two to that point further on is the most extraordinary i was like a judy garland movie with the spinning headline in the influence so many deliver mislead. you saw your parents as victims of an ogre called show business way because. their world was extremely insecure they had no insurance in the sense that they had no permanent employer you do a movie here stage appearance there and then it's gone and you have to rely on them and all their money and they lived large i mean my neither of them ever turned to me and explained anything about putting a bit of money away here but you know they lived large but the outside political world doesn't intrude that much you mean you say when you move from l.a. to london you can see the rubbish piling up. when i arrived in london in the early seventy's there were you know there were massive it was called the winter of discontent there was a lot of discontent in the union movement so there were a lot of strikes i remember power cuts walking around with candles and so on and to come from beverly hills los angeles from this world of plenty and light into

and the sonic and so on had unbelievable power over the lives of people in it for instance judy garland famously was worked to extinction i mean she was owned by the studio and for me at least i think that's a rather a moral situation maybe we're evolving out of it now in the current climate where beginning to question the sort of male dominated hollywood. legitimacy your mom didn't feel like that in the seventy's well mom is a great trailblazer for women's rights in entertainment i feel and certainly alexis carrington as a character in her strength of purpose and her no nonsense approach is doing this to some would say could be. deed indeed but i think she really struck a major major blow for women's rights in it which is bearing fruit now. with that character you know the flinty nurse and the high shoulder blades and take no prisoners attitude of alexis that she that she created and know your politics very much with the environmental movement well very much in the. governor actually really just tell me about the impact of his work. to the to the green movement because i think it came

louis which i had always -- my whole impression of the world's fair was the judy garland movie, meet me in st. louis where everyone was full of song and happiness. one of the things that happened at that fear was all of the pure food advocates came together and said let's use this fair will be hundreds of thousands of people who come let's set up a bad food exhibit that's what they did. there is a 20-acre agricultural exhibit and harvey wiley, the chemistry is been doing these poison squad experiments is able to negotiate to get them to akers to show them what bad food looks like in the united states. they discover and they writes every state in the country and they said send us an example from your state of what food is like. and they get so much that they realize they have about 10 acres worth of examples so they set up a hierarchy. the organizers decided to exhibit only 2000 different bandbrands of tainted food and k in the united states. north dakota sent canned meats. potted chicken are common products but i've never found a canned that contained indy terminal quantities of turk

judy garland film my grandmother used to make us watch all the time because you guys know my grandmother? there is a great scene in halloween where trudy, the little girl, she has to go murder somebody, and murdering somebody means showing up at the door of your neighbor and you say i hate you mrs. johnson and throw flour in their face. change.ural rituals to i think we had candy as early as 1800s. >> what is your favorite ghost story that did not make it into the book? mr. dickey: one of the stories i really like that i wish i could have gotten into the book is a haunted drive-in in honolulu, hawaii, which has been subsequently torn down, but the story of a haunted drive-in i , also wanted to just the able to, like, go to hawaii on my publisher dime, but the story is there's a bathroom in this drive-in. you go in and there was a woman washing her hands at the sink with long black hair. at some point she would turn around to face you and she had no face. just pure skin. hawaiian drive-in bathroom ghost. if you know anything about japanese culture and miyazaki films, you know that is a co