Awkward Ex-Husbands, Strange First Dates, and Dating Horrors | David Letterman

Karen Stone, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back to the program. Nice, lively group. Yeah, they are. Good to see you. You look great. As we say in show business, you're easy on the eyes. Thanks, babe. What have you been up to? What's going on? You're working like a dog, aren't you? Working very hard. I'm selling that specialist movie. Yeah. I shot a cover for Cosmopolitan today. Yep, I'm a Cosmo gal. Well, good for you. What does that mean exactly? Well, because I've just become a Cosmo gal, I thought that I should have some tips for other gals. So I have 10 tips, 10 Cosmo tips, on how to keep your man. Wow. Is it kind of like your own little top 10 list? Yes, it is. I'm not sure people want another one tonight. We've had, we had one already. Not, because I just happen to have it in my shoe. Dave's got a foot thing. Okay. That's me doing my dumb guy character. There's one in here for you. Okay. Number 10. Oh, are we actually doing this? Oh, I get a drum roll. This is great. Yeah, okay. I feel big. Sure. Don't get hurt. Okay, 10. I'll be over here if anything explodes. From time to time, whack him in the side of the head with one of your pumps to remind him who's boss. Nine, candlelight, soft music, and ferocious animal sex. Number eight, when playing Jeopardy against him, intentionally forget to phrase your answers in the form of a question. Are you sure you got the right shoe? Number seven. Let's check the other shoe. There may just be another one. If he's a dumb guy, tell him you love him. Oh yeah, that's me. Oh, and that was 10? That's great. No, six. Try sitting pretty, if you know what I mean. Okay, I'm a shameless tramp. Number five, keep him away from Estelle Getty. After all, he's only human. Number four, make friends with his monkey, Bubbles. Number three, as Roseanne proved, tattooing his name on your ass won't help. Number two. Oh, jeez. Oh my God. Good night, everybody. No. Number two, remember to stroke your partner's ego. The number one tip for how to keep your man is don't beat around the bush. I need a drink. Man, you know, Sharon, I appreciate the effort. I really, really do. You got a big number with Carole King, Paul and the band, and Slash. Yeah, that'll be very nice. Yes, sir. Sharon Stone is here. Man, that top 10 list was great. Thank you. I can't thank you enough for that. Wasn't that sizzling? It knocked me out. Tell me about your association with the show Star Search. Was it Star Search? Yeah. What'd you do? Were you a contestant? No, I was the original Ed McMahon. No kidding. Yes, before Ed came, I used to go, that was fabulous. You were the host of Star Search? Yeah. For how long? Once. And it was actually on the air? I don't know. Yeah? I've been far too ashamed to look. What did you do that caused them to bring Ed in? You know, I don't think I have it for talk shows. I'm sorry, you don't have what? I don't have it. You don't have it? The it for the shows. Well, now's a fine time to learn this, isn't it? We're gonna discuss this on the phone earlier today. Okay, thank you, Sharon. Telling you, that is the very definition of bad luck. So let's talk about the movie then, The Specialist. Sylvester Stallone was here last week and we saw a little bit of the film. Tell folks what you do in the movie. I seduced Sly over the phone to get him to help me kill the people from the mob who killed my family when I was a kid. Wow. Like Paul Horse Gravino, Gravano, that kind of a deal? Yeah. Was it fun to make that movie? Do you like making movies? I do like making movies. It was intense making the movie because it was- Was it a lot of hard work? Sly, Jimmy Woods, Eric Roberts. Yeah, Jimmy Woods is a very intense guy, isn't he? Yeah, both of them. And Eric Roberts. Wow. Yeah. You say both of him? Both of Jimmy, yeah. One guy is like brilliant, funny, charming, witty, just terrific. And the other guy is like, ah, he's back, it's frightening. Yeah. It'd be good to have either of them here tonight. Ah, you look great. You just look wonderful, for heaven's sakes. Now, when you get ready to, first of all, when was the first Basic Instinct movie? Is it 91, something like that, 92? It was about 103 years ago. 103 years ago. And they must've wanted a second one right away. Did they talk about a sequel soon thereafter? We did, we talked about it right away, and then all these different things happened. The studio was gonna sell, and then they weren't, and they were, and they weren't, and the production company broke up and got back together, and then I sued them. Just for the fun of it, you slapped them with a suit. So now, some 20-odd, 20-plus years later, is it 20 years later? No. 12 years later. Whatever it is. We decide we're gonna do another one. Now, what was their? I like the way you say we, because I know you were the mastermind. But was there concern about, well, maybe too much time has passed? Yeah, that I might have to come out and go, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. Something like that. And so, how did you make the decision to go ahead and do it? Because I didn't have to go out in a chair. Maybe you don't understand what I'm gettin' at here. They're just, just changes take place in humans all the time. How'd I look? Well, you looked tremendous. You saw the movie? Yes. But were you concerned that? Not so bad, huh? Yeah, very good. So that's my point. How are you able to stay in such tremendous shape? And were you concerned about that aspect of the film? You know, I was. Oh, wouldn't be. But, um. I'm sorry, what was that last remark? What did you say? Jeez. Yeah, jeez, that's right. You know. Oh, God, all right. I had my best friend come over. I put up the old one. I took off the flannels and went, what do you think? She said, go. Yeah. So, you had people come in and? But of course, I could be bleeding to death and she'd say, red's your best color. So, you know, who knows? And was it, now, I've never appeared naked or partially naked in a film. At home. Not even in my own, no. Not even in my own home. But when you do it in a film, take us through that process. What happens? You go to work. But you're wearing your clothes when you arrive. And you take off your clothes. Take off your clothes. And they roll the camera. Right. And then you're nude. And how many people are in front of you naked like that? Dirty, dirty Dave. Yeah. Is it like a hundred people see you naked? No, no. We try to narrow it down to about 63. And is it? 64 if you're in town. Are you? And are you, are you self-conscious about this? Well, you know, I mean, in real life, I try to leave the room like a skater. I'm like, don't look, don't look this way. Look that way. Leave the room like a skater. I have no idea what that is, but I like the way that sounds. You know, we all have parts of ourselves. I mean, it doesn't matter if you're 20 or if you're 50. Everybody has parts of themselves that they think are better than other parts. You know, gaze slowly over this part and then move really fast over that part. So you try to kind of like show your good parts and like camouflage the other people. I remember a movie you were in with Albert Brooks. Yes. There was one shot in that film that I went out and bought it. Just for the one shot. And based on that, I would say, you don't have to leave the room like a skater at all. Thanks. I have to be shot out of a cannon when I leave a room. Don't know what that means either. So you have, you have two sons now. Well, one is four years old, five years old. He'll be six. He'll be six years old. And the brand new one is 10 months old. And how do these kids get along? Oh my, they're great. They just adore each other. And they're wrestling like WrestleMania, which you would think the little one would be kind of fragile, but he's just beating the crap out of the big one. Yeah, it's fantastic. And does the little one always want to be with the older brother and do everything the older brother does? He does. And in fact, he's walking and running around, which is really young. It's very advanced for an older brother. And I'm sure it's because he really wants to be his big brother. And I've seen a few occasions where the big brother will get very close to the new baby and touch. And mommy will say, okay, be careful. And the next thing you know, it's like, yeah, hey, no, hey, hey. Yeah, yeah, we've got some of that. A little bit of that, yeah. And he's just like smashing him, yeah. Wants to play, but then won't give him his toys, yeah. And you've been traveling? You went to all around Europe and elsewhere? We did. We were in, I think, six countries in eight days. It was fantastic. Who all went on this trip? My sister, my makeup artist for 17 years. Hairdresser, fantastic. We've all been together for such a long time. It's just amazing. So it was kind of like the school field trip. We just had a blast. It was amazing. And so it's like an entourage of friends and stuff. And you're out of the country, so is your behavior maybe wackier than it might be domestically? Why, Dave? You know what I mean? It's girls going crazy, is it like that? Yes, it is a little bit like that, I have to say, because the great thing is when you're in like sort of a lull in your career, you would call a designer and ask for a shirt, and they would go like, I never heard of you. And then when you're in a good moment, people keep sending stuff to the hotels, and the boxes arrive, and we act like we're very cool, and then the room service guy leaves, and we're like, blah! And everybody's like, oh my God, everybody's ripping off their clothes and trying on the clothes and going berserk. It's just berserk. And chocolates, and you know, it's nuts. See, again, that's not exactly what I had in mind, but we'll... The basic instincts. People only get one thing on the brain, I'm telling you. But how, what do you do for exercise? You must do something, because everybody has to. Just sex, Dave. Oh! Naturally. No! I mean, I do all the regular stuff, but you know, people ask me this so much that I'm thinking I'm gonna make a tape and do like some kind of, all the stuff I do, because I do do it a little bit different. I met a woman, oh God, 20 years ago in Africa who was a tightrope walker, and she did the trapeze stuff, and she taught me these kind of really crazy sit-ups. And I've been doing those always, and I have to say, they're awesome. Can you describe or demonstrate one of the sit-ups? I could help you do them. Oh. You know, I was shot in the stomach years ago. Good to see you again. Good to see you too. Thank you very much for coming back. First of all, happy holidays. Are you excited about the holidays? I love Christmas. What do you do, how do you celebrate Christmas? Different ways, different years. Every year, it's a different kind of theme for Christmas? Well, yeah, sometimes we're in California, so you're swimming, or you're in the snow. It's a little disorienting when you're swimming and it's 80 degrees and it's December 25th, isn't it? That's true. What's your favorite kind of Christmas? Well, it's almost Christmas in here. It's freezing in here, don't you guys think so? I've got TV wearing your muffs and everything else. I'm saying, what's with these people? I control the thermostat, thank you. So anyway, you're looking forward to a nice, happy Christmas, kind of take some time off with your husband. How did you meet your husband, Alec Baldwin? How did you meet her husband, ma'am? What the hell's going on here? Well, actually, I did this movie. I was on the set of a movie called My Stepmother is an Alien. I was filming that. Who else was in that motion picture? Dan Aykroyd. Oh, yeah. I'm nervous, a little nervous. You shouldn't be nervous. Is there anything I can do to ease the nervousness? No, I brought my bag. You brought the bag. Now, I've never seen that happen, but that's in case you hyperventilate or you have something in the bag. No, no, there's nothing in the bag. Somebody told me that if you put your mouth over the bag and blow and pop it, then it'll scare the out of you. Either that or it's New Year's Eve. Anyway, okay, you wanna do it? No, no, no, maybe a bit later. I'm beginning to worry about you, so just settle down. Take a couple of, everything's fine, and you couldn't smell better. You just smell like a tropical garden. Thank you. It's very, very nice. Yes. That's funny. I'm gonna like this. It's not so cold now, is it, Kim? Man, I couldn't be a bigger dork. I'm sorry, continue. Do you wanna know this story? Absolutely. Okay, so let's see. My stepmother is an alien, and a mutual friend of ours came up to me and said that Alec Baldwin wanted to meet me, and I said, okay, well, you can bring him around. Lunchtime, which is kind of a big mistake because actresses aren't supposed to eat, right? So I don't eat any breakfast, but I love my lunch. So they had called lunch, and right then, Alec Baldwin came in the door, and I really didn't know who he was. I really didn't. This was like four or five years ago or so? Yeah, five years ago. No, no, no, no, actually, it was longer than that. It was longer than that. It was like in 1988, something like that. But anyway, I knew who he was, but I just really didn't know him. So he came by, and I shook his hand, and I'm out the door to the lunch wagon because I'm hungry. And he tells this story like she was a witch when I first met her, just a witch. And see, I remember that Alec wearing, you know, totally, I remember him wearing a cowboy hat, and every time I tell this story, he says, Kim, I've never, not only not worn a cowboy hat, I've never even had one on my head. But I promise you he had on a cowboy hat when I met him. Yeah, but now have you seen him since in a cowboy hat? Yeah, for Saturday Night Live, we had to do some pictures, and he. So he did wear one then. So quite likely, he, in fact, is lying. Believe me, I'm on your side. You know what I'm saying? I'm with you here tonight. He's lying. Yeah, now the motion picture, we had Tracey Ullman on the program from, they're calling it Ready to Wear. Right. But the French name of the film is? Prêt-à-porter. Which means? Ready to wear. Exactly, thank you. Yes, sir, they don't give these shows to chimps, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, yeah, she's very good in the film, what I've seen of the film. And you play like a reporter covering big fashion shows in Paris, is that right? Yeah, I play a girl, we made her from Texas, kind of like an ex-weather girl from, she's an idiot. She is, she's an idiot. And she mispronounces everybody's name, she's an idiot. And she reads from cue cards and. No, I mean, a reporter is supposed to know who she's talking to and what she's talking, well, she doesn't know anything. So her assistant, her assistant writes everything on a card so she can read it. Now, how many people, do you have brothers and sisters? How many? Kim, Barb, and Ashley, four brothers and sisters. So it's a pretty good sized family, five people in the family, are you the only actor among them? Yes. Now, that's not true for your husband's family, is it? No. He's got a big family and they're all actors, right? Well, yeah, the boys. Yeah, can you name the Baldwin brothers? Steven, Daniel. Steve, Daniel, and Eric? And Alec. Oh, man. Do you mind if I show this? Oh, I hate that. Oh, well, does that mean I can't show it? No, you can. I can show it, all right. This is when you were, I guess, I don't know, a kid? Is this one of your first gigs in show business? I was 17 there. 17? This is, and in those days, do they still have Breck girls? No, I think the painter died. No, Dave, they're using Breck boys now, oddly enough. It's a whole different market for them. But how does a young woman get to be the Breck girl there? You know, Junior Miss pageants? I know of them. It's not like I used to enter them, you know what I'm saying? Well, in Georgia, I entered the local thing and I won Athens Junior Miss and then I went to Atlanta to the Georgia Junior Miss, you know, to compete in the state, and I lost. Was that heartbreaking for you to lose? No. Really? No, because I didn't want to have to perform again. You had a little talent, you did? Yeah, I did. I sang, Wouldn't It Be Loverly, from My Fair Lady. Oh, but that was cute. Was it cute? It was cute. It's the thing I'm most proud of that I've done in my whole career. No, really? Is that right? Because I didn't think. I got out there and I did it. But you know, the funny thing about it was that in Athens, you know, I really got out there and I did it in the local pageant. I was so proud of myself. It was like, I couldn't believe it. I mean, you could have heard a pin drop because nobody knew I could talk, much less sing, you know? And then I went to the Georgia Junior Miss pageant and I'm standing there in an arena so big. And I stood there and they said, okay, Kim, you're on. And they walked away from me and they said, Kim. And I forgot who I was. I had to look down and remember that I was. Oh, so you needed cue cards, eh? It's just a joke. And so, but from that, somebody found you and they said, well, this would make a lovely shampoo girl. And we're gonna. No, Breck sponsors the Junior Miss thing. I just want to say, honey, when you're through with monkey boy here, I'll be in the car. I think that's very nice. Don't you? No. Really, you don't like that? I think he's a ham boat. So you guys. Vote if you think he's a ham boat. You know, you've been with us now twice. It was fun. You had a nice time tonight? Oh, I loved it the first time. And tonight, with the exception. Oh, no. No, I'm only kidding. He's great. What do you mean? Is there trouble at home? You're worse than Kitty Potter. Now, but do me a favor. Have a great holiday. Good luck with the movie. It opens this weekend. No, it opens Christmas day. That's right. It's a ready to wear. Robert Altman film. You and many, many, many other folks. Well, I hope it's a big success. Thank you so much. It's always great fun to see you. I love coming here. Oh, well, please come back. Thank you so much. Nice to see you. That's right, Dave. Nice to see you. How you been? Excellent. How are you? Well, it's been a long time. Well, I'm having trouble adjusting my seat. You get to be my age, you can't adjust to anything. It's been a long time since we've seen you though. But by God, you look the same. How is that possible? You haven't been here for seven. No, I don't. Look, I just old and scary. Seven years though. And when it's been a, I know that you were, but why seven years? I just, well, I just don't have even one excuse for myself, Dave. Really? And I live kind of near you too. Is that right? Well, in sort of in New York. Where? Oh, you live in New York? I haven't visited at all. Well, they told me that you hate to fly. That's what they said. Oh no, she hates to fly. I love to fly. Yeah, I'm joking. Ah, she loves to fly. But anyway, it's good to have you back for heaven's sake. How you been? How's your summer going? Really, really great. How about you? Good, what have you been doing? Well, this summer I was just vacationing with my tribe. I have a new baby. Yeah, the new baby is, is she three years old? She's three years old. Three years old, wow. Congratulations on that. Thank you very much. Do you mind if we show these pictures? No, please do. Oh my goodness. What is the baby's name? That's Daisy. Hello, Daisy. Nice to have you here. Beautiful. Yeah, I couldn't for the, forever, for a really long time, for like a month after I got her, couldn't, could not figure out a name for her. And how did you come by Daisy? Well, she's such a cute kid. That's gorgeous, yeah. We, I had a name all picked out. She was going to be Ray, R-A-E. R-A-E, why, I don't like that. Why Ray? No, in the end, I didn't like it either. In the end, I got so nervous about it. The guy's name, she has enough to deal with, you know? So about three days before I met her, we were flying, I was meeting my friends in Shanghai. We're going to go from Shanghai to this place in another town in China. So Daisy is from China? Yes, she's from China. We're going to go to this town of about like, they call them towns. There's like seven or eight million people in a town, which is outrageous. And I'm calling all of my friends, please help me. Help me. And I'm getting emails after emails about what I should name her and this and like, and I had a friend who was in a little bit of a manic phase, a little bipolar. So I would get reams and reams of names. My favorite one, my favorite one from her was Oprah Winfrey Ryan. I was in trouble. She was convinced that celebrities should just name their babies after celebrities. After other celebrities. Yeah, like George Clooney Ryan. Your Harry could have been Dave Letterman Letterman. But I do like Oprah Winfrey Ryan. I do like that. Well, we had to rule it out in the end. So we go to, we're in China, we fly to this town and we're put in this kind of like minivan, this small kind of bus. We're looking for inspiration anywhere now because it's three days out. And we're put in this little mini, there's a guy who's going to get, he's going to show us the scenic route from the airport to the hotel. And of course you can't kind of see anything out the window in parts of China. It looks like Beijing. We're taking the scenic route. We knew we were in trouble because the guy said, he couldn't talk about what was outside the window. He just was telling us what was going to be in our minibar at the hotel. So we said, okay. Like Coke, one dollar. With all going on. I'd travel more if that would happen. I'd go more places if people would tell me what's waiting in the minibar. Yeah, it's exciting. So he finally says, he says, oh, this town is called, it's named, the Chinese, it's the Chinese word for the place where serene waters meet. Oh boy. Serene water, we think. We're going to name her Serene Water. What would you say? But my friend, Mr. Ding, Mr. Ding, how do you say, how do you say serene water in Chinese? How do you say that? And he said, oh, it's a beautiful word. It's a stunning word. It has many meanings. Peace, love, understanding, bliss. And the word in Chinese is the, is. Serene water. One minute. No. You like that one? Oh man. You know, I think I would have bit on that, honestly, because you got an ice breaker for the rest of her life. I'm sorry, your name is Serene Water. Yes. So then, after endless choices, we arrive with Daisy. Really, about a month after I got home. Lovely in its simplicity and its imagery. And how did you come by Daisy? Well, it was just, in the end, it was just a, it took me a while to get to know her. You know, she was 14 months. And it was just, she's such a happy, she's a really ridiculously happy person. It's the happiest word I could think of. So remind me now, at three, what all are they doing at three? Well, how old's Harry? He's gonna be five. Oh, okay. He told me, he's been in preschool like two days this season. He told me, not only is he in a gang now, but by the first of the year, he wants to be running it. Running the gang. Awful. But is she, I mean, they're walking at three, right? Yeah, yeah, and talking. She's running everything. She's running the show. She said, she's very much running the show. I took her out of the, had her in the parking lot, picking her out of the car. We're going to an antique show or something like this. And so she's down there in that stroller. You get that view just at the top of their head, just like in between cars, a couple of turns in the car only. And she's like, oh no, we are lost! I like that too. She's very, very susceptible to advertising. Oh, really? Already at that age? Oh my God. And it's stuff like, you know, like kitchen appliances. And she can say, oh, we need that. There's like a third off, the muffler, like she's all into Meineke and Jiffy Lube. Mysterious person. Yeah, but I do like that. Oh no, we are lost! Lost! And then you have a son who is a different set of challenges. 16, yeah. How's that going? Well, they get along really well. Yeah. How are you and the 16-year-old getting along? He's dating, he's gotta be dating, right? Yeah, he kind of is. He's a little secretive about that. But he and Daisy are hilarious together because he's, for some reason, threatened by her telling him what to do. She's in the back of the car and he's in the front. I say, oh, Daisy, Christmas time. Look at the lights, look at the lights outside! Before anything, she'll go, look at the lights, Jack! He's all like, mom, he's telling me what to do. It shouldn't be threatening at all. That's right. Would it kill you to look out the window? Or that's right, say, I've seen him. This is not my first rodeo, Daisy, all right? That's his attitude. Let's talk, oh, the women. Now, here you go, boy, you got your hands full here because this was a classic, iconic film of the, I'm gonna take a guess, 30s, 40s? Yeah. And the original cast was? Wow, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That's big shoes to fill. And our movie's all women, not a man in it. But, and it's set in New York, so even the crowd scenes, there's not even a. And the cast of this one is yourself. Yes, Annette Bening, Ava Mendez, Jada Pinkett, Debra Messing, Bette Midler. Whoa! Gets better and better. Candice Bergen. This is major league stuff, isn't it? Yeah, Dave. Yeah. You look wonderful. So good. Let me ask you a question. Do you believe in monsters from outer space? What? I'm pretending you were, and then you were playing along. How you doing? I'm okay. How are things with you? What's new in your life these days? Well, I have a new movie coming out. Yeah, sure. It's a big one too, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell the folks what the name of the film is. It's called Courage Under Fire. Right, and you play? Well, I got right to it, didn't I? Why not? I play a medevac pilot, helicopter pilot in the Gulf War. This is something that happened, this is based on something, a series of coincidence, not coincidence, anecdotes that might've come from the Gulf War? Right, right, right. Yeah, it's an original screenplay, is that right? It's an original screenplay, Dave. And you play a woman who is posthumously nominated for the- Yes, I'm constantly dead in the film. I die over and over. I had to, we had to do a sort of a mini bootcamp to get ready to do it. How did you enjoy that? Where was that held, first of all? It was outside of Austin, Texas in the scrub. But I kind of resented the whole experience. What was the purpose for this experience? We were supposed to, my helicopter crew was supposed to kind of bond through adversity, I think. So they take all of yourself and the other actors in the film, and they put them through like military bootcamp? Yeah. Now you've never, you've not been in the service, right? My vague memory of it is, no, no, no, is mochaccino, cappuccino, frappuccino. Wow. Yeah, I know. It was that hard. This is like today's action army, then. We played paintball. Well, paintball is good. Did you enjoy that? We kind of, we divided the cast and the crew up into two teams, and we went out into the, we had, I saw some jungle action, and then kind of a weird, sort of a thing where they did this, again, we were two teams, and we were on this football field, and each team had guns and kind of ran at each other. So, I mean, it was really, it was just sort of a nonstop stupidity. Now, now, when you're making the movie, does any of this training serve you well in your acting in the film? No. So what's the point? Exactly, Dave, exactly. You spent a lot of time in a helicopter. Were you troubled by flying in a helicopter? Well, I didn't really spend that much time in a helicopter. They had sort of a fake helicopter on top of a gimbal, a motorized marble on top of a, like a truck on top of a road that they built. So they made sure you were, I know, I know. That's even more dangerous than an actual helicopter. Yeah. Ed, but you spent some time learning to fly a helicopter in California? I went up one time, and then when I was finished, I thought, I can't believe I did that. I mean, I was flying it over Malibu. It was insane. I was up and down, over the hills, all over the water, and kind of hovering over people's houses, I knew. Well, now that's your leave-in. Leave, the FAA will call you. You'll have to go away for that, yeah. Anyway, and then I learned more about them, and then I thought, that was insane. What did you learn about them? Because I've never been in one. Well, they're very squirrely, Dave. Yeah, I've been frightened of them. Yeah? Yeah. I don't, they don't look right to me. They just don't look like they oughta, they look like something Da Vinci invented. You know, that's what they look like. That's what they look like. You kind of, you fly it with, you have to fly it with your knees, your feet, your eyes, I mean, you know. So anyway, the film is all finished, and it opens on Friday. So now, do you have any free time? Have you had free time since the end of the film? Yeah, I have, I've had a lot of free time. Spending some time with your family in Montana? What is life like for you in Montana? It's kind of fantastically beautiful there, yeah. We don't get to spend much time there, but the summertime, we're pretty much always there. Are there activities? Do you go into town? Do the townspeople know you and wave at you? Yeah, we go into town. That's what we, that's what you kind of do during the day, you go into town. We went to a rodeo. Now, that must have been fun. Did you enjoy that? Yeah, it was kind of fun. I know, I'd never been to one before. Yeah. I saw a bull fight. Have you guys ever seen this, where the guy rides the bull? The actual bull riding thing? Yeah, yeah. He rides on a bull, and then he gets kicked off the bull, and the bull wants to kill him. Yeah. And then, I guess to prove they're not all the way crazy, these guys, they just, he just runs off the side of a wall and tries to escape, you know what I mean? Anyway. You know, there was a time in my life when my mother was a rodeo clown. That's how she made her living. I don't think so. You never know with mom. Man, this is a great cast. You and Denzel Washington, it's nice. Was it fun? Yeah, it was fun to do, I have to say. Is making movies hard? Sometimes. This wasn't really all that hard. Really? It looks like it was hard from what I saw. But it ultimately wasn't that hard. You just had to be careful where you stood, because there were mortars and helicopters buzzing you. Oh, so you might have gotten just killed. Yeah. Yeah, well, sure. Watch your step. We're using live ammo. You know anything about kung fu? Nothing. Anything about the martial arts? Nothing. Hang around and see these guys. They're gonna scare you, so there'll be a lot of kicking, a lot of board breaking, a lot of fire eating, and I think in the end, one of them actually floats. Interesting. Something to see. Speaking of stuff that floats, you recently were down at the White House. I don't know what that means, but you were at the White House. It means nothing. Say it's a stupid transition, a little segue. You got to go down there? I went to the White House, yeah. Invited for what? The Irish president was in town, and yeah, I don't know, it's not a place you really imagine yourself really and truly going to. It's a big thrill, isn't it? Yeah, it's kind of a big Cinderella night. Otherworldly, I would say. Yeah, and I met the president, and I, you know, did you ever meet the president? I met him once, yeah. You did? Did you do that receiving line thing? I did, no, no, I met him in like a rotunda in kind of a thing during an intermission. That's where I met him, and I said and did something stupid. So did I. Yeah. I go, I say to the president, I go, there's this big bank of press on this side, and here's the president standing there, and I thought, oh, and so I say, hey. Yeah. Like this. And then I go, so, I saw you on TV. Yeah. What I was trying to get to, you know. I know, it's the same, that's almost exactly the same thing I did. Well, you meet the guy, and I was thinking, he's larger than I thought he was going to be. He's taller, he's a bigger, I thought he was a much bigger man in person than I imagined he might be. And I knew that the night before, he had been in Los Angeles. So I'm thinking, it's less than 24 hours later, here he is in Washington talking to me. And I said to him, I know you were in California, you must be very tired, how do you handle something like that? And he says to me, I slept on the plane. Boom, man. Yeah, yeah. Like I'm the dumbest person alive. I know, I know, you just proved, you just proved to yourself what a geek you really are. Nothing new, believe me. But then you got to spend some time with him, it was like a reception and a dinner. Then I sat at the vice president's table. And so I said to him, I go, so I'm gonna go see Dave Letterman in a couple of weeks. And I feel obligated to steal something, what's the best thing to steal? And he just thought, he was fine, he just thought for a minute, and then he gave me this. Something, wow. A cufflink. Oh man, this is like an Al Gore cufflink? Yeah, yeah. Wow, look at that, that's a beauty. That's very nice. The rest of the night though. So for the rest of the night he said? So the rest of the night he kept stealing me more stuff. Really? Yeah, it was weird. You have other stuff? Well, I didn't bring it with me, because I got so much stuff. He got me a couple of pens from the president, and chocolates, and salt shakers, and you know, I was getting worried. It's a good way for Al to get his ass fired, you know, he's stealing government property now. Come downstairs with a VCR and I'd have to say, hey buddy, you just put that right back where you found it. That's pretty cool. Now I think we have, I don't know if we have, let me check, I wanted to talk to you about like a soap opera you were on. Oh yeah. Yeah, what was the name of that thing? As the World Turns. As the World Turns, all right, stay right there, let me look into this. How you doing kids, welcome back to the show, we're doing a show here for you, we got cameras and everything, this is Meg Ryan, big time movie star, we got monks out here a little bit later, kicking stuff, and we got rock and roll band Garbage. Now, we were talking about the... Soap opera. Thank you very much. The name of the soap opera was As the World... As the World Turns. As the World Turns, how long were you on the show? I was on for two years. Who did you play? I played Betsy Stewart Montgomery Andropolis. Oh, the home decorating expert. That was a tribute to how many times I'd been adopted and married. Wow. Yeah, I know, a lot. Now, were you a good young woman or? I was sort of the twit victim. Oh, I like that. On the show. That must have been a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah. What kind of things happened to you as a twit victim? Always ridiculous things. I was married to a guy who was faking his paraplegia. And so he... Confined to a wheelchair. But only faking it. So whenever I left the room, he'd get up and do kind of dastardly things. What up, get up and do the vacuuming, or what is it? No, it's just... Anyway, so yeah, she was married that many times. And so what I did was I brought a clip of one of my marriages. Really? We have one here? Yeah. Okay, tell the folks what year we're talking about. As the world turns, one of my many marriages, and there's a special little surprise at the end. And the year is like in the mid 80s, early 80s? Mid 80s-ish. Mid 80s, something like that. Here we go. Meg Ryan, as the world turns, she's getting married. ♪ I'll always love you ♪ Good gig. We didn't want you to find out about that. You're still doing weddings, aren't you? Playing weddings, yeah. A little bit, watch these monks beat each other up or whatever they do. I'm tempted. It might be fun. What the hell? Can I watch back there, though? You can watch anywhere you like. You can go out there and sit in the audience. Oh, okay. Oh, man.