now you want me to be julius caesar. okay. i get cast as julius caesacaesa. s guys, name's lee. they call him maverick and played marc anthony like caes caesar's brother. maverick, he's black. i'm white. that usually doesn't happen in prison. so now we're acting. we have to be best friends. we're comrades. you know, we're like brothers. so they bring in the costumes and the tunic they got for me, it's really tight. it's like everything was for small people and it's riding up. i'm like, all right, cool. but we do the play and kills caesar. i lay there on the stage dead and maverick comes up, heaves me on the shoulder and i'm playing dead. that tunic, off the stage, it pulled up. and now my butt's hanging out. and i can't do anything because i'm supposed to be dead and that's, you know, acting is an art. you have to be dead when you're dead. so i'm over maverick's shoulder and you hear this laughter and it's like, they're not laughing at me but they're laughing at what we're giving them. what we're sharing with them. we're making these people feel good which is

he and had a person from england encountering julius caesar he just wrote about julius caesar. >> that their version of going to the past. the historical fiction is there. as the argument i'm making. we have expanded our imaginations using this ideas. and we have more brains when it comes to time than our ancestors did. and because of that it is difficult for us to imagine how limited their notions of time work. >> thank you. hello, thanks for an amazing talk first of all. i'm wondering if you have any of that in ways to learn about where the run to and what are they running from. i feel like that probably is a lot to say about the moments when they were written. i use that idea in the broadest sense. there are people that go back to the past time and again by jack finney. it's wonderful. and it goes back to a new yorker and he goes back to an older new york. and so you can tell from the emotion with which the book is written that the author have a love of the past. and you want to call that it a form of liberation i don't know. that's one thing. intimate time travel to the future wher

the reign of julius caesar, who ruled around the time of christ, marked the turning point between thelic and the empire. the republic, designed to rule a small city-state, found itself trying to rule most of europe. something new and stronger was needed. caesar established a no-nonsense, more-disciplined government, became dictator for life, and, for good measure, had a month named in his honor, july. the powerful elites of the republic found all this change just too radical. in an attempt to save the republic and their political power, a faction of roman senators assassinated caesar. his body was burned on this spot in 44 b.c. the citizens of rome gathered here, in the heart of the forum, to hear mark antony say, in shakespeare's words, "friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. i've come to bury caesar, not to praise him." but the republic was finished, and rome became the grand capital of a grand empire. the via sacra, or sacred way, was the main street of ancient rome. it stretched from the arch of septimius severus to the arch of titus. rome's various triumphal arches, name

evening. [ laughter ] in fact, as i was entering the city of angels, i was reminded of nothing of julius caesar, who, as he was crossing the rubicon, turned to a centurion and said, "iacta alea est." [ laughter ] "the die is cast." >> oh. >> yes. >> uh, we've got a pretty good matchup tonight, don't you agree? >> well, i would postulate both sets of gladiators, if you'd let me continue in the roman metaphor, as it were, are indeed reasonably comparable in their level of athletic acumen. jack youngblood of the rams is down on the field. can you see what that injury might be, bill? [ laughter ] >> well, it appears to me that mr. youngblood might find it difficult to exercise his conjugal prerogative. [ laughter ] >> uh, i don't quite follow you. >> he got kneed in the macadamias. [ laughter ] >> oh, then youngblood appears to be okay right now. los angeles is lining up in a nickel defense. >> well, as you know, i'm opposed to the nickel defense. i prefer tax-free municipal bonds. they provide better capital growth investment. >> right you are, bill. uh, there's a fumble right there. carl ekern fo

that's "julius caesar." [ laughter ] but it's-- it's-- it's not bad. it's pretty-- >> who knows-- i could give it a shot. >> you-- would you like to? >> i might be a little old for antony. >> we could have some meetings. >> me-- ha! [ laughter ] nobody's explained a part to me like that. so you have to find antony, and then-- >> i've got to find antony, and then i'm going to start right after thanksgiving, and give my queen of the nile. >> oh, i like that. we'll take a break. we'll be right back. [ music ] [ applause ] >> thank you, doc. we're back. we have about a minute-- the book is just out. >> the book is just out. my father has parkinson's disease and can't travel to this country and publicize it. yes, so i-- that's why i'm beating the drum for him. >> well, please give him our best, will you? i hope it's a big success for you. your autobiography? >> oh, about, uh, my meetings? >> well, no-- now, i didn't say that. >> maybe. >> but possibly. >> oh, i don't-- i shouldn't think so. i'm-- maybe when i'm 95. >> anyway, much success with cleopatra, an

it, because you do not know what he looked like so you would give the greatest leader of all, julius caesar. you know there is some link to the roman republic. i am going to race through the horatio reno's famous statue of washington and sees, but i would be remiss to not to show it and show some of the iconographic antecedents, statue of zeus, olympia's, famous painting of napoleon, 1811. i think he has an interesting career. it was installed in the capital, and people say, they did not like the nakedness, so they had to remove it, but that is one of the reasons he would not move into the lawn, right? [laughter] william: there is a story there and i am not prepared to tell the subtext of the story. i do want to move on really quickly, because i want to make sure we have time. this is maybe the most part that will tear hearts more. this is the famous regionalist from the midwest in the 1930's, and this is called parson weem'' fable. it is one of the colonial revival movement and part of the ancestral worship. the flipside is the building up historical characters through mythmaking and debun

m, julius caesar. oh. no, i'm sorry. it seems to be all for me. oh, here's a reminder about the television show tomorrow night. what show is that, master? oh, uh, once a year the american air force bases all over the world put on a talent show. they-- they pick a contestant from each base. oh, that sounds exciting. the show on telstar. they'll have, uh, someone broadcasting from alaska and hawaii and here at cape kennedy. the winner gets a trophy. oh, good. we will put it on the mantel. what are you going to do? i'm gonna sit in the audience to applaud. oh, but you must be in the contest. [chuckling] well, what would i do? well, does it matter? well, yeah, a little. well, you can do anything. uh, no, no, jeannie. you can do anything. and don't. oh, but the mantel needs a trophy. m not gonna be in that contest. i know you can sing. [chuckling] have you ever heard me sing? oh, yes. you have a beautiful voice. oh, come on, jeannie. sing something, master. oh, come on. no, no. oh, please, please. sing something from the opera we saw last night. what,

with haley's comet we have and voyager number-one and never to what this uh julius caesar comment -- comment quite. >> aikido i. so we have another zone of commons predicted by dutch astronomer and a reservoir of comets coming from any direction. >> and alpha century is the name of the entire system sigma also going to factor of 10 this is the earliest that the signals have reached base that includes the 36 olympics some of the first signals that aliens will recede. >> the 300 billion stars you can count and as they come by. >> here is the distance you would find the caller fromem us a factor of 10 each tick mark. >> now we're into the realm of the galaxies but andromeda at the number of others with a name like sombrero laugh laugh. >> recall that as we see them. you know that i write. crab nebula. >> here is the of lump all of galaxies and they guinness book of world records each represents a single delicacy. finally the most distant will be right here. >> then stretching is uh uh cosmetic sphere half of it is up there. there is. all around that it is the light coming to us leftover