we are not going to double becket, so one of the ways we can deal with that is through pricing. generate enough revenue to improve those services that across the county line, and those services are services that are paid by all of these counties in the peninsula, so we are not talking about taking money, plugging the general fund deficit in san francisco. we're talking about dedicating money to the corridors where people are paying the fee. commissioner alioto-pier: yes, but i will disagree with you on that. to me, it looks like a fee to enter san francisco. when you start looking at the downtown quarters, most of those people are san franciscans, so it has a very direct impact on our own county as well as the other counties and the people that live here. i know supervisor elsbernd's name is on the roster, but i think that the small business impact cannot be talked enough about. the economic impact to the surrounding communities. when we start saying things like, "do not go downtown during certain areas," you have people go to get their hair down downtown, who go shopping and ea

i have a daughter neve and a don becket who is 5. they're all the obvious things. i love my kids.ter of my life, along with my wife. but then if you're interested in comedy and you're interested in the way minds work, having kids is incredible. the things they say and do. they are incredibly honest and you see it developing and you see their ironic take on the world developing and so it's just that is every day keeps you on your toes. >> good father? are you a good father? >> i'm a terrible father. no, i'm a great father. >> larry: are you involved in their lives? >> yes. >> larry: you go to open school week? >> i'll tell you what i did this morning. this morning i went to my daughter's school because they wanted me to play bopper e. bopper e. is a cartoon character -- a superhero who is the "e" at the on the other hand of the word like cake, and the vowel in the middle of the world say "a." i'm teaching you, larry. so i dressed up in a zorro suit in a fake beard because they didn't want my daughter to recognize me. my wardrobe person who is here and needs a beating insisted it be

if i am forced to have just one favorite writer, my desert island writer i think it would be becket. >> rose: why? >> well, his plays of course, a work like "end game" is the closest thing to a perfect work of art i can think of. but his novels. i've never known a writer who's made so much of the human condition and at the same time incredible humor incredible lightness of touch and on the one hand there's an exuberance to them. how do you have those two things together? >> someone said this about you now is that you have enormously good spatial sense. what does that mine? >> well, in a small way it means i never lose my way in a small city and the personal in my family who knows where everybody has dropped their keys or put their had. >> rose: you know where things are? >> i have the memory for that. what it means in my work i think... i think it's some key strangely. my father started out as a structural engineer and now he's an orthopedic surgeon. it seems genetic... >> rose: went from an engineer to an orthopedic surgeen? >> you should have him on the show. >> rose: indeed i shou