. >> i will nominate ben hur for chair. >> thank you. >> commissioner ben hur who has served very, very well as a past chair has been nominated. anyone else? i would only second it even though it does not need it. >> all right. any discussion about commissioner hur as chair? >> any public comment on the nominations? >> commissioner ray hartz, director of san francisco open government, and anyone who either here, well there is only two members of the public here, which shows how much interest there is. or members of the public watching on tv, if they wish to contact me, this is my e-mail address. it is sfopen government bsat sbcglobal.net and i would appreciate and i have heard from hundreds of people, and i would appreciate anyone who wishes to provide comment regarding what i say at these meetings that is the address to which to send it. the election for the officers of this body is like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic, it does not seem to matter who is in charge, absolutely nothing gets done, but actually changes the ethical atmosphere of san francisco i have asked before with

stewart has been commissioned by virginia arts festival to create the score for ben hur. asked me first. i turned it down. the musical performance premieres april 19th. live at chrysler hall in norfolk, virginia, 60-member orchestra. i bought 400 tickets. i'm a patriot. stewart has been with us all night. we will talk abut this. how did this happen? >> very long story. i wrote the music for an arena show, they do the book "ben hur" with 1,000 underpaid czech ex-traz like in the movie they have 10,000, underpaid italian ex-traz. in the movie they're crashing ships together. in flames for the pirate scenes. in 1925, 80 years ago. 40 years before charlton heston. they could do stuff that had the man purr to create this spectacle. so, when this live show, had done its thing. i owned the music at that point. i could, i wanted to do the show. the concert is a big orchestra. me on the drums. and the started out as this movie over our head. the backdrop. then i started to make the movie. i cut the 2 1/2 hours down to 90 minutes. started to drink the kool-aid. started to realize t

. >> if you go back to hollywood and look at the classics like "the ten commandments," or ben hur, they'ree successes. all of a sudden, these movies come out, one after another, your mini series, now this movie is about to break, "the passion of the christ." huge ratings, is there a message here? time magazine, news week, their biggest selling issue when they put jesus on the cover around christmastime. there is a message here. >> there is a message and clearly there is a big thirst for the bible, big thirst for jesus, and the message is let's make more about the bible and about god. who wouldn't want to be with god every day? who wouldn't want to know jesus? we believe that thoroughly. the ratings show that. you know in canada, the bible series beat hockey. >> in canada? that is almost a religion, obviously you're known for "touched by an angel" you put a lot into this, why? >> it came as a whisper, in our hearts we just felt the importance to do it and we sat down together over a cup of tea and mark said you want to do what? the whole bible? and i said yes, i think that is what we should