it was a great movie, she's a great tennis player. have a great day but we don't really understand what it is. we have emptied the notion of greatness of any meaningful kind and we have transferred our appreciation for greatness from our political class because we haven't seen it to our entertainers, to our athletes and to our actors. there are we appreciate greatness and there are we can easily have relationships. we buy tickets. they may be expensive. these people never disappoint. or rarely disappoint. it is in our political class however that we can't appreciate greatness because in many respects it's gone and it's gone because it's driven by three factors that have to align like the sun, the moon and the stars in the right astrological formation. you need crisis and by the way not just a garden-variety crisis. you need crisis in a nation encumbering character. unique character. you need the right individual with the right internal makeup and the right orientation publicly and in any capacity. does this person actually know what t

by doing great, great, great democratization, great consumerization, and then a great platform, we'reelivering a new product. >> what is the salesforce strategy to get into china? one of the most crucial markets of the future. >> china is a super important market. we work closely with customers there. we have to work very closely with the government. with our partners. all of those things come together to create something in china. >> the nsa revelations, i wonder how they have impacted your business, because you have sensitive data. will you have to have one in every important country? >> yes, but for another reason -- because the cloud is going mainstream, every president of every country want to have their own cloud. i was just in germany with angela merkel. she wants the german cloud. i was with francois hollande. he wants the french cloud. abe wants the japan cloud. cameron wants the u.k. cloud. >> they want a cloud maker. >> they should have one. they should have their own clouds. every important country in the world will have their own clouds. they will all interoperate, if tha

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she knew that to be a great state it mean great army, good economy and great collection in the museumse: i'm always struck by the huge capacity of great leaders to view their role and their country as a significant part of the sweep of history. and they understand the context of it, they understand what comes before and they understand where they want it to go. and the greatest among us ofaders get it, and tells about it and make it their mission. >> it's extremely important. but while this shows the need is great. understands most and the future. because shows things that we live for the future and we live because of the past, it's very important to understand today's nothing. tomorrow is important. >> rose: even after the russian soviet republic, soviet union fell apart and disintegrated. a moment in which vladimir putin said the worst day of his life. there was always the culture to hang on to. >> yes. >> rose: we are a culture. >> it's extremely important to explain to ever because culture is over everything. when the world is integrated, when we live in difficult situation, the)j

[ cheers ] great to hear. that is great to hear. now, this was surprising to me.hn boehner warned, he warned president obama against using executive action to push through immigration reform saying, "when you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself." [ light laughter ] which begs the question, when did john boehner turn into a bond villain? [ laughter ] "when you play with matches, you -- mr. obama, you take the risk of -- of burning yourself." [ laughter and applause ] who are you? "they call me -- orange-finger. [ laughter ] now you are orange." [ laughter ] this story is crazy. the drummer for rock band ac/dc has been charged, he's been charged with attempting to have two people killed by hitmen. yeah. authorities say the drummer would have done it himself but his last hit was over 20 years ago. [ laughter and applause ] so he might be out of practice, as it were. as it were. this is troubling. a new report shows the jihadists may be using cruise ships to get to syria and iraq. but not carnival cruise ships. they're not that crazy. i mean -- [

there is great selection. the service people are great.: tell me what are the retailer names that get a particular nod from your readers? >> top-rated outlets where the women's clothing store, l l b and a great return policy, carter, carter actually owns oshkosh. gerri: they are the top-rated stores right there. who do they gripe about? who didn't they like? what were the complaints? >> lower rated where american eagle, old navy, gap, nike and levi tended to not be happy with the selections, the value they perceived even with the help. a lot of big gripes, 17% say the prices were not as good as they thought they would be but that was the biggest gripe. the others were selected and the help but that was below 10%. gerri: one thing i noticed when i go to outlet stores, it seems to me the retailers are making products specifically for retail and sometimes the quality isn't as good as you find from their brick and mortar store or their online store. >> we found that too. especially with clothing. 85% of the goods you find that out that i made

[ cheers and applause ] that is great to hear. that is great to hear. this is also great to here.ngs are back to normal in north korea. this weekend the north korean government released photos of kim jong un touring a food factory. [ laughter ] and the tour was going well until he fell into the chocolate river -- [ laughter ] and got sucked up by the chocolate extraction pipe. ♪ kim jong, kim jong what did you do ♪ [ laughter ] congratulations to solange. let's give it up. [ cheers and applause ] this weekend, beyonce's sister, solange knowles, got married. i bet jay-z got a kick out of that. [ laughter ] here's some good news. a ruling by a manhattan court this morning could provide victims of the bernie madoff ponzi scheme with an additional $5 billion in damages. when reached for comment madoff said, "let me know if you want to double it." $5 billion now, $10 billion tomorrow. $20 billion the day after that. then zero. i couldn't believe this. pope francis has invited punk rocker patty smyth to perform at the vatican christmas concert. patty smyth at the vatican christmas conce

he was also a great draftsman. drawings from many different times are wonderful and important and varied. with the cutouts, he was able to marry these two. he felt these were two conflicting desires, but with the cutouts, he called it cutting into vivid color. drawing with scissors. he was able to create both the contour, but a contour in color. that is the joy of these works. >> even though he was not a political artist, people have suggested this is a comment on nazi aggression. >> matisse used cut paper. it is happening during a war. it raises the question of how does an artist invent under such circumstances. we asked ourselves that question. many have asked that question. he was affected by the war. his wife and daughter were arrested for work in the resistance to read he was worried about them. he was worried about his friends and colleagues. he was comfortable. he would sometimes send food and supplies to his friends were suffering. he is making jazz at this time. it is with jazz that he understands he has i

we have so many great people, so many great people on our writing staff. who write monologues. we have some who write sketches. but we just hired a brand new writer we are very excited about. he's a professor of linguistics at columbia university, and he's our new in-house vocabulary expert. please welcome dr. walter aberdeen. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: thank you. >> greetings, seth. greetings. thank you so much for having me, seth. please, seth, your hospitality is just tremendous. >> seth: of course. now, for those of you who don't know, the job of a "late night" vocabulary expert will be to go through the script each night and make sure we are writing at the height of our intelligence. so, what do you think of the writing so far tonight, dr. aberdeen? >> well, seth, as a gentleman of refined vocabulary, i regret to inform you that this evening's program -- it lacks verbal panache. i have extensive issues with your etymological selections. >> seth: etymological selections? you mean my word choice. >> yes, indeed. your proclamations lack elegance. i

>> well, good morning, everyone and well, to the sf food bank (clapping) it's a great day to be here and kickoff the beginning of sf incubates 20th anniversary and love local sf (clapping) you know i can't think of a better place to celebrated the community of san francisco than right restore at the sf food bank people come here to lend a hand and volunteer to feed others from that forntd we get 47 thousand pounds of food to feed people if that's not a cross 0 roads of xhublt in san francisco i don't know what is i'd like to stereo san francisco's mayor, mayor ed lee (clapping.) well, good afternoon everyone. >> good morning arrest we're loving san francisco all right. (clapping) well, that morning coming out and being hit by that the sun my first question was when is the first time pitch paul mccartney i want to congratulate you 23 years i know somebody else who has been working their love 32 thank you for the food bank and helping the needy in san francisco it's my delight so join the chronicle and sf to push this wonderful and depriving love of our city everything local it's a won

he also red a great deal of poetry. -- he also read a great deal of poetry. some people, of whom i am one, also passed through periods, through which they would devour poets of widely different kinds. schiller, scott, longfellow, kipling, shelley, or tennyson. and again, emerson or browning or whitman. sometimes our wishes are to reed for the sake of contrast. when i live in -- i often carried the volumes of swinburne, frying pan bread, and the infrequent washing of sweat drenched clothing. on top of everything else, teddy roosevelt was an excellent writer as a. i think you will notice the vividness of his writing. the main thing about his statement is that the variety of poets that he mentions he lists 16 poets from the ancient world throughout history up to his age that he likes to reed. they come from the classical world of england america germany. together they represent a vast cross-section of the literature of poetry. they represent historical periods. every style of poetry to rhyming couplets to free verse, and every type of home from narrative to lyri

it was an amazing eight years, a great college. take great pains. and then it was time to think about the next thing. of course coming back to new york with fabulous possibility. new york has always been my home. i hadn't really thought about it as something that might be a place for me. i'm not a librarian by training. but the more i thought about it have to they came to see if i was interested in talking to them, the more i thought while, free and public access to ideas at the largest possible scale. what could be more powerful in this moment of history when our turn for information. drowning in it. but could be more powerful tiamat than the very fact the world of information is changing means that libraries have to change. we have to preserve what we've always done and people will lie in that spirit our collections are quiet. our expertise. but we can't sit still. for someone in my line of work, that makes it really interesting, exciting and worthwhile job. does that make it easy, but you need cz? >> host: what is your phd in? >> guest: i have a

he's great."most likely to be seen on a smoke break outside the mall in an elf costume." [ laughter ] "too many kids today. too many kids." next player is justin smith. he's a defensive end for the 49ers. he was voted "most likely to be watching you look through his internet search history." [ laughter ] "are you done? are you done?" next up for the 49ers is joe looney. [ laughter ] he was voted "most likely to drag a teddy bear behind him wherever he goes." [ laughter and applause ] "his name is mr. bear. he's tired." next from the 49ers is andy lee. he was voted "most likely to wear a barrel as clothes." [ laughter ] "i'm ready to play. put me in, coach." next from the seahawks is k.j. wright. he was voted "most likely to stand like this at a urinal." [ laughter and applause ] "behold, something magical!" next up from the 49ers is vance mcdonald. he was voted "most likely to show up in your girlfriend's semester abroad photos." [ laughter ] "vance is so sweet. he was always hugging me all the t

. >> great, thank you. >> any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed new bizarre i have one new item does anyone else >> okay. the item i'd like to bring up is consideration and it's something we need you would like to discuss and possibly talk with an supervisor is businesses that are effected by large projects whether it be a street renovation or whether we have to close down streets we need to think about small businesses that are impacted by some of the big capital projects like central subway and castro and even delores park renovations and when projects run over there's something that the city can do for the small businesses like maybe for a year they don't have to pay certain fees or taxes in my neighborhood we had the castro street widening project that didn't run over but now we're seeing businesses closed and restore trying to revitalizes the neighborhood i'm talking to people along fourth street where we have those big infrastructure projects that are i'm not saying we shouldn't have them but small busin

[ cheers and applause ] great to hear. great to hear. today is veteran's day.e it up for our veterans. [ cheers and applause ] and i just want to say a special thank you to all of the brave men and women who make it safe for people like me to put on makeup and tell jokes in the middle of the night. [ laughter ] thank you. thank you for your service. [ applause ] this is nice. a veterans day concert was held tonight at the national mall in washington, d.c., featuring bruce springsteen, rihanna and carrie underwood. so if you're a fan of bruce springsteen, rihanna and carrie underwood, who are you? [ laughter ] i want to know everything about you. you're a mystery to me. [ laughter ] but i'm intrigued. there's a summit of world leaders happening in china right now, and president obama is facing criticism after he was seen chewing gum while walking to the meeting in china. president bush would have never done that. [ laughter ] but only because he can't walk and chew gum at the same time. [ cheers and applause ] here's a little good news. the fbi announced yesterd

>> seth: great.t apple. >> we made it numbers so that people like you would make names. >> seth: we name the names because you just did numbers? >> because we only did numbers. >> seth: that's great. i like that that's a plan and not just laziness, because it sounds a little lazy. one over there. >> audience member: 27. >> seth: 27. i like with the thousand you kept it low. don't go crazy. oh, i'm going to be able to do this one. >> all right. pretty easy. this is what you do in the morning, don't you? >> seth: yeah. this is -- right. [ cheers and applause ] i call that one -- the gym's not really working. >> seth: one more in the middle. >> audience member: 713. >> seth: 713. let's go to 713. last one. i hope it's a hard one. >> guys, i don't know them, just so you know. i have not memorized them. >> seth: you're not the weird rain man that knows all of the -- >> no. >> seth: what would you call this one? >> you tell me. crouching tiger. >> seth: why did you make me see this horror movie? [ light la

it's so great to have it so close. it's just a great location, a great place to be.nick jonas, iggy azalea, once again! [ cheers and applause ] and the roots right there, everybody, from philadelphia. [ cheers and applause ] stay tuned for "late night with seth meyers." thank you for watching. have a great night. hope to see you tomorrow. bye-bye! happy thanksgiving! [ cheers and applause ] ♪

you serve a great god he's a great god great god come on hands in the air if you serve a great god ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm not afraid of arrows by day or terrors that may come through the night we all can say he's a great god ♪ break it down break it down y'all. now rock with it. ♪ ♪ ♪ he's a great god great god great god great god ain't nobody like him ain't nobody like him great god yeah ♪ ♪ grait god praise god ♪ turn around ♪ great god great god great god ♪ ♪ ain't nobody like him ain't nobody like him ain't nobody like him hey great god ♪ ♪ great god hey great god ♪ >> i think that choir is already fixed. deitrick, the choir, michelle, thank you very much. on oxygen. check it out. we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc. ♪ with the card most accepted in the philadelphia region, you have the compassion and security of blue cross. giving you the power to do more. independence blue cross. live fearless. >>> good morning. i'm chris cato. it's 9:56. let's get your first alert forecast with meteorologist bill henley. >> there's still some clouds around. you can see them more in the pocono mo

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everything is moving along great. we'll check out the rest of the majors in just a couple every minutes. ukee, erika, good morning. >> thank you, jess, weaver the breaking news from camden county, three people are in the hospital, after they've apparently become sick from carbon monoxide poisoning. this is live picture from the scene in sicklerville. emergency crews rushed to the home on hidden hollow lane early this morning, "eyewitness news" has learned that a little girl collapsed after a firefighter arrived. all three patients are in stable condition. we'll stay on top of this, bring you more information as soon as we get it. >> now, new this morning, firefighters pull a woman from a burning home in germantown overnightment happened just after 1:00 along the 6400 block of belfield avenue. firefighters rescued the woman from a second story rear bedroom. now, she was rushed to the hospital in stable condition, with smoke inhalation, and at the moment there is no word on what sparked that fire. >> also, fire fighters

great food. some of the greatest food on earth. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la la ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la la la ♪ >>> what is it exactly about this place? over the past century the system here, the tradition, whatever it is that took hold here, churned out a tremendous number of the world's most important chefs. chappell, bocuse, toisgros, and as importantly, influenced nearly all the rest of them. >> why lyon? why is this such a gastronomic capital? why bocuse here? why troisgros? why all of these great chefs? >> because lyon is really positioned between the north and the south. >> right. >> you're locked in between burgundy and rome. >> lyon is the second largest city in france, situated in the southeast of the country midway between the alps in the east and the mediterranean to the south. >> this was also

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you were great, the cast was great.hen when i saw gina and she told me you were going to do this and i saw you in this, you're an actress so you're supposed to be able to do this, but those are two different, completely different characters. >> yeah, i mean that was a great gift for me, really, to go from period drama to something so contemporary. as you said that's really what it's all about in terms of the acting and being able to have the opportunityks to transform. >> yeah. you know, for those who haven't seen this, describe the story line. a british single mum who grew up in poverty and her mother sees her talent and sees it as a way to pull them out of poverty and really follows the blueprint and pushes her into a hyper sexualized place to get ahead and it's really at the expense of her soul and it's killing her really. she ends up on a balcony. she is saved physically by a cop outside the door played by nate parker. it's really through their relationship and their ability to see the truth behind botho9 personas t

so let us join together in this great task. will you join me tonight in starting -- [applause] >> in rebuilding our cities to make them a decent place for our children to live in. [applause] ? will you join me in starting a program that will protect the beauty of our land and the air that we breathe? [applause] >> won't you join me tonight starting a program that will give every child education of he highest quality that he can take? [applause] >> so let us join together and giving every american the fullest life which he can hope for for the ultimate test of our civilization. the ultimate test of our it has not been in our goods and has not been in our guns, but in the quality, the quality of our people's lives and in the men and women that we produce. [applause] this goal can be ours. , we have resources tonight, we but must seek the courage. [applause] because tonight, the contest is something we have faced at every turning point in history. it is not between liberals and conservatives. it is not between parties and party or

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we need great men. >> great noble men.ame's making me feel like i'm trapped in a prison of language. [ laughter ] i'm in a vortex of words. >> jimmy: i know. it's kind of fun to see you try to get out. >> you trapped me. you've tricked me, you've played games with me. i feel like i'm an instrument that you're playing. like you're orchestrating my emotions but with a variety of tunes. whether it's tango, mambo, or like, i don't know, some international dance festival that you're playing with my consciousness. [ laughter ] like, as long as i've said the word, my work is done, right? >> jimmy: i guess so, yeah. [ laughter ] >> a lot of these words are outrageous. >> jimmy: we didn't have this kind of trouble when john goodman was here last week, i'll tell you that much. >> i think a lot about these words, jim. and the tapes will show i've been a bloody good sport. >> jimmy: wait so all of the words. you didn't go in order. you just randomly got all the words in? >> you didn't explain to me that this was like the dictatorship

programs this why program like you're is great do they need something different? than other kids need? or do all kids early childhood they all need the same stuff? well you know i would point out something that is of great concern i think to everyone in this room a lot of the arts programs have been cut in the lower income school districts and so how will the kids get exposure to the kinds of things you've just been hearing about and one thing i neglected to say initially tghe grow up great foundation at pnc is bilingual and we do focus on low to moderate income areas specifically for exactly that reason i think not only is the are these programs terriffic in and of their own right but is really is supplementing and addressing a need that's developed in the past couple of decades and what would love to add to what linda's mentioned is how the arts are a universal language so regardless of what that child's first language is exactly when they sit in front of a drum or when they start to create that consistent rhythm on their body or they move their body in a dance

. >> great, commissioner hyde, have you something to say? >> i am just really excited and i live in the neighborhood and i have often said that why are they not pulling these kids from the city college right down the street and stay into these businesses, through the limited live. and so i am glad to see something like this happening in the area. >> great, thank you. >> and commissioner perez. >> thanks for come ng and i also live near ocean avenue and we are excited to see that there is this movement to have the entertainment in that area. and i was just wondering what type of music that you plan to do? >> well, you know, being born and raised in san francisco, that the music that the people produce and can do and it is huge. and so, one of the things that i feel that the ocean avenue association wants to push is jazz and they want to do that and we also got approached for the karaoke which is not music, but it is. but we just want to give the students things to do. and i mean, that it is really important, and it is like i said, it has been

vikki: yeah, it's dairy-free, so this is a great alternative. it melts great. use it with sliced apples and walnuts, and that's a great snack. evette: so it's just made from almonds. vikki: it is. next is sunflower butter. now, we're all very familiar with cashew, peanut, almond. sunflower butter is very, very powerful. it's got a beautiful flavor to it. in fact, i like to add it to oatmeal in the morning, and it gives it a nice creamy flavor, but also a little bit salty-sweet, great snack. i have my avocado. i love avocado. you can mash it. you can slice it. you can eat it out of the skin, and you've got yourself a really great healthy snack. evette: i love avocado. vikki: me too. bananas. evette: yeah. vikki: really great to use for snacks. this with a little sunflower butter, really great. evette: that's magic right there. vikki: it is, and lastly, i have coconut milk yogurt, a little bit different, but very flavorful, really great in the morning with some blueberries, some flax seeds on top. this is a great way to start your day. evette: wow, lots of stuff

it's great fun and you get to flex different muscles. for me, it's great variety. there's not one that define mess as though sherlock's success is necessary. >> charlie: and played frequently in a variety of places before. >> yeah. i always get this wrong but 76 or 96. it's the most portrayed fictional character of all. >> charlie: how do you prepare to come to that kind of character so that you want to be true to the character and at the same time you want to have your own interpretation? >> right. well, and as far as interpretation goes, a huge amount of heavy lifting is done by mark and steve. all the heavy lifting. they invented the idea on a train writing the dr. who series. wouldn't it be interesting to put sherlock holmes in modern day. >> charlie: and in british terms. >> it is a form of fiction which is a fan phenomenon, but they take great care of the legacy of doyle. there's a lot of crossover. there are very specific draws. as far as my preparation for that particular iconic world, i have the most fantastic group. dr. watson is an observant man trained

>> great question. i'm looking at the guest's eyes, and if the guests are looking at each other, we're doing a great job. if the guests are looking around, we're not doing a great job. if the food is taking too long, or someone's glass of water is empty, they're going to look around. >> with all the attention they give to their customers' comfort, it might be surprising to learn that the customer is not their number one priority. >> put your customer second, absolutely. because, if you really want to have great customer satisfaction, your customers will never be any happier than the people who are working in your company. >> we believe that that relationship between the management and the staff is the most important relationship. and from there, our guests will necessarily be taken care of. >> one of the toughest tests of hospitality comes when someone on the restaurant team makes a mistake. it can take teamwork to fix it. >> and we really ask our teammates to be incredibly creative, and imaginative, an

that's a great -- that. >>s a great question. just talented. i think he was aware of himself. the more discerning people including his step mother realized it from the beginning. measure e who took his superficially had no idea. he looked like a complete clod with his high water pants it.all of the rest of so one is having extraordinary mind. just simply reading. nd that's the basis hoff education. and lincoln proves you don't have to sit in the classroom to it. it takes extraordinary discipline to do it on your own if you're not in a classroom. it.he did so for me, going through reading ccounts of what we're in these kind of basic readers that kids would read then is just heart breaking. the level is so high. you know? the very best literature that's the very best speeches ever given in american history, and you read one of pretty d you've got a good education right there. so that was -- that was two of the things. one is naturally very talented. two, he had the drive to go out nd find this stuff and read it on his own. and i believe i've read somewhere that when lincoln was

people don't realize what a great singer he is, what a great guitar player he is, how put together hisis. >> they primary think of him as a poet. >> he is a great poet. he is one of my heroes. >> talk to me about woodstock. >> i can only talk to you a little bit about it. i was so -- [laughter] i actually was there. my biggest memory of woodstock is, ok, everybody is really excited. all these heavy musicians are walking around. we are just starting to get a foothold. hendrix is there, some of the stones were there, other bands are there that we knew were great. when it happens for the first time, it was something special because there you were and there were half a million people. we have a generation. we are somebody. it is right now and we are somebody. we are making a difference. all of these people are with us. the music is a part of that. it is not a commodity or content. the music is the life of the thing. you are singing your songs and people are listening. it is going back-and-forth. that is what it was so beautiful about it. the thing about it that was not so beautiful to me w

and i go, "i think that's great."aughter ] and i go, "but it's a poetry contest. you want me to write it and put their name?" she goes, "no, you write it and put your name on it." i was like -- [ laughter ] "well how's that work?" she goes, "look, don't complicate this. do you understand the poem?" i said, "yes ma'am." she goes, "do you like the poem?" i said, "yes ma'am." she goes, "then it's yours." [ laughter and applause ] so i wrote it. and i won. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: no! ♪ no, no, no, no, no! that's plagiarism. >> oh, yeah. my first two trophies are runner up and plagiarism. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you were runner up in little mr. texas, then you weren't e. e. cummings and wrote that great poem. >> you know that judge roy bean line, "if it ain't true, it ought to be." that belongs to our family. >> jimmy: i love moms. moms are the best man. they'll stick up for you through whatever. like, "oh, yeah, you wrote the best poem. you're the best poet out there, of course." let's talk about this movie "inte

to keeping its word, to being great. >>> so, i ask you, is the united states a great nation sntion i would say yes. but not as greys as it is can be. >>> today, it is a better nation, and i believe, that the best days not just for the united states but for our indian nations are ahead of us. so, i hope i am here, 25 years from now, and i hope, that you repeat this program, and i hope that we can look back at the next 25 years, to say, okay, maybe not as great, as we could be, but definitely better. and it is in the words of the great movie, smoke signals, in the beginning, when the traffic reporter is doing his traffic report, it is a good day. thank you and god bless you all. [applause] >>> how is that. >>> well, thanks so much for having me. it's great to be here. i haven't been on this stage before. it's a beautiful opportunity, and, thanks, really for susan for inviting me to participate in the book. >>> i don't know what i'm doing here. [laughter] >>> i didn't noalgt any treaties, and unless you call it we were on the phone, with the health service, and they were complaining, ab

that would be a great opening. >> rose: that would be an opening line. >> that would be great, true.> rose: when you-- was's the normal link for an essay? is it about-- how many words. dependses on the magazine. new york is different than el we right, can rang from a thousand for a certain length essay for the times to 4,000, $5,000 words. for some-- . >> rose: and when you look into the pantheon of essayists, who is up there that -- >> i love an essayist, very sick now named clive james. >> rose: oh, sure. >> i find him a wonderful essayist. >> rose: he lives in london, doesn't he. >> he lives i think in australia, i think. just read a collection by him. >> rose: is he writing about dying. >> he is. >> rose: that is what i thought. >> yes. with a sort of sense of humor, which is interesting. i always go back to virginia woolf for certain kind of essay. certain kind of personal yet informed kind of essay. >> rose: then there is the famous orwell essay, why do i write. >> why i do write, absolutely. he was a great essayist, great, yeah. >> rose: when you-- what dow-- tell me how you e