(vo)jackson died in hollywood, but he was created and destroyed by hollywood too. it began in 1969, when the jackson family moved from the mid west. (vo)michael jackson enrolled at california prep, an exclusive private school of just ninety pupils, for kids of the hollywood elite - the brando's, the sonny and cher's, and now the jackson's. sitting next to michael at school was child star danny bonaduce from the sitcom the partridge family. he's agreed to talk to me about the hollywood that created jackson, and produced as many casualties as stars. >>what the (blanked) is it doing? (inaudible) stop! stop! >>this is my actual yearbook picture, also in the b's is christian brando, who is no longer with us. michael jackson. >>but you, you had a class of three and that was you guys? >>yeah, that was the entire twelfth grade at cal prep, was me, christian brando and michael jackson. i went to school with, with all the jacksons, cos it went from seventh to twelfth grade, and they were a wonderful family some of them had their quirks, but some of them did not at all. micha

what they really did recruitment this isn't about hollywood this is the pentagon this is a hollywood film is the pentagon propaganda well that's what i want to ask you i mean what do you think about this i think a lot of people would be surprised to find out about this sort of i'll scratch your back you scratch mine mentality going on here i mean we've got the pentagon which by the way is funded by our tax dollars allowing movie studios to use military hardware and bases at a discounted rate and in return these filmmakers submit their scripts for input and changes are made i mean there's a strong belief by critics that some edits are actually taken out if there's anything critical of military policy what do you think about that i mean how often does this occur so i think seeing this as a hollywood operation with a little bit of pentagon supporters i'm scratching the back i think we have to look at it is a psychological operation against the american public. that means this is not hollywood it's total propaganda by and for the pentagon using hollywood as the face and then they say wel

that means this is not hollywood it's total propaganda by and for the pentagon using hollywood as the face and then they say well ok well the pentagon does look a little bit hollywood and we but this is the pentagon these are real live navy seals what's outrageous is you go to the web site for this film and there's a section where you can donate to support the navy seal foundation to support naval warfare i mean why are they asking the american public or whoever watch this film to give a twenty or fifty or five thousand dollar donation to support naval warfare i mean we're talking about billions and billions of dollars of taxpayers' money being used for this production including this kind of thing where they send the navy seals off to commit atrocities but i'm there's nothing honorable on either end case and i'm sure people who are watching this are at least thinking you know this is a movie this is hollywood as one of the person in the story where the people interviewed in the story said you know the reality is you know you're you're walking in circles you're doing foot patrols you'r

and in honor of the occasion, we're going hollywood. we'll be looking at oscar winners of the past and nominees of the present. while also pondering an unsettling question about the future. could the movie theater, as we've known it, possibly be facing the end? tracy smith will consider the prospect in our sunday morning cover story. >> reporter: tonight, a celebration of hollywood's finest. but not everyone is celebrating. >> the trend over the past several years has been a decline in movie attendance. everybody expects the credit when it's going well and points the finger. >> welcome to the hollywood. >> reporter: why more and more movies are anything but just the ticket. coming up on sunday morning. >> osgood: the motion picture academy hands out awards in 24 categories tonight. something for everyone. except for the extras who come from central casting. yes, there really is such a place. this morning lee cowan will go there. >> reporter: of all the story book places in hollywood, few are quite as storied and yet quite as generic as

hello from hollywood. i'm a.j. hammer, welcome to the special edition of "showbiz tonight: showbiz road to gold." we're live where the 84th annual academy awards will begin in a couple of hours. it is a spectacular day in southern california and there will be incredible oscar showdowns, george clooney up for best actor against pal brad pitt, meryl streep up for best actress against the incredibly talented viola davis tonight and that is just the beginning. the battles are set and we will be one on one with all of hollywood's biggest stars right there on the red carpet where michelle turner is live on the red carpet as all of the stars arrive and kareen wynter, the must see showdowns and joined by our fashion commentator lisa vanderpump, one of the stars of "the real housewives of beverly hills." terrific to see you. you look amazing by the way. >> thank you. >> you have of course your trusty canine companion dressed to the nines tonight. going to take a little nap. lisa, we see on "the real housewives of beverly hi

two of hollywood's best picture nominees celebrate old hollywood. it seems a lot of the dresses were celebrating that era just as much. how excited are you? >> on a scale of 10, 12. >> i'm all hollywood glamour. ♪ >> oscar night. >> is it? >> it is. ♪ >> i'm wearing marchesa. that's a lie. >> armani. >> who are you wearing tonight? >> i don't know. >> it would seem hollywood royalty was fashionably late but for brad and angelina they are always looking great. >> are you having fun? >> it's great fun. i don't know if i will get this experience again. >> who got it right and who didn't? here with their own take, lisa rinna whose clothing lineback i sold on kwvs and jonathan antin. you have been up all night so let's get to it. you said penelope cruz slayed you. >> i hadn't seen her walk the red carpet. i saw her walk out and she did hollywood glam gorgeous. she never gets it wrong. >> she looked outrageous. the pin-under hair style with the finger waves was very classic retro chic. >> stunning. >> how about meryl streep? >> i thought meryl streep

hollywood sign and make the rounds . it is a saturday night and it is very busy . the eve of the grammies and a lot of folks from all over the country, in fact are out here and some of the people like my photographer can pan over there and they are getting ready to run across the street. there is a heavy police presence here, a heavy security presence and they are not allowing members of the public or press up very close to where all of the activities is going on. it is a true circus outside of this hotel, very busy hotel. golden globes were held here not long ago . and a lot of celebrities stay at this hotel when they come to la and hollywood. i want to talk you through the time line. i know we are repeating ourselves for the viewers that are watching us continuously . we are having new viewers joining us all of the time and reports out there about the last several nights and what whitney houston was up to for the last several nights and one of the last public appearances was thursday in the true hollywood club at an r

"access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. >>> a wealthy florida man is getting a lot of attention for legally adopting his 42-year-old girlfriend. personal injury lawyers say 49-year-old john goodman is trying to protect his fortune from an upcoming civil case. he was involved in a crash two years ago that killed a man. the victim's family is now suing goodman for wrongful death. since goodman's girlfriend is now his legal daughter and over the age of 35 she has access to his trust fund. but attorneys for the victim are skeptical of goodman's motives. >> i was flabbergasted to learn of it. >> it is definitely unusual. >> as weird as it may seem, as odd as it may seem it does look as though this is perfectly legal. >> his attorney says the adoption has nothing to do with the civil lawsuit and says it is to help stabilize the future of goodman's two biological children. a probate court is expected to rule on the legitimacy of the adoption. >>> more testi

octavia spencer will join robin roberts live in hollywood. just part of the oscar ex tr extravaganza. >>> this morning, a suicide bomber killed nine people at an airport in the east. over the weekend two american officers were killed inside the highly secure interior ministry, all trusted afghan aides. two other american troops have been killed and ten injured. >>> and pakistan has demolished the compound where osama bin laden spent the last six years of his life. crews worked through the weekend and finished just this morning. bin laden was killed in a raid by u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s. >>> back here at home, republican presidential candidates are campaigning in michigan ahead of the critical primary. mitt romney and rick santorum are battling over who is the true conservative in the race. abc's tahman bradley has more. >> reporter: the republican primary is just a day left before the crucial primary. santorum mocked romney for claiming he's resolute. >> maybe he doesn't understand what the term "resolute" means. but it means you're supposed to ha

she is hanging out in hollywood. she has been on the red carpet and at the academy awards. >> she gives us a look back stage at some of the big winners. >> it was hollywood's biggest night. from the red carpet arrivals to the announcement of the biggest awards they did not disappoint them and the oscar goes to -- "the artist." >> it was a silent film that made the most noise capturing a picture of the year. the star captured best actor. >> speaking french >> meryl streep won best actress. >> call your name and you go into a white light. it was just thrilling. >> christopher plummer made history when he won best supporting actor a 82-years old. he is the oldest actor to ever win an academy award. >> i hope i could do it for another tenures at least. -- 10 years at least. >> i will live in this moment because this has never happened and it never -- may never happen again. >> it was an emotional night for octavius spencer and all of the awardees. it is time now to tear everything down. >> the parties may still be going

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if they mess hollywood and vine, downtown hollywood, on the very important weaken for the movies. >> thousands of people are here from all over the world, the tourists who hope to see their favorite celebrities. we know where to find them, the gifted and sweets. take a look. it is one of tinseltown's most exclusive invitations oscar nominees and big-name celebrities gifted tens of thousands of dollars of gems, watches, even vacations at this gift being suite. >> this is a new retreat that just opened on mallee. it is four days, three nights. >> they get all expenses paid trips. the supporting actor took advantage, from food to skin care. cheech marin says he will take just about anything that is free. >> hollywood. i have more nail polish that i could use in my entire life. >> the celebrities have the opportunity to design their own watch face, whether it is silver or gold. >> we call back woods loading up on face products, which he says really work. >> you can have this level of protection. i know it is hard to believe. >> joking aside, it is big business. these vendors know if cele

the big names expected to win big on this hollywood's biggest night. >> it's peter brandt. i apologize putting you on hold earlier. billy asked me to call back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the 84-th annual academy aw. the 84-th annual academy aw. bigad shaban has a look at o may be tonight's big winner. "we came, we saw. that's . >>> the stars are shining in hollywood at the 84th annual academy awards. >> reporter: george clooney up for best actor, nominated for his role in the descendents, but faces tough competition against jean dujardin for the artist. clooney's good pal brad pitt earned a best actor nod for his turn in moneyball. both men are sure to get the crowd going outside of the theater. part of the famed hollywood boulevard is shut down to make room for the red carpet, which stretches nearly an entire block. one of the women walking that red carpet, 17-time nominee meryl streep. her latest nod for her role as margaret thatcher in the iron lady. also nominated, michelle williams in my week with maryland, bruni marra, glenn close in "albert nobbs," and viola davis, who starre

the great romance of hollywood. and it's about hollywood. >> true. >> and people like me love this stuff. we love the idea of a young woman being born. we love watching her grow up. i have a heart and i love this movie. so here's the thing despite your brilliance. david, let me ask you this about this movie. about this french piece of it. it wasn't until late in the movie that i realized everybody in the movie is french. it seems like a nice kick in the face to the w. crowd. the chauvinist of the last presidency and the freedom fries crap. we're going to pick a french movie. >> the frenchies hate americans, too. they always hate me. they make fun of my accent which admittedly is terrible, but i try. they have always loved hollywood movies. they love ford, wells and louis. >> they love jerry louis? >> they do. jerry. jerry. >> and so i think because of that, they are perfectly happy to celebrate hollywood without necessarily celebrating americans, you know, certainly the modern american political system. however, it'

the young actress who famously kissed elvis but then gave up hollywood. on the eve of the oscars, why hollywood is calling her back. >>> good evening on this saturday night. and we begin here with that brazen point blank attack on american officers in afghanistan. assassinations carried out in what was supposed to be one of the safest places for u.s. officers a secure compound in kabul. the deadly attacks come after growing anti-american rage triggered by the burning of the koran and other religious materials being thrown out by the u.s. military. here's what we know at this hour. the two american officers were shot and killed inside the heavily fortified military inside the cap. captain john allen immediately ordered all advisers out of secured location. we begin with abc's nick schifrin in candle. nick. >> reporter: david, i've been to the area where these advisors worked. to get there, you need to go through three checkpoints, each with pat-down searches, and then go through a metal detector. either the gunman was from the ministry interior or working

mike taibbi, nbc news, hollywood. >>> that's our broadcast on a thursday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we, of course, hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening, thanks for being with us on this thursday. i'm raj mathai. >> i'm jessica aguirre. what did they know and when did they know it? san jose city councilmembers are demanding answers after an investigation revealed the mariuszed an inflated pension projection to help sell a fiscal emergency. retirement costs could reach $650 million by 2015. even though city officials reveal to nbc bay area, the mayor was told not to use that padded number. jenna cisco broke the story. she joins us from the newsroom with the latest. >> five city councilmembers filed this memo just two hours ago. they want the city manager and the finance director to tell them where they got the number 650, how it was calculated and if it was off the top of someone's head. it's the latest in our ongoing i

and the problem that i have is that hollywood is so eager -- and i'm using using hollywood as sort of the catch phrase for maybe pop culture, but in this country, we're so excited by the scandalous, at least they would have us believe that, if it titillating if it's salacious, it gets the story. thomas jefferyson is the man who wrote the declaration of independence. this is a man who feels very much out of his league in the continental congress. he feels very inadequate to the task, not only that but he writes this document with john adams and benjamin franklin looking over his shoulder. he is not the sole author of the declaration of independence as you may have learned in school. it was edited heavily and there was quite a bit of input. the fact that this man, that he writes the final draft of this, one of the reasons they pick him, number one he's not as exalted as these old guys, and two number, he's got beautiful handwriting. that to me is an interesting story. it's not the only story, but it is an interesting story and i think that story deserves as much coverage as any other st

what is it like inside of the world of hollywood marriage? elizabeth vargas has a look and a preview of tonight's's "20/20" program. >> divorces awful for any normal person, but take it to hollywood and multiplied it times 10 in terms of the cost, how much is public. we delved into this tonight, not only in some of these couples how they got married, but how they got divorced and why. some marriages lasted all of 55 hours. bernie spears first marriage was all of 55 hours. it is a phenomenon. we delve into the fact that these cost 10 times within normal divorce costs to >> we all get caught up in this. some of these like heidi clomid and seal lasted for quite awhile. is there any chance these marriages can last? >> some of them do. we delve into two couples whose have lasted. tom hanks and his wife are a classic hollywood marriage, but there is a huge amount of scrutiny and pressure. a lot of people get married for the wrong reasons. we delve into why that happens. in a hollywood divorce images at stake. these people have a public image to pro

they went out of business months ago but the late fees from movies rentedded from hollywood, they are coming in. joce sterman has more on the letters that may end up in your mailbox. >> no happy ending for hollywood video, they filed for bankruptcy two years ago but efforts to collect debt live on, thanks to late fees they are allowed to collect. >> these were fees that people owed to hollywood, and could total about $240 million. >> reporter: an ge with the better business burreau says to get the money, a third party has been sending out letters. some hitting mailboxes in maryland. if you get one, you shouldn't just blindly write a check. >> ask them to provide proof that you owe the debt and you want to make sure you are paying for other additional fees. >> reporter: that's happened in the past. several months ago the collection company was hit with a court order forcing them to stop adding fees to the debt and stop reporting people who didn't pay to the credit bureaus. >> the government is making sure no credit ratings are damaged by the action of the third party vendor. >> reporte

it was a way for me to control my love for hollywood and all of the classical movies from hollywood. >> for those who have not seen it, why don't you describe what the story line is? >> the story is a about a seventh actor, a male actor here in hollywood. at the same time, he made to a young arjuujenou and she as a yg actress and will become a star. the story is out their destinies cross. tavis: there are a couple of moments in the film where we really do hear sound. >> yes. tavis: i do not want to give it away, but how did you decide those were the places where the sound needed to come through? >> in the movie, the antagonist is the sound. for the forced noisy sequence, because it is not talking -- the ecrst noisy sequence, because it is not talking, it is just noise, i wanted the antagonist. and i wanted it here because i wanted it to come early in the narration, because i wanted to say to people -- there will not be any big surprise. it is a very classical story. how the story is told is more important for me than the story itself. and i thought it was funny and cool to surprise p

that's what matters in hollywood. that is not true. they don't want to make money. if they did, they would keep remaking "the passion of the christ." they want to get as far away from that as they could and it was making billions of dollars. they don't want to make money. they want to be cool. they want to be with the cool crowd which is usually on the left. >> that is an interesting idea. hollywood prides itself on rebellion, but at the end of the day, and yes i use that phrase. it is all about being accepted by their peers. >> exactly. look at comedy. "larry the cable guy" jeff foxworthy, and they are the biggest names and nobody wants anything to do with them. >> a lot of these included children's movies and even super hero movies. >> one of the difficulties, give hollywood some credit. you mentioned "passion of the christ." the pool of arab speakers is diminishing every year. >> and mel gibson did it again. he picks movies you can't follow because of the language. >> it is generally true that g-rated movies do better than r-rated movies. and our parent company h

is hollywood running to your door? >> i have scripts and auditions and meeting great people and i'm grateful to michelle. >> you're the female lead in the hottest movie in hollywood. it doesn't get bigger, does it? >> i'm okay. nobody is bothering me. everybody is country kind and polite. i don't feel like my whole life has changed. >> have you prepared and oscar winning speech? >> not yet. >> i bet when you were younger -- have you ever stood in front of a mirror as a little girl and gone, i would like to thank -- >> if i could be on stage, i would love to thank michelle, my parents and of course all the cast and my agent and those people that are very very close to me with this project, of course. >> and whoever taught you english, because your english is fantastic? >> i had a boyfriend from new zealand. we used to live here and he didn't speak a word of french. >> the viewers haven't seen the story, your husband is the director. what happens when a film becomes this huge massive hit and you're all starting to think

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it was a fabulous night in hollywood. in fact it feels like it hasn't quite ended. ♪ >> an evening to celebrate cinema full of bright color and moving acceptance speeches but the biggest winner of the night, a small black and white picture with no talking at all. >> "the artist." >> thank you from the bottom of my heart. to you members of the academy. >> the french film's homage to hollywood's silent era took home best picture, best director and best actor for star jean dujardin. >> i rolove your country. >> i love you! >> the other award went to a familiar face. >> i knew i was gay though. at the weddings i would be staring at husbands and not the wives. >> christopher plummer won his first oscar, best supporting actor in "the beginners". >> you're only two years older than i am, where have you been all my life? >> i hope i can do it for another ten years. >> reporter: billy crystal got laughs but his performance received mixed reviews from critics. >> george, let's make pasta! maybe it will rain! say "i'm batman." >>

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. >> it is an absolutely gorgeous day here in hollywood. you can see the hollywood sign behind us. nice and clear. as we approached the big day all that anyone is talking about are the oscar-nominated movies appeared >> they are talking about "the artist." they used modern-day locations in the downtown los angeles to represent the los angeles of yesteryear. >>"the artist" tells a story about l.a. in the past. >> it holds dozens of ancient theaters from the 1920's built to show a silent films. this is the los angeles theater the way it looks today. switch it to black and white and it really does look like the 1920's. interior and exteriors include this building across the street. this building appears in the film as an actor descends one way while and actors climbs up the other. this gated section of the park provided exteriors of actor's homes, also using this grand villa. the hollywood sign appears as hollywoodland. the letters spelling "land" came down in the 1940's. >> i believe this is the movie that will win best picture tomorrow night. >> there has been so much buzz about it.

. >> a rising hollywood starlet. then she threw it away to live a life devoted to god. her unusual story later this hour. >> leigh: and hi there. i'm leigh glaser. we have clear sky and the wind has started to die down. so get ready for cold temperatures overnight. and also the return of the rain in the accuweather seven-day ♪ beth! hi! looking good. you've lost some weight. thanks. you noticed. these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? eating right -- whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multi-grain cheerios -- 5 whole grains, 110 calories. creamy, dreamy peanut butter taste in a tempting new cereal. mmm! [ female announcer ] new multi-grain cheerios peanut butter. >> oakland police are developing a plan to combat a rash of gun violence that left two people dead and 15 others injured last week. a man was shot outside a nightclub in downtown oakland. police say he is not expected to live. we shot this video of a shooting on holly street quade -- yesterday and got this vide

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