the neighbors from this building remained in the broadway studios as the firefighters were putting out the fire. they then provided shelter, food, drinks, and space heaters to keep all of these individuals warm for the next day and acted as a centralized location for the red cross, the fire department, and other city departments and agencies to provide emergency assistance to these residents. the residents were relocated first to a summer recreation center and then to the royal pacific motel with the help of an agency, and very recently, all of the families have as of now found a temporary rental units or have otherwise procured housing. from my perspective, this was the sixth fire i have attended over the past years in my district, many involving low- income residents and tenants, and it is because of a wonderful people, like the broadway studios, which help to redress the disasters that we have that i think make the city the wonderful place that it is, so if we can thank them for their amazing generosity, thank you very much. [applause] if you would like to say a few words, you can d

we bring the best in opera, the best in classical music, in broadway, in rock and roll.think that public television does best, and i hope you agree with me. now, we can't always make it out to the theater, if we love theater, and we can't always go to a recital hall for a live concert, but, with public television, we can always have the best seat in the house. but you know something? we really cannot do it without the help of some very special people, and they are people just like you. please pick up your phone right now, call in and help keep the terrific music specials alive on this public television station. we can't do it without your help. so, think about all the enjoyment you're getting. think about this wonderful concert, and think about the fact that you might like to enjoy this concert over and over and over again. well, you can do that. you can make a pledge of $80 and it would be our pleasure to send you, as a thank you gift, ronan tynan: more than magic, the dvd of the show we're watching right now. but it is even better because it has six bonus performances

the greatest music from broadway with a dazzling cast of theater stars, neil's 100 years of broadwayy night at the marin center. the monster jam brings the roar of monster trucks as they invade the oakland coliseum in a showdown, a power-packed motor mic and brawny of steel. ♪ >> kid kalama appears at the culture club part of the noise festival. indy bands and films are show cased throughout the city. works of art, quilts, created like great paintings. includes wearable art in the concourse exhibition center. >> romania. >> don't, stop! using her noisy reporter skills. >> it's comic book action and nonstop adventure. nonstop adventure.  [ suspenseful music plays ] i should have known better than to listen to the good museum directors. "not only a fine tapestry man, but an american," they assured me. "none finer in rio de janeiro." you call this clean?! isn't it clean enough for you, sir? demay, i have nothing but contempt for the likes of you. if i weren't on such a tight schedule on this south-american tour, i'd fire you on the spot and look for someb

at that time, and nobody was interested in-- on broadway, certainly-- in a grumpy, hour-long play by somebody never heard of. and so it was done in berlin in german on a double bill with beckett's krapp's last tape. and i think that fact, which got picked up by the new york times, you know-- "young american playwright has to go to germany to have his first work done, and not even in english"-- i think that instantly made the play producible in new york city, because six months later, it was done off-broadway in english on the same double bill and ran for four years. so i quit my job delivering telegrams for western union-- [laughter] and settled in to be a playwright. now, do you speak or write german? no. no. it's a very strange language. do you speak it? no. no. you know, the verbs are at the ends of the sentences, so you can go along, you know, for a page and a half, not knowing what anybody is talking about, and then, all of a sudden, bang, at the end, there's a verb. but you had this-- this added advantage of sitting there the first time you watched it and not being able to say-

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two of tv's biggest stars on broadway.sutherland and chris noth. >> they're part of an all-star cast in "that championship season." >>> this half hour, we get to the congressman whose own stach pushed him into the hospital for psychiatric. in a moment, we'll talk to david wu. first, here's abbey boudreau with the back story. >> reporter: david wu, facing allegations today. his former staffers worry he's unfit to do his job. >> there was a lot of questions about his behavior. >> reporter: the editor of "the oregonian," says that congressman wu has been acting strangely for years. in 2007, he compared republicans to klingons. >> it's wrong. >> reporter: days before the election, congressman wu dressed up like a tiger for halloween, upsetting staffers who warned him the costume would damage their campaign. they told "the oregonian," they tried to stage an intervention. and asked a psychiatrist to show up, as well. sources say he was having a mental breakdown. >> i can't say what the sources said in that context. suffice it to

se presenta en un teatro off broadway que si tiene el Éxito esperado puede pasar a broadway.os. >> seguimos con mucho mÁs de despierta amÉrica. lo que queda de programa es espectacular, mÁs informaciÓn y mÁs entretenimiento. lo que viene de espectÁculos es de agarrarse... >> y vamos a comer tambiÉn. >> de agarrarse... >> la peluca. >> me dejaste mal chiquinquirÁ. >> tiene que pasar por la difÍcil situaciÓn de ser el estricto mientras su pareja o ex pareja no pone ningÚn tipo de lÍmites? (en pantalla) >> llÁmenos! >> eso es difÍcil, muchachos. porque uno siempre es el que es el estricto, la bruja la mayorÍa de las veces, la mujer. >> depende. >> cÓmo eres en tu cas? >> yo soy equilibrado. dar mucho amor cuando se requiere y ser estrictos. >> cuando la niÑa le saca la sonrisa Él se desvanece! >> cuando regaÑo a mi hija y ella me ignora por un par de horas. >> llegÓ deprimido acÁ el otro dÍa porque me dice: me dijo no te quiero papÁ! >> cuando tÚ te quiras reconciliar n tu hija ponle un disco de jhon secada. recibiÓ una invitación de la casa real britÁnica para cantar en la boda

we read it just last year where 455 vallejo, there was a rockslide that affected properties on broadway and montgomery. at rock slide occurred because of blasting that occurred back in the turn-of-the-century that left the rock week. 100 years later, the weak rock cannot stand there anymore and it fell. this slide is a long sansome street, where the city chose to protect sansome street and the cars, and they built this catchment wall. the sole purpose of this wall is to catch rocked that falls from private property. >> and every year or two, we get a call saying that rocks have fallen down the road and spilled over. this is the famous slide where we had a building at the top fall down this hill. this is the 22 street building. this was a watercolor done in 1945 by david mandel which -- by david mandelowiz. this building started gradually falling and sliding down. >> they had to replace the street right there. and in the process of jack hammering out the old st., they weakened the rocked. then the rockfall occurred. it undermined the building. once the building was undermined, it could n

they all have to do with the new broadway musical "spider-man." an artistic form of megalomania. a shrill insipid mess. incoherent. and finally, "spider-man" is so grievously broken in every respect it's beyond repair. after a while you get the feeling the critics don't like "spider-man." the most expensive and elaborate musical ever made. well, here's the rub, it hasn't opened yet officially, it's still in previews, and the people keep coming. despite the mishaps, four injuries to actors. over 130,000 tickets have been sold. >>> when we come back here tonight a young woman who has really earned her wings and is making history in mid flight. >>> finally tonight, along with our fellow nbc news website thegrio.com, we're marking black history month by following people who are making history every day. tonight, an inspirational story about a young woman who overcame tremendous hurdles to accomplish something extraordinary. our own ron mott has the report tonight from los angeles. >> reporter: early morning in l.a., time to get a move on. the chopper's ready to go, and so is lashanda

that will get you to broadway but here you are in union square. ladies and gentlemen, two-time winner, mr. leonard oates. >> this is what i do every day. [ringing bells] >> leonard oates, ladies and gentlemen, reigning two-time champion mr. leonard oates. that completes the entire competition, ladies and gentlemen. let's hear it for everybody you heard today. the votes from the judges will now be tallied. that means up guys actually have to go to work now. we're going to name the tom three winners in the amateur and professional categories. the first place winner of the professional competition will take home a beautiful cable car bell with -- made by gilberto at the frens of the cable car museum. every year this man makes a beautiful cable car bell for this competition the mr. gad oy is pretty shy, he won't talk about his work but the craftsmanship speaks for itself the every bell every year is individually made by this man. it's a craft. you will see him a little later. while we're waiting for the votes to be tallied though, you're not going any

we have roadwork in effect as well southbound 880 from broadway to embarcadero. various lanes closed but they should have that wrapped up within the next 10 minutes, roadwork also on 101 southbound and northbound between old middle field way and rangeford. remember our radio partners when you hit the roads, kcbs 740-am and 106.9-fm. back to you. >> thank you. >>> today the san francisco board of supervisors is expected to speed up the process for redevelopment to head the america's cup. the boat race is coming to the city in 2013 and there are plans to tear down historic piers and replace them with new buildings. first the city has to high a consultant to evaluate the environmental impact. today the board will likely vote to skip the normal competitive bidding process for the hire. >>> giants fans who want to buy tickets for opening day can submit their names for a random drawing on the team's website. winners will be able to purchase two tickets for either opening day on april 8 or the first night game on april 9. registration closes on february 27. and winners

you guys, our first guest this evening has starred on the big and small screen, as well as broadway, cabaret here in new york city. the title of the show is "in my life" and reviews have been terrific. please welcome back to the show a talented and very funny lady, brooke shields, everybody. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> you guys are great. >> jimmy: brooke shields, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] >> hello. >> jimmy: thank you for coming back. >> thank you. >> jimmy: this is your home, you're back in new york city. >> yes, this is my home. well, this is my home, too. it was so nice to have me back. thank you very much. >> jimmy: oh, please. you can come back whenever you want to. >> well, i was born and raised in manhattan. so, also, the thought of really living anywhere else to me just gives me agita. >> jimmy: yeah, you love coming here and walking around. i have a picture of you from 1978, this is you just hanging out? >> i was just hanging out in '78. i don't know what picture it is. >> jimmy: yes, you went to studio 54 here, it's just you and debbie harry, and one of your budd

the broadway revue, "new faces," established you as a star very quickly. ek: as a singer, yes. q: as a singer. and . and yet it's interesting you should say that because we've been on the air here for about three minutes. we've already talked about singing, dancing and acting. ek: yes. q: i mean, did you set out to have this multifaceted career that . in which you basically did . anything and everything? ek: no. i was scared to death to do anything like getting into show business because i was brought up rather strictly, in a cotton . field in south carolina. and as a result, you do what you are told to do, not what you want to do. and i think that i was afraid always to exercise my feelings about anything because i thought i would be pow! get my face slapped or something like that or a little slap on my derriere because i wasn't obedient. but when the time came for me to really say, "i think i'm in your way," to my aunt when she brought me to new york . "i think i'm in your way. " because she was a very beautiful woman and she didn't know anything about taking care of children

next act is a lot of great broadway music.r music, your music, to your children, to your grandchildren, and that's one of the great things we love to do here at public television. i think it's fantastic that we can do this, and, please, yeah, do go to the phones and pledge and hear some more men aloud. well, act three is coming up, a great, great finale to this wonderful show, and then we'll come back and we'll talk more with tim, but remember, we can't do these shows without your help. it's your pledges, your donations that made this possible, it's going to make more shows like this possible, so don't let us down. the phone number's right there on your screen. make that call. ♪ ease your ♪ mind ♪ they're called bui-doi ♪ ♪ the dust of life ♪ conceived in hell ♪ and born in strife ♪ they are the living reminder ♪ ♪ of all the good we failed to do ♪ ♪ we can't forget, must not forget ♪ ♪ that they are all our children, too ♪ ♪ like all survivors, i once thought ♪ ♪ when i'm home, i won't give a damn ♪ ♪ but now i know i'm caugh

he graduated in 1983 and came to new york with hopes of acting on broadway. a series of survival jobs. the first one was right here at the of half price. >> reporter: after selling tickets to shows, he took another survival job at a broadway t-shirt store. >> so let's see if i can do this with the eyes facing out. >> reporter: he became a genius at folding. >> that's how you fold a cats t-shirt. >> reporter: he was also a bartender at the palace theater when something opened. >> i wrote a few good men on cocktail napkins during the first act. i would come home with my pockets stuffed full of cocktail napkins. >> reporter: to get a few good men from napkins to the stage he needed an agent. so he dashed something off for a workshop theater. >> i got a funny idea for a one act play. i wrote it. it got accepted. and nathan lane was in it. i was in it too. >> reporter: nathan lane was in this little play. >> and i was in i. >> reporter: i don't suppose there's any videotape of this? >> i sure hope not. >> reporter: it was performed at the nearby west bank cafe lit

. >> on broadway and 93rd? >> broadway and 93rd. >> yeah. >> so part of -- any decent city should have is a minimal commercial rent control system where at the very least you can't raise prices if you don't have another customer, and maybe you shouldn't raise prices unless you can e roll or replace it with somebody doing the same thing so every store doesn't become a bland read as has happened here. these are not just preserving the bookstore questions, but they are preserving an urban civilization question. you know, you look where on broadway and 94th street, there is hardly a store left other than the korean grocery store that is not a chain store of some kind. there's -- >> i'd like to take some questions, is that all right? >> sure. >> do we have a microphone? is there someone to hand it around? all right. let's ask some questions. >> the first question is always the hardest one to get. >> i will say that this book will be available after questions. >> okay good. >> we vice president talked much about digi

. >> of course there was a hollywood back then but there was broadway. they did all other broadway divorces. and provoked a few as well. okay, well, thank you very much. [applause] >> cait murphy as a former editorial page editor for the asian "wall street journal" and assistant managing editor at "fortune" magazine. for more information visit scoundrelsinlaw.com. >> on february 16 of this year the borders bookstore group declared bankruptcy. joining us now on booktv to discuss the impact of this bankruptcy is sarah weinman who is the news editor of publishers marketplace. ms. weinman how did borders get to the point of declaring bankruptcy? >> well, i think it's been a long time in coming. certainly the last three years in particular as quarter after quarter orders has been losing money. they've also gone through a number of management change at the top. they've got to something like for ceos in the past four years. but the story can also date back to the beginning of the 21st century i suppose, things like their website, they didn't reclaim it until 20

i see cheetah revera on broadway. as american as the lee's, the kennedys. none sound american to me. i am not a shamed. jose can you see. i pledge allegiance to this country. land of commercialism. if i can win gold medals. if i can sign my life away. ain't no language. this is my country too. i believe in free dom and diversity, need to get the hell out. [applause] >> i have one more performer. can you believe that? i am so excited. he is a very kind man to be here. he's a total icon. tales of the city. his book that was made do a city. he's here on his book tour. thank you very much. well, i would not have missed this evening for anything. you and i both know these things can be boring. not tonight. i like to read, since i'm back home from a tour. i would like to read the chapter that my editor wanted me to remove. i have to set it up for you. michael toliver is 55 years old. they have gone to florida because his mother has died. and they have been out to the rest home, to the bear bar in orlando. they meet a black bear, that is a husky african-american g

we look forward to seeing them on broadway in the near future. and we want to shake hands with you.[applause] >> congratulations. what we do. >> i just want to thank the commissioners said jointly that evening. they are my dreams coming true. i am grateful. >> thank you for inviting them down. >> and i have to think commissioner -- thank commissioner fewer. >> item d is the student delegates report. the of like to invite the adviser to the podium. >> andó[ the senior advisory p 6 c1 i'd like to first say congratulations, good job. they will be working with the school's to work with the student council for those immunizations. we have also been distributing fliers recently. when it comes time to adopt, -- opt, [unintelligible] mendoza speaking. on february 14, this past week w, we want members to support that. >> academy is an advisory council report. r>> good evening, commissioners. i think she is still at work, so i will give the report on behalf of her. tonight, i really want to focus on our work with public schools and district staff to organize kmq 6 c1unity about theh proposed

now he's bringing all three together in the hbo movie "the sunset limited" based on a broadway play. >> peter travers, host of "abc's news now's" "popcorn" sat down to talk about it. >> reporter: welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> reporter: tell us what this is, what attracted you to want to direct it and bring it to the screen. >> well, it's a beautiful piece of writing. and deals with the biggest ideas in the world, but in a fun way, in a fun way. >> reporter: biggest ideas in the world, life and death, in a fun way. >> that and -- well, that's right. it's very appealing. >> reporter: what's going on between the two of you? why has your character been brought to this place? >> in terms of the narrative, one character named white, who is on the faculty of a university, probably in the philosophy department, has thought things over and decided that the right thing to do would be to throw himself in front of a subway. train. and he sets out to do so. when he makes his leap, he's snatched out of the air by another character. his name is black. he's called black. and black takes whit

the suspect drove north on broadway and fired one shot at officer eleiff. , -- stearns, and kane. those shots can be heard of the recording of the night. the suspect headed north and again leaned out the window to fire at the pursuing officers. the suspect then turned eastbound on to turkey into oncoming one way traffic. officers paine and o'malley saw the vehicle traveling up a high rate of speed on to oncoming traffic. officer pain is a specialist. they are more heavily trained in these types of situations. knowing the information, he attempted to halt the suspect by firing at the suspect. the round, but officers hearing the shot at the suspect had fired at them. officers o'malley and paine, knowing that officer eleiff was a single unit, decided to pursue the suspect. the suspect continued into oncoming traffic until he turned north on webster and the east oneddy, sot on buchanan. during this pursuit, officer you lift prop broadcast the suspects route while driving, holding the microphone in one hand. once in large rally, the suspect drove along the block calling for residents o

did you do that on broadway or anything? in theater?ame here with it. i don't know if they did it on or off broadway. it's been done in atlanta. they're doing a production of it in l.a. right now because i have a friend that's in it. but it's a big, wordy piece. >> jimmy: it's good. and it's very -- it's good. and, gosh, you do such a great job. i'm like, "man, i can't do stuff like that, clearly." [ laughter ] but we have a clip of the great samuel l. jackson and tommy lee jones. here's "the sunset limited." >> there was nobody around. >> no, just me. >> well, i don't know where you could have been. >> are you going to get spooky on me here, professor? maybe i was behind a post or something. >> there wasn't any post. >> so, what you saying? you're looking at some big, black angel that got sent down here to snatch your honky ass out of there at the last possible minute and saved you from destruction? >> no, i don't think that. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: more with samuel l. jackson when we come back, you guys. come on

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you'll be great ♪ >> imagine this little girl from vaudeville sitting in a broadway theater watchingeverything's coming up roses ♪ >> belt out incredible songs based on her life. >> reporter: she kept touring for years. went to vietnam to entertain troops. >> this is a jacket that has on it the patches of all the units that my mother visited in vietnam. >> reporter: she said they considered her their sexy grandmother. she even hosted a talk show. with guests like librace. >> it's the only piece of jewelry i ever bought for myself. all the other things have been given to me. >> that's very nice. i've always bought all of mine. >> reporter: and then in 1970, gypsy was diagnosed with lung cancer. she was gone in four months. but in her centennial year, her life is an inspiration to a new generation, especially at the new york school of burlesque. founder joe weldon says gypsy rose lee proved a stripper can have class. >> she kept it fun. she allowed people to look at her as beautiful and still prove she had a brain and a voice. >> that's all there is. there isn't anymore. >> reporter: s

during the broadway rockslide, we did barricades'. we did geotechnical services we had to pay for. there is kind of a gamma -- gamut. i think there is something that had to do with the wood for shoring. that would feed into that 54 days, so we are much better off than we were several years ago. even last year, we started off with -- commissioner murphy: how are we compared to three years ago? >> three years ago, -- we are greater than three years ago. our lowest was 500,000 that we went into 2009-2010 with. we went in with $553,000, and we are up to wear around between 3 million or 4 million. remember, years and years ago -- commissioner murphy: i remember. >> yes. commissioner murphy: let's get back to the first page there. it says, "restore code enforcement outreach for the sro programs to levels prior to the downturn." can you explain that a little bit to me? what were the levels then? how much money were we giving them then, and how much money are we giving them now? >> you are talking about actually the report. several years ago, i think three years ago, we were giving them $7

years turned out to be break through years for black actors on the big screen, the small screen and broadway. >> reading the play, it was obvious that caved was willing to kind of put on page and then on the stage thoughts and ideas that people have all the time about race and aren't necessarily willing to say.and the time about race and aren't necessarily willing to say.on t that people have all the time about race and aren't necessarily willing to say. >> to do this role with this cast, i jumped at. so it's definitely a high point in my career for me. >> i've had more people coming up to me, i can't wait for -- people are fascinating with gangster movies. even my own son. a child can be susceptible. some child might watch american gangster and say i want to be a gangster, but it's really about what's going on in your home. >> gaedream girls is using the success and now it's going to be a no-brainer. when somebody starts to talk about another african-american or black film, it works because we allowed it to be black, say that it is black. >> and i know if will this is successful, it will op

the start of the off-broadway hip-hop theater production, he has lectured and performed at over 100 colleges correctional facilities in the united states, africa, asia, latin america, and europe. he has released two albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the new school in columbia university, and is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line teacher. a teacher, educators, researchers, writers, consultant, speaker. she is like a mother, auntie, big sister, all in one, for me. she has taught in canada, the caribbean, and the u.s. and has been involved in the development of teachers for two decades. she consults on anti-racist inclusion very and equitable education. she assists school districts and schools to continually restructure themselves for equitable

the first is a jurisdiction request at 2350 broadway. that matter has been withdrawn and will not be heard this evening. the other has to do with appeal six and six a. of hundred one divisadero -- 1201 divisadero street. my understanding is that the document that was to be viewed during the closed session, and the copy of the identification card, is not available. my suggestion is that we might continue this matter in order to hear it at a time when that identification card can be viewed by the board. we would need a motion to do that. president goh: so moved. >> is there any member of the public who would like to comment on the steps -- on this? do you understand what the board has decided to do? the board has decided it would like to continue this matter. one of the issues in dispute is what the minor decoy's identification card looked like, and a copy is not yet available. the department of public health is working on that. it would need to be continued until that time. dr. ojo, do you know when that would be available? >> i am not su

in 1857, the oldest brother's company installed their first passenger elevator on broadway in new york. believe it or not, many of those first elevators were actually started and stopped by a hand broke. >> what drove those old elevators? what was their motive power? >> in some cases, they might have even been hp. >> and then changed to electric? >> electric cited to come in the 1890's, and that was around the time when the elevator stopped from material handling and started to be used more frequently for passengers. in 1878, there was a demonstration of the other thing that allowed architects to build taller buildings was the advent of a higher quality steel manufacturing. in 19003, the first production year track models were introduced, that it was when things took off. >> that mostly happened in new york city? >> lower manhattan was the first place that took off, then chicago. those early passenger elevators always had an attendant that would take a passenger's request and then operate the car. the big change was the emergence of a electric elevators. starting in 1880, the electric

people are lucky enough to the palms on broadway can look out their window.s really very unusual. for the first time, the america's cup will be witnessed by hundreds of thousands of spectators because of this spectacular venue. also for the first time in a very long time, the america's cup will be racing in the fastest boats on the planet. typically, the america's cup boats -- they were boats you could go out and buy. not anymore. these new 72-footers, they will routinely go 30 knots. if you are not easily frightened, they can probably reach 40 knots in that crazy san francisco breeze. consistently every afternoon you get 25 knots of breeze coming from the golden gate and flushing down the bay. it will be absolutely extreme sailing. exhilarating for the sailors and for the fans who are watching. it's a far cry from the boat i've learned to sail on at uc- berkeley yacht club. they did not have 72-foot catamarans. they did have 14's. [laughter] i did not know how many sailors are in the room. it is pretty much a rectangular tupperware container where you might