died, we tend to look at her entire life as a tragedy. and in particular, the last few years as being the inevitable fall of this great star. that simply wasn t true. can we start again? yes. she had an agency. she was hungry for more creative challenges. gee. she had a lot of strength along with her vulnerability. disciplined. she stood up to the old hollywood guard and said i m mad as hell and i m not going to take it anymore. we are not machines, we are not. up until the day she died, she was a fighter. of course her early death is a tragedy but that doesn t over write everything she achieved up until that point. she became the biggest movie star in the world and remains one of the most famous and recognizable women in history. excited fans gather on a san diego beach to watch marilyn monroe shoot her first film in two years. billy wilder directs her in some like it hot which arguably her greatest role. it s incredible what she does in tha
[ sound of gunfire ] as far back as i can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster. goodfellas is like, fasten your seatbelts, i m going to kick the shit out of you for two and a half hours and you re going to love it. there have been so many gangster movies, so many mob movies. is it really possible that in 1990 martin scorsese will be able to make a gangster movie that has something to say that hasn t already been said a million times? it s going to be a good summer. and you watch the movie and you re like, yeah. see you later, thanks. what are you doing? you re leaving your car? he watches the car for me. we tried to capture the exuberance of that world. it s dangerous and threatening, but they re having a wonderful time. over there. oh, thanks a lot. goodfellas was the nuts and bolts of the mob. it was the mob as a job. what do you do? what? what do you do? i m in construction. and the balance of these two families, of your mob
bombshell. get out the fire hose. hollywood super star. mr. president, the late marilyn monroe. tragic victim. the story of marilyn monroe is an authentic tragedy. when we talk about marilyn monroe, it s always about poor marilyn, poor marilyn this passive woman being destroyed by hollywood. that s the way the story frames her. after a reckoning in hollywood, it s time to reframe her story. now we can hit pause and roll it back a bit and ask ourselves okay, what is it we think we know? she was quite ahead of her time and very much an architect of her own fame. you must think i was born yesterday. her performances are layered, funny, tender, human. they feel modern. she had a deep inner life. she was an artist. she was a poet. a businesswoman. what a power broker she was renegotiating her contract, creating her own production company, getting films made. it s rather frustrating that people can t think about her in terms of her intellect. i can be
transaction. magnificent. the female power that she s harnessed is phenomenal. she s arching her back and her arm is up to create beautiful lines, beautiful angles. they look like 19th century nudes. she wasn t afraid of showing off her body, which was a great body. but it s easy to forget what a conservative country america was. nude modeling was not considered respectable. it could have ended her career. i said, are you sure they won t recognize me? he said, i promise. this is hollywood. it is a symbol for magic and entertainment and make believe. after love happy, marilyn thought she was on the brink of stardom. she s done it. she s there. but it doesn t happen. it s like marilyn is just another blonde girl. but one thing that all the great movie stars shared was determination. so of course she went back and tried again. a savvy 23-year-old marilyn is preparing for a photo shoot. marilyn was out of contract, and so she decided that she needed strategy
congregation beth israel. one hostage was released. he was physically not injured. they are bringing the standoff to a peaceful end. we are working to confirm the stunning account from a kin going congre gant who says she was watching a live stream of today s sab bothd service when the suspect entered. with me now is ed lavandara, who has been on the ground covering this really since this happened. you have been there and you were there the moment that one of the hostages, a miami, was released. that is at least one piece of good news out of this tragic situation. what more can you tell us? well, it s been three hours since that hostage was able to get out of the synagogue, which sits just about a little more than a quarter of a mile down the road from where we are. and so, we presume hostage negotiators continue doing their work this evening, as you said. we are going into about ten hours that this hostage situation has been unfolding here in the town of colleyville, texas