michelangelo lived to be 88. 58 for a man of that era is an average, perhaps above average lifespan. lorenzo de'medici lived to be 43. host: go through those 58 years and where was he and you write about the time, 14 years he was a public servant and prisoner. guest: he spent the first 29 years, exactly half of his life, doing not much of anything. he was a son of an impoverished gentleman who didn't want to work, had a small estate outside florence and he managed his small patrimony, manage to eke a small living, enough to allow him to lead a life of leisure and machiavelli originally followed very much in his father's footsteps, as a dilettante, he studied with a good humanist education which meant he learned latin, learned to memorize and read most of the great latin writers, cicero and virgil and seneca, and he had a good education but didn't accomplish much until he was 29 and it was only then, when the fall of savonarola, that he takes on a career in public service and does this for 14 years during a period in which florence had recovered its republican institutions. it had bee

peter romer is the michelangelo of plastic surgery.personally nipped, tucked and enhanced thousands of caracas women and two of venezuela's pageant queens. >> all the girls are gorgeous. almost perfect. and my work is just change little things. >> reporter: to make them almost perfect? >> to perfect. >> reporter: in some countries the open secret might be scandalous. but it's gotten so that implants in venezuela are to be flaunted. not just among beauty contestant, but working class folks who admire them. why are people so obsessed with breasts here? >> because here we have the beauty pageants, miss venezuela. and all the girls are so flawless. and they are -- they have big boobs, they are the perfect leg, the hair. and everybody wants to be like them. >> reporter: and so growing up, corina gonzalez imagined she would one day be a model. we first met her at one of one of caracas' premier beauty schools. there, some of caracas' girls pay to learn how to walk like a model. the 23-year-old always wanted to enhance her beauty. for her moth

he said that if rex ryan was michelangelo, they were the sistine chapel.e will show how good the creation has become on sunday night. rivalries have a measure of hatred. players like suggs obviously want to beat wrecks ryan and former teammates, but also want to impress them with a great performance in prime time. >> it is a little personal, because they once were here. a little background and everything. we have tremendous respect for them and love. but we have a job to do. they are in the way of what we are trying to get. and they see us as being in their way and are going to do whatever it takes. by any means necessary. >> if red sox fans do not feel bad enough, the rays trip comes after a red sox payroll of $162 million. can but they paid only $41 million. -- tampa bay paid only $41 million. the red sox put this team in the historic category of biggest late-season fall. it leaves the leadership trying to explain what happened. >> we did not find a way to stop the slide. in the bigger picture, there are plenty of regrets. there was a lot of talent. we d

. >> and basically isn't that how michelangelo got his start?> he was a big perv. >> have you seen david? >> yes. anyway. >> david. >>> time to take a break. when we return, another story. consider yourself teased. >>> buckle in, it is another story. buckle in? >> trap in. >> strap, whatever. abc announced the cast for the new season of "dancing with the stars." the group includes nancy grace, chaz bono, rob kardashian, ron artest, and by the way these are all people according to wikipedia. they are real. anyway, there are some good people there. but you have been on "the apprentice." are you looking forward to watching this? >> i am looking forward to nancy grace going around. i am done with reality shows. >> are you really? >> yes. >> not part of your reality. is there anybody you are rooting for organs? >> i have never watched the show ever. there was a controversy with chaz bono though -- gite pregnant man felt he got robbed. >> and we were talking about this before the program. the pregnant man still has a vagina. technically he is not a ma

. >> isn't that how michelangelo got his start? >> thank you.>> he w >> he was a big perv. >> have you seen david?? wow. >> yeah, anyway.. >> david. >> time to take a break. when we return, another story. consider yourself teased. >>> buckle in. it is another story. buckle in?bu >> strap in. >> strarngs whatever. abc announced the cast for the r new season of "dancing with w the stars." the group includes nancy grace, what's -- chaz bono, rob kardash eight n, ron aes artest, and by the way these wat are all people according to wikipedia. they are actually real. anyway, there are good peopleeoo there. masa, have you been on "theap apprentice" but would you ever do this reality show? >> i am looking forward to nancy grace being on, to beoi honest with you. i am done with reality shows. so >> are you really? are >> yes. >> not part of your reality,arto am i right? is there anything you are rooting for organs?r o >> i never watched the should i, ever. -- the show ever.ersy there was a controversy, chaznt bono. >> the pregnant man felt

my mother loaded us in the car, my sisters and i because michelangelo's painting was at the new york world's fair in 1964-'65, and being good catholics, we had to go see it. even if it meant driving 800 miles from michigan. but on the way she decided to take us to washington d.c. and this is what transpired. when i finished fifth grade in the summer of 1965, my mother loaded my sisters and me into our buick and drove us to our nation's capital for our summer vacation. while the other kids in the neighborhood got to go up north or to scout camp, we were forced to see the original documents of the founding fathers, the first flag sewn by betsy ross, the plane charles lindbergh flew across the atlantic. we took the fbi tour of the department of justice, and we had our picture taken in front of the iwo jima statue. we traipsed from one end of pennsylvania eave to the other, climbed all 896 steps of the washington monument and paid a visit to our congressman to shake his hand and let him know that we'd be voters someday. and it was while i was there inside the capitol building, that i fou

if we were crowmagdon men it would be until 18, if we were renaissance, michelangelo, all the wonderfulng out of the dark ages, very optimistic time in its weird way we'd live until 30. >> yeah. >> america in 1850, civil war america, all this, 43. today sitting here, this is if you're born today, the expectancy is 78, is that correct, that's the number that's on the page? >> right. >> if you are born today your expectancy is 78 years, all things in, is that correct? >> right. >> the developed world in 2300 at 101 and let's say by 2500 you're working 150. >> sure. >> what -- do you get married older? who raises the kids? do you still have kids in your 20s and 30s and 40s shall we say? do you look for a younger husband or wife in your 140s, like i've got to find somebody in my 120s because, you know, i'm going to live a long time? how does this work? >> right. those are questions that i looked into in the family chapter of the book, and essentially what i did is went back and said what happened the last time we doubled life expectancy from 43 in 1850 to around 80 years today, and what hap