humiliating you. >> he wasn't the big, bad bully anymore. ♪ >> snookie is such a hit that bob and anna maeore chimps to their show. they also add two kids -- velda mae, who would become debbie's mom, and bobby jr., her uncle who, years later, recalled the snookie routine fondly. >> for 14 years the troop follows the carnival circuit, not always to screams of delight. >> how many injuries have there been in your family as a result of dealing with exotic animals? >> well, i don't know how many injuries, but you have to remember they have great teeth and they can hurt you. i remember that grandpa lost his fingers. >> grandpa bob noell tells the story again and again through the years. >> at least he wasn't also losing an arm and a leg. in fact, by 1954 the noells have socked away enough to purchase 12 acres of incorporated land in florida, a place to call home in the winter months. this is where granddaughter debbie is born to velda mae in 1959. >> how'd your parents feel about you hanging out at the chimp farm? >> well, my dad loved it. my dad was more like a son to my grandparents. my mom o

you see that in madame chine high shack and anna mae wong who was the nonwhite ethnic movie star in the united states. from chinatown and los angeles she's very chinese but when she opened her mouth she like an la valley girl. for many decades she was an amazingly transfixing star in both our films and in china. interestingly, the chinese react to that was again schizophrenic. on one side when she landed in the dock in shanghai visiting china she was mobbed by people because it was a great movie star but on the other side, the chinese conservatives and communists criticized her as being a sellout to western values because she wer scanty close and danced in movies, et cetera. in some ways this has continued to this day. >> you tell the stories but are also looking for patterns. what do you see as the key pattern that you derive from this history that you think are useful lens going forward? >> simply put, it's a cycle of enchantment and rapture and the idea that china will make us all rich or that america will save china and battle against xy and z. almost inevitably by crushing disappoi

i watch the original water fight scene from the anna mae.it with you and without you? how do they make the way it does? i come in all for the practical stuff, for all the fights. where you see me you know i pl but we shot it in this really weird, it was kind of like big giant kiddie pool. i don't know how tolls put it. that doesn't make it seem as cool but it was outside in this big giant kiddie pool and it was just, yeah, it was a craze seek, crazy just to be in that suit in the water and you know like lifting body out from the water and like -- >> bad. >> it was intense. >> the movie ghost in the shell it opens up on friday. it's very well done. obviously that scene she's talking about she's in crazy suit. in the anna mae film the character was nude. it was a nude shell. so we couldn't really show you some of the scenes in the film where she's a little bit nude. it's inter interesting. >> she seems all business to me. >> she is. i tried to ask about her daughter. >> there's nothing inn appropriate about your question at all. >> i thought i