woolf, it just amazing to think that in the late 1970's i had not read virginia woolf. i was teaching at wesley, undergraduate came to me and ask me to do a tutorial with her reading through the whole of virginia woolf. at the was a great deal. i was completely blown away. what i was blown away by more than anything, and this goes to what jeff was talking about this morning, was the novel's. a kind of understand what they're about. about women in fiction and why women did not have the authority to be writers, and that address very directly an issue that i had. deeply personal, deeply inspiring, and in the light of that as a taking seriously her feminism because it was, i thought, very important to her. i read the novels and read them in what turned up to be as slightly different way from other people because i was interested in this issue of her being a woman and take that seriously. so i started writing essays about the books can then threaded them together. to my amazement this was considered a biography. i moved backwards into biography , not forwards. that did not k

what is virginia woolf about? >> it's about two-and-a-half hours.h: what is is your play about? it's about everything that happens in it. >> reporter: you don't like to boil it down. >> any play that can be described in one sentence should be one sentence long. >> you want me to act like you? do you want me to go around all night bureing at everything the way you that you do? >> i don't bure. reporter: albee controls all aspects of productions of his plays from selecting the actors, director and even how his name and the play's title are written on the marquis. it's a way of protecting his work from the commercialism that he says is destroying broadway. >> it's all about not doing the best plays but doing the ones that will get... sell the most tickets. >> reporter: which are what usually? >> usually junk. reporter: do you go see them? very seldom. i used to go see more since i'm on the league of voters. now i just lie. >> reporter: on your tony ballot? sure, that was okay. all these written... albee has written some 30 plays in all and won his firs

so now we will move ahead to virginia woolf.

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rider, linda mcgordon who has written about modesty and the women in henry james's life but also virginia woolf, emily dickinson, and more coming. and your turn, about sort of boy games to girl games, gender games in this landscape of biography. >> two things. lady gregory, i wrote a short book about lady gregory who was born in 1854 or 1852 and died in 1932. she is best known living in the shadow of the poet w. b. gates and being founder of the theater, everytime she is mentioned it is in terms of her relationship to w b yates and others who she helped. my book is called lady gregory's toothbrush. an unfortunate letter and the new york public library, rich people tended to write in bad handwriting i have found. it is about the riots in the abbey theatre and people who were rioting against the new play and she said it is both of us who use the toothbrush and those who don't. the interesting thing if you are writing about anyone, especially a woman born before some time in the 20th century, is to look at the struggle and look at the amount of self oppression and the first four years she was so c

also gordon who has written about thinking about the women in henry james lives but also about virginia woolf and emily dickinson and there are more coming. your turn colm -- colm toibin about the boy games and the girl games and the gender games and this whole landscape of biography. >> bad like to say two things about. lady gregory i wrote a short book about lady gregory who is worn and 1864. i'm sorry 1852 and died in -- she is perhaps best known living in the shadow and being the founder of the theater of wb yeats. every time she mentioned it is in terms to her relationship to others whom she helped. my book is called lady gregory's toothbrush. an unfortunate letter. her handwriting was dreadful. she is very rich and rich people tended to have very bad handwriting i found. she said it was about the riots in the abbey theatre and the people are writing again at the new play. it's the old battle is and is between those of us who use a toothbrush and those who don't. [laughter] the interesting thing i think if you are writing about anyone especially if you're writing about of women born some

today is the birthday of the late virginia woolf alicia keys and texas chainsaw massacre and poltergeistr tobe hooper. and 98 years ago today alexander graham bell made the first cross-country phone call. tragically he did it using at&t wireless and dropped out halfway through. this is "viewpoint." [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> john: good evening i'm john fugelsang. thank you so much for joining us tonight. with the nothing in the 2012 national election behind them, and the risk of demographic doom at the hands of surging minority groups growing every day the g.o.p. is making an all-out effort to reboot the whole brand. last night luis boy governor bobby jindal had this advice for his party at the republican national committee's winter meeting in charlotte, north carolina. >> we got to stop being the stupid party. i'm serious. it's time for the new republican party that talks like adults. it's time for us to articulate our plans and visions for america in real terms. it's no secret that we had a number of republicans that damaged the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. i'm here to sa

off-broadway theater and the emergence on broadway of artists such as edward albee with "who's afraid of virginia woolfrst time something modern a new was crashing into the commercial broadway world. pow! narrator: having made broadway history robbins took aim at the hollywood musical. cool! go! crazy! cool! go! crazy! go! moreno: i've never seen dancers work so hard in my life. he had those kids in a frenzy. yeah! narrator: robbins had the option to direct the film but the studio had taken out an insurance policy in the form of an experienced co-director. robert wise was responsible for the dramatic scenes, robbins for the musical staging. man: jerry would make up versions of a little part of a dance, and you'd have version 1 a, b, c and d and then version 2 a, b, c and d. i mean, it went on. and jerry would say, "i want to see 2b," and we'd go, "2b which one was that?" moreno: jerry was unable to say, "print it," for a very simple reason. once you said, "print it," the imperfection of something was there forever on record. narrator: perfection came at a price -- by the time robbins had finished shoot