and a western directed by tommy lee jones, "the homesman." we are glad you are joining us, the conversation with hilary swank, coming upright now. ♪ ♪ >>> the california endowment, help happens in neighborhoods. learn more. >>> contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ >>> any role hilary swank takes on catapults her about awards. this time, she has two films out generating critical attention. "you're not you" with emmy rossum and "the homesman" with meryl streep. "you're not you" hits first. she's struggling with als, better known as lou gehrigs disease. you can see the toll it takes on her character. >> who is he having drinks with? >> al. >> tom said he saw evan walking. >> great. well, then, drinks means he'll be there all night, which means more time for us. >> congratulations to us. >> thank you. >> i'm just tired. it's going to be easier once you get stronger. >> i'm not getting stronger. please don't say that. i just hate when people say that. >> how is that for brutal honesty. >> right. i think that's the

film festival me begins, 200 films from around the world over 11 days including a film directed by tommy lee jones and with hillary swank with the full interview on our website about the old west. >> grab your running race the bridge to bridge race on sunday starting in san francisco at the plaza and takes you on a city tour ending at the marina green. registration ends tonight. >>> the favorite disney character is coming to life in the pay area start nbc week and it is disney on ice preventing world of fantasy starting october 15, the fund continues at san jose's sap center and this is our parent company. >> we have breaking news right now from oakland. we will go to our ipad and show you this is a high-rise, 1111 broadway in oakland, a rescue operation for window washers. >> they are setting up on the roof for the window washers. we will bring you that story later today at 4, 5 and trying to mislead you about the effects of proposition 46. well here's the truth: 46 will save lives. it will save money too. i'm bob pack, and i'm fighting for prop 46 because i lost my two children to preventa

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tommy lee jones. i mean thaddaeus stevens. but stevens was by no means forcing his maneuvers through a weak or enfeebled congress. instead, over and over stevens is able to sustain a majority of republicans, in fact, usually a unanimous front of republicans behind them. not because they're scared of but because he is articulating things they have come to believe. and when the joint committee passes, johnson is shocked. while people still do talk about the potential for working together, johnson and johnson's newspaper say the peace we have struggled for, hoped for, we have so finely dreamed of, has now faded away. as early as that moment, they understood that what was at stake was congress's determination not to return to peace. beyond the joint committee, though, it took time especially in december for policies to cohere. you see an interesting paradox, which is that you see in these early moments contradictions where senators will say we're in a time of peace. just as grant after appomattox would say the war is over and then

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think about it after bob hope and bill cosby nick nolte, mel gibson and danny glover, will smith and tommy lee jones so all of that starts with cos cosby. [inaudible] >> well you know as i say there is more in the book about not just how -- that cosby died in but who he was and about their relationship which is never been reported before. to understand the relationship you have to understand the difficult relationship cosby had with his own son. he was really looking to be a different kind of father than his father was. if you go back to his early comedy album he has two daughters before he has a son. he loved his daughters and he told me some very funny stories about them but he also talked about how much he wanted a son. she starts complaining about the axe chromosome and the y chromosome. cosby says my response responses whoever had at last it's their responsibility. so when ms was finally born it was a joyous occasion. he's on the cover of "ebony" magazine. they put cosby on the cover holding his son. ennis grows up to be this incredibly charming and handsome kid but he has this -- problem