when mimi blackwelder asks us to surprise her husband, we were more than happy to oblige. ♪ >> reporterfor michael, spending a few relaxing dres at the bahama resort with his wife was a dream come true. michael, however, was unaware that mimi responded to our offer of making a viewer's dream job a reality. so we showed up, unannounced, to cut his vacation short. >> hello there. >> reporter: michael, a service manager at a delaware car dealership, has always been a passionate home cook. >> i'm bobby flay. >> reporter: and a huge fan of bobby flay's tv shows. it's always been his dream to cook alongside the great chef. since bobby is a member of the "the early show" family -- >> resident chef bobby flay is here. >> reporter: we enlisted his help to help michael's dream come true. i don't know if you know bobby's here. yeah, he's here. he wants to cook with you. >> no way! now i'm shaking. >> reporter: mesa grill bahamas one of bobby's six critically acclaimed restaurants. >> look at the menu. >> reporter: the reason it's successful -- >> nice. perfect. >> reporter: -- bobby runs the kitch

i would like to welcome you to h discussion with mimi shorts and sharon watson's. they will discuss their book power failure, the inside story of the collapse of enron. sharon watkins is known as the enron was a blower and one of time magazine's 2002 person of the year. amy schwartz is an executiven editor at texas monthly and hass won a national magazine award in the public interest category in 1996. 1996 we will start with ms. schwartz telling us more about her bookeh and then proceed with sharon watkins. afterwards we will have a question and answer session.seso if you would like to ask a if y question please go to the microphone so that everyone els, can hear. when all of the questions of finished we will start. now, let's get started.e questie please welcome the me shorts.ar. [applauding] >> i'd like to thank you all very much for coming. the way we have been doing thisa is i've been doing a shortet reading so that you can get ahek feel a for the book. sharon is going to talk about the book. i will start. is the p this is the preface to the bookk i wanted the

allowed on tv, but "the real housewives of atlanta" is allowed. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] mimi in the entertainment business, a lot of smoke and mirrors and there's a lot of things that aren't necessarily true or real. and i just find that -- >> jimmy: ah! ah! what is going on? >> that you have to really -- [ laughter ] you have to really -- [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] you have to be really careful about what you read -- >> jimmy: something not real. what happened? what happened to your hair? >> bedbugs. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: god, how come -- [ laughter ] how come you've -- >> no, i've been wearing this wig for 22 years, and tonight i thought i'd take it off. >> jimmy: oh, my god. you're like wendy williams. [ laughter ] [ cheers ] how come -- how come -- how come bedbugs didn't travel down the -- >> my -- the bedbugs don't live in my beard. >> jimmy: they don't. no, no, they stop around here. >> just up here. >> jimmy: around the side burns. now is -- i got to say, "due date" is an extremely funny, funny movie. >> it is. i really like it. >> jimmy: it is one of your

mimi is a talking, dancing, and singing robot.poke to president obama about the country's technological strength. meanwhile this week a japanese robot took the stage for the first time as an actress. she was controlled from backstage and co-starred in the play with a human. hear with me now is scott stein, senior associate editor of cnet.com. >> where do we begin. >> yeah. creepy or cool? we suggested it earlier. what is it? >> we suggested both. it's partly creepy, that's part of the appeal. it's not meant to be a real person, and so in that limited engagement people were certainly interested in seeing how that work. it's interested. there's engineers behind the scene. when you see those in person, the picturecould look realistic but it's an uncanny effect. it's unnerving. >> we've got our directors doing this. talking. it looks so normal. i mean this is not completely a novel concept no. >> if you ever grew up at chuck e. cheese or the hall of presidents, you've grown up with the idea of robots ene ter taning you. certainly the

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