and i never had heard of korea before that. >> you came to north korea because of elizabeth taylor's marriage? >> well, engagement. it was the first time i heard of the country of korea. later on we got more informed about it. these japanese annex career -- what was it 1903? >> 1905 and then 1910 fully occupied. >> for the older koreans we met in the north and south, they all smoke spoke japanese. >> what happened to you after basic military training? where did you go? >> i played baseball for the army. >> what? >> i was supposed to go to officer candidate school. we had just had two new noncommissioned officers transfer to our company. >> yeah. >> pre-world war ii guys. and one in particular didn't like me too much, and he was always picking on me. >> why was it? >> he was getting very offensive about my heritage and everything. >> oh. >> so i threatened to slap him. going in the orderly room there was a sign on the wall that said baseball tryouts. for two years i played baseball for the army. >> what position? >> third base. >> you were the official army baseball player? >> yeah. >

professor han: you came to know korea because of elizabeth taylor's marriage? mr. conte: well, engagement. it was the first time i heard of the country of korea. later on, we got more informed about it. the japanese annexed korea in, what was it 1903? ,professor han: 1905 and then 1910 fully occupied. it ended in 1945. mr. conte: most of the koreans we knew for the older koreans we , met in the north and south they all spoke japanese. professor han: what happened to you after basic military training? where did you go? mr. conte: i played baseball for the army. professor han: what? mr. conte: i was supposed to go to officer candidate school. we had just had two new noncommissioned officers transfer to our company. professor han: yeah. mr. conte: pre-world war ii guys. and one in particular didn't like me too much, and he was always picking on me. professor han: why was it? mr. conte: he was getting very offensive about my heritage and everything. professor han: oh. mr. conte: so i threatened to slap him. so he turned to me and said to the company commander with my o

known for his exploits as a ladies' man, having escorted such high profile women as actress elizabeth taylorer lynda bird johnson, and model alana stewart. these days he is crisscrossing the country once again, this time starring in the broadway tour of “la cage aux folles.” >>> hello, i'm ernie manouse. coming up on innerviews, our conversation with the suave and perpetually tanned golden globe-winning actor george hamilton.

managed to persuade elizabeth taylor and orson welles to narrate it. >> about a swedish diplomat whoe to hungary on a mission to save the juice. >> there i -- jews. >> there i was sitting opposite this legend. she mixed me a bloody mary and i thought here am i sitting in front of the reincarnation of cleopatra. shortly afterwards it won the academy award. the levert was opened and they read out my name. i jumped and i remember that night quite vividly. it was 1982. i really hadn't prepared the speech because i was convinced that one of the other nominees was going to win. i was absolutely convinced. i'd like to thank the members of the academy. what was really incredible about it was the fact that dreaming way back of hollywood and all the movie stars, there am i giving this speech and down in the front row there looking up at me were people like bob hope and barbara stan wick and all these hollywood legends. danny kay and so on. it was quite incredible. they brought all the winners back up. >> i think we were all swaying singing "there's no business like show business," and standing

and i never had heard of korea before that. >> you came to north korea because of elizabeth taylor's marriage? >> well, engagement. it was the first time i heard of the country of korea. later on we got more informed about it. these japanese annex career -- what was it 1903? >> 1905 and then 1910 fully occupied. >> for the older koreans we met in the north and south, they all smoke spoke japanese. >> what happened to you after basic military training? where did you go? >> i played baseball for the army. >> what? >> i was supposed to go to officer candidate school. we had just had two new noncommissioned officers transfer to our company. >> yeah. >> pre-world war ii guys. and one in particular didn't like me too much, and he was always picking on me. >> why was it? >> he was getting very offensive about my heritage and everything. >> oh. >> so i threatened to slap him. going in the orderly room there was a sign on the wall that said baseball tryouts. for two years i played baseball for the army. >> what position? >> third base. >> you were the official army baseball player? >> yeah. >

he represented elizabeth taylor and the list goes on and on and on.t me off the lenl. there's nothing wrong with this even though it sounds so wrong. >> yes, nothing wrong with it. same principle weather you're making 50 tlrs or $500 million. there's a agreed factor that permeates this. it's the stuff of late night shows. >> well, wait. why is it greedy if the wife with three children wants to continue that family's lifestyle with those children if that's what they were all living. >> let's think about that a minute. $3.6 million a year in private planes. four nannies for three children. >> this is the way they were living as a family. >> she mub traveling on a plane 24 hours a day. i think it's an offensive quality here. we're dealing with a person who's quite a distinguished woman. she graduated georgetown, business lady. speaks five languages. why is she throwing all this away to make herself a joke. this is like the theory of public relations. >> all i'm going to say is if you make $50 a month as a family and you're used to living at that rate and

hollywood royalty, elizabeth taylor. >> she in had a lifelong love of jewelry and some of it was givenr by people she loved and other things she purchased for herself. >> mexican movie star maria felix commissioned a 178-carat diamond snake necklace and these gold emerald and diamond crocodiles, according to the story she actually brought a little baby crocodile into the cartier store and said i would like you to make me a crocodile out of gold, and so this is the design that they came up with. those are really accurate versions of little crocodiles. >> even maharajas adorn themselves with jewel are cartier but as the saying goes, diamonds are a girl's best friend. >> at the end of the day if your love affair between the woman and her jewels well i would say that is true, and for sometimes it is the jewelry that endures when the love does not. indeed. >> >> osgood: still to come can you membered a -- can you mend a broken heart? an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. and levemir® helps lower your a1c. levemir® comes in flextouch® the only prefil

. >> elizabeth taylor once said it took me ten years to become an overnight success.t. >> exactly. there's all these dollars. we say last year we spent becoming the newspaper of the web. this year we want to be the television channel and the magazine. >> i had a feeling you were going to say that. jon fortt, are you worried? >> well i'm intrigued because, you know, being in media you want to see media do well. i have a couple former magazine colleagues now working for mashable. how do you invest that money so it becomes a sustainable business model for the long term. a lot of people who saw similar things happen 10 15 years ago worry about, well a lot of the ad money that's there now might not be there forever. when there's a downturn will you still be profitable? >> absolutely. being a decade old company we've been through the highs and lows of the market. i think speaking to magazine colleagues coming across, we're very fortunate we were able to build the technology platform the cm s where journalists could come across our editorial times, two of them are from "the

liz, an english springer spaniel named for elizabeth taylor. rocket.d matisse, a water dog and cousin of the pet sonny. our favorite pup, wrangler getting an honorable mention. >> last week i had a visit with the wrangler. the first time a "today" show cohost licked my face. >> i know you think it's ma cease. >> an underdog got tails wagging. >> my choice for the best in show is the beagle. >> miss p, the beagle from british columbia shocking even the announcers. >> how about that! >> taking home the coveted title of best in show. >> just the second beagle to ever win here. >> in the final appearance before retiring. david frye is thewith communications. miss p and her handler, will alexander. congratulations. how is the after glow? >> hasn't sunk in yet. >> you haven't been able to sleep? >> that has a lot to do with it. >> we have been hearing a lot. was it an upset? >> people were looking at two dogs with big records. miss p was in the top ten. >> miss p is a famous relative. # >> what stood out in the end for miss p? >> she is an elegant beautiful

. >> narrator: as taylor's army in masquerade wound its way towards the plantation, elizabeth blunt, the bbc's correspondent for west africa, made a trip to firestone to find out if the managers were concerned. >> we were invited to sunday lunch. a couple of other journalists and myself, we went off to firestone, and it was beautiful. it was green, it was peaceful. we had lunch in the clubhouse. i think our hosts were working very, very hard to persuade us that everything was normal. i don't think it was as normal as they made it look. and i think they were hoping that if the rebels did come, that they might be able to carry on. >> narrator: and for a while at least, they did carry on. >> it really didn't affect us much, until we knew that they were getting closer to monrovia, and therefore, obviously, closer to us. i was hoping that, actually, the rebels would go around the plantation, not come onto the plantation, and we would be able to continue to operate. >> there was a lot of political turmoil, but conditions were pretty good then even under the circumstances, so we expected th