From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. This is not a roast. This is my greatest, most elaborate art installation ever. [applause] i am not the real guest of honor. These are not real comedians. We are not even on a real network. [laughter] you see my brilliant opus. A scattering of miscreated, talented abnormalities. It is called genius unscathed. James franco is here. He is an artist, director, and actor. He is also an author. His new book is a novel called actors anonymous. Here is the trailer for the book. I am the actor. I am the actor. I am the actor. Everyone is in me and i am in everyone. I am part of your consciousness. You dont think so . Im here to entertain you. I used to care a lot about acting. Now i see that you are only as good as your material. If your material is good, you are only as good as your director. So much dependent on others. I am jack nicholson, marlon brando, james stewart, steve mcqueen. I am nicolas cage, robert pattinson, james dean. I
All the different animals, different branching points, different transitional nodes in the tree of life. And so i argue that if this method of investigation is giving us a true historical signal, we should get an unambiguous signal, one that is giving us a single tree that is telling us the story of one historical unfolding of life. After all, history only happened once. That we get so many conflicting trees, i think, raises question about whether the method is sending a historical signal at all. The other problem with this method of investigation is that it begs the question, it says that the degree of difference between two proteins or genes in different animals is an indication of how long ago theydiverged from a common ancestor. But that they diverged from a common ancestor is presupposed from the outset of the investigation. And its presupposed in all the algorithms that analyze and compare the gene sequences. So you cant use a method of investigation that presupposes a common anc
That ahmadinejad. Rose nobody asked you to kill assad . No, no. You couldnt stay they did. Rose laughs maybe you already did. You poisoned him. Rose no. Franco for the hour next. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose this is not a roast. This is my greatest most elaborate art installation ever. cheers and applause im not the real guest of honor and these arent real comedians and were not even on a real network. laughter what youve seen tonight was my brilliant opus to sequester and artistic visionary and subjected to the mindless incoherent trashing of a scattering of talentless abnormalities. I call it genius unscathed and this is my masterpiece cheers and applause rose james frong cois here. He is an actor, director and art itself. Hes also an author. The Los Angeles Angels of anaheim described him as the prince of perpetual motion. His new book is a novel called actors anonymous and here is the trailer for the book.
With me and not at me. Dope the sitcom of the 80s. I love you guys were such a set of warm humor. They listen to the rap music which gives them a brain damage. I think there is a real yearning for another type of humor. We were able to spoof fatherhood which at the time and i stress at the time was bill cosby as the shiny example. Stuff that got away with because it is a cartoon. We are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American Families to make American Families like the waltons and less like the simont simpson. The sitting president is raging against sitcoms. They dealt with politics and Popular Culture and all kinds of issues of racism and sexism. Dont ask me, i am just a girl. Right on, say it sister. It is not funny, bart. Millions of girls thinking this is the right way to act. They have found a way to talk about everything thats going on through our lives through the filter of the simpsons. They did not bother to learn the language. Yes, thats mine. What happens with the
Up next on booktv, after words. Former Senior Researcher of colombia diversities malcolm x. Project. Nicholas johnson and his book will be featured. In at the Law School Professor discusses the tradition of africanamericans using firearms to defend their communities. It dates back to reconstruction. The nonviolence help to bury this fact of black history, he argues. This program is about one hour. Host negroes and the gun the black tradition of arms strikes me as an important intervention in three ways. One that is story of the black freedom movement. And the increasingly new work that revises the way that we understand the role of violence related to the kind of predominant narrative of nonviolence. The other intervention is cultural in terms of who we see or who we think of when we think of gun owners and also how we think about black resistance. Finally there is a Public Policy implication as well for the presentation of the black traditions of arms. So i look forward to really gett