so we've chosen this moment to talk with neal gabler, the historian of culture and film who expertly interprets how movies reflect our society and politics. here in new york, neal gabler is an indispensable saturday night guide to the movies on our flagship public station wnet/thirteen. >> welcome to "reel 13." i'm neal gabler. >> his books include biographies of walt disney and the powerful gossip columnist walter winchell, this one "an empire of their own: how the jews invented hollywood" and my favorite, "life the movie: how entertainment conquered reality." he's back in town after a semester as a fellow at harvard's kennedy school of government. welcome home, neal. >> thank you very much. >> when you say life's a movie what are you saying? >> what i'm saying is that life itself has become an entertainment medium, that we are all actors in, and audience for, an ongoing show, that we have so steeped ourselves in the theatrical arts by watching them and ultimately by assimilating them that we have turned our own lives, and life outside of us, into a movie which we can watch and whic