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Chaos. >> everybodys street premiers today on the west coast. joining us from the west coast in los angeles is the director of that film rodas my good friend cheryl dunn. its great to see you. i wish you were in new york with me. >> me rodas too. hi me, too. >> i want to ask you a question i dont know the answer to and i should. what drew you to the medium of photography, street photography. why some go to the street, other studios, some want to think its a movie, other photographers walk into t...

Financial institutions. in a lot of casings in the clinton years, democrats were saying he says his could be coming to an end. >> that sort of anger plays very welon social media and that particular group of voters is very active with social media. i think progressives have done a good job on capital collateralizeing on that medium. they are adept at using those medium to spread their message and keep the heros like elizabeth warren and keep their elected officials pure in the same way you see c...

>> seven, eight cities. >> at one time? >> on a run, yeah. i took the load to memphis. >> okay. >> 500 pounds. >> of weed. >> sure. thats all it was. and i did that with a u-haul. >> was it u-haul or penske or -- >> u-haul because you dont have to stop at scale houses. >> yeah, it gets you out of the weigh houses. it absolutely does. >> exactly. >> it looks like youre moving. >> it just looks like youre moving. >> yeah. >> they would call me and say go get a medium. that means a medium-sized u-h...

Knew what i was going to get. >> yet despite jasons unique challenges, a very realistic depiction of ronald mcdonald begins to emerge. >> its interesting to see the building of it because it really can help kind of go, oh, wow, thats how you do that? >> the french fry brush dances across the paper, and suddenly the image of morgan spurlock comes to life with true artist precision. jason finishes the painting in one take in less than an hour. >> hes obviously a true artist, but rather than just d...

Reinvigorate the medium to capture newness and uniqueness and to figure out in a post-film platform-agnostic, digital-everything era, what the art of cinema might be. wonderfully written. tony scott joins me now. lay it out for us right now, tony. your favorite film of the holiday season. >> the one i really like, which is not the most cheerful one, is this movie "nebraska" directed by alexander payne. its a good holiday movie because its about a family coming together in this little town in neb...

Mentioned are the ones i like so much are -- they have a very individual stamp of a director thinking about how to tell the story. just even the fact that nebraska is in black and white, you know, that its using a lot of nonprofessional arctors who liv in this town in nebraska, suggests that alexander payne has freedom working in this medium to tell this in an idio sencratic and individual way, the way the cohen brothers do or spike jonze. >> a lot of people argue the thing films can do is big. ...

Someone would choose to tell the story this way. brian as someone who narrated knew they had to have a certain look. >> he came up with the suits, haircuts, imaged the band, found a way to present them so the world could embrace them. he knew their message would be universal if it was presented in such a way everybody could hear it. thats what he did for the band. >> in terms of the graphic medium, the way to tell not only the facts but poetry behind it. apart from being a great beatles story it...

Ways to add depth to his painting. >> i was using a drawing tablet, so that made it a lot easier, but i used a variety of the tools, and a lot of it is kind of an optical illusion. >> within about an hour and a half, jason finishes his painting, and since posting, jasons rendition of the mona lisa has gone viral with more than 11 million hits. jason says he hopes to continue to use the internet as a medium to showcase his work. >> the internet expands peoples horizons, and it opens up the world ...

Nixons office and even told newspaper columnist charles bartlett, a close friend, that he would vote for nixon for president if he, jack, didnt get the nomination. but jack kennedy was not one to let political fellowship affect his game. >> good evening. the television -- >> kennedys team knew that the new medium of television was the way to persuade voters. his suntanned radiant image was worth a thousand words and hundreds of thousands of votes. to exploit his edge on the tube, they brought in...

>> 50 years ago tomorrow, that was the report that millions of americans saw on their television screens, announcing the assassination of president john f. kennedy. it was a scarring moment for the nation and kicked off one of the most tumultuous periods in american history. >> im absolutely shocked, stunned. we have the same birthday. im just crazy about him. >> i dont know. i was -- i was in my place, you know, i work as a mail clerk in one of these music places, and someone asked me for a rad...