As we talk. In the 60s, mack was a big artist, a pop icon with a psych dellic eye. He helped to define a generation. Theres so many things people think of when they think of the name peter mack. The first thing that comes to mind is the psychedellic era. You sort of represent that in your art. That was a period in the 60s, in the mid to late 60s, thats when all the psychedellia happened. Love, peace, and the pain strokes of peter macks. This is his poster from 1967, the summer of love. It catapulted him to fame, making him a lasting symbol of the era. This was a sketch i made. After a year or so of doing things, being with the swami, and the idea of love was a big idea. We have to love everybody, animals, the planet, the people you dont even like. And one day i decided to do love and draw my love lady. It was a famous poster. Tens of thousands. It became a famous image. Back then. This poster sold for 1 a piece, for two. Today they are about 2,000, 3,000. Everybody owned a poster, and i became so powerfully famous that anywhere anyone would point to me, id walk in the streets. Peter macks. I didnt know how to say yes all the time. Graphic artist peter macks has been colouring our world for decades. The cosmic designs capturing the posters, sneakers, pianos. We walk by a piano that you gave to ringo. He came to me. He of course add me to paint. The day i finished pointing, by coincidence, total coincidence he comes up to thank me for it. He says peter, can i have a brush. He wrote down to peter, love ringo star, dot, dopt, dot, dot. I have one, and ringo has one. You have done boeing 777. I did a boeing 777, yes. An o liner. An ocean liner, the biggest ship in the world. I couldnt believe i painted it, it was this big, a little bigger. I painted it. Youve been the official artist for the olympics. Five times at least. You painted for six president s you have pointed for the world series, for the world cup, the super bowl, the u. S. Open, n. A. S. C. A. R. , the kentucky derby. That is to start. Every time i did one of those i thought to myself maybe i should paint regular paintings. Heing abouted me and begged me. Here in the new york studio the 76yearold doesnt stop working. With his art and the growing brand attached. You have people working for you. You are churning out art constantly. I paint every day. People assist me mixing my paints, they get the cap vases stretched. They photograph them. I was set up for the printers, where we make posters of things. Im in the arts, i love it. How do you see your place history . I dont look at it from that point of view very much. Its hard. Hard to think about things that sort of like please the ego. I know that i became popular, i always want to bring beautiful things to the planet, and we hope it continues. We hope it continues for a long time. Its been a pleasure to meet and spend time with you. Thank you very much. Nice to have you in my studio. From an artist to an art collector. Frederico is famous for playing the role of furio on the sopranos. He made a big discovery, a 17th century painting stuck in an auction house. I asked what it was like to see that painting for the first time. I couldnt believe i was standing in front of a masterpiece. You knew it. It was like a lightening box it was that immediate. I saw there there were self paintings stacked up on a landing before i went to the second floor to see what else was in the auction house, and that i pulled the two paintings in front of this painting. I looked at it. I was oh, my god. That was my first thoughts and words. And now i had to try to acquire it. They didnt realise what they had. No, i spoke to yvonne, my better half and i said quiet, dont say anything. The gentleman was at the bottom of the stairs. I asked him to come up and i said what can you tell me about the painting . , he said its an 18th century holy painting, st. Sebastien and probably has been cut down. You see its i said you are probably right. And i said you like to sell it. He said yes. You cut a deal for 60,000. It came close to 70,000. You spent money researching it, taking kaur of it . I did, i brought in a partner. I was afraid if someone else knew who this pointing was done by, he was called the squinter, if someone else knew, i would probably not be able to acquire it. Did you have any idea how much it may be worth . You know what, i knew what they were going for. Which was. I never bought one. They go for i mean, i have seen a large kind of array of prices starting over a million to 14 million. So you know. Drum roll. Its now worth. Its now worth yen, people say its worth in the millions. 7 million. Maybe. 7 million. You brought it for 60,000, 70,000. You and our partner could make a sum on this. How did you authenticate it. First of all i acquired the painting. After i won it in the auction, you know what, getting it over to the states was a little tricky because you cant insure it for what its worth, because its not authenticated. I was on pins and needles, hoping that it would come to the states in one piece. And it did. It was in the original frame and everything. And so i contacted robert symoned and he said what you need to do is contact the experts. I mean, you must have worried that it might be a fake, with all the talks about fakes lately. No. Ive been collecting too long to, you know believe me, there are really great fakers from the 19th century that with our Technology Today now you can identify a fake. Prior to that, you know, you had to rely on it. People looked at paintings, compared to others, and they realised that this is by this painter. But this, to me, was is the technique, the hand. I knew his work well. I studied, i did a paper on his work hep i was in school. Every museum in the world any place i am in the world ill go and find one just to look at. So having a photographic memory and being a painter, knowing brush strokes, i was able to see in this was an original thing. Nice to meet you. Good luck to you on your many careers. Its nice that you shared this painting with all of us, i appreciate it. Good to see you. Still ahead from Warrior Princess to Climate Change advocate. My conversation with lucy lawless about her life after tv. And my interview with jon stewart, a new movie and how freedom of the press became his passion project. I wanted something that melded into the city so seamlessly that people could almost take it or leave it. But hopefully take it and run with it. Cl sunday night. 140 World Leaders will take the podium. Get the full story. There is real disunity in the security council. About issues that impact your world. Infectious diseases are a major threat to health. The week ahead. Sunday 8 30 eastern. Only on al Jazeera America. S milk changed my life, hearing the story of the harvey milk when i was a young closeted kid in the bay area, hearing about someone that was openly gay was a shock to me. I had grown up in texas, i didnt know there was such a thing. That was part of conversation with dustin lance black. Comedian jon stewart, his new film no laughing matter, rosewater is about a journalist wrongfully held in a prison. I talked about freedom of the press, and why they felt the story needed to be told. I was struck by the end of the film that you wanted to make a statement about journalist around the world. Can you talk about what that is . I think it was more if i was to say its a statement of the unsustainability of that, the apparatuses that these recall eem and all regime and all united states,ing moving towards this strange deep state of security apparatus. That these that exist to keep information that they dont want getting out, is more damaging to the state than any piece of information that could arise. Its about the sustainability of it, and think of how hard how much money, how much time, effort, Human Capital is exposed in trying to keep someone from filming something. He didnt do anything. He filmed something. I mean, give us your reaction to what is going on with journalists around the world, especially our friends from al jazeera. Also, we have a friend who does a satirical show similar to mine in egypt who was arrested, who was harassed, has been driven off the air and can no longer do the show. This is the government that came in and said we are going to listen to the will of the people, but will not allow the people to speak up. They arrested three of your colleagues. The trial is to talk about absurdity. The evidence is footage of arabian horses and bits and pieces of found footage. It has no bearing on anything. Theres no lent ability for what is going to happen to them. They have families. This is an ally of the united states. We give them 1. 5 billion a year. There has to be a method that we can get these Political Prisoners held in the country. Get them visibility and hopefully pressure on the regimes to get them released. Theres no purpose. What did you think of the film when you first saw it . I was involved in writing the script. It was on the set. I saw the rough cut. I think going back to your question, the film is about democratisation. And i think that is what is scaring the authoritarian regimes, whether they are western allies, or antiwestern governments. These regimes are 20th century that can arrest people. Shut down newspapers, send interference, but when it comes to digital technology, social media and the internet. They resort to the same sold 20th century methods, like in egypt. Like not working the dvd player or show you the evidence. As a result, they look ridiculous, and that is where the humour comes from. I watched on the show you talk about what happened to you. The pressure i get, you seem joyful, point of view, energized. There doesnt seem to be a lot of sin dickiveness in you. No, theres no point in vindictiveness and anger. I was angry. When i put is distance between yourself. You have to supplement the experience into something more positive. You did it with the book. With the book, with the campaign and the film and any other media. We talk about the plight of friends and colleagues, he did it with his integrators. One of the things that is appealing is these are not necessarily smathic, they are human. He never portrays them as monsters. But they were. But they were not monsters. They were doing awful acts. Torturing people, insulting me. Humiliating me, putting me in front of camera for forced confession. Those are bad things, bad acts done by a human being. Is rosewater alive, is he around . I am sure he is, and i am sure hes going watch the interview, the film. He must have red the book. Its a powerful book lucy lawless is famous for her tv role as zeina, war Warrior Princess, shes an environmentalist, one arrested on board an oildrilling tanker. She talks about her mission. Im lucy lawness, and im best known for playing zeina, Warrior Princess. Since then i have gone on to do battle star galactica, and sparta ask yous, and environmental activism. The arctic is heating up. I became alarmed about the specter of Climate Change when i understood what that meant. In 2012 i joined with a Greenpeace Team to scale an oil rig that was heading to the arctic where shale would drill, and we occupied it for four days, slowing it and bringing tanks to the fact that they were doing this. This was seven of us. Seven of us went up the rig. 133,000 came down with us. The reason Oil Companies are rubbing their hand is because its melting. It seems more accessible to them. They are like kerr change, lets carve up the arctic. The problem is that we are digging up more of the stuff which caused the melting of the arctic in the first place. Do you know what the world is going to look like if the arctic is content to allow it to melt, and antarctica. Well be standing on the highest peaks huddled together. Theres no question of if therell be an oil spill, its a question of when. I think Climate Change is almost boring to people. With respect to things like ebola and i. S. I. L. , they are very they are hot topics. But Climate Change is going to affect everything. You need to take back your government wherever you are, and make sure they are working for you. Im amazed how few celebrities get involvement in causes, perhaps they dont want to stick their neck out. They do you get this luck back for anybody who stands up and says what they believe in. Not everybody is going to agree with an is said. Coming up next. One of the funniest women in show business. I ask sandra bern hart how comedy has changed. Theres nothing like it, live performance. You never forget. You forget a movie that you saw. You cant name the movie, but you remember what play you saw. Al Jazeera America presents somebodys telling lies. It looks nothing like him. Pan am flight 103 explodes december 21st, 1988 was the right man convicted . So many people, at such a high level, had the stake in almegrahis guilt the most definitive look at this shocking crime the major difficulty for the prosecution that there was no evidence al Jazeera America presents lockerbie part two case closed these people have decided that today they will be arrested i know that im being surveilled people are not getting the care that they need this is a crime against humanity hands up dont shoot hands up dont shoot what do we want . Justice when do we want it . Now they are running towards base. Explosions going off were not quite sure. Fault lines al Jazeera Americas emmy winning, investigative, documentary, series. My dad was working in brooklyn at a time when we were shooting. It was a closed set. He said im the stars father. Now, of course, i only had three lines in the movie. But the security person said rite this way, mr travolta. Thats part of our interview with comedian. Sandra burke heard, she has done it all, playing one of the first gay cashingers. I sat down with her, and asked her how she has seen the comedy industry change. In every way possible. When i started it was a small handful of people. Its back in the mid 70s, i moved to l. A. To pursue my dream of being an entertainer. There was a handful of women doing comedy, joan rivers and people that had been around for a while. Phyllis diller. And the vibe was selfdeprecating. Making fun of their bodies, you know, their daying and i came along and turned it on its ear. Post modern, post feminist, uber confident, you know, feeling like sort of mary tyler moore. That was my big role model. Who was your biggest influence . In terms of being. Mary tyler moore does not. I dont think of her with you. She is. Mary was she left, you know, the big city, moved to miles per hour, and was in minneapolis, was independent and i patterned my life after her. Did you have anned in when you started that youd do all this stuff. I really ultimately wanted to be a singer, a broad way musical performer. I went from arizona to where i grew up to l. A. When i was 18, turning 19, and i fell into the comedy scene, and people say you can sing too, get up at comedy clubs. In your early days when you came on tv as a viewer, i never knew what you would say. That was the cool thing about it. They talked about you as in your face comedy. Right. How do you categorise yourself now . That was my jumping off place. Of course, i developed a lot as an artist, as a performer. I finetuned my term. I think that i work a lot of Different Levels emotionally. So i can be way up there, intro expectative. You talk about breaking barriers in comedy with some of the material you did, but you broke barriers with rosen. Right. Talk about that. It was funny. I met rowane and tom at a party. It was at my ates, shed are ates. She had have parties and interview people. I didnt know rosene, two weeks later she and tom called asking if id play toms wife, fiancee. I said yes, great, fun. The whole thing was arnie, toms character was so obnoxious that he drove me into the arms of morgan fairchild. That was a joke. It turned into something bigger, because no one played a bisexual gay character. Her name is marler. Im seeing a woman. We kept it fun, upbeat, sophisticated. We werent, like, trying to do anything, but it happened naturally. What do you remember about the rehabilitation. Well, i think the audience, you know, was they were all like oh, uh. But fun, it was a surprise and opened people up to a new way of looking. It was before ellen came out. Yes. Like i said, it wasnt like nobody was trying to be, like, a hero. It was all within the realm of great collaboration, which rosen n is great at. When i think about your ark ter on rowane, it was rosanne it was groundbreaking. There has been a lot of issues on gay marriage. Unfolding. We knew it would, you cant stop. How did you know it would. Its a snowball effect. Anyone under 30, if you bring up the gay issue everyone goes what issue, everyone is busy living, what ever, who cares. Its a nonstarter no one gives a hoot. Can i ask you about politics a little bit. Of course. What was your reaction to the results in the Election Year . I think that people are burnt out. They have been burnt out since the bush administration, and, you know, and nixon and everything before. Politics lost its glamour and its veneer and excitement. I think people are tired. I think people get very lazy in the country. They complane, they bitch moan, when theres an opportunity to make a difference, they dont. Do you feel the need to get involved in political stuff. Not as much as i did when the election was happening for president obama. Maybe maybe i went a little deeper into what i normally did. Here is some freaked out intimidated frightened. Occasionally in my shows, when its my audience ill touch on something. People like you here at al jazeera theres jon stewart, steven colbert, rachel madaw. People that spend their lives picking about politics and that is not my first love. You joined the cast of brooklyn 99, can you talk about your character. Its starting, i play chelseas mother, the other policeman shes have been an affair with and his father and i start hooking up. The two of them are horrified at the two of us getting together. Again, you know, its sort of you know, shes a little cookie, out there, which is fun for me. I like playing characters that are not always who i am, sophisticated, tongue in cheek, but a little more grounded and reality, like a reality of the world we are living in, you know, and play a little more of a loose canon. Thank you for entertaining all of us for a long time. We hope you do it for many, many years. I foresee doing it for as long as i can get up and kick it out. Great to meet you, thank you. Appreciate it. As you can see its been a year in the world of hart. Im John Seigenthaler world of