>> yes, i have a question. >> yes, commissioner carrington? >> miss connie, from the beginning of this program up until this date, have you paid attention to the clients' morale, their self-esteem? have you seen any changes? >> one of the outcome measures, there are several outcome measures, and i would say that almost all of the participants report sort of an increased confidence, and they have all reported that -- or more everyone has reported that it has -- the program has had a positive impact on their, you know, sort of health and well-being. >> very good. thank you. >> any other commissioners? okay. then, madam secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to comment on agenda item c? >> clerk: moderator, please open the phone lines for public comment. we'll allow some time for callers to submit their request. do we have any callers in the queue? >> operator: madam secretary, we have no callers in the queue. >> okay. seeing no publ seeing no callers in the queue, we will close public comment. do i have a motion to approve? >> s

. >> we all wanted to live like the carringtons, and it ended up being a wonderful picture of fun andat. >> primetime families like the carringtons who live in luxury on the "dynasty" sound stage are not the only rich folk on tv. in the last five years, more than half of all new shows have featured the wealthy. ten years ago that figure was zero. >> it was an accident. your father's dead. >> a wine family. there is lorenzo lame owes and ronald reagan's first wife on that show. >> emma is pregnant. >> i know a doctor who can take care of it right away. >> that will never happen. >> all of those shows were, oh my god, what's next? what's gonna happen with that? he can't get away with that. then you tune in, it was appointment television. >> what will become of the missing twins on "knott's landing". >> they all had spinoffs. the colbys was a spinoff for "dynasty." they were seeing how much they could max it out because it was really successful. >> where is your son miles? isn't he going to be a part of this venture or is he playing polo as usual? >> the colbys can always find room for a

[blake carrington] damn you alexis, i'm gonna kill you. don't! [glenn plaskin] this was real life dynasty. [charles bagli] at this point, developers had almost supplanted movie stars in the gossip column everything they did was so amusing, so wonderful. [david cay johnston] and one of the biggest people who's benefited from this is donald trump. he came, he saw, he conquered. and as the decade pressed on, the young developer from the outer boroughs was only growing bolder. [johnston] he had built trump tower, which made a tremendous amount of money. he had two casinos that were throwing cash at him like crazy. [michael kruse] but he also wants more. more, more, more. he was determined to see his name splashed across the sky line. but first, he'd need his name splashed across the headlines. the fact that new york was the media capital of the world allowed him to create the persona, to create the celebrity, create the name donald trump. the whole ethos of donald trump's life has been, "look at me, how rich i am, look how successful i am." it's this