-known, but look at everybody else who you find because they often have much more else to say. and this was particularly true, for example, in working on harry truman. many of those people who were close to truman, as members of the white house staff, or members of his hometown friends and so forth was infinitely valuable. >> host: the young lady right over here. >> mr. mccullough, when you're tackling these presidents like adams and jefferson that previous historians have written so much about, how important is it you find primary sources that nobody's used before? and can you still do that -- >> guest: i'm sorry. because of the airplane we couldn't hear you. >> oh, i'm sorry when you're tackling presiden

tell me about the character. >> the character is a mythology character that he's a god that's -- that they threw out of upstairs. whatever they wanted to call it then. and he is down here on earth. and people said, well, he's really a mean -- he's quite evil. and i try to say, well, you look at it like, well, he considered this territory his neighborhood. and some young -- is coming into his neck of the woods on his bs. no, no, this is my neighborhood. so, you know, you have to ask a daddlse. -- you have to skedaddle. tavis: you love this. i can see this on your face. >> i have a good time. you like playing evil guys. i take what they offer me. but i always look for something that has integrity. like that's why i chose to work with this director. i saw his commercial reel. and i was blown away by it. he even did a commercial where -- reel where he had all these athletes and they were in masks and nike with derek jeter and all these other guys. and that was like preparation for him to do this. you see. with the masks. and everything. and i knew when i read the material, after looking a