i'd heard all the horror stories, and so i talked to warner brothers. well, no, there's only one warner left. i talked to warner brother about it. [laughter] and first of all, being concerned who was going to direct it and who was going to be in it. he said, "well, mike nichols is going to direct it," and that interested me, since mike had never made a movie, and therefore he had not been corrupted by hollywood yet. and they said, "and we're making it for bette davis and james mason," which struck me as a wonderful idea, you know. i mean, they were the right age. bette davis was 52, as was martha, and james mason had always been 46, you know, so... [laughter] so it was--it was good. and so i said okay, knowing at the time that when you sell the rights of a play to be made into a movie, you lose absolute control over it-- understanding that. if you write a play, you have absolute control over what is done to your play onstage. they can't change a word without your permission. but you take a chance when you sell a movie. but that whole combination struck m

and, and if you didn't have time to check out any of warner brothers shows, they've sent along this convenient package. all you have to do is pull the unit from its rombus-shaped cardboard box, slip off the black cardboard coupl cummerbund , unfurl these giant posters, and at the bottom you have a d.v.d. screener of of "te big bang theory." all right. so simple. all right. the point is, you send out a screener that represents your show to highlight the best thing you've done this whole year. which unfortunately brings me to the latest installment of who is riding my coattails now. [laughter] just take a look at nbc/universal's screening packagement okay. outstanding. let's see who is outstanding this year. okay. "30 rock." okay. good show. "the office." "outsourced" "parenthood" "the event. "friday night lights." here we gosh, late night with jimmy fallon, my best friend for sick months, and who does he feature, a picture of me. from the night i sang "friday" on his show. [cheers and applause] how could you! we're competing in the same category, jimmy. you're trying to beat me with me. [laught

. >>> a judge ordered warner brothers to send $55,000 a month of any money due to charlie sheen to formerife brooke mueller for support. >>> mel gibson and longtime wife robin have settled their long fight over property dispute which should lead to their divorce becoming official by august. >>> finally, in a kiss and tell interview in "details" magazine, shia labeouf dishes about his relationship with megan fox. yes, he did, bill. only problem at the time she was engaged to now husband brian austin green. scandal ensues. >>> well, talking about dating other famous women he called his night out with hilary duff, quote, probably the worst date either of us have ever had. this just tells me if i lived in hollywood, i would just join a convent, between divorces, separations, marriages. >> austin green has a size advantage over shia labeouf. >> career wise? ooh, i went there. sorry. >> those "90210" reruns are great. >>> this comes to us from news channel 8 in tampa, florida, where in hudson one couple has given over their home to most people's worst nightmare. while most run from the -- for t

it launched a joint venture with warner brothers home entertainment. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: while gold prices have held up relatively well in he past two months, mining stocks have drilled lower along with the rest of the stock market. that brings us to tonight's "word on the street"-- "gold." alix steel is a reporter at thestreet.com. >> tom: alix, nice to see you. why the differ gens. what's going on? >> well, it's a good question and the biggest answer i have for you is miners are risky and investors are skittish. there are two other reasons. the first is the introduction of the backed etf giving invests are a way to buy into the gold market that wasn't there before and in addition we've seen companies have issues shared to get cash to fund project. and between 2001 and 2010 their gold has increased shares outstanding by 86%. that takes awhile for it to shake out of shares. >> i want to ask you about that in a moment but a couple other factors about gold miners. you mentioned risk. it comes down to cost of production how much d

secondly the time has come because i think six or seven years ago i spoke to people at warner brothersand we discussed the possibility of a world premiere in moscow they said in principle yes but the time hasn't come yet and sold now the time has come as far as commercial or as we critics say genre movies and the festivals or one of the things that happened the last cannes festival is that serious. them all said the programming director my kind of person . said in the beginning that what changed is the relationship between the festival and desirable viewers because ten years ago it was something slightly and decent to present a successful tsar movie in the big festivals now it's a rule for the biggest festivals who pay attention to this kind of product will you will you try to two to make it a tradition to open the must film festival with their world premiere of i think that it should be a world premiere but it might be a russian film world one year or a baby european film what i am against a general rule set up there only hollywood not. so the cio perhaps a cheney's film world. and wh

. >> hollywood is talking tattoos today, warner brothers features a lawsuit in hang overtwo. the new artist sued over the replica of mike tyson's at that time yoo. a spokesman says the studio reached a jelt wmt artist. the terms were not released. columbian constress shakira is taking her unicef work to jerusalem. the pop singer at the third annual president's conference saying the holy land was a perfect mace to talk about investing in education. >> amy winehouse is humming a different tune. the soul singer was booed during the first concert of her tour. her remaining shows have been cancelled. for more news visit otrc.com. i'm rachel smith on the red carpet in los angeles. >> it's finally over. the final step from anthony weiner's departure from congress. >> and later on abc 7 news at 5:00 the change some women is k.see next time they get a mammogram. >> checking traffic, 4:22 in the afternoon. we're calling it so-so. moving so-so northbound slowing down a bit into san francisco. we'll be back with more on the news at 4:00. sure, pulling the mold, mildew, and grime from out

i want to tell all of you but i got a very polite request e-mail from warner brothers that pretty muchdirect quotation. >> jimmy: can you give any spoilers? do you fly? because you've never flown. >> there's been a lot of -- >> jimmy: superman's got to fly. come on. you've got to fly. right? >> i think what we've been able to do the last few minutes of the show is i do -- >> jimmy: all right, look, if you do fly, just wink -- [ laughter ] >> okay. >> jimmy: -- if you fly. >> all right. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: all right, all right. i'm not going to tell you if he winked or not, but, uh -- he didn't. [ laughter ] wait, so you might not fly. and do you marry lois lane? >> there is a situation. >> jimmy: oh, my god. come on! something. "there's a situation." is the situation in it? [ laughter ] that would be awesome. does he fly? >> i was peaking in, yeah i was looking for "jersey floor" i couldn't find it. i'm in the elevator. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, "jersey floor" is out there. >> i saw how much fun you were going to have -- >> jimmy: quest -- we'll see what happens with quest, yeah. yeah.

the film and by god he may very well be done in time to release of november 21st which means warner brothers tells me by november 21st. it's scary. c-span: when do you get to see it? >> guest: i guess i will see shortly after november 1st. i've been careful not to be present. i was asked if i would write the script and i knew that there was a bad thing -- that i shouldn't. i'd have to tear my book apart, leave things out, compress things and the book works. i have no assurance my script would work. so i thought let's leave well enough alone. let's let someone else do it and john lee hancock is a very good writer and wrote a script. he did make certain changes and i knew he would and he would have to. one thing they told me of the movie of the book it's great to be hard to get it all and if they put everything into a movie it would be 25 hours long, so they said there are four trials in this all about the same shooting. you can't have four trials, you can't hold this back so we will have one. you can't have a story with more than one trial. can't you do one with a flashback? also, they said y

tmz is claiming that he has the copyrights to mighike tyson, with warner brothers claiming the rightsat tattoo. >> the green lantern with a huge weekend. no. 1 but it was considered a disappointing opening. last week's super eight slipped to second place. bottommost anticipated families. mr. popper's penguins. >>pam: now, here is stanley roberts who found people behaving badly. >>stanley: and ocean. i have some bad news, the intersection of capital. this is capital that is right in the center of miramar and and faxon have red lights but capital has a stop sign in all directions. many drivers only see the red light. they get tunnel vision. like this cadillac. and this mini van and watch this chevrolet truck. you can see the completely ignored the stop sign. this is my favorite. not only to these drivers blocked traffic to exchange gifts, the driver in the back is also piggybacking and basically running the stop sign. for the record is not just cars and bikes the costs are just as guilty for not stopping. bicyclists--by cyclists and leaving community like real. however, they seemed to b

. >> warner: he had a brother who was leader of the massachusetts senate, very powerful but on the law-abidinge. how did they choose different paths? >> yeah, i mean you're referring to bill bulger who for many years was the most powerful politician in massachusetts as president of the state senate. and this is one of those great boston stories. a tale of two brothers, there is younger bill who went to boston college and law school and became a politician and whitey, they grew up in the same bedroom in a housing project in south boston who went in a different direction. to be honest, and candidate-- can dad, they shared a lot of the same personality traits in terms of intimidation but bill bulger stayed inside the lines at the state house and ran the show there in a different way than his brother don't streets. >> warner: now then he disappears. whitey bulger in '95. what did that do to his reputation in boston? his aura. >> well, going back to the first chapter of his reputation, for the longest time he was perceived as kind of a lovable gangster from south boston, a robin hood who looked aft

and the guys at the warner brothers, which i've done just about every project with for the last 25 yearsproject. i've only done one before this. we went to some friends and said, what would you like to do? basically that's what it boils down to. what song would you like to sing? carrie underwood chose "is it still over." lee chose a new song. "everything and all like that." john anderson chose "digging up bones." >> steve: today you're going to be performing for us live on our stage. "everything and all". ladies and gentlemen, the great randy travis! ♪ everything and all like that ♪ this world is not my home but it's a pretty good location ♪ ♪ i don't like the short but that's another conversation ♪ ♪ so while i've got the chance i think i'll take the time to dance ♪ ♪ dance and dance and dance ♪ i'm going to enjoy the ride ♪ live while i'm alive ♪ like that and everything and all ♪ ♪ everything and all like that ♪ i'm going to let somebody else take care of all the worries ♪ ♪ i won't be in a hurry ♪ i'm going to slow it down while the world goes spinning around and round and round ♪ ♪