transformed her into marilyn monroe. it is a breathtaking performance. she plays marilyn, norma jean, and then she plays the girl she plays in the movie. it is heartbreaking and fun. this is an entertaining movie. the idea was to entertain the audience and do something they would walk out and feel great and exhilarating by. it is like killing exhilarate it again. that was the intention in making it. tavis: you delivered on this one. when you suggested earlier, and i've heard this before, that is that you make movies you think you would like to see. and hope that others will like to see it. i know you are a movie lover. what is it about your sensibility about the movie business that resonates was -- with the audience? if you start out because you are turned on, you are not that out of sync with the move -- moviegoing public. the stuff you bet on it tends to work. >> i think we have a desire to do something different. to do the kind of things that -- i like to have an out of the box experience. robert downey iron man, for example, here is a movie that blew

you said so many people have this vision of marilyn monroe and who she is. i would think one of the challenges for you and michelle williams is not making this a caricature and not making it i'm putting myself in marilyn's body but -- >> but i was drawn to michelle as an actress. she would never do a caricature and she is a skillful actress. she not only hits the implicated prize of marilyn but the fun and sexy and the comedy actually. >> simon curtis, thank you for coming in. good luck with the golden globe nominations that are coming up momentarily. >> thank you very much. >> terrell brown with one final check of the headlines on this thursday. >>> a record number of americans, nearly half of the adult population live in poverty or classified as low income. the thresh eled for about 97 million of americans fell into that category and 49 million fall below that line. all of that according to the census bureau. >>> disturbing new numbers this morning on violence against women in the u.s. the centers for disease control and prevention said nearly one in five

the marilyn monroe project. the story revolves around a guy that had a chance to spend a week with marilyn monroe. the guy doesn't even get on stage because he wanted to be in filmmaking so bad. he was ostracized by his family because all he wanted to do was be in hollywood. he makes his way into filmmaking, begging for a job, starts out working for free. just wants to be on the set. how important is that lesson today for people that want to be in this business or any other to realize that you have to find a creative and unique way to get in, and sometimes that means doing it for -- >> sometimes it means working as an intern for nothing or working -- a lot of people come to me and asked me, how do you get started? i like the idea of going to film school. there were very few when i started, and now there are many of them. you can get a good education in film school and you can get a job on independent films and it doesn't make any difference. you might start aircraft services handing out hot doughnuts or somethin

to see michelle as marilyn singing and dancing was really exciting. >> why did marilyn monroe want to work on this movie? >> she wants to come to england to work with the great olivier. she wanted to be taken seriously as an actress. i think she came to england hoping that working with olivier would give her great credibility. >> he came to regard her as a mess. >> they were talking difference languages. a lot of the film were about culture clash. they were in different places, i think. i don't think he supported marilyn quite as well as he might. >> do you think there is a change in interpretation of sort of the audience of who marilyn monroe was after watching this particular moment in her life? >> she wanted to be taken seriously. i think the audience will take her seriously. for so many people mare slin a famous name and face. there aren't necessarily young people familiar with her performances. i hope our film will encourage people to look at her brilliant work and encourage people to consider her more seriously. >> you're dealing with a number of different men and their relation

and he thought it was time to explore the legend of marilyn monroe. harvey, good morning. >> nice to be here. >> good year for you. >> so far, so good. >> so tell us, talk about "the artist." it's getting good attention at that. what possessed you to back a silent film? >> possessed is probably a good word. >> you like that? >> oh, yeah. that's the softball of today. you know, i love silent movies. i went to film school. chaplain, keaton are the obvious choices and there are many, many more after that. but i followed this director because he made a james bond spoof called "os 117." i tried to get my brother to hire him to do a scary movie but it didn't work out. i was a fan of him and knowing he was making a movie in los angeles and american movie direct by a french director. it's about the early days. but it's really, really funny. really, really smart. i like those kind of movies. >> i read like to watch people watch these movies. so have you been able to sit in a theater and get the audience's reaction "the artist"? i-not what i expected. >> you se

marilyn monroe died because she took too many drugs. and that's the sad truth. >> tera berelli's claims angered the secret life of marilyn monroe. >> reporter: where marilyn and jfk were concerned, we were able to interview people close to kennedy and pinpoint that they were only together a total of five times in maryland -- in marilyn's entire lifetime. marilyn and bobby were never intimate. >> and we will have much more on hollywood's most mysterious deaths coming up tonight. >> and you can see entertainment tonight at 7:30, here on wjz. >>> a mysterious chunk of metal tears through. investigators initially thought the five-pound chunk of metal had fallen from an airplane. detectives studying it say it came through the roof with significant force. the unusual damage is under investigation. >>> the sun warms up maryland after a frosty morning. bob has the updated first warning weather forecast next. , >>> taking a live look outside right now. the sun is gone, bob. beautiful day. >> 4:44, it sets, which means it's getting dark and getti

marilyn monroe and michael jackson. marilyn monroe movie is out and i interviewed michelle williams about the movie last week, and what do you believe is the biggest misconception about her? >> i was very, very drawn to her. to many, she was like a golden child. she radiated light, and vulnerability and i think that she was attracted to me as she used to gravitate a little bit to me at parties, because she knew that i was not very secure either, and she was fragile, and i was very touched by her. michael jackson, also, someone who was fragile. you know, the both of them had these, these beyond famous iconic images, and yet, in their innermost selves, they were very, very vulnerable, damaged people. it was the tension between those two things perhaps that made them so brilliant, each in their own way. i mean, michael, what a genius in terms of the music and the dancing and the moves and the impact he had on the musical culture and just amazing and yet, you know, i lived with him for a week. when i was making "on golden p

enough already about marilyn monroe. what we found was a young boy, 23 years old, first job on a movie is to work on a movie that lawrence olivier is directing, marilyn monroe in "the prince and the showgirl." she has an argument with arthur miller, her husband, he leaves, goes off to paris. the boy gets close and closer and a romance ensues. even though the movie takes place over a period of time. we focus on this one gorgeous week where she kidnaps him one day. they go skinny-dipping on the lawn. it sounds like what you do every week, right? they go skinny-dipping on the lawn of windsor castle. they go through the library. it's absolutely fun. it's the charming fun of marilyn's life. the movie plays more like a comedy than it does the serious trauma, tragedy marilyn. >> it's amazing some of the places where you could do things. >> i have been making movies in england for far too long. and never get any of that stuff. i always say, can we shoot here, when i did "the king's speech" can we shoot the palace? absolutely not

you know james dean and you know marilyn monroe, but you don't know who he is. terry souuhern in his day wrote some best sellers like the magic christian, candy, but he also wrote the screenplay for doctor strangelove. >> smith: right. >> borowitz: so he was one of america's greatest satirists of all time. has really been forgotten. it was so cool, i took a chapter from magic christian which happens to bb myú favorite ameriian comic novel,,and i put that in there, so maybe now like, i reaa that when i was 17 >> smith: yeah. >> borowitz: maybe somewhere in america there's a 17 year old who's now going to read that. >> smith: going to read that. >> borowitz: yeah. >> smith: invariably you had more than 50 people you considered or you know >> borowitz: i did. >> smith: more than 50 pieces. so who -- what was 50, what or who was 51, 52, 53, tell us who alloss made the cut that didn't. >> orowitz: well, i actually started with a list of 100 -- &->> borowitz -- nd i went to library of america and said you know i think the book will work best if it') shorter. so they

the new movie showcasing the late screen siren in the 1950s but more to marilyn monroe than we know. >> the movie shows a clash of acting approaches between monroe and the famous actor and director sir lawrence olivia. >> cut! you wait. marilyn, please, tell me how i can help you. >> i don't know who else -- i don't know who she is. >> you have had all of your gift, we all are. >> she's not real. >> then simply rely on your natural talents. >> a bit of sarcasm perhaps in there. we're joined now by kenneth branagh. >> a man with natural talents and also nominated for golden globe for best supporting actor. we loved the film and must have been so interesting to play someone who is a real person trying to interact with another real person in your industry making a real film. >> it was because i direct film that i've acted in and he's directing this film that he's acting in with marilyn monroe come to england to meet with a bunch of actors and michelle williams comes and works with a bunch of british actors. we filmed where the original movie was trying to make on the same sound stage. m

. >> coming up on coffee with and taking on the part of marilyn monroe in my week with marlin. that is williams there, not marilyn. we will have more on traffic and weather. >>> don't go away and don't forget that the holidays are here and we are continuing to ask for help to deck our halls. e-mail your pictures to us -- ,, . >>> the totals around the area, washington county, two inches of snow and moving up -- . >>> those are the temperatures, getting cooler as the rain cooled it down in western maryland and that is the reason for the snow out there with that fast-moving storm system. 35, 66, the winds from the west at nine. -- -- >>> those are the temperatures near the water. the winds coming from the north west and over at the river. gusting up to 20 miles per hour and the winds gusting over at marshall today at 52 miles per hour. a look at the storm system that blasted the neighbors to the northeast and we will see more clearing and the winds starting to move in and the high pressure will build into the area. the cheering wind will dry us out. with the cooler air, for the f

lohan wanted to mirror her idol marilyn monroe. she's looked up to her. it paid off for lohan. her troubled starlet, the recent "playboy" spread is selling very well according to the founder, hugh hefner. he quoted sunday, the lindsay lohan january-february double issue is breaking sales records. cnn called multiple newsstands in los angeles, atlanta, chicago and new york, yes, brooke, we had to check for ourselves, we found that just one sold out of the issues, but that store is expecting more kpcopies of the magazine to reach them today. a spokesman for "playboy" wouldn't provide any exact information regarding sales numbers but they did echo hef's tweet confirming that lohan issue is selling very well. lohan was reported by paid as you mentioned $1 million to pose for the photos, which feature the 25-year-old with blonde hair posing nude in a style so of of the photograph taken of her idol of marilyn monroe on the cover in 1953. monroe at that time was paid, just 50 bucks for that shoot, so, boy, have times changed. >> a million dollars. >> brooke, we should also mention --

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marilyn monroe and michael jackson. you knew them both. marilyn has a new movie out. what do you think the biggest misconception about marilyn was? >> i was very, very drawn to her. to me she was like a golden child. she radiated light and vulnerability. and i think that she was attracted to me as -- she used to gravitate a little bit to me at parties because she knew that i was not very secure either. and she was fragile. and i was very touched by her. child. >>> tonight -- >> we're having a party, and and i was very touched by her. michael jackson also, someone who was fragile, you know. both of them had these beyond famous iconic image, and yet in their inner most selves they were very, very vulnerable. they were damaged people. it was the tension between those two things, perhaps that made them so brilliant each in their own way. i mean, michael, what a genius in terms of dancing and music and moves and the impact he had on our musical culture and yet i lived with him for a week when i was making "on golden pond." he wanted to watch my father and katherine hepburn

she say she's wearing a sports mouth guard because her tattoo removal session to laser off marilyn monroe are incredibly painful. apparently she's clenching her jaw so hard she's endangering her teeth. >>> youtuu2 was the top grossinr taking in $156 million. country princess taylor swift tour was a distant second with $97 million. katy perry photographed in hawaii without russell brand and her wedding ring is fueling rumors of some trouble. "us weekly" quotes a source saying a mega fight, not just a fight, a mega fight, between the two led the two to spend holidays apart with brand heading to england. >>> e news reports bradley cooper is involved with zoey zaldona. >> who this is. >> i said the same thing. her spokesperson dismissed rumors last month but a source told the website the two are, quote, totally dating. apparently their source is 16 and a valley girl. totally dating. >> she's beautiful. i just don't know who she is. >> i'm not familiar either. i was under the impression he was dating jennifer lopez so this will have to be worked out in our entertainment segment. >>> news comes

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i'll speak to movie mogul harvey winestein about taking a chance on the fabulous marilyn monroe. >>> the secrets behind the windows. the business of those amazing holiday displays at macy's and saks fifth avenue and the people who design them. the "wall street journal report" begins right now. >> this is america's number one financial news program, the "wall street journal report." now, maria bartiromo. >> here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week on wall street. an important move to help stabilize europe's economy and the financial system this week. the european central bank made $639 billion available for european banks. 523 of them took advantage of the 1% interest rate and three-year term offered. the goal: to ensure liquidity and make sure banks have enough cash to keep operating. the banks could use the money to lend to businesses and consumers and collect a higher interest rate than they're paying or to protect themselves from a sovereign debt exposure issue. >>> a winning streak through thursday on higher than expected housing news. the dow rising 333 poi

. >> marilyn monroe. george reeves. phil hartman. bob crane. >> murders. suicide? or freak accidents? why these stars died too young. >> he went upstairs and then the bullet went off. >>> now, in depth on the biggest entertainment stories from around the world. >>> hello, and welcome to "entertainment tonight." i'm mark steines. nancy o'dell is on assignment. >>> "e.t." has been in front of the reopening of the natalie wood death case since the very beginning. well, now, we have uncovered a new witness who was there the night the legendary actress died. here's tonight's natalie wood investigation. >> i did hear the screams and i heard more than that. but i did hear the screams. >> anthony sakal was 9 years old in 1981. on november 28th, he was asleep below deck of the "capricorn," a short distance away from the yacht "splendour." he woke up to screams. >> i heard people screaming on one boat or yelling, hey, we'll save you, don't worry, we're coming for you. i also heard the screams of natalie wood.

. >>> and director simon curtis discusses how michelle williams channel marilyn monroe and his new film, "my week with marilyn." all that and a little more this morning on "the early show." >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. appreciate you watching. i'm terrell brown. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm terrell brown. have a great day. ,,,,,,

monroe are incredibly painful. apparently, she's clinching her jaw so hard, she's endangering her teeth. >> i thought it was women's rugby. >> no, i don't think so. katy perry photographed in hawaii without bo russell brand and her wedding ring is fueling rumors of some trouble. "us weekly" reports a source saying a mega fight between the two led them to spend their holidays apart with brand heading to england. >>> and "e" news reports bradley cooper is involved with actress zoey zeldana. her spokesperson dismissed the rumors, but a source says the two are dating. don't sources have to be over 18, like, totally? >> not anymore. >> i'm lynn berry. this is "first look" on msnbc. stay tuned. "way too early" is next. >>> mitt romney's been awfully careful these months not to raise expectations in iowa, but consider them raised as he sits in good position, five days away now from the vote, followed closer, though, by rick santorum, who shoots up in a new poll. the question is, where does all this leave that guy, newt gi