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Nuclear Tensions on the Korean Peninsula; Sanitizing Hollywood
Aired May 02, 2005 - 10:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Just minutes ago, Florida Governor Jeb Bush signed into law the Jessica Lunsford Act. You watched that live here on CNN. The measure will require those who prey on the youngest children to face at least 25 years in prison, and if they're paroled, they'll be tracked for life. Police say a sexual offender confessed to killing Jessica. Her father attended the signing and talked to reporters afterward.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MARK LUNSFORD, FATHER OF JESSICA LUNSFORD: And Jesse won't be the only child (INAUDIBLE). Sara, too. I mean, we all paid a price, and so we got to give something back, and that's why we're here.
QUESTION: Tell bus your tie?
LUNSFORD: My tie. That's my hug. I'm still minus my kid, but I got my hug every day.
Go ahead and get me started again.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: We'll have more on that just ahead.
But right now at this moment in the White House Rose Garden, President Bush is delivering remarks at the Preserve America Presidential Awards. The annual honors are given to individuals or groups, either private or public who cultivate or preserve culture.
The president, by the way, made a quick reference to first lady Laura Bush and her comic monologue at a White House Correspondence Dinner Saturday night.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Couple of funny lines one evening and she gets carried away.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: Mrs. Bush was very funny Saturday night. We are going to have more, and show you some of her comments just ahead here on CNN LIVE TODAY.
First, though, to our CNN Security Watch, and nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula. The White House says that North Korea was test firing a short-range missile on Sunday. Even though it splashed harmlessly into the Sea of Japan, the impact ripples around the world.
CNN's senior Asia correspondent Mike Chinoy is in Taipei, Taiwan with the latest.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MIKE CHINOY, CNN SR. ASIA CORRESPONDENT (voice over): So this is what the North Korean nuclear crisis has come to.
Here's President Bush:
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Kim Jong Il is a dangerous person.
CHINOY: Here's North Korea's official media. The president, it said, is a Philistine and a hooligan.
And here's the president's chief of staff:
ANDREW CARD, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: Kim Jong Il is not a good leader.
CHINOY: With the new North Korean missile test and fears that underground nuclear tests could follow, Washington and Pyongyang are busy exchanging insults.
JIM WALSH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Name calling is not a substitute for nonproliferation policy.
CHINOY: But insults seem to be the only game in town now. Diplomacy is going nowhere.
The north refuses to return to six-nation talks in Beijing, unless Washington apologizes for calling Kim Jong Il's regime a tyranny. That's unlikely to happen. And even if the talks resumed, the Bush administration won't bargain, insisting that the north agreed to give up its nukes first. That's not very likely either.
But the other options aren't any better. Squeezing North Korea's failed economy is one idea you hear in Washington, but there's little support in that in Beijing or Seoul. And there's no support in the region for a pre-emptive U.S. military strike, especially as the U.S. doesn't know where Pyongyang is hiding its nukes and the north would almost certainly retaliate.
(on camera): It is, in short, a dangerous deadlock, and while exchanging insults is better than exchanging missile fire, it's not bringing a solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis any closer.
Mike Chinoy, CNN, Taipei.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
KAGAN: And with those concerns, it's worth noting that the regional reaction to the apparent missile testing, both South Korea and Japan, are playing down its significance and urging the north to return to six-party talks.
Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.
Lost at sea for nearly a week, no food, into water, that happened to these two teenagers. They were rescued on the sixth day near Cape Fear, North Carolina. By the way, that's about 100 miles from where they first shoved off in their small sailboat. The teens are Josh Long and Troy Driscoll. They are being treated at a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina.
Josh spoke to CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING" earlier today.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOSH LONG, RESCUED AT SEA: Really, we didn't eat anything. Troy ate these little jelly balls that we catch with my hat. We just scoop them up out of the water. The only thing we could do with the water was gargle saltwater and spit it out. And it drizzled one night, and we licked water off the deck, trying to get something in us. So that's all we had.
Well, I mean, there's always sharks everywhere. I mean, my dad always told me that they're not going to bother you very much; they're just curious. But we'd be swimming around and they'd come up and start heading your way, and that's when we'd got out of there. You could sit on the boat and they'd start swimming toward the boat, and they're everywhere. Every time you turn around and get in the water, there's one coming.
Everything that would go through my mind was always going back to my family. How is my family reacting? I knew my mom, my dad, uncle Tony and everything, they were all worried. I never thought that search would have been that massive, ever.
But it just, what kept me calm is God, I prayed every hour. We'd just pray and pray, and we kind of realized, we said, well, if we don't make it, we know where we're going; and if we make it, I just want to go back to my family. So we just kept praying every day about that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: The Coast Guard plans to review the case. Investigators want to see why the boys route couldn't be predicted by computer models.
Let's take a look at other stories making news coast to coast.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I said, dad, I need the keys really badly. And he gave me the keys, and then I put them in my pocket.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not only could I hurt myself in an accident, I could have done damage to him as well as other people on the road.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: This 8-year-old Massachusetts boy credited with saving his dad's life. The two were driving home from little league practice. The father became ill with low-blood sugar and pulled the car to the side of the road. The boy was able to call his mom on the cell phone and then direct police to their location.
Rescue workers took a ride in a cherry-picker to pick up 11 people stranded on an amusement park ride. No one was hurt at the Phoenix Park. The riders were stuck about 30 feet off the ground. Could have been worse, though. The ride goes to a height of 120 feet.
And more freeway violence in Southern California. A 19-year-old man is in stable condition after being shot. Police are investigating a second possible shooting that happened early Sunday. There may have been at least six freeway shootings in the area since March 12th. Four of those have been fatal.
President Bush has signed a bill that helps parents screen their children from certain material on DVD movies, but some lawmakers are crying foul.
CNN's Brooke Anderson has that story.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Blood and guts doesn't bother me much at all, but the sex does.
BROOKE ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sex sells, but not to everybody. President Bush on Wednesday signed a bill allowing movies to be re-edited, but not by the people who created them. The part of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act that Hollywood likes makes it a federal offense to pirate a movie by using a camcorder to illegally record a film in a theater. The part the industry is ticked about says film filter companies are free to edit what they consider to be offensive movie content. Some say this is Big Brother meddling.
ROB REINER, FILM DIRECTOR: As a filmmaker, I'm against any kind of censorship or anything that would alter an artist's vision.
PAUL HAGGIS, "CRASH" DIRECTOR: I have some four letter words for those people. Exactly.
ANDERSON: Bill Aho is at the center of the controversy. His company, ClearPlay, sells filters to be used in DVD players, which would allow parents to pick and choose what their children see.
BILL AHO, CLEARPLAY: You have control over skipping or muting, over sex, graphic violence or profanity in DVDs that you watch.
ANDERSON: The consumer uses the filter to make the cuts. AHO: In many cases -- not all, but in many cases, they're movies that you'd be pretty comfortable with if not for just a little bit of content.
ANDERSON: Producer Marshall Herskovitz, whose blockbuster films "Traffic" and "The Last Samurai" have been sanitized without his permission.
MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ, PRODUCER: Remember, if a movie is R-rated, it's meant for adults. Why on earth should it be changed and reduced so that it could be seen by children?
ANDERSON: ClearPlay isn't the only company cleaning up Hollywood. Clean Flicks and Family Flicks both sell edited versions of popular DVDs online and in stores.
HERSKOVITZ: A DVD is protected by the First Amendment, it's protected by copyright law, and you can't just change it because you object to those images that are coming across your television. Right now, the only legal and ethical recourse you have is to not buy it.
ANDERSON: But some parents believe buying the filters or the edited movies buys their children more time to be kids.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you can protect them for a little bit longer, then that's a good deal.
Brooke Anderson, CNN, Los Angeles.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
KAGAN: It is a look into the lives of those who hold some very important jobs, and it's just in time for Mother's Day. Still to come, how do mothers really feel about their roles? Do they feel appreciated, valued? The results from one survey coming up.
Plus, he went through a string of hard luck to become a popular boxing champion. It's a Cinderella tale of a lightweight-heavyweight boxer who did not quit.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KAGAN: So far so good.
(STOCK MARKET REPORT)
KAGAN: Mother's Day coming up on Sunday. Here's another reason to do something special for your mom. A new study finds most mothers like their role, but they tend to feel underappreciated.
2,000 mothers were surveyed. They included full-time employees, part-time employees and stay-at-home moms. A third of them said their ideal situation would be to work part-time. Three out of ten would prefer to work for pay at home. About two and ten said they wouldn't work at all. "USA Today" reported on the research from the Universities of Connecticut and Minnesota.
So those of you clicking onto cnn.com, what are you interested in? Apparently hot on the trail of the runaway bride. That story has been among the most popular on our constantly updated Web site. For more on what people are checking, let's go to dot-com desk and CNN's Christina Park. Hi, Christina.
CHRISTINA PARK, CNN.COM CORRESPONDENT: Thanks, Daryn. Hi, Daryn.
We are checking some of the most popular stories on cnn.com. For the top ten reports that people are clicking on the most, log onto our Web site and click on "Most Popular" at the top right-hand side of your screen.
Our first story is getting a lot of clicks. Long-time Oklahoma baseball coach Larry Cochell resigns amid scandal. This just two days after ESPN reported that Cochell made racist remarks in two off-camera interviews, while praising freshman outfielder Joe Dunigan, who is African-American. Cochell says he deeply regrets what he calls his careless use of language.
Now another story, Daryn, that you talked about. Cnn.com users can't seem to get enough in the latest in the runaway bride saga. Our users are learning, as CNN viewers are, that Jennifer Wilbanks could face charges in the case.
And finally the Titanic still making waves this time on the auction block. A gold pocket watch, once owned by Irish immigrant Nora Keane (ph), who survived the disaster, was sold for nearly $25,000, more than three times its estimated value. Now, the engraving on the back reads: "To my dearest Nora, your visit to County Limerick warmed my heart. God bless and be with you on your return to Pennsylvania. Signed, Loving Mother."
And for what's making our top ten most popular list right now, you know where to go.
I'm Christina Park, reporting for cnn.com.
KAGAN: That was all on the back of one watch?
PARK: Oh, yes!
KAGAN: That must have been a big watch.
All right, Christina.
PARK: Good craftsmanship.
KAGAN: Thank you.
PARK: Thanks, Daryn.
KAGAN: Well, the runaway bride wedding not the only thing crashing over the weekend. Half the field was wiped out at this, the Talladega Superspeedway this weekend. Oh my. Still to come, a look at the pile-up and which popular or some infamous driver managed to come out on top.
Plus, the tale of a real-life heavyweight boxer comes to the big screen. Up next, I'll talk with the author who penned the book. He has an interesting story to tell.
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KAGAN: Check out this mess from the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. A 25-car pileup taking out several contenders in Sunday's Aranz (ph) 499 race. This crash happened on lap 133, by the way. There was a six-car accident, just before the scheduled 188-lap finish. Jeff Gordon avoided both and went on to win.
Well, there might be no more compelling story in sports than the great comeback, two of those for you this morning. First, Tim Petrovic. Petrovic won his first PGA Tour victory Sunday at the Zurich Classic in Avondale, Louisiana. That's just the headline. The story behind that. Petrovic became a touring pro back in 1988. Five years later, his sponsor pulled out, Petrovic runs out of money. He worked making and delivering pizzas for five years, finally got a new sponsor in '98, joined the PGA tour in 2002, and today he is a champion. Love that story.
Here's your other comeback story for you. The golden age of boxing the setting for one of the most improbable comebacks in sports history. "Cinderella Man" telling the story of heavyweight fighter James Braddock. The film version opens next month, but you don't have to wait for that, because we have the book and the author, written by Jeremy Schaap, ESPN anchor and national correspondent, joining me from New York.
Jeremy, good morning.
JEREMY SCHAAP, AUTHOR, "CINDERELLA MAN": Thank you, Daryn.
KAGAN: The story of James Braddock, it says right in the book, far from the best boxer ever, but truly the people's champion.
SCHAAP: It's a remarkable story. People say, I must be exaggerating when I say it's the greatest sports story ever. But to understand exactly what he achieved by becoming the heavyweight champion at a time when that was easily the most significant title in sports, and having done it in less than a year after coming off of welfare, after working on the docks as a longshoreman.
He had been a guy in the 1920s who had been a very good light heavyweight. He had then suffered a series of just disastrous fights, losing to almost everyone he fought. He was retired from the ring. As I said, he was forced to seek work on the docks of Hoboken and Wehawken (ph), New Jersey. He had to go on welfare, which was humiliating at the time. And in the course of less than a calendar year, he rose to world heavyweight championship by scoring four consecutive stunning comebacks.
KAGAN: And the match against Max Baer, the odds were 10:1 against him?
SCHAAP: It was at the time. He was the biggest underdog not only to win the championship, but ever to have ever fought for the heavyweight championship. The odds against Max Baer when they fought on June 13, 1935 were anywhere from 6:10 to 12:1, although generally 10:1 is the accepted figure, and that's what you would have gotten from the book makers at the time. It was a stunning upset, because people thought that Baer was going to rule over the heavyweight decision for a decade. He was one of the strongest punchers ever. He had scored consecutive stunning victories against Max Schmelling and Primo Carnera (ph), two heavyweight champions. He had all these physical gifts. He was a much more talented boxer than James J. Braddock, but Braddock beat him thoroughly.
KAGAN: You dedicate this book to your dad, Dick Schaap, very well-known, well respected sports journalist. I know someone that I looked up to when I was doing sports as well. There's a hook here with your dad, and you making news in the last few weeks, Bobby Fischer, explain your relationship with your dad and the former chess champ and how your paths crossed.
SCHAAP: Well, what happened, Bobby Fischer, as some of your viewers may or may not know, was for the last nine months or so, from last summer until March, detained in Japan on a passport violation, 1992. He had violated international sanctions against Yugoslavia by playing a chess match there for more than $3 million. He was finally let go when Iceland gave him citizenship. Iceland gave him citizenship because he won the world championship there against Boris Sbasky (ph) in 1972, the most significant chess match ever. And when Fisher was growing up in New York -- he actually was born in Chicago, but grew up in Brooklyn, my father, from a very early age, his early age, he was in his 20s, and fisher Was 12 or 13 years old, befriended Fisher. Fisher didn't have a father at home. He didn't have a brother. He really didn't va any male presence in his life, and fisher in many ways look at my father as kind of a surrogate father. My father took him to games.
KAGAN: Fast forward to a few weeks ago, to this news conference. HE made a slur at your dad, an anti-Semitic slur, too.
SCHAAP: Well, he's been spouting anti-Semitic diatribes for years and years, despite the fact that his mother was Jewish and a lot of evidence suggests that his father was Jewish as well. But I went to this press conference in Iceland, and Fisher almost immediately started attacking my father. He called him a Jewish snake. He said he had been very hurt by the fact that my father had said at one point that he didn't have a sane bone in his body.
KAGAN: An odd, odd chapter, not the focus of our visit today, but I had to ask you about it since you were here. The book, once again, is "Cinderella Man." Good luck with the book and thanks for stopping by.
SCHAAP: Thanks, Daryn.
KAGAN: Jeremy Schaap. Right now, it's 10:55 on the East Coast, 7:55 on the West Coast. That, by the way, is where prosecutors expect to wrap up their case against Michael Jackson later this week.
Stay with us. We're back with a check of your morning forecast.
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Aired May 2, 2005 - 10:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Just minutes ago, Florida Governor Jeb Bush signed into law the Jessica Lunsford Act. You watched that live here on CNN. The measure will require those who prey on the youngest children to face at least 25 years in prison, and if they're paroled, they'll be tracked for life. Police say a sexual offender confessed to killing Jessica. Her father attended the signing and talked to reporters afterward.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MARK LUNSFORD, FATHER OF JESSICA LUNSFORD: And Jesse won't be the only child (INAUDIBLE). Sara, too. I mean, we all paid a price, and so we got to give something back, and that's why we're here.
QUESTION: Tell bus your tie?
LUNSFORD: My tie. That's my hug. I'm still minus my kid, but I got my hug every day.
Go ahead and get me started again.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: We'll have more on that just ahead.
But right now at this moment in the White House Rose Garden, President Bush is delivering remarks at the Preserve America Presidential Awards. The annual honors are given to individuals or groups, either private or public who cultivate or preserve culture.
The president, by the way, made a quick reference to first lady Laura Bush and her comic monologue at a White House Correspondence Dinner Saturday night.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Couple of funny lines one evening and she gets carried away.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: Mrs. Bush was very funny Saturday night. We are going to have more, and show you some of her comments just ahead here on CNN LIVE TODAY.
First, though, to our CNN Security Watch, and nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula. The White House says that North Korea was test firing a short-range missile on Sunday. Even though it splashed harmlessly into the Sea of Japan, the impact ripples around the world.
CNN's senior Asia correspondent Mike Chinoy is in Taipei, Taiwan with the latest.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MIKE CHINOY, CNN SR. ASIA CORRESPONDENT (voice over): So this is what the North Korean nuclear crisis has come to.
Here's President Bush:
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Kim Jong Il is a dangerous person.
CHINOY: Here's North Korea's official media. The president, it said, is a Philistine and a hooligan.
And here's the president's chief of staff:
ANDREW CARD, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: Kim Jong Il is not a good leader.
CHINOY: With the new North Korean missile test and fears that underground nuclear tests could follow, Washington and Pyongyang are busy exchanging insults.
JIM WALSH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Name calling is not a substitute for nonproliferation policy.
CHINOY: But insults seem to be the only game in town now. Diplomacy is going nowhere.
The north refuses to return to six-nation talks in Beijing, unless Washington apologizes for calling Kim Jong Il's regime a tyranny. That's unlikely to happen. And even if the talks resumed, the Bush administration won't bargain, insisting that the north agreed to give up its nukes first. That's not very likely either.
But the other options aren't any better. Squeezing North Korea's failed economy is one idea you hear in Washington, but there's little support in that in Beijing or Seoul. And there's no support in the region for a pre-emptive U.S. military strike, especially as the U.S. doesn't know where Pyongyang is hiding its nukes and the north would almost certainly retaliate.
(on camera): It is, in short, a dangerous deadlock, and while exchanging insults is better than exchanging missile fire, it's not bringing a solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis any closer.
Mike Chinoy, CNN, Taipei.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
KAGAN: And with those concerns, it's worth noting that the regional reaction to the apparent missile testing, both South Korea and Japan, are playing down its significance and urging the north to return to six-party talks.
Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.
Lost at sea for nearly a week, no food, into water, that happened to these two teenagers. They were rescued on the sixth day near Cape Fear, North Carolina. By the way, that's about 100 miles from where they first shoved off in their small sailboat. The teens are Josh Long and Troy Driscoll. They are being treated at a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina.
Josh spoke to CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING" earlier today.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOSH LONG, RESCUED AT SEA: Really, we didn't eat anything. Troy ate these little jelly balls that we catch with my hat. We just scoop them up out of the water. The only thing we could do with the water was gargle saltwater and spit it out. And it drizzled one night, and we licked water off the deck, trying to get something in us. So that's all we had.
Well, I mean, there's always sharks everywhere. I mean, my dad always told me that they're not going to bother you very much; they're just curious. But we'd be swimming around and they'd come up and start heading your way, and that's when we'd got out of there. You could sit on the boat and they'd start swimming toward the boat, and they're everywhere. Every time you turn around and get in the water, there's one coming.
Everything that would go through my mind was always going back to my family. How is my family reacting? I knew my mom, my dad, uncle Tony and everything, they were all worried. I never thought that search would have been that massive, ever.
But it just, what kept me calm is God, I prayed every hour. We'd just pray and pray, and we kind of realized, we said, well, if we don't make it, we know where we're going; and if we make it, I just want to go back to my family. So we just kept praying every day about that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: The Coast Guard plans to review the case. Investigators want to see why the boys route couldn't be predicted by computer models.
Let's take a look at other stories making news coast to coast.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I said, dad, I need the keys really badly. And he gave me the keys, and then I put them in my pocket.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not only could I hurt myself in an accident, I could have done damage to him as well as other people on the road.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: This 8-year-old Massachusetts boy credited with saving his dad's life. The two were driving home from little league practice. The father became ill with low-blood sugar and pulled the car to the side of the road. The boy was able to call his mom on the cell phone and then direct police to their location.
Rescue workers took a ride in a cherry-picker to pick up 11 people stranded on an amusement park ride. No one was hurt at the Phoenix Park. The riders were stuck about 30 feet off the ground. Could have been worse, though. The ride goes to a height of 120 feet.
And more freeway violence in Southern California. A 19-year-old man is in stable condition after being shot. Police are investigating a second possible shooting that happened early Sunday. There may have been at least six freeway shootings in the area since March 12th. Four of those have been fatal.
President Bush has signed a bill that helps parents screen their children from certain material on DVD movies, but some lawmakers are crying foul.
CNN's Brooke Anderson has that story.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Blood and guts doesn't bother me much at all, but the sex does.
BROOKE ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sex sells, but not to everybody. President Bush on Wednesday signed a bill allowing movies to be re-edited, but not by the people who created them. The part of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act that Hollywood likes makes it a federal offense to pirate a movie by using a camcorder to illegally record a film in a theater. The part the industry is ticked about says film filter companies are free to edit what they consider to be offensive movie content. Some say this is Big Brother meddling.
ROB REINER, FILM DIRECTOR: As a filmmaker, I'm against any kind of censorship or anything that would alter an artist's vision.
PAUL HAGGIS, "CRASH" DIRECTOR: I have some four letter words for those people. Exactly.
ANDERSON: Bill Aho is at the center of the controversy. His company, ClearPlay, sells filters to be used in DVD players, which would allow parents to pick and choose what their children see.
BILL AHO, CLEARPLAY: You have control over skipping or muting, over sex, graphic violence or profanity in DVDs that you watch.
ANDERSON: The consumer uses the filter to make the cuts. AHO: In many cases -- not all, but in many cases, they're movies that you'd be pretty comfortable with if not for just a little bit of content.
ANDERSON: Producer Marshall Herskovitz, whose blockbuster films "Traffic" and "The Last Samurai" have been sanitized without his permission.
MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ, PRODUCER: Remember, if a movie is R-rated, it's meant for adults. Why on earth should it be changed and reduced so that it could be seen by children?
ANDERSON: ClearPlay isn't the only company cleaning up Hollywood. Clean Flicks and Family Flicks both sell edited versions of popular DVDs online and in stores.
HERSKOVITZ: A DVD is protected by the First Amendment, it's protected by copyright law, and you can't just change it because you object to those images that are coming across your television. Right now, the only legal and ethical recourse you have is to not buy it.
ANDERSON: But some parents believe buying the filters or the edited movies buys their children more time to be kids.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you can protect them for a little bit longer, then that's a good deal.
Brooke Anderson, CNN, Los Angeles.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
KAGAN: It is a look into the lives of those who hold some very important jobs, and it's just in time for Mother's Day. Still to come, how do mothers really feel about their roles? Do they feel appreciated, valued? The results from one survey coming up.
Plus, he went through a string of hard luck to become a popular boxing champion. It's a Cinderella tale of a lightweight-heavyweight boxer who did not quit.
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KAGAN: So far so good.
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KAGAN: Mother's Day coming up on Sunday. Here's another reason to do something special for your mom. A new study finds most mothers like their role, but they tend to feel underappreciated.
2,000 mothers were surveyed. They included full-time employees, part-time employees and stay-at-home moms. A third of them said their ideal situation would be to work part-time. Three out of ten would prefer to work for pay at home. About two and ten said they wouldn't work at all. "USA Today" reported on the research from the Universities of Connecticut and Minnesota.
So those of you clicking onto cnn.com, what are you interested in? Apparently hot on the trail of the runaway bride. That story has been among the most popular on our constantly updated Web site. For more on what people are checking, let's go to dot-com desk and CNN's Christina Park. Hi, Christina.
CHRISTINA PARK, CNN.COM CORRESPONDENT: Thanks, Daryn. Hi, Daryn.
We are checking some of the most popular stories on cnn.com. For the top ten reports that people are clicking on the most, log onto our Web site and click on "Most Popular" at the top right-hand side of your screen.
Our first story is getting a lot of clicks. Long-time Oklahoma baseball coach Larry Cochell resigns amid scandal. This just two days after ESPN reported that Cochell made racist remarks in two off-camera interviews, while praising freshman outfielder Joe Dunigan, who is African-American. Cochell says he deeply regrets what he calls his careless use of language.
Now another story, Daryn, that you talked about. Cnn.com users can't seem to get enough in the latest in the runaway bride saga. Our users are learning, as CNN viewers are, that Jennifer Wilbanks could face charges in the case.
And finally the Titanic still making waves this time on the auction block. A gold pocket watch, once owned by Irish immigrant Nora Keane (ph), who survived the disaster, was sold for nearly $25,000, more than three times its estimated value. Now, the engraving on the back reads: "To my dearest Nora, your visit to County Limerick warmed my heart. God bless and be with you on your return to Pennsylvania. Signed, Loving Mother."
And for what's making our top ten most popular list right now, you know where to go.
I'm Christina Park, reporting for cnn.com.
KAGAN: That was all on the back of one watch?
PARK: Oh, yes!
KAGAN: That must have been a big watch.
All right, Christina.
PARK: Good craftsmanship.
KAGAN: Thank you.
PARK: Thanks, Daryn.
KAGAN: Well, the runaway bride wedding not the only thing crashing over the weekend. Half the field was wiped out at this, the Talladega Superspeedway this weekend. Oh my. Still to come, a look at the pile-up and which popular or some infamous driver managed to come out on top.
Plus, the tale of a real-life heavyweight boxer comes to the big screen. Up next, I'll talk with the author who penned the book. He has an interesting story to tell.
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KAGAN: Check out this mess from the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. A 25-car pileup taking out several contenders in Sunday's Aranz (ph) 499 race. This crash happened on lap 133, by the way. There was a six-car accident, just before the scheduled 188-lap finish. Jeff Gordon avoided both and went on to win.
Well, there might be no more compelling story in sports than the great comeback, two of those for you this morning. First, Tim Petrovic. Petrovic won his first PGA Tour victory Sunday at the Zurich Classic in Avondale, Louisiana. That's just the headline. The story behind that. Petrovic became a touring pro back in 1988. Five years later, his sponsor pulled out, Petrovic runs out of money. He worked making and delivering pizzas for five years, finally got a new sponsor in '98, joined the PGA tour in 2002, and today he is a champion. Love that story.
Here's your other comeback story for you. The golden age of boxing the setting for one of the most improbable comebacks in sports history. "Cinderella Man" telling the story of heavyweight fighter James Braddock. The film version opens next month, but you don't have to wait for that, because we have the book and the author, written by Jeremy Schaap, ESPN anchor and national correspondent, joining me from New York.
Jeremy, good morning.
JEREMY SCHAAP, AUTHOR, "CINDERELLA MAN": Thank you, Daryn.
KAGAN: The story of James Braddock, it says right in the book, far from the best boxer ever, but truly the people's champion.
SCHAAP: It's a remarkable story. People say, I must be exaggerating when I say it's the greatest sports story ever. But to understand exactly what he achieved by becoming the heavyweight champion at a time when that was easily the most significant title in sports, and having done it in less than a year after coming off of welfare, after working on the docks as a longshoreman.
He had been a guy in the 1920s who had been a very good light heavyweight. He had then suffered a series of just disastrous fights, losing to almost everyone he fought. He was retired from the ring. As I said, he was forced to seek work on the docks of Hoboken and Wehawken (ph), New Jersey. He had to go on welfare, which was humiliating at the time. And in the course of less than a calendar year, he rose to world heavyweight championship by scoring four consecutive stunning comebacks.
KAGAN: And the match against Max Baer, the odds were 10:1 against him?
SCHAAP: It was at the time. He was the biggest underdog not only to win the championship, but ever to have ever fought for the heavyweight championship. The odds against Max Baer when they fought on June 13, 1935 were anywhere from 6:10 to 12:1, although generally 10:1 is the accepted figure, and that's what you would have gotten from the book makers at the time. It was a stunning upset, because people thought that Baer was going to rule over the heavyweight decision for a decade. He was one of the strongest punchers ever. He had scored consecutive stunning victories against Max Schmelling and Primo Carnera (ph), two heavyweight champions. He had all these physical gifts. He was a much more talented boxer than James J. Braddock, but Braddock beat him thoroughly.
KAGAN: You dedicate this book to your dad, Dick Schaap, very well-known, well respected sports journalist. I know someone that I looked up to when I was doing sports as well. There's a hook here with your dad, and you making news in the last few weeks, Bobby Fischer, explain your relationship with your dad and the former chess champ and how your paths crossed.
SCHAAP: Well, what happened, Bobby Fischer, as some of your viewers may or may not know, was for the last nine months or so, from last summer until March, detained in Japan on a passport violation, 1992. He had violated international sanctions against Yugoslavia by playing a chess match there for more than $3 million. He was finally let go when Iceland gave him citizenship. Iceland gave him citizenship because he won the world championship there against Boris Sbasky (ph) in 1972, the most significant chess match ever. And when Fisher was growing up in New York -- he actually was born in Chicago, but grew up in Brooklyn, my father, from a very early age, his early age, he was in his 20s, and fisher Was 12 or 13 years old, befriended Fisher. Fisher didn't have a father at home. He didn't have a brother. He really didn't va any male presence in his life, and fisher in many ways look at my father as kind of a surrogate father. My father took him to games.
KAGAN: Fast forward to a few weeks ago, to this news conference. HE made a slur at your dad, an anti-Semitic slur, too.
SCHAAP: Well, he's been spouting anti-Semitic diatribes for years and years, despite the fact that his mother was Jewish and a lot of evidence suggests that his father was Jewish as well. But I went to this press conference in Iceland, and Fisher almost immediately started attacking my father. He called him a Jewish snake. He said he had been very hurt by the fact that my father had said at one point that he didn't have a sane bone in his body.
KAGAN: An odd, odd chapter, not the focus of our visit today, but I had to ask you about it since you were here. The book, once again, is "Cinderella Man." Good luck with the book and thanks for stopping by.
SCHAAP: Thanks, Daryn.
KAGAN: Jeremy Schaap. Right now, it's 10:55 on the East Coast, 7:55 on the West Coast. That, by the way, is where prosecutors expect to wrap up their case against Michael Jackson later this week.
Stay with us. We're back with a check of your morning forecast.
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