my ultimate dinner party would be darth vader, jackson pollack and willy konica.'d cook, they can just hang out. you have to be careful serving vader. could be all over just like that if it's not good. the ultimate critic. >> thank you to richard blais. jimmy kimmel is m coing up. "gma" in the morning. but before we go, those of us in the early mtv generation want to end with a sad tribute tonight. i tell remember not understanding why mom was crying the day elvis died. today, i understand because adam yauch, founding member and the zen center of the beastie boys were taken today at the age of 47 from cancer. the try owe matured into mindful activists and brilliant musicians. the rock and roll hall of famer survived by a wife, daughter and countless fans who will spend the weekend rhyming and stealing along with mca. ♪ >>> tonight on "jimmy kimmel live" -- >> initially 11 secret service agents were subjects of this investigation. one more and they have a hooker's dozen.

my ultimate dinner party would be darth vader, jackson pollack and willy konica.'d cook, they can just hang out. you have to be careful serving vader. could be all over just like that if it's not good. the ultimate critic. >> thank you to richard blais. jimmy kimmel is m coing up. "gma" in the morning. but before we go, those of us in the early mtv generation want to end with a sad tribute tonight. i tell remember not understanding why mom was crying the day elvis died. today, i understand because adam yauch, founding member and the zen center of the beastie boys were taken today at the age of 47 from cancer. the try owe matured into mindful activists and brilliant

that is left in the middle of herald square and you know herald square, it used to look like a jackson pollack painting and done by pigeons, and now they have art on herald square and it is beautiful what they have done, cafe tables, gardens, and kiosks and there in the middle is stuff and gruff. this was really a newspaper office as an entertainment complex to help sell newspapers, and while the theater district is evolving over on broadway and up towards time square, on fifth avenue a new upscale shopping district is going up, and from 34th street to 42nd and beyond going up to 57th. this is the 1900s and in the middle of the upscale shopping district one of the finest of the finest institutions, the new york public library opens in 1911. i grew up in this building. i love this building. i was always privilege to the fact that anybody can walk into the new york public library. of course. they don't even ask for i d. they never did. they don't today. they may look at your bag, purse, whatever, but they do not ask you for i.d. in the middle of the 1960s i lived in paris for two years, going th

one day she brought in a jackson pollack, a very small piece of art to his bedside. it and said pollack. he made a connection with the art work. >> reporter: that's how this grand collection began. >> they gave hundreds of people their art collection. they went around the city and spoke to art collectors, gallery owners, spoke to everybody and got everyone to donate art work to their collection. >> reporter: a tradition of giving that thrives today. every piece here was donated. >> i gave birth in the hospital. and so that's our hospital really. >> reporter: susan and leonard nimoy are passionate collectors of contemporary art. >> art of our period, our culture. >> reporter: they donated a sculpture and this painting. >> i called them on the phone and they were not, oh, yeah, bring it over. they wanted to see a jpg of it. they wanted to discuss it among themselves. >> not a place for art. >> reporter: they're very particular. >> well and with good reason. >> reporter: art critic wrote the book on l.a.'s contemporary art scene that burst into the world's consciousness

pollack. i'm from madison, wisconsin. so my question is, when andrew jackson was inaugurated, there is a huge crowd that follows him back to the white house, and they proceed to trash the place. and the way the white house staff tries to get everyone out from standing on chairs and swinging on chandeliers and stuff is they take a big barrel of orange punch and put it on the white house lawn. my question is how do i make orange punch? [ laughter ] >> i would say two things. one, they actually spilled the orange punch on the carpets of the white house. and it was one of the enduring stains. i'm sorry, it was. step one, become elected president of the united states. the way to make that kind of orange punch. >> the guess was it was not russia's weak punch. it was russia's strong punch. >> kidding aside, that did -- that was seen as a symbol of just how out of control and the way it was polluting american politics even in the white house was a sign, predates right before the great effort of temperance. >> we haven't talked about this but of course heavy drinking w