where do you begin with an epic like lawrence? a blank sheet of paper as with everything. you know, you read everything you can get your hands on, talk to people who knew this particular character. then i think the only thing to do is to throw it all away and do him as you see him. who are you? who are you? that is the central question of the whole movie, and lawrence does not know the answer to that question. here s o toole who is given this opportunity, and he just he goes all the way. and the way he played it, you know, with his physicality, he gives one of the greatest performances i ve ever seen by an actor in my life. kennington, the sculptor who sculpted him, said lawrence reminded him of a middleweight boxer. and at that moment, something
when you re a jet, you re a jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last dying day west side story is shakespeare in the streets of new york. it has a code that was both old and completely new. with west side story, the music has this kind of jazz influence, discordant aspect. you can feel it. it s like sparking in the air. and the moves are very angular and sort of almost architectural. west side story was a big broadway hit created by arthur lawrence and stephen sondheim and leonard bernstein, who were some of the greatest musical geniuses working at the time. they actually enlisted jerome robbins, who created the choreography and directed the
its sweeping vistas of tremendous production value, sand dunes and perfect lighting conditions, and these amazing intimate close-ups. it s a story about a man who gets himself involved in these affairs between all the tribes of the middle east. the english go where they please and strike where they please, and this makes them great. mr. lawrence, that will do. lieutenant lawrence is not your military adviser. i would like to hear his opinion. damn it, lawrence. who do you take orders from? t.e. lawrence was british, but on the other hand, he becomes a kind of convert to the independence movement in the middle east. lawrence goes on this enormous journey and adventure in trying to help the bedouin against the turks and wants to defend their rights. no prisoners! no prisoners!
appeals ruled that lewis name should be included on the ballot. the court did not, however, rule on his eligibility for office, so the legal battle actually continues. arthur lawrence, the man responsible for such broadway classics as west side story and gypsy as well as the film the way we were, has died. he was 93. according to one human rights activist syrian security forces have killed six protesters today as thousands gather in a demonstration against the president s regime. despite violent clashes with armed forces over the past seven weeks activists have called for protesters to take to the streets again today in what s being called a day of defiance. nbc s lee cowan is on this story on the syrian board they are morning. lee, what can you tell us? reporter: well, savannah, we thought this was probably going to be setting the stage for another pretty deadly day for those protesting the regime, and it seems like that s what s taking place. it s impossible to get a f
prices finally begin to drop. we ll tell you where some relief may be in sight early this friday morning, may 6th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning, welcome to the early show here on a friday morning, i m chris wragge. and i m erica hill. we made it to friday. yes, we did. and it s another busy day to what has been a very busy couple of weeks. we re going to talk more this morning about president obama, his 60 minutes interview, steve kroft asked the president about afghanistan, how a lot of people saying with osama bin laden out of the picture now, more u.s. troops should be taken out of afghanistan sooner. so we are going to hear the president s response to that coming up in just a couple of minutes. we ll get to that. we do want to deal with the very latest on osama bin laden and what u.s. officials have uncovered in that treasure trove of materials that was taken from the compound. now at the time he was killed, it may appear that he was planning