larry: burning books. oh, yeah. burning books or computers or whatever we have now. you ve got to go into the future here. and there s a great book by bradbury, almost for what wasn t in it. he painted this picture and didn t explain certain things and it was even scarier. larry: why were they doing it? yeah. larry: you never knew why they were banning books, only that they were banning books. yeah. larry: it was bad for the people. absolutely. larry: who are you going to cast? wow, it s wide open. i probably won t get into it until 98, actually. cameras won t roll until then. somebody good, larry. help me. larry: yourself? no, no. larry: the stories, harrison ford said all he did was ask the conspiracy theory people to not open the same weekend as his film because it would be stupid, and they agreed. there was no threats. they agreed it would be stupid to have two blockbusters. agree? yeah. we d cut each other s throats or maybe he d cut ours. you don t
larry: burning books. oh, yeah. burning books or computers or whatever we have now. you got to go into the future here. and it was a great book by bradbury, almost for what wasn t in it. he painted this picture and didn t certain things and it was even scarier. larry: why were they doing it? yeah. larry: you never knew why they were banning books, only that they were banning books. it was bad or to the people. absolutely. larry: who are you going to cast? wow, it s wide open. i probably won t get into it until 98, actually. cameras won t roll until then. somebody good, larry. help me. larry: yourself? no, no. larry: the stories, harrison ford said all he did is ask the conspiracy theory people to not open the same weekend as his film because it would be stupid, and they agreed. there was no threats. they would stupid to have two blockbusters. we would cut each other s throats or maybe he cut ours or we his. nobody ever knows.
yeah i don t know if that s true. i found myself to be very i wasn t as indulgent as i was. i was far less indulgent than i would normally be, because i was some socialistic form of direction where i say i ll only give myself three takes. and why should i have more takes than anyone else. and i did that because of that, because i was less indulgent, i knew the story pretty well and i felt relaxed. larry: something you want to do again? absolutely. i want to. and this time i won t get in front of the camera. larry: just direct it? get some other poor slave to get out there. larry: something in mind? yeah, i m going to do fahrenheit 451 . larry: that was a great movie. the german guy. oscar werner. truffaut was a great director, but that was not one of his great films. larry: but it was so interesting. it was a great failure. the premise is like fantastic, the whole kind of jackboot on flower sort of society, you know. larry: burning books. oh, yeah.
pastor cares about insulting people who belong to the religion of islam, but certainly when you have american lives at stake, it s something that surely he must consider. my big question today, what does anyone ever accomplish by burning books? i would like to hear your thoughts on this. you can reach me on twitter, on facebook, or my e-mail address is contessa@msnbc.com. the imam who is spearheading the islamic community center near ground zero is back in new york after a three-week state-sponsored tour of the midwest. his wife says he won t say anything until later this week. he arrived in new york sunday from a trip to promote religious tolerance in the gulf and that was sponsored by the u.s. state department. a major divide erupting between the optimists and the pessimists in the yoo its. a big split between those who think the country is heading in the right direction and those who think their kids will inherent a situation far worse than what it is now.