TAPE: EF01/0874 IN_TIME: 14:15:46 DURATION: 5:22 SOURCES: APTN/Paramount RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video/tv clips without clearance DATELINE: Sydney, Australia. December 19, 2001 SHOTLIST 1. VS Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruise arriving and crowds 2. VS Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruise holding hands 3. Set up Penelope Cruz 4. SOT Penelope Cruz - on her pride in film - "I'm very happy because I am very proud of this film, I really like it. More than like it, it makes me think so many things when I see it, I want to share it with as many people as possible." 5. Film clip - 'Vanilla Sky' 6. SOT Penelope Cruz - on acting with Tom Cruise - "Cameron, if you are an actor he is one of the best things that can happen to you, to have Cameron directing you, I think he's amazing. Also Tom is an amazing actor, I've always admired his work very much but I think this is the best thing that he has ever done." 7. CA Tom Cruise 8. SOT Penelope Cruz - on plans for Xmas: "Rest a little bit, work a little bit." SOT Question - "Will you be in Sydney for Christmas?" SOT Penelope Cruz - "No." SOT Question - "Do you know where you will be for Christmas?" SOT Penelope - "I know where I'll be." 9. Film clip - 'Vanilla Sky' 10. Set up Tom Cruise 11. SOT Question - What do you think of the reception here tonight?" SOT Tom Cruise - "It's incredible, certainly I didn't expect it and it's been really lovely." 12: CA Penelope Cruz 13: SOT Question - "What are you doing while you are here in Sydney and what are your plans for Christmas and holidays?" SOT Tom Cruise - "Well you know I am going to keep all that stuff to myself, what we're going to do. But we went out on the harbor today and just hang out, seeing friends and seeing family, just going to relax." 14.Set up Cameron Crowe, director 15. SOT Cameron Crowe - on the film - "It didn't feel risky when we were making it, it felt like a unique love story and I think that is what it is. It does take you to another place and I think that is great." 16. Film trailer - 'Vanilla Sky' 17. SOT Cameron Crowe - on the on-off screen romance of Cruise/Cruz - "I think it's good in a love story if you want to see those two people. Whatever happened after the movie happened. I think it's their lives and I think it's great, I'm happy for anybody who is happy. The movie is the movie and the story is what is going to stand the test of time. I have never seen a story like this one." 18. Film Trailer - 'Vanilla Sky' TOM CRUISE TAKES VANILLA SKY TO KIDMAN COUNTRY TOM CRUISE has been welcomed by fans in his ex-wife Nicole Kidman's hometown of Sydney, as he attended the premiere of his latest film 'VANILLA SKY' last night (Wednesday). The event was the first public appearance Cruise has made in Australia since his divorce from the antipodean star. Critics had warned the actor-producer might find a decidedly cool reception there, after shocking the entertainment world by filing for divorce from the actress in February, after 10 years of marriage. But Cruise spent about two hours signing autographs for eager fans, and posed for the press holding hands with his co-star and new girlfriend PENELOPE CRUZ. Cruise has taken recent interview opportunites to tell Australian fans the reasons for his divorce were between himself and Kidman, and had nothing to do with the romance between him and Cruz that blossomed after - not during- the filming of Vanilla Sky. Local press reported that 34 year old Kidman arrived in Sydney herself on Monday, bringing their adopted children to spend Christmas with family. Cruise is expected to meet up with his children during his stay in Sydney. He stopped short of confirming any plans though: "Well you know I am going to keep all that stuff to myself, what we're going to do. But we went out on the harbour today and just hang out, seeing friends and seeing family, just going to relax." Cruz was keeping just as quiet about her own Christmans plans, simply saying she wouldn't be in Sydney and "I know where I'll be." 'Vanilla Sky''s writer-director CAMERON CROWE joined Cruise and Cruz at the premiere, which follows launches around the world. The thriller is a remake of the 1997 Spanish language film 'Abre Los Ojos' (Open Your Eyes) - which also stared Penelope Cruz, as the same character, Sofia. The Spanish original was written and directed by Alejandro Amenabar, who went on to direct Nicole Kidman in 'The Others' with Tom Cruise as executive producer. 'Vanilla Sky' also stars Cameron Diaz and Jason Lee. The plot centres on the privileged life of a rich, handsome womaniser, Christopher (Cruise), who can seduce anyone but falls in love with his best friend's girlfriend, Sofia (Cruz). The day after he realises his feelings, he accepts a lift from a previous but fiercely jealous casual lover Brenda (Cameron Diaz - 'Charlie's Angels', 'Shrek'), who commits suicide by driving the car into a tree. The bachelor-romeo survives the crash, but his face is hideously disfigured. Soon, however, his luck seems to change completely: Sofia declares her love for him and the doctors are suddenly able to rebuild his face. But when strange and horrible things begin to happen, he starts to realise that his life has taken on a turn beyond his control. The thriller has been a success in America, taking $25 million (USD) when it opened last weekend. Good reviews have been scarce however. Meanwhile Kidman is tipped for an oscar nomination following her performances in 'Moulin Rouge' and Alejandro Amenabar's 'The Others'. FILM CLIP DETAILS Vanilla Sky Paramount 1 213 956 5000

UPDATE ON THE CAREER OF WHITE RAPPER VANILLA ICE.

TAPE: EF02/0879 IN_TIME: 14:06:47 / 21:06:47 DURATION: 3:53 SOURCES: Warner Bros Pictures VNR RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Himeji, Japan, 11th October 2002 SHOTLIST 1. Pan of fans waiting 2. Close up of mother and child waiting 3. Close up of female fans 4. Pan from babies to mothers with cameras 5. Tom Cruise arriving and shaking hands with fans 6. Tom Cruise shakes hands with fans 7. Close up of police 8. Wide shot of helicopter 9. Various of Tom Cruise shaking hands with fans 10. Medium shot of press 11. Fans with cameras and Tom Cruise autographs to fans 12. Close up of Tom Cruise signing autographs and waving 13. Tom signing photo 14. Close up of fan holding poster reading 'Vanilla Sky' 15. Medium shot of fans 16. Wide of Tom Cruise speaking 17. SOT TOM CRUISE (English): "Thank you for your warm welcome I will never forget this. You are very kind and generous." 18. Wide shot of helicopter 19. Close up of Tom waving to fans from inside helicopter TOM CRUISE MEETS JAPANESE FANS Superstar TOM CRUISE took time out from shooting his new film 'THE LAST SAMURAI' on location in Japan to meet fans - and was greeted by an eager crowd of almost 1,000. Cruise is filming Edward Zwick's historical action movie between two Japanese cities, Himeji City in Hyogo prefecture and Kyoto city - the location sets are completely closed to the public. But since filming began on Thursday 10th October, die-hard fans have been gathering in large numbers near a temporary heliport in Himeji City, hoping to see Cruise arrive for filming and leave again for his hotel. The crowd has been growing by the day, as rumours of Cruise-sightings circulated amongst his fans. On Friday, nearly 1,000 fans were counted at the heliport. Police were mobilised to cope with the excited crowd, as Cruise shook hands, waved and signed autographs. 'The Last Samurai' is set in the 19th century. Cruise plays Civil War hero Captain Nathan Algren, in Japan in the late 18702 to train Japanese troops in modern combat. Emperor Meiji has arranged for the training as part of his plan to modernise the military and break away from the tradition of employing samurai warriors to protect land. But as conflict between old and new ways grow, Algren is injured and captured by the samurai. He learns about their warrior honour code from samurai leader Katsumoto, and soon begins to feel torn. Scottish comedian-turned-actor Billy Connolly and English actor Timothy Spall also feature. Cruise is also a producer on the film. 'The Last Samurai' will continue filming in New Zealand and the USA after Japan. The movie is scheduled to premiere simultaneously in the USA and Japan in December 2003.

NAME: MAD CYCLONE 110304N TAPE: EF04/0292 IN_TIME: 11:24:33:14 DURATION: 00:02:08:07 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Antalaha, 11 Mar 2004 RESTRICTIONS: See Script ALL LIVEWIRE MATERIAL SHOTLIST Antalaha, Northeastern Province 1. Various aerials of submerged countryside 2. Various of damage visible on the beach; damaged trees and houses 3. Various of sunken fishing vessels just off the coast 4. Various of tents for homeless people 5. Sign on tent saying "Action Humanitaire France" 6. Various of children and mother outside tents 7. Injured man with bandaged leg sitting in opening of tent 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Huggins, WFP's Regional Public Information Officer: "Eighty percent of the population has been affected in some way by the cyclone. The World Food Programme has moved about 60 tonnes of emergency relief supplies to here and we will be distributing it in the days ahead. What is of particular concern to us is the mid-term to long-term repercussions of the cyclone. Most of the....60 to 80 percent of the vanilla crop of this region has been destroyed and there are families and communities totally dependent on its production so they will continue to need international assistance for some time ahead." 9. Various of damaged village 10. French helicopter unloading supplies STORYLINE More than 80-thousand people have been cut off from the outside world since Cyclone Gafilo ripped through northern Madagascar on Sunday, collapsing bridges, toppling trees and reducing tarred roads to gravel. At least 43 people were killed and thousands displaced by the cyclone, which whipped through towns and fields with winds of 235 kilometres per hour (146 miles per hour), dumping vast quantities of rain. The northern port of Antalaha was the first town hit Sunday. Most of its wooden houses were flattened, roofs were ripped off government buildings and trees snapped like matchsticks. Humanitarian workers estimate 80 percent of its 266-thousand people were affected. Villagers from the surrounding hills have been trickling into Antalaha after heavy rains turned the earth into soggy red clay, collapsing their homes. The French Red Cross has set up 20 large white tents on a football field which are accommodating 419 people. The Red Cross, working with a French military contingent that arrived on Tuesday from nearby Reunion island, is providing blankets, plastic sheeting and other material to rebuild their homes. The main concern now is providing relief supplies for the survivors and the prevention of diseases like cholera and diaorrhea. The World Food Programme estimates the country will need about five thousand tons of food, most of which they already have in place. Most residents survive on farming and fishing, but the storm sank their ships. Antalaha's water supply has also been cut off and humanitarian workers have called for immediate assistance, saying they do not know how much food or fresh water there is left. The main rice growing area which feeds the entire country has effectively been destroyed and there is little hope for a good harvest. The vanilla crop, the country's main export, has also been wiped out. It takes four years for a crop to mature, and farmers were just recovering from a cyclone that hit in 2000. When Gafilo hit Madagascar, the country was still recovering from Cyclone Elita, which killed 29 people and left about 44-thousand homeless, according to UN figures. In 1994, Cyclone Geralda affected 450-thousand people. In total, it is believed Cyclone Galifo claimed 154 lives. Port authorities on Thursday said that a ferry that went missing off Madagascar sank with all but two of its 113 passengers and crew trapped inside. The survivors told officials at the northwestern port of Mahajanga that the ship capsised on Sunday evening in violent seas. They said they washed ashore in Madagascar the following day on a makeshift raft.

TAPE_NUMBER: EF01/0150 IN_TIME: 14:21:53 LENGTH: 01:06 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video/tv clips without clearance FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: xfa TITLE: PENELOPE CRUZ LOCATION: FILE DATE: 6 FEBRUARY 2001 Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress," PEN?LOPE CRUZ, 26, is being named as the 'other woman' as one of Hollywood's most dazzling double acts disintegrates after ten years. But reports that the end of the marriage of TOM CRUISE and NICOLE KIDMAN was caused by infidelity were denied yesterday by Pat Kingsley, who represents both of them. Cruise had been pictured arm in arm with the stunning Spanish actress on the set of their new film 'Vanilla Sky' and there were reports of them having cosy dinners together in New York. Lawyer Pam Kingsley said: 'There is absolutely no third party. There is nobody else. I have had people ask if Nicole has gone with Ewan McGregor but she hasn't seen him since they stopped filming Moulin Rouge months ago in Australia. 'And people are asking about Tom and Penelope Cruz and that is certainly not true.' Miss Cruz told a British newspaper: 'I did not break up Tom Cruise's marriage. I am not having an affair with Tom Cruise. I am just one of his leading ladies in a film. He is a very nice actor, that's all.' Cruz is one of the leading lights in showbiz's recent Latino revolution. Born in Madrid, she studied ballet before her big acting break in the Oscar-winning 'Belle ?poque' (1992), in which she played one of four sisters vying for the love of a handsome army deserter. The film also garnered several Goyas, the Spanish equivalent of the Academy Awards. Her resum? continued to grow by three or four films each year, and soon Cruz was a leading lady of Spanish cinema. Her first big international hit was Pedro Almodsvar's 'Todo sobre mi Madre' (All About My Mother), in which she played an unchaste but well-meaning nun. As the film was showered with awards and accolades, Cruz suddenly found herself in demand on both sides of the Atlantic. Her next big project was 'Woman on Top' (2000), an American comedy about a chef with bewitching culinary skills and a severe case of motion sickness. She also signed up to star opposite Johnny Depp in the drug-trafficking drama 'Blow' and with Matt Damon (another rumoured paramour) in Billy Bob Thornton's 'All the Pretty Horses'. Meanwhile, she also stars in the blockbuster 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' with Nicolas Cage (another lover, according to the tabloids). The film is due out this summer. SHOTLIST: 1. VS PENELOPE CRUZ (APTN FILE - CANNES 2000) 2. SOT PENELOPE CRUZ 3. MS PENELOPE CRUZ?

TAPE: EF01/0876 IN_TIME: 14:16:02 DURATION: 6:20 SOURCES: APTN/Various RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video/tv clips without clearance DATELINE: December 20, 2001. Los Angeles SHOTLIST 1. Ws Globe Nomintions 2. SOT Hugh Jackman - "The Nominees for best director in a motion picture, Robert Altman, 'Gosford Park', Ron Howard, 'A Beautiful Mind', Peter Jackson, 'Lord Of The Rings, The Fellowship Of The Rings', Baz Lurhmann, 'Moulin Rouge', David Lynch, 'Mulholland Drive' and Steven Speilberg, 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence'." 3. Clip 'Lord of the Rings' 4. Clip 'Moulin Rouge' 5. Clip 'Sexy Beast' 6. Set-up shots Kirk Honeycutt, Film Critic 'The Hollywood Reporter' 7. SOT Kirk Honeycutt, film critic: "The only problem is trying to decide which is best in a year when their clearly is no best film or best performance. It's one of those years where nothing stands out." 8. Film clip 'Beautiful Mind' 9. SOT Kirk Honeycutt, film critic: "Well, I think the one that - if you're talking Oscars now - looks like a sure multiple Oscar nominee for the Academy would be 'Beautiful Mind' for many reasons but not the least of which is the work done by Ron Howard in directing the film and Russell Crowe in acting in a film which - despite a large cast of characters - is pretty much a one man show. It is also a film that the Academy likes to embrace because it is inspirational and it actually seems to be about something as opposed to 'Gladiator', which they liked but it really isn't about anything. This is about something, it's about a paranoid, schizophrenic and the problems of mental illness and yet it has an upbeat ending." 10. File shot Nicole Kidman at film premiere 11. SOT: Kirk Honeycutt, film critic - on 'Moulin Rouge': "There might be some interest in 'Moulin Rouge' because of the celebrity factor here, Nicole Kidman and Baz Lurhmann, the director. It'll be interesting to see how they finally vote on this because they have a lot of... a wealth of good films here that they have selected and they haven't really missed too many." 12. Film clip 'Bandits' 13. SOT Billy Bob Thornton: "Growing up I was going to be a baseball player or in a rock and roll band and so I didn't really think about it as a kid, I know some actors talk about when they were kids they rehearsed their speeches and all that stuff, I never did all that. It's nice you know, I was nominated for best actor for 'Swing Blade' and for 'Simple Plan' also, I didn't win those and they were performances that I was really close to and loved and so... When you don't get them and there has been so much talk about it and people telling you you're going to win, I guess there is disappointment involved in it. So I'm real proud to be nominated for movies like these, I'm real proud of them." 14. SOT: John Cameron Mitchell from 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' in New York City - "It's been 7 years since the rock clubs, Steven Trask, the composer and I have been working drag clubs, rock clubs, birthday parties doing this character. This is just... if this is the apotheosis and the height then it's fine with me, it's totally unexpected but it is fine." 15. Clip - 'Iris' 16. SOT: Jim Broadbent from 'Iris' - filmed in London, England: "I've just come in, I have just been doing some Christmas shopping and I came in and the phone went and I went out and told my wife and the electrician who is doing some work and that is it really, very exciting." SOT Question - "Do you think you will go to America for the ceremony?" SOT Jim Broadbent - "Yes I'll go to America, I'll go for the awards, I think it will be too much of a party to miss, I think." 17. Clip - 'Amelie' SOURCE: APTN/Bandits please courtesy MGM, Beautiful Mind Please Courtesy Universal Pictures AUSTRALIA NO LONGER OUTBACK WHEN IT COMES TO FILMS It will be a merry Christmas down under with Aussie talent causing a big spin at the Golden Globe nomiations, announced yesterday. Big winners in terms of nominations are 'Moulin Rouge,' directed by Baz Luhrmann and staring Nicole Kidman and 'Beautiful Mind,' with Russell Crowe, both of which garnered six nods each. They are also emerging as hot-favourite for the looming Oscars, says Kirk Honeycutt, film critic for the industry bible, 'The Hollywood Reporter.' Sydney-born Cate Blanchett is in the frame for her comedy role in 'Bandits' and Kidman also picked a nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for 'The Others'. Like Kidman, Billy Bob Thornton is named in both the drama and comedy/music sections. With 'The Lord of the Rings,' made in New Zealand and directed by a Kiwi, named in four categories, the Antipodean film industry can look back on 2001 as a bumper year. This year's Golden Globes maintained its loyaltly to independent films, recognizing arthouse hits such as freshman director Todd Field's 'In the Bedroom,' hard rock musical 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch', British period piece 'Gosford Park' and the romance drama, 'Iris'. Motion Picture, Drama: A Beautiful Mind In the Bedroom The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Man Who Wasn't Their Mulholland Drive Best Actress, Drama: Halle Berry, Monster's Ball Judi Dench, Iris Nicole Kidman, The Others Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom Tilda Swinton, The Deep End Best Actor, Drama: Russell Crowe, A Beautiful Mind Will Smith, Ali Kevin Spacey, The Shipping News Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn't There Denzel Washington, Training Day Motion Picture, Musical/Comedy: Bridget Jones's Diary Gosford Park Legally Blonde Moulin Rouge Shrek Best Actress, Musical/Comedy Thora Birch, Ghost World Cate Blanchett Bandits Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge Ren?e Zellweger, Bridget Jones's Diary Best Actor, Musical/Comedy Gene Hackman, The Royal Tenenbaums Hugh Jackman, Kate & Leopold Ewan McGregor, Moulin Rouge John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig and the Angry Inch Billy Bob Thornton, Bandits Foreign-Language Film Am?lie (France) Behind the Sun (Brazil) Monsoon Wedding (India) No Man's Land (Bosnia) Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too) (Mexico) Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind Cameron Diaz Vanilla Sky Helen Mirren, Gosford Park Maggie Smith, Gosford Park Marisa Tomei, In the Bedroom Kate Winslet, Iris Best Supporting Actor Jim Broadbent, Iris Steve Buscemi, Ghost World; Hayden Christensen, Live as a House Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast Jude Law, A.I. Artificial Intelligence Jon Voight, Ali Best Director Robert Altman, Gosford Park Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge David Lynch, Mulholland Drive Steven Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence Best Screenplay Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, The Man Who Wasn't There Julian Fellowes, Gosford Park Akiva Goldsman, A Beautiful Mind David Lynch, Mulholland Drive Christopher Nolan, Memento Best Original Score Craig Armstrong, Moulin Rouge Angelo Baldamenti,Mulholland Drive Lisa Gerrard & Pierre Bourke, Ali James Horner, A Beautiful Mind Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring John Williams, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Hans Zimmer, Pearl Harbor Best Original Song "Come What May," David Baerwald (Moulin Rouge) "May It Be," Enya (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring); "There You'll Be," Diane Warren (Pearl Harbor) "Until," Sting (Kate & Leopold) "Vanilla Sky," Paul McCartney (Vanilla Sky) FILM CLIP DETAILS Amelie Miramax 1 212 941 3800 Lord Of The Rings New Line Cinema 1 310 834 5811 Iris Miramax 1 212 941 3800 Moulin Rouge 20th Century Fox 1 310 369 3605 Sexy Beast 20th Century Fox 1 310 369 3605 A Beautiful Mind Universal 1 818 777 1000 Bandits 20th Century Fox 1 310 369 3605

TAPE: EF02/0089 IN_TIME: 21:19:01 DURATION: 1:57 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: file SHOTLIST: 1. B-roll Julia Roberts (APTN file, Oscar parties, March 2001) 2. B-roll Julia Roberts (APTN file) 3. B-roll Tom Hanks (APTN file, Oscar parties, March 2001 4. B-roll Tom Cruise (Vanilla Sky UK premiere January 2002) 5. B-roll Mel Gibson (APTN file, Cannes 1999) 6. B-roll Jim Carrey (APTN file, August 2001) 7. B-roll George Clooney (APTN file) 8. B-roll Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind premiere, APTN file, December 2001) 9. B-roll Russell Crowe (APTN file) 9. B-roll Harrison Ford (APTN file) 10. B-roll Bruce Willis (APTN file, Prague, April 2001) 11. B-roll Brad Pitt. (APTN file) STORYLINE: HOLLWOOD'S BIGGEST HEAVYWEIGHTS TOM CRUISE, TOM HANKS and JULIA ROBERTS have tied for top position in a survey listing Hollywood's most bankable stars. Film magazine 'The Hollywood Reporter' polled more than 100 industry executives around the world asking them to rate more than 1,000 actors in their Star Power study. Their criteria included potential to pull in the dollars at opening weekend, ability to secure financing and theatrical distribution based on their attacthment to a project. Each rating is added together to form a score between 0 and 100. The survey has been going for six years - but this is the first time a woman has appeared in the top position. Her credentials for her place include a Best Actress Oscar for 'Erin Brokovich', as well as roles in 'The Mexican', 'America's Sweethearts' and 'Ocean's Eleven' - grossing a combined $403.5 million (USD) around the world. Her past five films averaged opening weekend earnings of £30.0 million (USD). The overall industry opening average for American films is $13.4 million (USD). While Roberts is setting new standards, Hanks and Cruise have both topped the poll before - Hanks last year, and Cruise the year before that. All three scored a perfect 100 score rating this year. Hanks maintains his perfect rating despite not having a film out since 2000. His most recent was 'Castaway', which earned $123.9 million (USD) in N America, and another $191 million (USD) in the rest of the world. For his five films between '97 and '01, the two time oscar winner (For 'Forrest Gump' and 'Philadelphia') brought in average N American opening earnings of $22.6 million. The films were 'Saving Private Ryan', 'You've Got Mail', 'Toy Story 2', 'The Green Mile' and 'Castaway'. Tom Cruise stars in one of the films tipped for success in 2002, Steven Speilberg's 'Minority Report'. His current film 'Vanilla Sky' may be getting mixed reviews, but still opened in N America to the tune of $25 million (USD) gross. So far the film has picked up more than $93.6 million in the States, and more than $34.7 million in the rest of the world. The last four films Cruise made between '07 and '01 brought in nearly $829.1 million (USD) around the world - 'Jerry Maguire', 'Eyes Wide Shut', 'Magnolia'and 'Mission Impossible 2', Bewteen them. the top three generated $844 million (USD) globally for films they made in 2001. (493 million in North American box office revenue and 351 million rest of the world). The rest of the top ten were all men - with Mel Gibson scoring the next highest rating (98.68). He has established his continuing box office status as heartthrob, comic actor and family favourite with films like 'What Women Want', 'The Patriot' and 'Chicken Run' in recent years. Jim Carrey was rated at 98.46, proving as popular with fans in drama as in comedy. Hits that continue to boost his image include 'Man on the Moon', 'The Truman Show', 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas' and his popular comedies like 'Ace Ventura' and 'Dumb and Dumber' George Clooney makes his first appearance in the top ten list, with a score of 95.18. He has seen his clout soar since venturing away from TV's 'ER', with movies like 'Ocean's Eleven', 'O Brother Where Art Thou', 'The Perfect Storm' and 'Three Kings'. Another newcomer to the Star Power top ten is Russell Crowe, rated with a score of 94.74. His Oscar win last year for 'Gladiator' catapulted him to the A-List, while a growing clutch of nominations this year for his role in 'A Beautiful Mind' has boosted him even further. Last year he only scored 46.46. Harrison Ford ties wtih Crowe, also scoring 94.74. Since becoming a household name with Star Wars and the Indiana Jones series, Ford has stayed a firm favourite with fans. He has appeared in the list before, and keeps his star power thanks to recent hits including 'What Lies Beneath' and 'Random Hearts'. Bruce Willis has also featured in the list before, and this year scores 94.30. His new film 'Hart's War' is being tipped as a winner for 2002, while hits like 'Bandits' and 'The Sixth Sense' have kept his Hollywood clout going strong since 'Die Hard' and 'Pulp Fiction' put him on the map. Brad Pitt completes the top ten with a score of 92.98. The long time heartthrob has had another good year, co-starring with Clooney in 'Ocean's Eleven', playing opposite Robert Redford in 'Spy Game' and teaming up with Julia Roberts in 'The Mexican'. The pin up has long since proved his versitility to studios with films like 'Snatch', 'Fight Club', 'Twelve Monkeys' and 'Se7en'. Women who narrowly missed the top ten by scoring between 80 and 90 included Cameron Diaz, Nicole Kidman, Meg Ryan and Jodie Foster. The hollywood Reporter survey also showed other trends - for instance the increasing bankability of stars born outside America. Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Cate Blanchett, Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, Penelope Cruz, Jackie Chan,and Jude Law are all increasing their earning power in the US box office and around the world. Other names proving themselves as up and coming stars include Renee Zellweger, Reece Witherspoon, Kirsten Dunst, Tobey Maguire and Josh Hartnett.

TVU 2 BILL CLINTON WOODLAND HILLS CA EVENT ABC UNI C16 060316 HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT YESTERDAY SPEECH 19:00:25 The second thing I want to say is the reason that speech she gave yesterday is more important than it would be even in a normal election, cause everytime we elect a president we elect a commander in chief, we elect someone who has to be in charge of our national security, the reason it's more important is this, what we think of as a bizarre turn in this year's politics, how's that for a nice vanilla expression? [laughter] Is maybe your cruder may be a more outrageous version but still is representative of a feeling that's sweeping across the world that this age of global interdependence is not all (?) to be. 19:01:16 We've had too many years since the crash of stagnant growth, flat wages, rising inequality, declining declining upward mobility, this deal is not working for a lot of people and there is a lot of road rage out there. And then it gets turned on the question of whether it's a good or a bad thing to become more diverse. In Europe they are dealing with the largest refugee crisis since world war 2. In Africa they have 6 of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world but three of the most vibrant terrorist movements. And Latin America is become in general more open, more democratic, more progressive, but the biggest economy in Latin america is Brazil and it's in terrible shape now. And so is the political system WORLD ANXIETY 19:02:08 So everywhere in the world there is this rising anxiety about whether it's possible to grow together, is it possible to live together, it is possible to be citizens together. And so, Hillary should be president for [applause] wait, for 3 reasons, one she's got the best ideas to get us all growing together, two is there are two threats to our ability to rise economically. They are continued gridlock in Washington and being dragged down by all this trouble around the world. 19:02:52 So, the stand we take will either help the world come away from its own division, its wall building, its own giving up on the future, or it will confirm everybody's worst instincts. So she needs to be president because she's got the right vision and the right values. She believes we have to build in an interdependent world in an interdependent country a future of unity not division. NOBODY CAN TURN BACK THE CLOCK 19:03:24 She believes that we have to write our own page of 21st century economic and social greatness. . She knows that this slogan "make America great again" is telling a certain slice of America I'll make it the way it used to be. I'll give you what you had 20 years ago. [boos] Wait, wait. I give you what you had 20 years ago which nobody can do. Right? Nobody can turn back the clock and I'll make you higher on the totem pole again. Cause it wasn't so great the way it used to be 30, 40, 50 years ago, depending on who you were. And look, but even when we all grew together, when I was president, you can't recreate that, we've got to write another chapter in the greatness of our country. It's got (to be future on it?) And therefore a vote for her is a vote for hope and empowerment. Not resentment. And Hillary believes the only thing that works in the world is inclusive economic prosperity, inclusive societies, and inclusive governance where we can all be citizens together. FOR NO OTHER REASON BUT SUPREME COURT 19:04:43 That's one of the rea-- for no other reason she should be elected president to make sure we have the supreme court that will-- that will protect voting rights, not restrict them, protect women's rights, not restrict them, protect labor rights not restrict them, protect LGBT rights not restrict them. And get rid of that citizen United case which is has hung up a for sale sign on the door of our democracy. So, that's why her speech was more important than normal yesterday. 19:05:20 It's not just everything she said about her opponent. Or everything he says to drive us up the wall. It is that if we don't have enough space and enough safety, we can't rise. We can be dragged back. So more than you normally would, you and everybody else needs to think about this. Now, this country is in better shape than any other big country in the world. President Obama has done a better job than Republicans give him credit for. SLURS AGAINST "OTHERS" 19:07:07 I always say this, one little political thing, I know the republicans are mean to her now. And it bothers some people, but look, I feel bad, I'm not talking about your next door neighbor who is a republican. I'm talking about the Washington establishment. They rose to power by convincing people that Government would mess up a two car parade. Right? Government is inherently illegitimate. They are just taking your money away and throwing it away on somebody else. And they systematically demonized people for 35 years. First, all these slurs against African Americans, and then there were the slurs against women and the women's right movement, then there were the slurs against gays in the early part of the 21st century. Then immigrants. EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID TO ME 24 YEARS AGO 19:08:02 And along the way they said in case you're not really afraid they are coming to get your guns. Now none of it were true. it was all devised to divide us, to keep us torn up and upset. They (start this thing?) about what was best for our families and the future of our country. And it works for awhile, but I know this, I've seen this movie before. Because this is exactly what they did to me 24 years ago. I run for president and we had the fastest growing economy in the country. And national experts said we had one of the two most improved school system in the country. 19:08:52 And the republicans even called and told me and said if you do this, you're different and we are going to have to take you out. And we can get the press to help us, because they like to just take somebody out. So we are just gonna dump on you and they'd believe anything we tell them about Arkansas, you are from that little backwater state. So when I won the nomination by winning California 24 years ago yesterday. [cheers] I was running third in the polls. I have a-- I've got a newspaper on the front page of one of the San francisco newspapers, I think it was the chronicle who says Bush and Perot in tough race, clinton not a factor and there is actually a map showing me with 9 electoral votes, this [unclear] she is in way better shape than that. But here is the thing. 19:09:56 All these personal, negative divisive attacks, they work until they don't. And one day in a free society people wake up and they say I think I'll believe my eyes and ears and heart and mind instead of all this stuff that's been thrown. I think I'll vote for my children's future. VOTE FOR WHOEVER YOU WANT IF ELECTED SHE'LL TAKE YOU ALONG 19:17:08 And I went down there and they don't like any of this now. Cause they blame president obama's climate change (problems/policies?), they blame me, they blame Hillary for campaigning for campaigning for it in the international area. And I say look, you guys can vote for whoever you want to, but you are not going to bring the past back. And hillary sent me to you to say this: she does not care who you vote for you are americans and if she is the president she is coming back for you and take you along to the future with all the rest-- And that's what we all ought to be doing. WORLD PRAYING FOR US TO ELECT HER 19:23:55 I can tell you, I still have you know my foundation, I work all over the world, I still hear from people everywhere. All around the world they are praying for us to elect her. And they are doing it because they know that their country will be affected by what we do. They want to see, is America about unity or division? Is America about rising together and empowerment or resentment? Is America about walls or bridges? Well you get to decide. But I am telling you California, just look at this place. Look at this room. This is the future of our country. Our whole country. CALIFORNIA MATTERS 19:27:01 You have it in your hands. So don't let anybody from California say oh, it doesn't matter next Tuesday. What the heck, it's over. Everything matters. Everything matters. California will always matter. The rest of the country looks at you the way the rest of the world looks is looking at us. They want you to point the way to the future. They want you to believe in the future, they want you to tell them it's gonna be okay, we can manage all this diversity and be stronger for it. We don't have to make America great again, what we need is to write our own chapter in america's future greatness. And Hillary will lead us there, if you-- [applause-- inaudible]

AN INTERVIEW WITH STEVE ETTLINGER FOR A SPOT. JOHN BERMAN INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN ETTLINGER 01 01 01 Steve Ettlinger. JB: Steve Ettlinger. It's a good thing we did that. SE: And it's not Twinkie man. JB: I can't call you Twinkie man? SE: No. 01 01 08 JB: It's safe to say that you know more about Twinkies than any other human being on planet earth. SE: Well, there's a research and development person at Hostess that probably knows more, and I'm going to be on a panel with her in May, so we'll see what happens then. 01 01 21 JB: But you would take your knowledge of Twinkies and go head to head with anyone any day? SE: I could give it a shot. I could give it a shot. 01 01 28 ISO JB: Why write a book about Twinkies? SE: Because they're the archetypal snack food. The ingredients in Twinkies are in most of our processed foods, most of our packaged foods. They're very common. They're almost everywhere you could say. The Twinkie, though, is a great window into all artificial ingredients, partly because people recognize it, and partly because that ingredient list is the right length for a book. I did a chapter per ingredient. In fact, the Twinkie ingredient list is the table of contents for "Twinkie Deconstructed." 01 01 59 JB: When you look at a Twinkie, what do you see? SE: I see an example of modern food technology at work. I see the mastery of the problems of shelf-life, of distribution, of making something in large quantities while keeping it sanitary, while keeping it uniform. I'm really awestruck at their ability to do this. It's really impressive. 01 02 27 JB: When I look at a Twinkie, I think of golden creamy goodness. SE: Well, I probably did when I was in seventh grade, and then I kind of forgot about it for awhile like many of us. Now, I also have to say, while working on it, I often ate Twinkies because they are appealing. They're oddly appealing. They look moist. It's not really real moisture. It's mostly oil. That I'm a little less interested in now. 01 02 50 (two shot) JB: In the beginning of your book, you explain how this came to pass, explain to me, how did this come to pass? What started you down this road? SE: I've been doing a number of food books over the years. I co-wrote a book on beer, I've done books on wine, on ethnic cuisine. I started wondering, what about the artificial ingredients? Why not create Polysorbate 60? Why not treat it the same way they treated beaujolais? And then I realized that if I'm getting into the whole artificial ingredient thing, I need to find a great handle. I found two things. One thing was I feeding ice cream bars to my kids one day at the beach. As I was feeding them the bars, I was reading the ingredients label, like I often do. They asked me, what are you reading daddy? I don't know. Uh-uh. Well, what's in it? I couldn't pronounce half the things. I certainly didn't know what they were. My little daughter said, where does Polysorbate 60 come from daddy? I had to find out. I just had to find out. That's how I started. 01 03 55 JB: Was the hunt for polysorbate 60, was this a difficult thing? SE: Yeah. First of all, the companies that make these things aren't always well-known to the public. You don't see ads for polysorbate 60 on the street. People who make things like Twinkies don't go around telling people like me, oh this is what we have in here. This is where we buy it from. But more importantly, the companies that often make these things quite often huge. Their division have been bought, sold and merged out of existence dozens of times. It's hard to trace them down, and sometimes of course, they don't want to talk about it. 01 04 29 JB: We arere talking about giant multi-national corporations? SE: Almost all the time. Yes. JB: Are making our Twinkies? SE: Oh yes. I call it the Twinkie industrial complex. JB: It's the man. The man is making our Twinkies, and all of our other food. SE: The man is making our Twinkies and all of our other food. It's totally tied in with major industry. Ethylene oxide is an ingredient that is used in making other ingredients. Benzene, petroleum. We use 14 of the top 20 chemicals made in the United States to make our processed foods, Twinkie no exception. 01 05 04 JB: I do want to get to that. We'll get to that later in the show. Can you put a number on it? (two shot) How many ingredients are in the Twinkie? SE: 39. That's counting the vitamins and minerals in the fortified flour. But 39. It's more than I expected. When I first looked at it, I though, yeah well, maybe a dozen. 39. 01 05 24 JB: (two shot) So this creamy goodness is pretty complicated? SE: It's very complicated. It's very complicated. 01 05 30 JB: What's the number one ingredient in the Twinkie? SE: The first one listed, which is number one by weight, is flour. But, they have so much sugar in the form of corn syrup, if the corn syrups, and I use plural, were combined with the sugar they would be number one. That's not unusual. A cake, they call it a high ratio cake, is mostly sugar or about an equal amounts of sugar and flour. That's what makes it so tender, and of course, so sweet. 01 05 51 JB: What's the most shocking ingredient in a Twinkie? SE: I think probably, it's a combination of shock and amazement that we have ingredients made of five different kinds of rocks in Twinkies and in most baked goods. That's blows my mind. Rocks. Salt is one, it's very common. I can't get shocked that it's in there, but it's very common. 01 06 16 JB: And we can eat a Twinkie without chipping our tooth. SE: That's right. They're very good at grinding it up very good, very fine. JB: I mean, it is shocking. Who knew that you use rocks to make Twinkies? SE: It was, it totally blew my mind. I was a little surprised that some things were made of petroleum, but in the back of my mind I kind of suspected that. In general, I have to admit that I was surprised how much was made from petroleum, like the artificial colors, a lot of the flavors start with petroleum product including benzene. Scorbic acid, which is the only preservative in Twinkies, only one. One preservative in Twinkies, scorbic acid. It's actually a food. It's a fatty acid. It's a cousin of olive oil, which is shocking in itself, but it's made from natural gas. That's pretty amazing to me. 01 07 06 JB: I don't know where to begin with some of this stuff. It's like chemistry class, the minute you begin talking about it. 10720 What doesn't the average American know about the Twinkie? SE: They probably don't realize, besides that there are ingredients made from five rocks, that it's so tied in with our major industries, chemistry industries. This is not to slam it. We depend on chemistry industries for everything we do. That it's so tied in is kind of amazing. I think that most people think, as I did, that at one point these ingredients are made from some sort of seed or bark or flour and they're not. I shouldn't say that. The corn products are made from corn. The soy products are made from soy beans. The flour is of course made from wheat berries. Those are the three ingredient types where I found truck loads of food, real food, going in one end of the factory and the powders or liquids coming out in tank trucks or what have you, out the other end. But everything else was much more complex, much more complex, especially when they start with minerals like petroleum or rocks. 01 08 22 JB: Let's talk about rocks for a second. What do these rocks do for the Twinkie? Give me an example. SE: Well, three of them are used to make baking powder, the same baking powder you have on your shelf at home. One is a source of phosphoric acid, which, by the way, is on e of the main flavoring ingredients like colas in coca-cola. You have phosphate rock which is turned into phosphorus somehow, and trona, an ore that is almost pure sodium carbonate is used to make sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda. It's also used as sodium bicarbonate to make the other ingredients, like sodium acid pyrophosphate, the other ingredient in baking powder. Limestone is a source of calcium. It's dug out of a mountain. It's cooked, so it becomes a white, delicate pebble. It actually bursts into flame or gets so hot that it can cause a fire if it gets wet, very reactive. These are rocks that ultimately are sources of minerals that we eat, that we need to eat. You need phosphorus. You need calcium. 01 09 28 JB: When you visited these mining companies or these mines, did the people there, did they know they were mining for Twinkies? SE: Yeah. They're very into it, but on the other hand, they're looking at the rocks, they're working heavy machinery. The engineers, for example, the guys who are mining for salt, they're miners first. The fact that it's a food product means that at some point everything is going to have to be very clean, and they have to be very careful. So the people running the plant who I spoke with are all highly educated, highly trained, and chemical engineers or mechanical engineers and the like. They're not food scientists, but they know they have to maintain a certain standard of cleanliness. It's highly regulated, and that's what they do for a living. 01 10 22 JB: What did Hostess say when you told them you wanted write a book about Twinkies? SE: I called them up naively, thinking maybe I could get a tour of the plant or tell me where they got their stuff because, after all, it's printed clearly on the label. It's right on the back, what they make it with. Anyone can see it. So, I didn't think of it as a secret. And the guy I spoke with, who has a great title, Vice President of Cake, isn't that a great title, that's what I want to be when I grow up. He initially said, that's interesting. Let me see if I can help. I'll check around. They called back the next day and said, you know, it's not really for us. If you want to reminisce about your childhood experiences with Twinkies, we'll be glad to help you, but you're kind of on your own. So, I understood that. There's not much in it for them. I didn't reveal any secret, certainly no trade secret. Definitely, I didn't reveal anything shockingly bad. It's just that it's not their thing, and I don't blame them. 01 11 18 JB: Did they throw up any roadblocks in your way? SE: Other than that no. I wasn't dealing with them. I'll tell you what I did find. A number of their suppliers, these big companies that send or mills or factories that make things that they might sell to Hostess or Interstate Bakeries, their owner, they were discreet about whether they were used in Twinkies or not. Whereas I had a problem. I didn't want to talk to them if the stuff wasn't going to be used to make Twinkies. But we got around that because they sell to all of Twinkies competitors. It was generic. These are commodities, in a lot of cases. 01 11 53 JB: In some cases though, you couldn't reveal the location of the plants or the names of the people giving you the tour. You couldn't reveal exactly in what quantities they were being sold in. Why so many secrets? SE: It was kind of frustrating, seeing that this is our food we're talking about. You'd think that they would have to be open. In one case, there's a major, major food company that employees top level professionals that love to talk. The PR people would tell you, oh, we'd love to talk to you and not call back. I found out later that that's sort of what they do. It was really upsetting. Meanwhile, they had given me, for example, a plant manager to talk to. I had gone ahead and called him, and the guy said, oh, I'd love to talk to you about that. I sat and talked with these guys for hours about how the particular ingredient affects a baked good. They are in turn making things that will in turn affect how things are baked, in terms of maybe moisture content or browning speed or something like that. They're very into helping their customers solve their problems. So they wanted to talk but sometimes the corporate people got in the way. One time I had a real big problem with one of the biggest companies in the world. Where there underlings had said 'ooh, we'd love to give you a tour. We'll set you up for a three day tour, in fact. All these plants, and all these ingredients, and I was just delighted. And I showed up, I'm at a corporate board table, they've got the PowerPoint presentation ready to go, samples and all that. I'm super excited; I traveled half way across the country. And they say, "oh, you gotta sign this release first". No problem. I've signed releases before. I'm going to go on a tour of a factory; I expect it's my problem if I fall off a catwalk. So I'm about to sign and it says "we need to check everything you write for the entire book". So they would not negotiate and I ended up walking out. That was frustrating. 01 13 54 JB: You know again, why the secrets? SE: In their case I think they'd been trashed by the press before, and so this was their way of handing it. I think that they decided secrecy is better. But they, on the other hand, have a good PR effort. And they present a lot of information to the public which they can control. I think that's frustrating because, again, this is our food supply we're talking about and I wasn't interested in revealing any deep dark secrets. Not at all. Just the technology. 01 14 21 JB: Do you get the sense that any of these companies have something to hide? SE: The only ones who might possibly would be the ones who rely on suppliers in the third world, in China, in India. Maybe some of the vitamins, some of the sub-ingredients, they might not want to know where some of the stuff is coming from because it might not be produced in really sanitary methods, it might be environmentally unfriendly. I don't know. 01 14 50 JB: How about Hostess. You said they didn't cooperate because it wasn't their thing, but why not? SE: Well they're selling pleasure. Twinkies are fun to eat. They're selling mostly to kids. The idea that it's made with this or that or the other thing is immaterial to their customers. They sell 500 million a year, I think they know what they're doing. 01 15 14 JB: I mean I guess in once sense its one of those things, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. SE: Right. Well they're not pulling the wool over your eyes. All processed foods use these ingredients. These ingredients are found in the most common packaged foods, health foods. Some of the ingredients are found in things like ice cream with just a little milk cream and then one of the emulsifiers. So these are not bad things. They've been tested, they've been used for years, people feel familiar with them, they trust them. No one is hiding anything in that respect. 01 15 48 JB: That's an important point to make here is that they're not trying to pull the wool over our eyes, as you said. Is there anything wrong with the fact that Twinkies have 39 ingredients that are made from rocks and use petroleum? SE: No. Because if there were, they'd be something wrong with all our processed foods. Now some people don't like that, in which case they can eat more whole foods: fruits, vegetables and what have you. That's admirable if they want to do that, that's not a problem. I could go either way. These seem akin to food, and like I said we need phosphorous, we need calcium. What's amazing to me is that we don't think about where this comes from. Now you can get calcium by eating certain vegetables and you can get a lot of vitamins from eating certain fruits and vegetables and meats and diary products too. 01 16 39 JB: But in some cases we can get more vitamins, we can get more calcium, we can get more of the things we need by eating processed food. SE: Yeah. In fact somebody asked me 'is Velveeta better for me than cheddar cheeses? Now there's a good question. If you want your vitamins and your nutrients to come from manmade supplements than maybe it is. If you want to get it from natural foods then you have to pay attention to what you're eating so you get a whole variety of your nutrients. 01 17 05 (Two shot) JB: In the larger sense, why do we have processed food? SE: Convenience, the way our society is structured. Time and time again, I saw that the answer to the question how did we come to use this particular chemical to make food, well they'd say people are looking for convenience. They want shelf life so they could eat something whenever they wanted. This is not a bad thing. Canned food was invented for that reason a long time ago. The people began salting food so they could take food with them on trips. Maybe in ancient history, maybe even prehistoric man or woman smoked food or salted food to carry it. This is nothing new. We've been preserving food for a long time. You can carry it with you, you can eat it when you want, you can eat it in the winter when you harvest it in the fall. I have some pickles in my refrigerator that are in brine. People have been pickling food forever. So this is nothing new. But in the 50's, maybe a little before that, but in the 50s especially, boy we started looking for convenience food like mad. And guess what, we knew a lot more about chemistry thanks to WWII so we're totally tied in with historical developments that allow us to make things that we never had before. 01 18 27 JB: There's an inherent conflict inside the Twinkie in a way. What are all [I thought it was a cream filling inside the Twinkie but OK]. All of these ingredients, or many of them, or many that seem odd seem to be aimed at one thing in particular. Which is.(two shot) SE: Shelf life. Shelf life is the holy grail of packaged food. Canned food, when it came into being, was mind-blowing because people could take it anywhere for ages. But shelf life is the big deal. In order to get shelf life, you give up something: fresh eggs, fresh cream, fresh butter, so you need to not only extend the shelf life with the product your making but you have to replace those eggs with emulsifiers, you have to replace the butter with flavors or colors. You have to replace them with things. That's why the ingredient list starts getting long. 01 19 23 JB: Given that Hostess, the maker of Twinkies, what they're after is shelf life, what do they give up? SE: They give up fresh eggs, cream, butter, and with them, certain emulsifiers. Egg yolks are the best emulsifiers around. 01 19 43 JB: What's an emulsifier? SE: An emulsifier mixes oil and water, holds it together. When you mix oil into egg yolk, you can pour in tons and tons and tons, not speaking literally, of oil to make mayonnaise. The yolk just soaks it up. So if you don't have yolk in your batter, you need something else. Enter polysorbate-60, sodium steroidolacktate, monoendoglycerides. Some of these are naturally occurring. Monoendoglycerides are in milk and cream. 01 20 13 JB: You know in the first several chapters ingredient after ingredient you're dealing with some of the chemicals and whatnot, it seems to be you know and this is used primarily to keep it moist. SE: Right. Right. The shelf life, moister, sort of the same thing. Then with the moisture, of course, you have the possibility of microbial activity, so you have scorbic acid to knock that out and salt and sugar. Sugar is a great preservative. Great preservative. 01 20 37 (two shot) JB: What are some of the myths in American culture about the Twinkie? SE: Well, certainly the first one that comes to mind is that they will last forever. Which they don't. They go stale. If you take them out of the package, they go stale really fast, like bread. [how fast?]. Within a day, you'll feel them stiffening up. But if you keep them in the package, they can last quite a while. [Quite a while?] Months, I think, I haven't tasted for sure, but I think after a year it would not be so good. Maybe not. 01 21 06 JB: You know I always hear that Twinkies have a longer shelf life than the wrapper. (ISO) SE: Yeah and its not the case. The other myth that I would love to bust is that people say they are not baked or that they are only baked once a year. No, they are baked all the time and they are baked for about 12 minutes, at least as far as I can tell. I didn't get the official word, so I am just guessing. 01 21 24 JB: Do you eat Twinkies? SE: I succumb, they are tempting. They are, I am more of a fruit kind of guy. I like fruits and nuts for dessert, cheese, I am not really big on rich foods, but I'll eat a Twinkie, sure. 01 21 49 JB: Knowing what you know now, does it make you more or less likely to eat a Twinkie? SE: I think a little less likely because of the stickiness you get from eating the cream filling, but that is more because I also tried making a cream filling from whipped cream at home and my teeth felt clean and dry afterward, whereas the polysorbate 60 is, is just sort of hangs in there and hangs in there. 01 22 12 JB: Does this book, do the 39 ingredients, does all of this information, does this mean that we shouldn't be eating Twinkies? SE: Oh not at all, not at all, it's a treat! My gosh it's a dessert! You can eat desserts, you can eat treats occasionally. The Hostess people always trot out the people, some old guy who has had a Twinkie every day of his life, and he is perfectly fine! I mean my gosh, they are not gonna kill you! They are a treat. For my diet I prefer you know fruits, vegetables, whole foods and the like, but an occasional, it's like drinking you know, have a drink you know! Have a cake, go to a wedding, eat your cake! You know, dance a little extra. 01 22 54 JB: Can you have a drink and have a Twinkie? SE: But don't drive at the same time. 01 23 02 JB: Another thing in the book, particularly in the press release in the book too, that the shock value of knowing that certain ingredients in Twinkies are also used in other things, lets cover some of that while we are sitting here. SE: It is fascinating to see the dual uses that some of the ingredients are put to. While at first it made me, what can I say, kind of hesitant to eat something that might have an industrial use, I realized that salt which is in every baked good, its on my kitchen table, its also used to melt ice on the street and its used in a lot of chemical processes as a source of chlorine, which is a dangerous gas. So I had to wrap my mind around that a little bit. Ok, salt: sweet innocent common salt -chlorine gas: dangerous, banned weapon, you know its one and the same so that gives me pleasure to think of these things that are kind of amazing, and from there you can go on to the other ingredients. 01 23 57 JB: Lets list some, some of the other ingredients, some of the duel use ingredients SE: Alright, I have to think back a little bit, oh, cellulose gum, love it, it's a great fat substitute its in a lot of low fat salad dressings, ice creams and it's used in rocket fuel to give a slightly gelatinous feel to the rocket fuel, I just love that. 01 24 15 JB: What's it used for in the Twinkie? SE: In the Twinkie, mostly in the filling, it's a fat replacer, replacing the cream really. It gives it a smooth feel like a jelly like feel. That's kind of neat. 01 24 26 JB: So Twinkie cream is rocket fuel? SE: Sort of, but its not rocket fuel in Twinkies, it's the Twinkie ingredient in rocket fuel. Got to keep that straight 01 24 37 JB: I mean its not like you can go to the moon on Twinkie cream? SE: I would take Twinkies with me if I went to the moon though. I mean, let me think of another one, and I have to beg you for a moment, sorry, I'm going to look at the table of contents. That's what I want to do. I'm sorry. I am amazed that I haven't flustered so far. Oh yeah Dextrins and uh, you know I am drawing a blank on some of these, one or two more will do right? 01 25 29 JB: So you have another example. SE: I do, corn dextrins, it's a form of corn starch, very sticky, it's the glue on envelopes, the glue that you can lick. Its got this wonderful ability to stay sticky but not too sticky until its moistened. 01 25 51 SE: Corn dextrin is a corn starch, it's a thickener, it adds a certain cohesiveness to the crumb and the Twinkie and a great glue. It's the glue that you find on the back of envelopes that you lick: when it's dry it's not so sticky, when its wet it,sticks right together. 01 26 09 JB: When you say that, when you learn these things, if you don't know them already, it just seems so weird, you're like ew.SE: Yeah, but you know we have to be more sophisticated than that and say that, not that you aren't sophisticated, but say yeah things have multiple uses. You know, I do multiple things. I can be serious and professional, I can be silly and loving, these things have a wide variety of uses. The sub-ingredients are amazing. Something that provides for example, carbon, hydrogen or oxygen in a chemical reaction to make say a food ingredient, well like carbon monoxide is used as a sub-ingredient to make a number of other ingredients. Uh, what else, we have, on route to making artificial vanilla we have gueyfenesin, the cough syrup, well that's one of the sub ingredients in artificial vanilla. And of course it's a chemical. 01 27 07 JB: so I can eat a Twinkie if you need to keep from coughing? SE: That's it, absolutely. Highly recommended. 01 27 12 JB: Why don't you like being called the Twinkie man? SE: Well, I've worked on 40 books, I've written six others, you know I come from an interest in food. I am not just obsessed with Twinkies, I am obsessed with finding out things that I am curious about. I want to find out the answers, I am a curious guy. Not just about Twinkies, but about artificial ingredients. I love learning about food in general. 01 27 40 JB: The Twinkie industrial complex, explain that to me.SE: One of the things that I kept coming up against as I did my research was that the companies that I was calling, weren't just companies who say, make baking soda, they weren't just companies who made say, a calcium ingredient, they were part of large, huge companies which made many industrial products and were closely linked to others such as oil companies or machinery companies or commodity food companies that were among the biggest companies in the world and everywhere I went there were long lines of train cars, of trucks, big plants, big business. The Twinkie industrial complex: big. 01 28 34 JB: What does the Twinkie say about us? SE: What does the Twinkie say about us.I think that the philosophy of eating things that appeal to you is a good one, if it tastes good, eat it, enjoy it, enjoy life. IF you need in order to do that to make it so that it won't spoil until its been on the shelf for three or four weeks, then you know you have to make that sacrifice. But you know, you are going to have to work for your pleasure, I think that tells us or I think that says that we are willing to make big changes to our food in order to enjoy it. If you want to, if you work hard enough you can have your cake and eat it too. 01 29 26 JB: What does the evolution of the Twinkie sort of say about all of us? SE: We are ingenious at finding new solutions to old problems.

CAMPAIGN 2012 / INT BROLL 2012 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION / ISO HEAD ON In Interplay as: RS 5123 CAMPAIGN 2012 RNC HEAD ON POOL 083012 FTG OF REP. CONNIE MACK SPEAKING AT THE RNC IN TAMPA, FL 083012 19:39:57 Once again, it's morning in America. There are new leaders on the horizon - Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - America's comeback team. Growing up, I had a plaque on my wall that read: "Life's battles don't always go to the fastest or the strongest, sooner or later those who win are those who think they can." We've always been a people with big dreams and limitless potential. After all, this is America. (applause)Our success is built on our values and our principles, but so many of them are under attack. Our commitment to freedom and liberty, and to everything that makes our country great, seems to embarrass the blame-America-first crowd. They penalize individual achievement, praising the power of government. But they have not, cannot and will not destroy our spirit. (applause) 19:41:04 We are proud to be Americans. We are proud of our nation, of our heritage and of our success. It is our commitment to the American story. It's our athletes in London who brought home more medals than any other country, even China. It's our best and brightest who landed an extraordinary rover on Mars. It's the Nobel Prize winners, scientists, writers and artists, second-to-none, who inspire us all. These are the achievements that are brought about by a free society that honors individual effort. We owe it to those who have given so much to regain our strength, and remain the strongest forces for freedom the world has ever seen. Our allies deserve an unwavering support and our enemies need to know, we stand to defend freedom at all costs. (applause) 19:42:13 America was built on the belief in free enterprise, hard work, passion and faith. We have the awesome responsibility to make that dream a reality. That dream is not an impossible dream. It's the American dream. It's sure, it's strong and it's steady. Mitt Romney's plans to restore America's promise and purpose will be realized and the American dream will once again be available to all her children. We are a nation of dreamers - Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers. Dreamers like Neil Armstrong who sought new lands and took giant leaps into American exceptionalism. And dreamers like my friend, Kiko Villiaon. You know the stories of the others; now let me tell you the story of Kiko. In 1960, Kiko fled Castro's Cuba. He came to New York. He became a taxi driver. He worked hard and saved his money. He became a citizen. He moved to Florida. He started a business building boats. He raised a family. He put his children through school. He sold his business. Now he worries about what opportunities lie ahead for his children and their children. Kiko has lived the American dream, as have so many others. That's what this election is all about - making the American dream a reality again. (applause) 19:44:05 It's not about the past. It's not about what was done wrong. It's not about blaming America. It's quite the opposite. Tonight we embark on a renewal of the American dream. Tonight we honor those who have come before us and done so much. Many even giving their lives. And tonight we honor our children and their children to ensure their dreams - whether it's playing under the lights, or starting a business, or being a doctor or a nurse, or a soldier or a sailor, or even a president or vice president - dreams can become realities. After all, this is America. And it's morning once again. Thank you, God bless America. God bless you. Thank you. I love you, Florida. 19:44:59 Mack leaves the stage. CALLISTA AND NEWT GINGRICH SPEAKING AT THE RNC 083012 > THEY PRAISE RONALD REAGAN AND LINK JIMMY CARTER"S POLICIES TO THOSE OF PRES OBAMA> THEY ATTACK PRES OBAMA ON WORK FOR WELFARE. ":He should be ashamed for putting politics before people " IN INTERPLAY: 5123 CAMPAIGN 2012 RNC HEAD ON 083012 5119 CAMPAIGN 2012 RNC SWITCHED POOL 083012 194925 Callista: Thank you for that warm welcome. What a wonderful tribute to President Reagan and the spirit of the American people. 194934 Newt: It's fantastic to see so many friends here. Friends from decades of service to the party, service in public life and those who have helped us over the past few years. And we're delighted that tonight we come together to once again renew the American spirit and put real leadership back in the White House this November. 195000 Callista: The election of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will decisively move America to a better future. Remembering President Reagan reminds us that the choices we make matter, and this year is as important as the choice we made in 1980. 195024 Newt: Over three decades have passed since Ronald Reagan was first elected to the White House, yet the impact of his leadership is still evident today. While in office, President Reagan had three major goals: To restore the economy; to revive the American spirit; and to defeat totalitarianism, spreading democracy throughout the world. 194954Callista: By remaining true to his convictions, through his belief in the American people and with tremendous optimism, President Reagan achieved these goals. 195104 Newt: It's striking how President Carter and President Obama both took our nation down a path that in four years weakened America's confidence in itself and our hope for a better future. 195120 Callista: Both weakened the respect for America abroad; both increased government programs, filled with waste and inefficiency that failed to produce results; both made promises they couldn't keep; and, as a consequence of ineffective policies, both were unable to revive our economy and create jobs. 195147 Newt: For example, both crippled American energy production when there were better ways to develop and use our abundant energy resources. The Romney plan for North American energy independence is exactly the kind of bold, visionary leadership Reagan believed in, and it's what we need now. 195225 Callista: The Reagan presidency also teaches us that there is a better way to put Americans back to work, create millions of jobs and help every American achieve success. The Reagan program of tax cuts, regulatory reform and spending controls worked. 195239 Newt: Reagan's belief in small business owners and entrepreneurs is a remarkable contrast with Obama's class warfare rhetoric, massive deficits and a passion for taxing those who create jobs. The Romney plan for a stronger middle class has deep roots in Reagan's approach. 195307 Callista: Reagan's commitment to reform welfare and to create a work requirement was a major achievement when he was governor of California. His pioneering work led to the historic welfare reform bill Congress and the president passed 30 years later. This bipartisan legislation reduced the size of government, made our country more competitive and put millions of Americans back to work. 195342 Newt: Tragically, President Obama gutted this achievement. And, like Jimmy Carter, over four years he produced little effective legislation that brought the two parties together in the interest of the nation. Obama's waiving of the work requirements in welfare reform is just one example of his direct repudiation of President Reagan's values. Obama's proud of what he's done and of his politically motivated partisanship, but he should be ashamed for putting politics before people. 195434 Callista: Governor Romney will return America to work, and to the principles that are at the core of President Reagan's legacy. This year the American people will once again have an important choice to make. 195448 Newt: Now each of us must commit ourselves in the tradition of Ronald Reagan to come together. President Reagan said, "There is no substitute for victory." And this November, we cannot settle for anything less. (APPLAUSE) 195517 This is the most critical election of our lifetime. Each of us must do our part now to ensure that America remains, in the tradition of President Reagan, a land of freedom, hope and opportunity. Thank you and God bless. In Interplay as: RS 5123 CAMPAIGN 2012 RNC HEAD ON POOL 083012 FTG OF FMR. GOV. JEB BUSH, SEAN DUFFY, AND FRANTZ PLACIDE SPEAKING AT THE RNC IN TAMPA, FL 083012 (BUSH) 20:05:14 (big applause) Thank you all very much. Thanks. Thank you. Welcome to Florida! Bienvenidos (Spanish) Florida! Thank you. *******Before I begin my remarks, I have something personal I'd like to share with you., I've been so blessed to be a part of a family that has committed its life to public service. My granddad. (applause) My grandfather and my father have been incredible role models for me and served our country honorably, and my brother, well, I love my brother. (applause) He is a man of integrity, courage, and honor, and during incredibly challenging times, he kept us safe. (applause) So, Mr. President. Mr. President, it is time to stop blaming your predecessor for your failed economic policies. (big applause) You were dealt a tough hand. You were dealt a tough hand,. But your polices have not worked. In the fourth year of your presidency, a real leader would accept repsonsibi9oty for his actions, and you haven't done it.******* 20:07:14 Now. Now that I've gotten that off my chest, let's talk a little bit about our kids and education. This education. This election is about the future of this nation. We can shape that future with what we do here, with what we do November 6. We can restore America's greatness. That starts with a strong economy, a smart energy policy, lower deficits, and a president who puts America's workers and job-creators first. But to have a great future - a secure future - a future that is equal to our potential as a nation, we need to do something else. We must make sure that our children and grandchildren are ready for the world we are shaping today. (applause) 20:08:03 It starts. It starts in our homes, in our communities, and especially in our schools. As a candidate and Governor, I visited over 400 Florida schools. I saw children read their first sentences. Solve their first long-division problems. Explore the miracles of chemistry and physics. That's the essence of education - students getting a chance at a future. There are many reasons to believe America's future is bright, but also reasons to worry. Of 34 advanced nations in the world, American students rank 17th in science, 25th in math. Only one quarter of high school graduates are ready for their next steps. China and India produce eight times more engineering students each year than the United States. 20:08:55 This is a moral cost to our country. Our failing schools need to be fixed. (applause) We say that every child in America has an equal opportunity. Tell that to a kid in whose classroom learning isn't respected. Tell that to a parent stuck in a school where there is no leadership. Tell that to a young, talented teacher who just got laid off because she didn't have tenure. The sad truth is that equality of opportunity doesn't exist in many of our schools. We give some kids a chance, but not all. That failure is the great moral and economic issue of our time, and it's hurting all of America. (applause) 20:09:44 I believe we can meet this challenge. We need to set high standards for students and teachers and provide students and their parents the choices they deserve. The first step is a simple one. We must stop pre-judging children based on their race, ethnicity or household income. (applause) We must stop excusing failure in our schools and start rewarding improvement and success. (applause) We must have high academic standards that are benchmarked to the best in the world. 20:10:22 You see, all kids can learn. Governor Romney believes it, and the data proves it. While he was governor, Massachusetts raised standards and today their students lead the nation in academic performance. (applause) Here in Florida in 1999, we were at the bottom of the nation in education. For the last decade, this state has been on a path of reform. Under the leadership of Governor Rick Scott and local leaders, our focus every day is whether students are learning. That's it. (applause) Today, more students are reading on grade level, passing rigorous college prep courses and graduating from high school. And perhaps most exciting, those traditionally left behind are showing the greatest gains. 20:11:13 Among African-American students, Florida is ranked fourth in the nation for academic improvement. Among low-income students, we're ranked third for our gains. Among students with disabilities, we're ranked first. And among Latino students, the gains were so big, they required a new metric. Right now, Florida's fourth grade Hispanic students read as well or better than the average of all students in 21 states and the District of Columbia. (applause) These kids. These kids were once written off. But today thanks to teachers like Sean Duffy we're changing that. (applause) (DUFFY) 20:12:04 I'm honored to be an educator, to help the next generation of leaders, thinkers, builders, and entrepreneurs. Sadly, I'm part of a dwindling field. I've seen too many good teachers come and go, mainly due to poor working conditions and little pay. Bad teachers get locked into the system and good teachers leave for more money. On top of the bureaucratic challenges, what we're teaching doesn't always match what our students actually need. To that end, I launched a STEM lab at my high school. These labs focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and help students learn proficiency in these fields. We turn students away from education each year by not providing a robust curriculum that keeps up with the world in which these students live - and will eventually work. And at the end of the day, all of what we do from the educators to the policy makers has to be student-focused and student-centered. (applause) After all, students matter most and that's what counts. Thank you. (applause) (BUSH) 20:13:21 Thank you, Sean. I know that Del Valle High School is proud of your efforts, and we need more great teachers like you. Teachers who don't give up on a kid, who recognize that every child can learn, and don't waste a precious year of a student's life. If you're a great teacher and your students are mastering their subjects, no matter your age or years of experience, you should have a job. Education is hard work, but if you follow some core principles, and you challenge the status quo, you can get great results. So here's another thing we can do: Let's give every parent in America a choice about where their childs [sic] attends school. (applause) ****20:14:08 Look, everywhere.,.. Everywhere in our lives, we get the chance to choose. Go down any supermarket aisle and you'll find an incredible selection of milk. You can get whole milk, butter milk, 2% milk, low-fat milk or skim milk. Organic milk, and milk with extra Vitamin D. There's flavored milk-- chocolate, strawberry or vanilla - and it doesn't even taste like milk. They even make milk for people who can't drink milk. (laughter) SO my question to you is shouldn't parents have that kind of choice in schools that best meets the needs of their students? (applause) Governor Romney gets it. Mitt Romney gets it. He believes parents - regardless of zip code or income - should be able to send their child to the school that fits them best.**** 20:15:09 That has set him against some entrenched interests. There are many people who say they support strong schools but draw the line at school choice. "Sorry, kid. Giving you equal opportunity would be too risky. And it will upset powerful political forces that we need to win elections." I have a simple message for these masters of delay and deferral: Choose. You can either help the politically powerful unions. Or you can help the kids. (applause) Now, for those that have been involved in this, you know it's hard to take on the unions. They fund campaigns. They're well-organized. Election day? They'll show up. Meanwhile, the kids aren't old enough to vote. But you and I know who deserves a choice. Governor Romney knows it, too. Let me introduce you to Frantz Placide. Because we gave him a choice, he got a great education. (applause) (PLACIDE) 20:16:18 I grew up in the inner city of Miami. In a place where your zip code determined your chances of success, my only option was an unproductive and failing school. I knew that could lead to an unproductive and failing future. Thanks to Governor Bush's school choice program, I got the chance to choose a better school. Making my education my priority, I enrolled at one of the toughest high schools in Miami - Archbishop Curley Notre Dame. (applause) I'm sure like a lot of us, it was my mother, Carlette, who really pushed for a choice in my education. I'm glad she did. Her devotion to my future has given me a chance to succeed. I've graduated from Wagner College, and am looking forward to a life of learning, and serving my community. (applause) 20:17:19 Who knows what the future would have held, if I didn't have a choice in my education? But I do know the numbers for failure, and I probably wouldn't have had a good chance. Governor Bush's school choice program gave me a chance to achieve academic success, in a school that was the best fit for me. I took it from there. Thank you. (applauise) (BUSH) 20:17:46 Thank you Frantz, it is an incredible honor to see you grow up. And Frantz's story and many others' is a driving force across this nation to bring about necessary change. And some of the biggest reformers are Republicans. Governor Mitch Daniels in Indiana and Bobby Jindal in Louisiana have expanded school choice beyond what we have in Florida. Governor Martinez in New Mexico is raising expectations - holding schools accountable for students gaining critical reading skills. Governor LePage in Maine and Deal in Georgia are transforming education by pushing schools to harness the power of technology and digital learning. 20:18:27 Idaho's Governor Otter and Superintendent Luna are raising up the best teachers and separating out the ineffective ones. That earned them some enemies. Some of them slashed the superintendent's tires. But he didn't back down. Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin led his state. (applause) Gov. Walker led his state to adopt reforms that promote early literacy and require that teacher evaluations incorporate student achievement. In Nevada, Governor Sandoval pushed for reforms to end the damaging practice of "last in, first out" - where teachers are hired or fired based on their years in the system, not their impact in the classroom. 20:19:13 Governor Haslam in Tennessee is making sure every classroom has an effective teacher. ****Because he is a former governor, Mitt Romney understands that states must lead this national movement. (applause) In Massachusetts, Governor Romney narrowed the gap between students of different races, raised testing standards, and put into place a merit scholarship, the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, that gives students four tuition free years, at any Massachusetts public institution of higher learning. (applause) He is a champion for bringing hope to education. And he intends to be a champion for equality of opportunity, a president who always puts students first.**** ***20:19:59 So in this election, remember this: Our future as a nation is at stake. Fact is, this election is not just about one office. It is about one nation. If we want to continue to be the greatest nation on the planet, we must give our kids what we promise them: An equal opportunity. That starts in the classroom. It starts in our communities. It starts where you live. And it starts with electing Mitt Romney the next President of the United States. Thank you. God bless you, God bless our excellent teachers and God bless the United States. (applause) Thank you. God bless you. God bless our excellent teachers, and God bless the United States of America.*** 20:20:47 Bush leaves the stage.

TVU 2 BILL CLINTON SANTA MONICA CA ABC UNI 060316 C16 DELEGATE LEAD 21:09:33 8 years ago when she won a very hotly contested race here, you voted in february on super tuesday. This year you're voting at the end of the process and people may tell you it doesn't matter. They're wrong. This has been a very hotly contested primary in case you didn't notice. She has a popular vote lead of 3 million. She's gotten 56% of the popular vote. She has a delegate lead of nearly 300 pledged delegates but we need to go into this convention as a unified party to take on Mr. Trump and the republicans. Americans riding on it. TRUMP IS NOTHING NEW 21:10:18 And california in more ways than I can describe in the time allotted represents the future of this country so we need you and we need a good vote here. Now, let me talk a little bit about the election. You have to admit, I'm trying to think of some way I can say this and not make news you know I'm not the candidate so i'm not interested in making news but I do try to explain things. You will have to admit this is a fairly unusual election year wouldn't you? And there'd been a lot of road rage in both the republican and democratic parties. The first thing I want to say is this is not an american phenomenon. Now Mr. Trump may be a cruder more outrageous more insulting version but this debate is going on all around the world because every where in the world, you see anemic economic growth, stagnant incomes, rising inequality, declining upward mobility and people then feeling more insecure around people who don't look like they do. So, all over the world you're having debates about diversity and whether it makes us stronger or weaker. YESTERDAY'S SPEECH SHOWED WHY SHE SHOULD BE PRESIDENT 21:11:44 All over the world you're having debates about do we want walls or bridges to the future. In austria for goodness sakes which has an unemployment rate last time I checked of under 5 percent, small country with a very well balanced economy. High growth, high incomes. They came within one half a percent of electing a president who said it's time to put the wall sup. We got the biggest immigration crisis since world war two. So this is going on every where. And the reason i'm saying this is, it makes hillary's election even more important here. Here's why. Yesterday when she gave that speech on foreign policy she showed us why she should be the next president and all over the world because people are feeling the same pressures, squeezing incomes, concerns about the future anxiety about diversity they're ,looking to see what america's going to do. WISHING HE WERE 25 AGAIN IS LIKE "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" 21:12:47 Now as president Obama said in his last SOTU we are out performing every other big economy on earth. We have 15 million new jobs in the last 5 years. We have more than 90 percent of our people with health insurance for the first time in our history. We are the youngest most diverse workforce of any big economy in the world. We rank first or second in the world in the ability to generate energy from the sun and the wind and other renewable resources to lead the world away from climate change toward a whole new prosperity. We have the best science and technology base. We have the best system of higher education in the world. We just need to make it affordable for everybody and give a sensible plan so people can get this debt off their back that's paralyzing so many young people. So if I were 25 again, I'd like to be, but it- that's like "Make America Great Again" - but if I were and I knew at at 25 what I know today about hte world , I'd have spent 12 years as a governor 8 years as president and 15 years trying to help people all over the world make a living, raise their kids healthy, get a decent education, live up to their full potential. STOP PLAYING POLITICS WITH IMMIGRANT LIVES 21:22:32 Second thing we've got to do is stop playing politics with immigrants lives. We need- we have 11.5 million undocumented people in this country who are in the workforce, are in school they are living with approximately 5 million of your fellow americans who are either fully documented or already citizens and every day they get up wondering will the kid she kicked out of school or what happens if something happens to DACA and hillary is the only person you can vote for now. Either in the primary or the general election who has always supported immigration reform and who voted for the last chance we had to get it when the farm workers were begging he congress to pass an immigration reform bill that senator kennedy sponsored several years ago that president bush said he would sign. So once we walked away from that, the republicans are afraid of immigration reform because they're afraid to compete for the votes of first generation immigrants 21:23:42 And that's a mistake because their vote share keeps going down on the people that are here. And if the people that are here keep having babies, this is a losing strategy for them. They didn't say "everybody who's' working hard, obeys the law, deserves to have a chance to make it in america and if you want to be a political party, you gotta compete for everybody's votes. First, immigration reform. GRID LOCK 21:32:55 If you believe we can have shared prosperity, make a new chapter. Not make america great again 21st century economic and social greatness based on economic and social inclusion, rising mobility, declining inequality. She's your candidate but the 3rd reason that I think you ought to be for here is that there are two things that could wreck this and she's the best qualified to stop that from happening. The first is more partisan gridlock in washington. President Obama has done a far better job than he gets credit for in my opinion because the congress has worked so hard to keep anything good from happening and I kinda feel sorry for him. You're laughing but look how would you feel if every day of your life you got up and you went into your bathroom an dyou through water in your face and you looked in the mirror and you said "oh goody. I can go out and spend one more day of my vanishing making sure not one darn decent thing happens to help america move forward" I do not believe people like that. Them deep inside, everybody's gotta know that this is a dead bang losing strategy and it may be good politics in the short run but it's bad for america's families and it's bad for america's future. She's the only person you can vote for who has systematically managed to get some republican support for every important thing she has ever done as a public official. FOREIGN POLICY AND HILLARY/ REPUBLICANS TRY TO RUIN HEAR NAME 21:36:40 She got a deal with Russia to reduce the threat of accidental o rintential nuclear exchange and they're still causing a lot of trouble in Ukraine, you should be glad about this. It took 67 votes to approve that treaty and the senate's a lot of republicans. She got those votes. They loved it when she flew overnight from asia to Cairo and got the muslim brotherhood president of egypt to end the shooting war between israel and hamas in gaza. Now, I know they're being mean to hear now but it's their MO. It's the only other political thing i'm gonna tell you tonight. I find in any great contest you should assume your opponents are smart because if they're not you're going to win anyway right? These people are smart. They have been screaming at you for 4 years "please don't nominate hear we do not want to run against her" and they know that if they just keep throwing mud against the wall it'll hurt you even if none of it's true so for all the young people here. I'll give you a little history lesson. 24 years ago yesterday I won the california primary. And it was BACK WHEN HE RAN WAS CALLED "NOT A FACTOR" 21:38:11 The big articles, 3 weeks from yesterday forward in the San Fran newspaper saying bush and (??) tough race. Clinton's not a factor. Only got 9 electoral votes. Turned out to be about 370 short. Why am I telling you this? Because I could pick any one of you out of this audience and have you come up here and stand here and I would say 100 bad things about you and then I could poll the rest of you that knew the person and you're opinion about them would go down even if every single thing I said was false. The problem with this kind of stuff is it works until it doesn't 'cause 3 weeks after I was "not a factor" ?I was in 1st place after the democratic convention and we never lost it. Why am I telling you this? Yeah this has been an unpleasant campaign and it promises to get worse but sooner or later people figure you know what's all this stuff gotta to do with me and my family and my kids and my future and the future of my town, my state, my nation. What's it go tot do with the world? Nothing. HILLARY AND FOREIGN POLICY 21:39:26 I am telling you you give her a good victory here. You send us into that convention with the wind at hear back. She's in way better shame now compared to Mr. Trump than I was in 1992 and everybody knows that the last thing that could wreck us which is why a lot you clapped when I said I liked her speech yesterday is even if we break the gridlock all of these troubles in the rest of the world could drag us back. In the last 3 months even though finally wages have started to rise again, our economic growth was cut back to one half of one percent and it was all troubles in the rest of the world, troubles in china, troubles in south east asia. Turmoil with ISIS. All of the debates in europe. Even the Uk and it's doing great could be getting out of EU. these things are going on everywhere. She is the only person you can vote for who is qualified, able, respected enough, and knowledgeable enough to not only keep us safe but give us the pace we need to grow and life the world away from all this madness while we grow together. We have to prove- we have to prove to the whole world that our diversity is a strength. I been so proud of hear when the republican nominee says he wants to put a wall up against mexico. You can put a wall up against mexico, you can put a wall up at the canadian border. A lot of foreigners in canada you know. You can put seawalls up. Send the navy to gulf of mexico, pout the airforce up in the air. You still cannot keep the social media out. REPUBLICANS PAINT HER AS "WICKED WITCH" 21:41:06 I've known hear for 45 years and I've seen this little wicked witch of the west portrait that these republicans have tried so hard to format all these republicans that just slobbered all over her until she left the state department though she was wonderful. Well what was that little witch doing when she was in law school going to texas to register mexican american voters who had been systematically shut out of the political system for 100 years. Going to washington to work for a congressional committee on the rights and needs of migrant workers. Spending an extra year in law school to work at the Yale hospital and study center on the problems of abusing children to figure out how we can save those kids and give them a chance. And then she went to AK and went to the university to be with me and she opened a first legal aid clinic that all those people in the (??) mountains had ever had to give them access to the civil justice system and she moved to little rock and started the first pre school program that we'd ever had in the mississippi delta and she brought it in from israel to teach parents to be their children's first teacher. CALIFORNIA CAN HELP WRITE NEW AMERICAN CHAPTER 21:46:06 We don't' need to go back to some past greatness. We need to write a new chapter together and CA can write the first paragraph. Bill Clinton made 4 official campaign speeches today and one OTR stop. And his schedule will not slow down until election day. While Hillary Clinton lays it on Donald Trump, Bill Clinton makes a more subtle approach but he is here as HRC's cheerleader and to get people to the polls. In Santa Monica, Bill Clinton admits he is trying not to make news as he's not the candidate but he just can't help himself when it comes to Trump. He says Trump is nothing new and is not unique to the US although he is a "cruder more outrageous more insulting version" of the diversity debate that is going on around the world. 21:10:18 You have to admit, I'm trying to think of some way I can say this and not make news you know I'm not the candidate so i'm not interested in making news but I do try to explain things. You will have to admit this is a fairly unusual election year wouldn't you? And there'd been a lot of road rage in both the republican and democratic parties. The first thing I want to say is this is not an american phenomenon. Now Mr. Trump may be a cruder more outrageous more insulting version but this debate is going on all around the world because every where in the world, you see anemic economic growth, stagnant incomes, rising inequality, declining upward mobility and people then feeling more insecure around people who don't look like they do. So, all over the world you're having debates about diversity and whether it makes us stronger or weaker. Today, President Clinton made it very clear that California matters. "California will always matter," said the former president. 19:27:01 "The rest of the country looks at you the way the rest of the world looks is looking at us." Whenever the president gets nervous about polling, he is quick to remind the crowds how good they have been to the Clintons. He reminded California that they gave Hillary a victory 8 years ago, and he reminded them of how they gave him a victory. He did the same thing in New Hampshire, the same thing throughout coal country. In his usual case for an inclusive society, he praised California for its diversity but he accused the republican party of historically demonizing various diverse groups for more than 30 years as part of their political strategy. After stumping through lines of how the same republicans who are mean to her now once praised her, he said "I'm not talking about your next door neighbor who is a republican. I'm talking about the Washington establishment. They rose to power by convincing people that Government would mess up a two car parade. Right? Government is inherently illegitimate. They are just taking your money away and throwing it away on somebody else." 19:07:07 He went a step further and put responsibility on the "Washington establishment" republicans for demonizing various minority groups. "First, all these slurs against African Americans, and then there were the slurs against women and the women's right movement, then there were the slurs against gays in the early part of the 21st century. Then immigrants." 19:07:07 Finally, the president stressed why he believes Hillary Clinton's much anticipated speech yesterday was so important, saying it's important to remember the seriousness of this election, we are electing a commander in chief, "someone who has to be in charge of our national security." 19:00:25 "The second thing I want to say is the reason that speech she gave yesterday is more important than it would be even in a normal election, cause everytime we elect a president we elect a commander in chief, we elect someone who has to be in charge of our national security, the reason it's more important is this, what we think of as a bizarre turn in this year's politics, how's that for a nice vanilla expression? [laughter] Is maybe your cruder may be a more outrageous version but still is representative of a feeling that's sweeping across the world that this age of global interdependence is not all (?) to be." The former president repeatedly made the case for a future with Hillary while dumping on Trump's "Make America Great Again", calling Trump's America a place that wasn't so great for everyone. However, President Clinton tried to make this case while touting how great the past was under his administration. This is coming 24 years ago almost to the day when he won the California primary on June 2. It feels like a hard sell to criticize "Make America Great Again" when that was part of his own platform when he was running for president <http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4600782/bill-clinton-make-america-great> 19:03:24 She believes that we have to write our own page of 21st century economic and social greatness. She knows that this slogan "make America great again" is telling a certain slice of America I'll make it the way it used to be. I'll give you what you had 20 years ago. [boos] Wait, wait. I give you what you had 20 years ago which nobody can do. Right? Nobody can turn back he clock and I'll make you higher on the totem pole again.

TAPE: EF03/0122 IN_TIME: 14:35:46 DURATION: 16:34 SOURCES: APTN/Various RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film clips without clearance DATELINE: Berlin 7/8/02/03 SHOTLIST 1.WS Berlinale Palast 2.Cutaways of crowds 3.Arrival Jet Li 4.Arrival Zhang Yiyi 5.Arrival Maggie Cheung 6.MS Jet Li signing autographs 7.Pull into Zhang Yimou (director) 8.SOT Maggie Cheung: " I like Berlin " 9.Film clip 'Hero'(Focus Features International) 10.SOT Maggie Cheung" Zhang Yiyi stabbed me in the hand a little bit, in a scene in the forest when we are flying, because she has these two knifes just stopping behind me and then one time she chopped my hand " 11.SOT Zhang Yiyi: " Yeah I cut her hand here this part and you know I was so nervous because I really love her, I saw a lot of movies about her and I just feel so bad and you know I cried, I don't know what to do, I say ' I am sorry, I am sorry you know she has already blood " 12.Photo call of cast and crew (l-r, Jet Li, Maggie Cheung, 13.Zhang Yimou, 'unknown man', Zhang Yiyi) 14.SOT Zhang Yimou (director): 15.Film clip 'Hero' (Focus Features International) 16.WS Jackie Chan walking down hotel corridor 17.Film clip 'Traces of the Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family' (Courtesy of Fortissimo Films) 18.SOT Jackie Chan: " The beginning of the making of the film really I suppose for my family, what happened to my family. what happened to my father, how many wifes? What happened my mother, where it come from, why my name original is not Chan, my name is something else, why my father changed the name, and I just want to write a book, for my children, for my grandchildren, I will continue to make the film, myself , my son, like a history, not a history book but a video or a DVD. I think I pretty lucky , I have an interesting background, and I make the film that people interested in, right now I find out it is not just about myself, it is Chinese culture, history and culture yeah ". 19.Film clip 'Traces of the Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family' (Courtesy of Fortissimo Films) 20.SOT Jackie Chan: " My father he don't care, he just, he do the things he like to do, some time when they are roling the film, with my own film, I spend the money, then he just never answered the question, the fishing, I say ' Dad, answer ' No I am fishing , I just stop rolling, he don't understand, he just like - normal things, because he been with me so many years when I am filming, he just sit beside me, you know he not camera shy, he just ha ha , he just happy old man ' 21.Photocall Jackie Chan 22.Pan down from Berlinale sign to George Clooney on red carpet 23.Tilt up Steven Soderbergh (Solaris director) 24.MS George Clooney 25.SOT George Clooney: " I am good how are you, well I will tell you I only have 1 right now, I will worry about the next one after this, because sure we have to do one at the time, little weird. I don't think we have much of a shot so we will just watch it." 26.Film clip 'Solaris' (Courtesy of 20th Century Fox) 27.Arrival Press conference George Clooney and Natasha McElhone 28.Pan from camera to presser- Question Journalist : Do you feel you are on the height of your artistic carreer ? 29.SOT George Clooney: " Well we will see wont we, I actually thought that Batman and Robin was the peak, but if you want to say this that is fine, it is up to you. I dont know, I dont know what the height is , it does not seem to just climb and drop, it seems to do this a lot so, it has been a really fun time, I am having a great time right now, Steven and I have a company and we are getting films made that are difficult to get made, we are making movies that we are proud of and that are difficult to get made and sold, that is always fun, I dont know how long thay will let us get away with that until they take all the toys away, but for right now, if I get hit by a bus then yes this was the height of my carreer " 30.WS Presser 31.SOT George Clooney: " You know it is funny to be asked a lot of philosofical questions, I found the strangest thing as a director , having directed a film, you know when you are an actor noone really questions your intelect , you get to sit back and nobody goes , what were you trying to say with that, but when you direct something, everybody goes, what did you mean by that, so you have to sound very smart ." 32.Pan from audience to panel Question journalist : I found the film boring, are you happy with the film ? 33.SOT George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh: " Well I find you fascinating ! " 34.Film clip 'Adaptation' (Courtesy of Columbia TriStar) 35.Arrival Nicolas Cage to press conference 36.CU Cage 37.WS presser 38.SOT Nicolas Cage: " It was a very different experience for me and I would hope that I would grow in some way with the idea of playing twin brothers, and I liken it to what it must be like to play the drums, because you are trying to do several things at once, and I would get one character, one shot on Charly, go change my clothes become Donald, and then I would have an earpiece in my ear and listen to dialogue that I had done with Charly, played back and try to imagine Charly being there when I am Donald, and try to think and feel like Donald be be able to still get outside myself enough to remember what I did as Charly, and then switch back five or six times a day, and somewhere along the way try not to totally lose my mind. " 39.Film clip 'Adaptation' (Courtesy of Columbia TriStar) 40.WS presser 41.SOT Nicolas Cage: " I did get into a paranoid mindset, which I think then I knew the character was coming, but like I would go to lunch once and he would do something with the menu , like put the menu under his arms and flap it and I thought he was doing that to see if I would put that in the movie, but of course I was just, you know I was becoming the character." 42.SOT Charlie Kaufman (screenplay writer/person who Nicolas Cage plays in film): " You know the whole thing is so weird, it was interesting. " 43.Film clip 'Adaptation' (Courtesy of Columbia TriStar) 44.Arrival John Cusack to party 45. Clip " Max " 45 Sot Malcolm McLaren" It was not accepted in the Berlin Film Festival, considered too controversial so I stepped forward and said hey man I will show it, so it is a Malcolm Mc Laren filmfest, I did it because I feel it needs to be seen aand I think this is the soil where it all began, no point in playing you know, just always in the festivals and outside where the reality lies you know , everybody here knows this history, they are all part of it so it is important to give it its own space and Berlin Film Festival denied it, I put it on" 46.MS John Cusack and director being interviewed 50.SOT John Cusack: " The idea that Hitler had that was original, or the one thing he recognised that was precient was that art and politics were going to be fused and that who ever controlled the images and symbols and the aesthetics of art, who got into your subconscious had power to ... the world, so he started propaganda and more then propaganda, he realised that art was just basically raw material and dangerous and about ideas, and we can use it for good or we can use it to recontruct the world that is gonna take us to another war. " 51.GV John Cusack 52.SOT John Cusack (on whether actors should give opinions about impending war): " I would not leave anything to politicians, that is a disaster, I think there is a whole school of thought that sort of wants people to believe that the ideas are so complicated that us normal people could not possibly have the brain capacity to understand, but I think maybe we can, so I think it is kind of your obligation to speak your conscience especially if it involves murder of other human beings. " 53.Clip " Max " HERO Zhang Yimou premiered his latest film 'Hero' to Western audiences at the Berlin film festival. The film marks a change in style for the Chinese director, as it is a martial arts movie and also stars many of China's biggest stars. The film, which stars Jet Li, Maggie Cheung, and Zhang Yiyi, retells a legend in Chinese history. The legend tells of three assassins Broken Sword, Sky and Flying Snow, who have for years been trying to overthrow the king of the Chinese province of Qin. Jet Li stars as Nameless, who approaches the king, claiming to have killed these three assassins. However, it soon becomes apparent that this isn't the case and he is himself involved in a ruse to get rid of the king. Zhang Yimou has long been a film festival favourite. His film, 'Happy Times' showed at Berlin last year, and many of his films have achieved international acclaim. TRACES OF THE DRAGON: JACKIE CHAN AND HIS LOST FAMILY 'Traces of the Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family' brings the famous Hong Kong star to the big screens in a different light. Since Jackie Chan became famous there have been various rumours around China about his family and even his parentage. This movie explains all about Jackie Chan's family and their history and even why the father changed the family name from Fang to Chan. It tells the story of his father and his mother and how they both left their children behind in order to survive various problems in Chinese history. His father was a nationalist on the advent of communist China and left behind his children in order to survive. His mother had to leave her family with her mother in order to earn money for them. The documentary tracks down the lost siblings of Chan who all talk about their experiences of the events which shaped their family. The film held its world premiere at the festival. SOLARIS GEORGE CLOONEY admits he was nervous about remaking the Russian science fiction movie "Solaris," a brooding film mixing fantasy and reality that was screened Friday at the Berlin Film Festival. When one of the journalists told him the film was boring during a press conference, he replied that the journalist himself must be a fascinating character ! Starring Clooney and directed by STEVEN SODERBERGH, the new version of Andrei Tarkovsky's classic is among 22 films competing in Berlin, considered one of Europe's top film festivals along with Cannes and Venice. The Golden Bear top prize is being awarded Feb. 16. The film shows a psychologist, still recovering from his wife's suicide, who is sent to investigate mysterious happenings on a space station orbiting the distant star of Solaris. The psychologist, played by Clooney, is baffled by the behavior of the space station crew until he receives a visit in his cabin from his deceased wife. "Often, making a film is a way of working through some experience," Soderbergh said. "My father died in 1988 and that was my way of working through a very disorienting experience." This is reflected in the nature of the film, a quiet meditation on the meaning of memory and emotion that shuns Hollywood commercial conventions for science fiction films. ADAPTATION 'Adaptation' follows the existential black comedy 'Being John Malkovich,' by writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze and the critics are unanimous that the pair have one-upped themselves with 'Adaptation.' The story tells of how Charlie ( NICHOLAS CAGE ) takes on a job adapting 'The Orchid Thief,' a nonfiction, nonlinear book by New Yorker writer Susan Orlean (played by double Oscar winner, MERYL STREEP) about John Laroche (CHRIS COOPER - 'The Bourne Identity'), a toothless Florida flower breeder in search of a rare "ghost orchid." He tells a studio exec (TILDA SWINTON - 'The Beach'): "No sex, no guns, no car chases," - asking "Why can't there be a movie simply about flowers?". Intertwined is time travel, a cameo from Charles Darwin, a quickie nature lesson about how flowers adapt and Charlie's decision to put himself in the script. Not just Charlie but his twin, Donald (Cage again), also fat and balding but, in complete contrast, hugely successful with women. Donald easily seduces Caroline (Maggie Gyllenhaal), while Charlie can't show his feelings to Amelia (Cara Seymour - 'Dancer in the Dark') or even say a word to Susan in an elevator. Nicholas Cage talked about the special difficulties he faced when playing this double part. "It did become frustrating at times because when I had to try to really get into the mind set of what that character is thinking of feeling. Charlie, as you pointed out, is different. He is negative, he doesn't like himself, he is a brilliant artist but he is up against the wall and he cant deal very well with people, and is creatively blocked. And so you get that mind set all day and then you switch over to Donald who likes himself, which is positive, who is outgoing. Who has a girlfriend and is a superficial writer but he is happy with his work. Where it got tricky was going back and forth three or four times a day." MAX It was MALCOLM MC LAREN who came to the rescue of John Cusack and the producers of the controversial film " Max " , when the Berlin Film Festival organisers chose not to pick the film for a screening at the festival. The notorious promotor and punk legend decided to show the film himself at an champagne fueled screening in an independent cinema, in the presence of Cusack himself. JOHN CUSACK and NOAH TAYLOR star in 'MAX', a new drama about a friendship during Hitler's days as a would be artist, released in the US today (27DEC02). Set in Munich in1918, the world is still reeling from World War One. Everyone is thinking hard about the future, and debate about life, politics, personal beliefs and art are all heated and passionate. 'Max' is described as a story of two unlikely friends facing an uncertain future and one's fateful decision to embrace a nightmare vision of evil. John Cusack ('America's Sweethearts', 'Being John Malkovich') plays Max Rothman, a soldier just returned from the war. Once a promising artist, he is now one of the walking wounded - he lost his right arm, and with it the ability to paint. He opens what quickly becomes an acclaimed art gallery, and at a party for the opening of his new show, meets and befriends a fellow war veteran and aspiring painter, Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor, 'Vanilla Sky', 'Almost Famous'). Hitler has no family, home or friends, and his decision to transfer his creative passion to politics, where he finds an outlet for his raw beliefs, sets into motion the most catastrophic chapter of the 20th century. The film also stars Molly Parker ('Looking for Leonard' 'Wonderland) as Max Rothman's wife, and LEELEE SOBIESKI ('The Glass House', Joy Ride' ) as Rotherman's beautiful artistic mistress Liselore Von Peltz. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Menno Meyjes ("The Color Purple") makes his directorial debut with 'Max', aiming for historical fable rather than fact based drama. The film makers say the tale aims to go beyond the stereotype of a shouting, mustachioed Hitler, and offer fresh understanding of a monster. It breaks from the idea that he was the personification of evil now safely consigned to history, and instead shows his human face, and the impact of his choices. The film covers art, politics, love, hope, intolerance, obsession and destructive malevolence in its attempt to provide an original and intimate portrait of a major turning point in modern history.

TAPE: EF01/0630 IN_TIME: 17:37:43 DURATION: 11:20 SOURCES: APTN/Tele??? RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video/tv clips without clearance DATELINE: 31/08/01 to 02/09/01 SHOTLIST APTN Material - SEPT 1ST 1. GV men carrying AMFAR's red carpet in from rain 2. CU AMFAR sign with rain pouring over it 3. Dr Matilda Krim with Portia de Rossi 4. MS Krim with de Rossi 5. Tilt up Claudia Schiffer 6. Pull focus CU jewelled necklace 7. SOT Claudia Schiffer (German): "It happens very often in my life because I am working in the couture business and a lot of people which I have known die because of Aids, for example make-up artists, photographers, hairdressers I worked very close with. That's why I hope they find a vaccination against Aids pretty soon." 8. WS arrival Nicole Kidman 9. MS Kidman 10. MS Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend 11. Arrival Elizabeth Taylor 12. SOT Elizabeth Taylor: (Reporter: "Do you feel there's a danger with the young today that they are too blaise about it and not safe enough?") "I absolutely do. Because they don't like to use condoms because it doesn't feel as good but death feels much worse." 13. MS Elizabeth Taylor 14. Pan of dining room 15. MS Charlize Theron in a passionate embrace with her beau 16. WS Nicole Kidman walks to table 17. WS Elizabeth Taylor gets up and walks to stage 18. C/a diners 19. SOT Elizabeth Taylor: "Tonight at AMFAR we come to you with commitment and a vision. Please, please would you meet our vision with your money." 20. WS auctioneer starting bidding with Claudia Schiffer 21. GV necklace is sold to Francesco Lombardi (ex-boyfriend of Charlize Theron, Italian Miramax) APTN Material 22. GVs Nicole Kidman arriving at Casino Tele Material 23. WS presser 24. MS Kidman 25. SOT reporter: "One hero in a Chekhov play states that she likes tall men, apple pie, and the name Roland. What would you like?"" 26. SOT Nicole Kidman: "I'll take a tall man!" 27. Film Clip 'The Others' (Courtesy - Studio Canal Material) Tele Material 28. SOT Kidman (English) : "A week before we were about to start I asked Alejandro to let me not do the movie because I was scared to do it because I'd come off 'Moulin Rouge' which was a love story that was very light and it was operatic but it was heightened reality and this meant that I was going into this dark psychological place and I didn't want to do it." 29. C/a audience 30. SOT Kidman (English): "You know who Robbie Williams is here. Probably not. Yeah, we did 'Something Stupid', the Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra cover of that song. It was fun." APTN Material 31. GVs Martin Scorsese arriving at Casino Tele Material 32. GVs photocall for 'Monsoon Wedding' 33. Film clip 'Monsoon Wedding' (Courtesy Orfeo Films International material) APTN Material 34. SOT Mira Nair (English): "India is like that. It's all about density and layering and I love to do that cinematically, to layer and pack the frame in with all this stuff. To tell five interwoven stories was our agenda and to give people, I hope, a grand time, we wanted to really make a meditation on aspects of love, abusive love, dysfunctional love, old shoes love, the love of being married to a man for 25 years who doesn't want to sleep with you any more and then telling him quietly from the female angle." 35. GVs 'Monsoon' Wedding party 36 . Film clip 'Waking Life' (Courtesy 20th Century Fox) APTN Material 37. SOT Bob Sabiston (artistic director): "For me it's really the result of this technique I've been developing with the rotoscoping and it's just a continuation of these short films I've been making where you're animating from real life and taking the traditions of painting into the film world." 36. Film clip 'Waking Life' (Courtesy 20th Century Fox) APTN Material 37. SOT Richard Linklater (director): "I like characters in this case that are no less intelligent than an audience member so you have to meet them on their own terms. It sounds challenging but we do that all the time when we read. It's just in cinema. Why did cinema get so stupid?" 38. Film clip 'Agua e Sal' (Courtesy Gemini Films) APTN Material 39. B-roll Joaquim de Almeida 40. SOT Joaquim de Almeida (English): "Obviously while we were shooting she must have been going through some of the problems what her character was going through." 41. Film trailer 'Bully' (Courtesy Wild Bunch) APTN Material 42. SOT Larry Clark (Director (English): "It seemed like a very American story. It's something that can only happen in America where our children have so much time on their hands. They were middle class kids from good families and they were bored." 43. Film trailer 'Bully' (Courtesy Wild Bunch) APTN Material 44. SOT Brad Renfro (English): "Larry kicks ass. He tells the truth." 45. GVs Michael Cimino doing reading of his book 'Baby Jane' with cast of Bully 46. C/A audience Tele Material 47. GVs Nicole Kidman on Passerelle for premiere of 'The Others' APTN Material 48. Arrival Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington 49. SOT Ethan Hawke: "For me, it's really fun. I'm here with three couldn't be more completely different movies. One big mainstream studio drama, one very experimental movie of just three actors in one room and then one animated movie so it couldn't be more different." 50. Film clip 'Training Day' (Courtesy Warner Bros) APTN Material 51. SOT Denzel Washington (English): "He has to suffer because at one time the studio were like maybe he goes to jail.... And I was like 'no, no, no. I won't do the movie if he does that.' He has to pay in the worst way. " 52. Film clip 'Curse of the Jade Scorpion' (Courtesy Capitol Films) APTN Material 53. SOT Helen Hunt (English): "Any time I had a question or a suggestion he was honestly anxious to know what it was. He counts on the actress he hires will come up with strong ideas." APTN Material 54. GV Venice HOLLYWOOD STARS LIGHT UP DARK VENICE SKY Despite dark skies and torrential rain, the Venice Film Festival was lit up Saturday night (1SEPT01) by Hollywood stars, including Nicole Kidman, Elizabeth Taylor and Charlize Theron, who shone brightly for the cause celeb that is the AMFAR Aids charity. Benefits for the The American Foundation For Aids Research, which boasts Elizabeth Taylor as a patron, are an annual event at both the Cannes and Venice film festivals and are guaranteed to bring out the stars. Elizabeth Taylor was quick to warn youngsters about the dangers of being ignorant about Aids, the world's fastest growing disease which has taken many millions of lives around the globe. "They don't like to use condoms," said Taylor on the red carpet, "because it doesn't feel so good. But death feels even worse." Kidman, in an elegant silver-colored and white dress, posed for photographers before joining Taylor's table for dinner. The Australian actress appears in two festival films, Alejandro Amenabar's 'The Others' and Jez Butterworth's out-of-competition 'Birthday Girl.' For Charlize Theron it was another opportunity to show off Irish actor Stuart Townsend, the new man she has been presenting to the paparazzi since touching down at Venice airport. She was also accompanied by her mother. The 26-year-old South African actress stars in Woody Allen's out-of-competition 'The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.' Supermodel Claudia Schiffer stepped up to give a hand with the traditional AMFAR benefit auction, and used all her feminine powers of persuasion to coax bids from the male members of the audience for the jewels on sale. The jewels went for 27,000 dollars - to an old flame of Charlize Theron's. Among other stars who turned out in support of the cause were Ally McBeal star Portia de Rossi, Lady Helen Taylor, Bijou Phillips, and South American singer Alexandre Pires, who performed later on in the evening. Participants paid from 1,500 to 50,000 dollars to attend. THE OTHERS - PRESS CONFERENCE Nicole Kidman continued to be the centre of attention at Venice on Sunday (2SEPT01) when she was pursued by paparazzi to the much anticipated press conference for her competition film 'The Others'. 'The Others' is written and directed by popular Spanish filmmaker, ALEXJANDRO AMEN?BAR ('Open Your Eyes', 'Butterfly Tongues'). The dark film tells the story of a pious English woman whose children suffer from a rare disease which means they can't be exposed to sunlight. Set on the island of Jersey in 1945, Grace's (Kidman) husband has not returned from the front and she is bringing up her children alone in a remote Victorian mansion, within the menacing constraints of her strict religious principles. Her young son and daughter (ALKINA MAN, JAMES BENTLEY, both making their feature film debuts) suffer from the strange illness and when three new servants join the family, they must learn a vital rule: the house must always be kept in semidarkness; no door opened before the previous one is closed. But they fail to stick to Grace's rigorous order, sparking off an unexpected chain reaction. In their isolation, they discover they are not alone: there is a ghostly presence in their house. Although it is set on the British Channel island of Jersey, 'The Others' was filmed in Madrid and Santander, on Spain's northern coast, and cost $20 million to produce. Amenabar has said that the idea for the film was influenced by Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock movies, and he has created a chilling piece of storytelling. Kidman's previous films have included ' Eyes Wide Shut', 'The Peacemaker' and 'Far and Away'. It's the first time Kidman has made a film in this genre, but she was keen to work with the director. Kidman was also asked about her forthcoming roles on the London stage. She is set to return to work with Sam Mendes at the Donmar Wharehouse, where she famously starred nude in 'The Blue Room', as well as teaming up with the director of the UK's National Theatre, Trevor Nunn. But Kidman was unable to reveal any details because, she said, "Sam would kill me!". Nicole Kidman will be in London this evening (3AUG01) for the premiere of Moulin Rouge, directed by Baz Luhrmann. 'The Others' also stars FIONNULA FLANAGAN ('Waking Ned', 'Ulysses'), CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON ('Gone In 60 Seconds', 'Elizabeth') and veteran British performer ERIC SYKES ('Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines'). 'The Others' is the American directorial debut for young Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar who was responsible for the acclaimed film 'Open Your Eyes' ('Abre Los Ojos'), which starred Penelope Cruz and has recently been Americanised by director Cameron Crowe as 'Vanilla Sky', starring - yes, you've guessed it, Tom Cruise. MONSOON WEDDING One of the hottest tips to win the main competition is the Indian film 'Monsoon Wedding', which as the title indicates, is about a wedding during the Indian monsoon season, in New Delhi. The story surrounds the Punjabi Verma family as they prepare for a last minute marriage that will also bring together a family scattered across the globe. The movie traces five intersecting stories concerning members of the family with themes ranging from love and class to morality and loyalty. The family's hopes, anxieties and secrets all gush out amid the preparations and when the monsoon rain finally comes, there are even more revelations and romances. According to critics, 'Monsoon Wedding' portrays modern, cosmopolitan India in a way that hasn't been presented to the Western world before. The cast and crew of the film last night celebrated their glowing reviews by throwing a big knees-up at the Excelsior Hotel. MARTIN SCORSESE Legendary director Martin Scorsese was also in Venice Saturday (1SEPT01) promoting his pet project, The Film Foundation, at a press conference at the festival's Casino. The Film Foundation, of which Scorsese is the President, was set up to preserve films from the past that either through time or negligence would otherwise be lost or destroyed. Supporters of the project include Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas, Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg. The two films being shown at the festival are rare examples of Italian American movies which were made to make up for the dearth of Italian motion pictures in the States at the beginning of the 1930s. He talked about the project and later on he will be presenting two films from the foundation, CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION The press conference for 'Curse of the Jade Scorpion' followed swiftly on from 'The Others' premiere but, despite marshalling Charlize Theron and Oscar winner Helen Hunt, was somewhat overshadowed by the earlier appearance of Nicole Kidman. And the hype generators where also not helped by the total absence of writer, director and star, Woody Allen. 'The Curse of the Jade Scorpion' takes Allen back to a period he knows well - the 1940s - where he plays CW Briggs, the top insurance investigator in 1940s New York. Or that's what he keeps telling his new colleague, the top efficiency expert, Betty Ann Fitz Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt). Briggs prides himself on being able to crack any insurance caper by getting into the mind of the thief, but when a hypnotist waves the precious jewel entitled the Jade Scorpion in front of Briggs, suddenly Briggs' mind is turned into the mind of a thief without his knowledge. Allen has directed and written more than 30 films, at the rate of one a year, and says he always has more ideas for films than he has time to make them. Among his best-known are 'Annie Hall', 'Manhattan', 'Hannah and Her Sisters', 'Broadway Danny Rose', 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' and 'Small Time Crooks'. Winning an Oscar playing opposite Jack Nicholson in 'As Good As It Gets' turned Helen Hunt into one of Hollywood's most sought after actresses. She has since starred opposite Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want', with Tom Hanks in 'Cast Away' and with Richard Gere in Robert Altman's 'Dr T and The Women'. Dan Aykroyd has starred in some of the most popular comedies of the last two decades, including 'Ghostbusters', 'Trading Places' and 'Blues Brothers'. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in 'Driving Miss Daisy'. Charlize Theron most recently appeared in 'The Legend of Bagger Vance', 'Men of Honor' and 'The Yards'. Other credits include 'The Cider House Rules' and 'Mighty Joe Young'. She previously worked with Woody Allen on 'Celebrity'. Actor David Ogden Stiers (TV's 'MASH') has co-starred in several Allen projects, and says he never passes up the opportunity to work with the director. Stretching her acting talents in a new direction, meanwhile, as another cast member of 'Jade Scorpion' is a dressed down Elizabeth Berkley ('Showgirls', 'Any Given Sunday'). WAKING LIFE A refreshing new style of movie hit the festival Sunday (3SEPT01) when one of the darlings of this year's Sundance Film Festival, 'Waking Life', was shown. 'Waking Life' may have been filmed like most movies, but that's because the picture's unique quality was added afterwards - not by the computer special effects boffins at Industrial Light and Magic, but by real artists who painted by hand every frame of film. However, the quirkiness of the film doesn't stop there as the movie is constructed out of small sections of philosophical ideas and metaphysical theories. These sections either stand independent from the main storyline of the film, or they appear in the form of professors, theorists or just passers-by who approach the main character, Wiley Wiggins, as he wanders through the world of his dreams. Wiggins finds himself unable to leave the dream world, raising the questions about whether he is in fact alive or dead - which is another basic philosophical conundrum: how can we ever know that what we experience is real? Richard Linklater, the director of 'Waking Life', was responsible for 'Dazed and Confused', 'Slacker', 'Suburbia', and 'The Newton Boys'. Many of the actors of those films, like Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke appear once again as some of the theorists or philosophical conversationalists - even the main character Wiley Wiggins, which is also the name of the actor, appeared as Mitch Kramer in 'Dazed and Confused'. The painted style of the film is courtesy of computer animation savant Bob Sabiston who created the unique 'interpolated rotoscoping' software that helped the artists create the effects in 'Waking Life'. AGUA E SAL Personal controversy dogged the premiere of 'Agua e Sal' ('Water and Salt') whose Portuguese director, Teresa Villaverde, has been accused by her husband of kidnapping their daughter. Jon Jost, director of 'Frame Up', has demanded that the film, which stars their daughter, be taken out of the Venice lineup and competition. Apparently fearing personal questions, Villaverde canceled an appearance at the film's press conference Friday (31AUG01) at the last minute. Producer Paulo Branco cited personal reasons. "It is essential that her private life be distinct from the professional one," said the press release circulated to journalists around the festival. 'Water and Salt,' Villaverde's fourth feature, is described as a woman's search for herself as she tries to come to terms with the end of her marriage. According to Joaquim de Almeida, who is a close friend of Villaverde, the film was based on the Portuguese director's personal experiences during filming, when she would lose her temper with actress Galatea Ranzi for not portraying the troubled woman Ana as the director had envisioned. Ironically one of the two storylines in 'Agua e Sal' is about Ana's quest to retrieve her kidnapped daughter from her estranged husband (Joaquim de Almeida). BULLY Larry Clark's 'Bully' shocked Venice to its foundations earlier this week with the frank portrayal of a gruesome murder carried out by a group of respectable teenagers in Florida some years ago. The movie tells the story of two good-looking small town slackers, Bobby and Marty (Nick Stahl and Brad Renfro) who have been lifelong friends and who spend their spare time taking drugs, hustling cash from homosexuals and doing dead-end jobs. Bobby treats Marty like a toy, dominating him and destroying his self-esteem, until one day the pair meet up with two beautiful rich girls, Lisa and Ali (Rachel Miner and Bijou Philips) on the beach. They decide to go on a double date together, where Ali is viciously humiliated by Bobby whilst Marty and Lisa begin a relationship. Marty's feelings for Lisa get stronger and when she falls pregnant, Lisa encourages Marty to stand up for himself. She tells friends and aquaintances that Bobby has raped her and consistently abused Marty - and needs to be dealt with. Rather than avoid him, or go to the police, her answer is to plot a murder. She draws six friends and aquaintances into her plan - including sometime teenage prostitute Ali, Ali's boyfriend Donny (Michael Pitt), and a young girl just out of rehab called Heather (Kelli Garner). Lisa and Ali contact a hitman (played by Leo Fitzpatrick - 'Kids') to get them guns. At 23, Fitzpatrick is one of the oldest members of the cast. The film was shot in and around the neighborhoods where Bobby Kent lived and died, and some of the film crew had been at high school with the teens. Stahl explains they took him to the area Bobby had grown up - Broward County, a suburb much like any other. The attack sent ripples through the community, stunning neighbours and crushing parents. Locals say what they found most shocking was that it was a group of middle class, suburban kids who carried out the brutal ambush, pointing to lack of parental guidance, boredom and drugs. 'Bully' isn't the first time a Larry Clark film has created waves - he scooped the Cannes Palme d'Or with his harsh portrayal of street kids living in Manhattan, 'Kids'. Aside from making films, Clark is a photographer, artist and writer, with his focus always being on the youth of America, whether it be teenagers with AIDS, speed freaks, or young criminals. The group involved in the murder or Bobby Kent were convicted, but have never repented for the crime. MICHAEL CIMINO On the avant-garde side of the festival, Oscar winning director Michael Cimino of 'The Deerhunter' fame was here to present his first novel, 'Big Jane'. Cimino paired up on the stage with 'Bully' stars Bijou Philips and Brad Renfro to give a seated reading from his new novel. Set in the 50s, 'Big Jane' tells the adventures of a young woman, 19 year old Jane Kerinan, who Cimino says he based on a real-life Big Jane. In the novel, Jane, together with Billy McBain, a motorcyclist and poet, leaves home and crosses the vast spaces of the Montana and Dakota plains in search of a new life. Cimino has had a career of magnificent ups and terrible downs - his 1978 movie 'The Deerhunter' won 5 Oscars while his 1981 'Heaven's Gate' went hugely over budget and almost bankrupted the production company - but as the author of over 40 screenplays, he has never suffered from writer's block. In fact, he claims that he doesn't follow trends in deciding what stories to tell, and that his aim is to introduce the reader or audience to people they have never met before and to places they have never been. THE OTHERS - PREMIERE Nicole Kidman revelled on the Passerelle Saturday night (1SEPT01) at the premiere of 'The Others' at the Venice Film Festival, spending plenty of time meeting and greeting fans before going in to see the late night screening of the movie. After the screening, the Australian actress unexpectedly turned out at one o'clock in the morning for the party opposite the Des Bains hotel where she chatted with guests until three in the morning. See 'The Others' - Press Conference above for details of the film. TRAINING DAY Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke boosted the star power of Venice as they arrived for the launch of their latest project 'Training Day.' 'Training Day' isn't Ethan Hawke's only film at the festival. There's also the aforementioned 'Waking Life', but the two films couldn't be more different. In 'Waking Life' he appears as a man discussing reincarnation with his lover Julie Delpy (his co-star in the Richard Linklater film 'Before Sunrise'), while 'Training Day' sees him playing a rookie cop called Jake Hoyt who is being escorted around by veteran cop, Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington), on his first brutal day with LAPD's tough inner-city narcotics unit. When Hoyt discovers that Harris is corrupt along with many other members of the unit, he has to decide whether to turn away from the corruption or accept it. 'Training Day' is director Antoine Fuqua's second film. He made his debut with 'Replacement Killers, which starred Chow Yun-Fat and Mira Sorvino.