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Watch Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden talk about her debut book in conversation with Bestselling Author Allison Pataki. CBS contributing reporter Lee Woodruff sits down to speak with Harden and Pataki about their intimate, distinct, and deeply moving new memoirs.

"Anything" is an unconventional romance about Earl, a middle-aged widower who moves to Los Angeles to be with family, and who asserts his independence by renting an apartment in a sketchy neighborhood full of "colorful" characters. Most colorful of all is Frida, a transgender next door neighbor who happens to find Earl-the quintessential Southern Gentleman-just as exotic as he finds her. Forming a relationship that is at once unexpected and inevitable, this mismatched pair give each other much-needed trust, respect... and more. John Carroll Lynch, Maura Tierney, director Timothy McNeil and producer Kylene Steele stop by BUILD to speak on the film.

In the highly-anticipated return of two iconic characters, the arch-rivals from the legendary "Karate Kid" film series reunite over 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament. Now living in the affluent hills of Encino, Daniel LaRusso leads an enviable life with his beautiful family, while running a successful string of car dealerships throughout the valley. Meanwhile, his high school adversary, Johnny Lawrence, whose life has taken a rocky turn, seeks redemption by reopening the infamous Cobra Kai karate dojo. Their lives inevitably become intertwined and the rivalry is reignited, setting forth the next generation of “karate kids” in "Cobra Kai," a YouTube Red Original Series. Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg took the BUILD stage to tell us all about the show.

"Life in Pieces" is a CBS comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Zoe Lister-Jones, who plays Jen in the series, dropped by BUILD to talk about the series.

On February 25, veteran comic Kevin Smith took the stage at the Alex Theater in Glendale, CA to perform the first of two planned stand-up shows. But right after the first show ended, he suffered a near-fatal heart attack. Smith cheated death, and the special shot that fateful evening was "Kevin Smith: Silent but Deadly." In the special, Smith riffs on marriage, fatherhood, friends and his work (or lack thereof). Lucky and happy to be alive, the award-winning comedian/filmmaker/writer/actor/podcaster now brings this death-defying special to his multitude of fans.

The third season of truTV’s “Comedy Knockout” returns with host Damien Lemon. In each episode of the show, Lemon pits three comedians against each other in a series of fast-paced challenges and sends the comics into a battle of high stakes comedic gameplay. The comedians throw roast-like, rapid-fire jabs at their opponents, and each show ends with one comedian crowned champion, one eliminated and one forced to face the crowd to apologize for going down in shameful defeat.

An introverted high school girl from a working-class background and her wealthy debate team nemesis can't agree on anything, but when they're forced to work together to compete in the state championship, they discover opposites can sometimes attract. Actor Sami Gayle & writer Chad Klitzman joined BUILD to talk about the new Netflix film, "Candy Jar."

Taking viewers on a journey that starts in a game park in Kenya and goes around the world, "Mlima's Tale" is the story of Mlima, a magnificent elephant trapped in the clandestine international ivory market. Following a trail of greed and desire as old as trade itself, Mlima leads us through memory and fear, history and tradition, and want and need. Obie Award winner Jo Bonney directs this poignant new play that reveals the surprising and complicated deals that connect us all starring Ito Aghayere, Jojo Gonzalez, Kevin Mambo and Sahr Ngaujah.

So what’s an acclaimed artist to do when they no longer have anything to prove? In the case of hip-hop’s legendary Detroit lyricist Royce 5’9”, you shut out all of the hype that places you in the same esteemed company as such revered, game-changing emcees as Jay-Z, Ice Cube and Eminem and release your most potent, celebratory and brazenly honest album of your 20-plus-year-career. "Book of Ryan," the seventh solo studio project from the grinding rhyme visionary, is a work that defies well-worn, grizzled veteran rap clichés.

"Class Rank" is a quirky teen comedy, directed by Eric Stoltz, about placement, politics and finding your voice. The only thing holding Veronica (Olivia Holt) back from her dream of attending Yale is her #2 high-school class ranking. So when she devises a plan to elect fellow teen Bernard to the local school board and abolish the ranking system, their unorthodox efforts inspire everyone around them to see life and love in a whole new light.