look, when fitzgerald guyed, he was buying copies of his own book. >> stephen: because no one was reading just so there were some sails. he was that forgotten, and the idea that last week he sold more books in one week than his entire lifetime, that alone i think is a positive outcome of the experience of making the film for me ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: you're an artist-- why do you think-- you're an artist who was accepted in his lifetime. i'm an artist suspected in my lifetime. are great artists more send after they're dead? >> you know what. i was reading a criticism of can the "great gatsby" and he called f. scott fitzgerald a clown, and of the book he said it was something like shallow. something hammond the other night that took me by complete surprise. we had a screening and a very regal woman came out of the audience i've never met and took me by the hand and said, "i've come all the way from vermont because i wanted to see what did you with my grandfather's book." of course i went cold. i had never met this perfect person. she was wonderful. and then she said, you know,

fitzgerald was called the king of carville. he was an early settler to carville. jacob heyman thatrealtor, started being called the father of carville. and this guy on the left, colonel daley, was often called the pioneer father of carville. he really gets a lot of the credit. here's colonel daley in his little shed. how do we describe him? he's sort of a 1890's bohemian, a bit of a herm yit. most importantly, he was a friend of adolph sutro's. and sutro had a real estate shack on the northwest corner of the sunset. he let colonel daley squat in there essentially. he went out every morning, walked along the beach. whatever washed up he brought back to his shed and created quite a large little compound of old bottles, shoes, anything that washed up. a ship wreck. provided a bunch of lumber. he made a sleeping loft in his cabin. for a while he had a wife. she didn't wash up in the waves. but she did eventually wash out. she couldn't handle cooking in the sandunes every night, creating a fire. so she left him sometime in the late 18920 -- 1890's. but daley took one of those cars we were talking about and opened this little coffee saloon where he sol

guy and the other one who is -- >> diaz kadyrbayev. >> zubeidat. >> stephanie: our friend melissa fitzgerald has a pocket [ inaudible ] i need the pocketis doctor in the prison hospital -- dr. -- [ mocking pronunciation ] >> stephanie: i long for the days of the ♪ zubeidat do do do, do ♪ ♪ zubeidat ♪ >> stephanie: all right. yep, the simple days when all we did was put an unnecessary l in zubeidat. and that was an easy extraction. ♪ zubeidat ♪ >> stephanie: it's not even close -- really? really with this new guy? >> -- azamat tazhayakov. >> stephanie: oh kevin -- >> can i ask to buy a vowel. >> stephanie: right. oh kevin spacey, you prankster. he was jogging in boston monday when he saw a woman having her picture taken. he jogged up shouted photo bomb and ran off laughing. as has been noted shouting bomb in boston while running -- >> yeah, not the wisest decision. >> stephanie: but he looks a lot like that squirrel. >> and so does the girl. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: all right. let's go to sue in rockville, maryland. hi, sue, welcome. >> caller: hello, miss miller. i am a liberal -- wait no i am a conservative who listens to both sides

fitzgerald as the special prosecutor who went after the scooter libby, dick cheney, valerie plame outing the cia officer investigation, that bombshell investigation back in 2003. most famously, james comey was the guy who had the car chase to the hospital room and then the middle of the night hospital room stand-off with george w. bush's chief of staff and his white house counsel. when they ambushed john ashcroft who was basically half dead from acute pancreatitis in the hospital and they tried to get him to sign off in the hospital on a surveillance program that he believed to be illegal. that was james comey at the stand-off in the hospital room. and that was him threatening to quit in protest. and that was him then telling the whole sordid story under oath. that was him. in npr last night and "the new york times," they were the first to report it but it looks like james comey will be tapped by president obama to lead the fbi. yes, that makes him the latest in a long list of republicans who this democratic president has appointed to high-ranking positions in his administration. there's former republican senator chuck hagel leading the defense department. and before chuck hagel, president obama ke