Eddie was a very nice and very funny guy. He lost a long and difficult battle with cancer. He will be missed by many, and i know we all send our best to his family and friends. What a rotten year this has been. Every day its just another punch in the gut. But this morning our president woke up and tweeted feeling great so thats good news. He is all hopped up on dexamethasone right now. And to prove it he put out another im physically marvelous video today. I just left walter reed medical center, and its really something very special. The doctors, the nurses, the first responders. And i learned so much about coronavirus. And one thing thats for certain, dont let it dominate you. Jimmy right. Just run out there and breathe it all in. Be a man, will you . Typhoid donny made a trumpumphant return to the white house last night with a dramatic balcony scene that only an egomaniac on massive amounts of drugs would ever even think to stage. Which is why people, you know, take great pains to pr
Your friends so they can join, too. Tonights meet the author Event Features a great friend of the museum, someone whos become very involved with us in the last year or so, james holland, who, last week, published the second book in his trilogy on world war ii in the west, the allies strike back. Before i get to the introductions, i do want to follow a tradition we have here at the museum. I dont know if we have any world war ii veterans with us tonight that i can recognize. If not, id like to recognize veterans from all eras of service. [applause] thank you for your service and sacrifices. This evening, well have on stage together two of the biggest names and most prolific writers in the world war ii field. I was just thinking to myself this afternoon, if this was like boxing or something, this would be like a payperview match or something that we would have on this stage tonight. So we have our own senior historian, rob citino, who published his 10th book this month and hell be interv
You were named back in 2015 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by time magazine. Then the likes of steven spielberg, denis villeneuve, Martin Scorsese all praising your film making. Without embarrassing you, how do you do it . Gosh, thats a. Thats a long list of accolades some deserved, some probably not. Um. How do i do it . I just love making films. I started making films when i was a kid. I borrowed my dads super 8 camera, started making super 8 films when i was seven or eight years old and ive never stopped. Itsjust something i love doing and i feel very fortunate and privileged to be able to work with a team of really, really talented people on each film. In the case of oppenheimer, this Incredible Cast that, you know, youve already mentioned, cillian and emily, but also, you know, Robert Downeer and matt damon and ken branagh you know, a very, very long list. Florence pugh and many others. Um. For me, how i do it is to bring together talented people like that
Charlie leslie odom junior is here. What brought you to hamilton . I was invited into hamilton. Sometimes you find the best jobs in this business, you did not audition for, you have no idea how you got there. I asked tommy last week. I have this superstition if i get a straight offer, i do not want to ask how it came about. I am afraid they might realize, why did we asked this guy . I got invited two years ago to do a reading of the show. I had seen it at faster. About half anm do hour of the show. I had seen them do it at vassar. I had seen maybe 45 minutes and was blown away. When i was invited to do the reading, i prepared like id never had before. I came in and new all my music. And knew all my music. I knew what they were working on. It had powerful potential. I knew how it affected me. Lynn is only one year older than i am, this is our music. I recognize the rhythms and the syncopation, and the pulse of the piece. Charlie people wondered when hiphop would come to broadway, becaus
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Charlie Eugene Oneill is one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century. He wanted the nobel prize for literature. Onewon the nobel prize for literature. He has been called the father of american theater, paving the way for arthur miller, Tennessee Williams come and tony kushner. His life was hard. His mother was a morphine addict and out the hall at. Oneill channeled life into his work. The iceman cometh is one of his most powerful plays. He describes as a big comedy that doesnt stay funny very long. It focuses on the regulars of a new york city saloon who have numbed themselves with alcohol and delay acting on their dreams. The play was revived at chicago. That production is currently at the Brooklyn Academy of music. A reporter from the New York Times says it is enacted by a cast that is not likely to be better this season. Joining me now are two Tony Awardwinning actors. Nathan lane and brian dennehy. Im pleased to have