there is no call to revolt against the regime in the novel. at the heresy which dr. zhivago preaches, political passivity is fundamental. pasternack suggests that the small unimportant people who remain passive to the regime's demands for act of participation and emotional involvement are superior to the political activists favored by the system. further, he dares hint that society might function better without these fanatics. i don't know what kind of memos you all saw what you are at the cia, but that strikes me as a pretty extraordinary one. there are many other mammals like this, which received death -- which suggests a novel cut a close reading at cia headquarters. requote them in the book and they can now be read in redacted form at cia.gov. there is also an emphasis on secrecy to protect pasternack. the photograph manuscripts or is provided by british intelligence which insisted there be no overt american involvement in printing. in case it could be used to tear pasternack, that was followed and another from one the british translators of dr. zhivago, church c

ultimately, it's translation that makes you wreak through the novel -- breakthrough the novel.i say if that's ooh the one that'll make you want to read this novel from beginning to end, then read it. but this is the one that i'd start with. >> did tolstoy find warfare, actual war as a necessary or even desirable feature in order to find truth in life? >> yes. [laughter] part of tolstoy's interest in war stemmed from his own experience as a soldier in his 20s. he was a soldier in the caw cases during russian expansion which is still in the area that is today children any ya. this has been going on for 200 years. he also fought in the crimean war of the 1850s. and so he had a lot of experiences with death on the battlefield including experiences he himself had. and i think later on in life he became a pacifist, a vehement pacifist. that was the time in which gandhi was inspired by his writing. when he was writing "war and peace," he wasq a realist, and e understood that war is a part of life. we all have egos. we all are selfish, we're all animals. we also have a spiritual dimens

you can imagine reading a novel or a non-fiction piece for that matter, and if all the nouns, the what, where, when descriptions are taken out of that novel and all you have left are verbs and articles and punctuation, you're not going to be able to follow what's happening. that's really what the white house and the intelligence committee is proposing with these redactions. we're going to stand our ground on the intelligence committee. there has to be more details released. we don't have to go this far with this kind of redaction. and in the end, the point is to learn from what we did. we detained people, we tortured people. it's a stain on our history, but we're at our best as americans when we learn from those mistakes and vow never to make them again. >> senator, in your opinion, is the cia, and the administration, for that matter, trying to protect itself, trying to

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the premise of my novel is is an abraham lincoln in his coffin? if not, where the heck is the end abscam people are dying to find out. >> host: u.s. has used an. >> guest: a cruiser that was franklin roosevelt's favre worship. he took it out of number of times. fishing expedition on the uss houston. in fact, he took it three times to cocos island off the coast to recoup. about 300 miles west of the pacific off the coast arica. supposedly there are a number of buried treasures on that island. mr. roosevelt was a fisherman. he lacked sufficient. in fact, he caught a 110-pound sailfish. this bizarre incident. but he went back there a number of times. one time he had entertained a couple of british treasury hunters on the houston to talk about the potential of is a treasure and where can i find treasure. the houston unfortunately during world war ii was sought by the japanese. 110 with the agent asper from australia. still associations today that honor the men of the houston. children of survivors. a famous book called a ship of ghosts. if anyone saw

and from this sort of vision, she, you know, had the idea for the novel "frankenstein". >> reporter: since the story's conception, "frankenstein" has been popularized in many different forms, including multiple film adaptations. >> it's alive! it's alive! it's alive! >> reporter: but what appeared on screen was not necessarily what mary shelley originally envisioned. in fact, her companions' influence went beyond the inspiration for the story we all know today. >> it's alive! >> reporter: as the manuscript at the morgan's exhibition shows us, mary's lover, percy shelley, helped to edit her novel. one alteration he made, in particular, stands out. >> one of the main things that he did change was the last sentence of the work. >> reporter: the last sentence of "frankenstein"... >> the last sentence. he had to get that in. the way mary wrote it, the creature-- dr. frankenstein's creation-- leaps from a ship onto an ice floe and pushes away from the ship and sort of sails off into the distance. but you're left with this idea that he is going on to live somewhere else. in percy shelley's

beecher stowe, so he was very familiar with her novel and the impact of her novel. it makes you wonder if some of the tropes, the separation of family, the abuse of slave women, and the cruel and sadistic owners, may have been influenced in some part. not to say he did not experience this, but it makes you wonder how many elements that come through in stowe's novel a week before. so that is just an observation. i will leave it at that, and turn it over to catherine. [applause] >> thank you. i want to thank the organizers of this panel. for this opportunity to reflect. when i first began my work on the plantation south over 40 years ago, looking at the role of citation mistresses, one of my mentors insisted that i go see, and accompanied me, to see the film "mandingo" in times square in 1975, the year that was a top 10 box office hit. the scholar later pointed out to me a billboard in times square featuring an escort service -- so certainly, i was made aware in which the way films could influence attitudes. that produced in my first book a chapter called "foucault me

he spoke about california politics and the politics behind his mystery novels. >> joel fox, you like to say you have a long rap sheet in california politic. >> guest: it is true. i go back to 1979, joining howard jarvis, the author of proposition 13 and the california tax row volt that swept the country. in fact in talking to marty anderson, who is economic adviser to ronald reagan, he said when proposition 13 passed it gave the reagan campaign some impetus to push forward with taxes as the lead issue. so i worked as howard's aide. was hired just after the campaign and traveled with mr. jarvis around the country. worked with him on a number of other issues issues and he passd awayin' 1986 and i took over as the president of his taxpayers' association. had that job for a decade. and involved in a lot of california ballot propositions along the way, and even since then, but then went out on my own to do some consulting. i have been a small business advocate, been involved in a lot of ballot measures in the state of california, and even worked in a couple of political campaigns. don't d

i've written eight novels. some of you may know some of my titles, "in between boundary boundaryies," etc. i really am an academic. i have been teaching in the city university for many, many years and am currently at hunter college. and this is my first memoir, "not for everyday use." so the first question i want to ask tracey is a question that a lot of people ask me, actually, is how do you get the courage to put in print some really true and hard things about yourself? because when you're writing, when i'm writing a novel, i can hide behind the fiction. when you're writing a memoir, you've got to put it all out there. >> yes. and be that's a good question, elizabeth. a question that i get quite often. in my book i take people to my lowest point in life, and as a 20-year-old -- 20-year business owner, a lot of people have asked thatÑi question, why would you do that? and you own a business, i own a construction and real estate -- >> could i just ask you, what, why did you do that? >> yes. there's a reason why

her fifth novel is published in july. next to her is katie dvorak the social media director for the washington independent review of books the web site rimm by volunteers to produce all things look related aff for reviews. she also works at the copy editor by day ankeny found on the various sports teams and last lee bethanne patrick the book editor for washingtonian magazine and appears in the "washington post" on the people and "o" magazine. see is an active social media presence is he founded the popular #the author of two nonfiction books and is currently working on the novel. we will very briefly explain what it is they do. with the job title is a. >> when i try to find my way to publishing side did not know what i wanted to do so like to work with authors angeles to talk all the time. i wanna do get the books out there i want to vote connected to their books. what is the perfect place for me? and then tries to figure out the best way to rollout the book and talk to media. and read a lot to figure how to get the book

i like novels about characters and character driven novels and stuff like that in these girls, i try to bring young adult fiction and to these girls, things that were about girls like them. >> host: such as? >> guest: such as a wonderful short novel called the blue-eyed daisy or stuff that was working-class for appalachian girls by authors who would speak to their concerns and my students wanted nothing of that. they turned their noses up at that and said we don't want your kind, meaning we don't want your book. not me as a person but the books i was bringing in. it turned out their favorite book was horror fiction. >> host: like vampire? >> guest: some of that. but one of my students blair is it turned out she was by the age of nine and then also 10 per favorite author was stephan king and they watched it on television and they read steven king. trying to be this iowa state socialistic teacher trying to change the world and change them and all they wanted was steven king. i finally gave in and said we were going to read horror fiction and that was transformative for me and for my st

of course other graphic novels. please speak now. [inaudible question] [silence] >> anything in either of these books of the discussion of 1937. >> oh, yes. essentially this boat over. yes, sir. as book opens with a boy who killed himself in brooklyn his name was william. he was 13 years old and he hung himself. and so it is kind of, like you say, a bit of tricks. goes on about the sad story of the board hanging himself. he was reluctant to ask. and this story was in 1937. i used it at the beginning of the book and then flashed back to the beginning to make the following point. the depression is a terrible under study depression. my economic work is about why the depression lasted ten years instead of five. so the answer is one was labor policy. to was uncertainty. uncertainty. and the monetary and credit access. it was in the depression itself. so these explanations are detailed in the print book and our marquee in this book . >> any specific cause? >> well, the area where i place value and one of a gratifying things is many, many e

they really had a fight, but we had to novelize it a bit because sometimes we didn't know exactly what they said. this is an advisor to the president telling the president that job sharing isn't always economics. that's another -- we have this debate today. and this is really a scene about when you as an expert know something's wrong, but you also know the president is operating in politics, and he has to make his own decisions. in econ, i'm getting too serious, but in econ we tend to know that job sharing doesn't increase productivity. it's not necessarily a great idea for the economy, but politicians of both parties up do it because we love to give people jobs, right? so this is a debate between tugwell and roosevelt. as you know, tugwell was eventually -- left the administration. he was too controversial for them. this is a union theme. that's john l. lewis. does anyone know what i'm talking about when john l. lewis punched the car carpenters' unin head? that was a famous scene when the industrial unions came into power, and we wanted to draw how frightening it was, you know? so thi

graphic novels, rhyming. you hear a song and everybody deciphers them in rhymes. we do little staffs of stuff we are doing, a lot of stuff whether digital comics we came across an interesting stat and it was middle-aged housewives americans was about 50 million all listen to woo tang. we are so into the culture. we are so into hip-hop that we have trouble understanding that it's universal. people decipher the rhymes and than they are bridging themselves to learn more. i guess they are figuring out there are other things. when jay-z said that everybody knew. we put me on and that was their crew. my cousins going to cb gb's. you see the subcultures but you get interested and you start opening up books and you start going to google and figuring things out. you were saying also that becomes a bridge. graphic novels were official. when we go to comic-con they are talking that language. every show or if you are klingons they will talk klingon. they are into it and they study it. people we call closet nerds in the city. how do you know that staff? i started reading x-men

>> it is interesting you mentioned mcbride's novel.ou all know good lord bird that within the national book award this year. i haven't taught it yet but i have a number of former students reading it and getting in touch saying it is one that ought to be taught. it's been optioned and is going to be made into a film. might be the next film on slavery. it's a 12-year-old boy disguised as a girl taken in by john brown in kansas and follows him all the way through. we see harper's ferry and meetings with douglass through the eyes of this 12-year-old boy, will smith's son is going to play it on the screen so it is going to get done. it is interesting. what they choose to option, take a fictional book and sort of a parody, almost looks like more in the line of jango more than 12 years a slave. interesting to see what they'll do with john brown on film. >> i hate to disagree with you, anthony, but i think if we brought film makers in to hear our panels to hear people talk and promote their views and scholarship don't you think there's a lot o

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the other is "beloved" adopted from tony morrison's novel. it's a gulf coast story of sorts dealing with the long term psychic stars of slavery, set in 1873, in cincinnati. it is based very much on the abuses that are only seen in brief flashbacks inflicted on the film's heroine, seth, played by oprah winfrey, who when cornered by slave catchers in cincinnati murdered one of her own children and tried to kill another based on the real life case of market garner in 1856 in cincinnati. then, in this 1873 post emancipation period she continues to be haunted by a version of the infant girl she murdered decades earlier. she's also played by andy newton. it's a clunky film, not a great film but fascinating it was made in a film. i have students read the novel and we watch parts of the film. then, we come to "12 years a slave" and even "django unchained." i think part of what they do so well is feature female characters who take on as much or more abuse as do their male protagonists. in "django," quentin taran tango, the most macho western spaghetti

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>> it is interesting you mentioned mcbride's novel.u all know good lord bird that within the national book award this year. i haven't taught it yet but i have a number of former students reading it and getting in touch saying it is one that ought to be taught. it's been optioned. apparently it's being made into a film. might be the next film on slavery. it's a 12-year-old boy disguised as a girl taken in by john brown in kansas and follows him all the way through. we see harper's ferry and meetings with douglass through the eyes of this 12-year-old the eyes of this 12-year-old boy will smith's son is going to play it on the screen, so it is going to get done. it is interesting. what they choose to option, take a fictional book and sort of a parody, almost looks like more in the line of "jango" more than "12 years a slave." interesting to see what they'll do with john brown on film. >> i hate to disagree with you, anthony, but i think if we brought filmmakers in to hear our panels to hear people talk and promote their views and scholars

here we are, at the franklin roosevelt library, and before i launch into how i wrote the novel with a brilliant artist issue thought eye i'd give you president roosevelt and ask you, how many of you think he is too mean in picture? and does anyone -- nobody thinks he is too mean? anyone think he is too nice? does anyone have an objection to the cigarette? [inaudible] >> did we get the cigarette wrong? some said we had the wrong kind of cigarette holder. so, when we first drew this picture, he had no pupils in his eyes. so sort of more blank. you see president roosevelt, more blank. he was unknowable because you couldn't see anything behind the glasses. and the artist, a genius -- i want to say that a few times -- and i talk back and forth, and i kind of had the impression that to make him have no eyes was to maim him too creepy, to make a president too creepy, and i didn't like it. my aim with this particular book is to convey knowledge, not just pinch. i don't think roosevelt was a creep so -- but when you have a creepy looking president -- well-that attracts some readers. readers li

i teach -- well some of them -- because i teach a class on slave narrative, novel and film. looked at the early "uncle tom's cabin" for example. and some of the other ones. but i had forgotten shirley you know? i love shirley temple. the shirley temple version. i had seen "song of the south" and i saw it as a child in the south growing up. so it was really cool to hear when i teach in the fall now. fantastic. >> it's also interesting to me that they raise no hackles, nobody. we think of the lost cause, nostalgia, sentiment for slavery as being a southern thing. it was an american thing. >> right. >> hollywood had no qualms about making them. nobody had any qualms about seeing them and treating them as classics. and making them box office hits. of course there was some controversy with both "birth of a nation" and "gone with the wind" but it was naacp, relatively minor, a drop in the bucket compared to the great acclaim and popularity. that they enjoyed for multiple replays over the years. that tells us something. >> it does. >> because we keep doing "uncle tom's cabin" i thi

and a piece of dialogue here that i know -- i don't know where it goes, but it goes somewhere in the novel. >> reporter: in his two latest books, burke draws upon both his roman catholic upbringing and education in classical literature. his voice, says "the new york times," has grown "more messianic, more biblical." >> this is from isaiah 43:20. "the wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches." >> reporter: and it's not just using an inscription from isaiah, or language suffused with religious imagery. >> the stories i've written are the passion play. i mean, they clearly come out of the new testament. the imagery, the icons all have to do with golgotha. that's what they're all about. >> reporter: page-turners and major motion pictures, yes. but what burke is really doing is grappling with some unanswerable mysteries, such as are there people who "love evil for its own sake"? >> or could a black wind blow the weather vane in the wrong direction for any of us and reshape our lives and turn us into people we no longer recognize. >> reporter: you talk about the darkness that can

and later, heart times and good times on the street in monterey that was renamed for steinback's novel, cannery road. >>> welcome back to a second look as we mark 75 years since the grapes of wrath was established. a land that promised a new life for those leaving during the great depression. 20 years ago betty and bruno went to santa cruz county where she sed for a new life in california. >> long before the sun comes up, one of four workers camping near watson field in santa cruz county. children getting ready for school and men get ready for fields. the family rent two room force $450 a month. the rooms were separated by the central hallway which was used by all tenants. between 6: 30 and 7: children tumbled out all doors to line up for school bus. after school some will go to the county's recreational center to games and help with homework. county inspectors say the water is not fit to drink, that too many people are crowded in the tiny apartment residents seeing the camp differently and to them in the crowded condition, it is their threshold to the american dreams. much better of t

he was very familiar with her novel and the impact of her novel. and it makes you wonder if the separation of family, the abuse of slave women and certainly these very cruel and sadistic owner may have been influenced in some part -- not to say he didn't experience with all himself -- makes you wonder how many of those elements come through in stowe's novel published the week before. that's just an observation. i don't know what we will make of this. i'll leave it at that and turn it over to catherine. >> thank you. i want to thank the organizers of this panel for the opportunity to reflect. when i first began my work on the "plantation south 40 years ago, one of my mentors insisted i go see and accompanied me to see the film "mandingo" in times square in 1975. the year it was a top 10 box office hit. the scholar later pointed out to me a billboard in times square that featured an escort service that was 1-800-call-tara. certainly, i was made aware of the way films could influence attitudes. that produced in my first book a chapter called "fuco mee

it can be a literary novel because the reader review you say i would like to read that. you don't have to go anywhere or do anything. you just push a button so we have found commercial and also memoir. i think because a memoir reads like fiction in that it's linear at the beginning and decoded the end. there's not a lot of referring back. the ones that are the least digital other than children's books and cookbooks are serious nonfiction. i think it's because -- i read articles about when you read you will remember something and you want to go back and look any remember what was on the bottom left-hand page. you can't do that digitally so the whole referring back and forth that happens with serious nonfiction is much more difficult to do digitally. so anything that is linear is a linear read seems to be the thing that has the highest digital sales. >> guest: i am vice president designer of digital content development. we make e-books and digital products for all of simon & schuster's books. >> guest: what do you mean? >> guest: if i grab the book here they are just the i

it used to be that when someone wrote a new novel it was an event. it or a new album was a major occasion. and now everything is available. it definitely does make it harder to get people excited about things. the good thing is that of course books are much easier to get now. distribution is omni presence. >> host: what is the normal timeframe of working on a book? you hear about, publication date is that six months or two years and that includes the writing part. >> guest: my opinion, which i would probably be challenged on, is that it is hard to write a great book in a year. i think you can write a really good book in a year or if you are writing with a reoccurring character it can be done because you know the characters and the settings. i think it takes about 18 months to write a book that has an authority to it and really, really outstanding books can take longer and many years. we published a book called big fat supplies and it is a about nutritional science flaws and that was about ten years in the work. another book on america in the 1970s: t

. >>> she may be in her 80s, but this author knows something about steamy novels. stows stories and . >> police only a handful of arrests marred a quiet night in furgeson, missouri. >> the u.n. calls for swift action to stop another massacre by advancing isis forces. >>> drivers are getting a big break at the pump just in time for the labor day road trip. >> meteorologist chris sowers joins us outside with a look at the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> reporter: it's beautiful out here, nydia. we have sunshine and skies of blue and gentle breeze and no humidity once again. it's been a fantastic august. i'm going to show you the monthly numbers so far. temperatures are well below average. speaking of below average. all these numbers once again a little bit cooler than where we should be for this time of year. pottstown, 66. chester, # 0. glassboro, 70. buena, 69. the fun thing even though these numbers are below where they should be for this time of year, they are close to where we topped out yesterday. because of all the clouds and the showers, the numb

♪ >> ken keasey took classes of writing at stanford university, and he writes the great novel "one flewhile i was at stanford, i was given the opportunity to go to the stanford hospital and take part in the lsd experiments. >> keasey had volunteered to do tests for lsd, a government-sponsored test. >> lsd was isolated in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. >> are you happy? >> yes. >> you have tears in your eyes. >> oh. >> is that a beautiful experience would you say? >> i would say yes. >> some people think it's when keasey discovers lsd that the counterculture in california is born, because more and more people then want to try to experience what keasey experienced, and he becomes a promoter of it. ♪ >> keasey created a drug commune at la honda, which is an hour from san francisco. great artists love smashing traditions, and at his best, keasey was doing that. everybody would have this communal lsd trip together. tom wolf would write "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. i'd wonder what happened. they thought they were

not real experiences, because it is a novel. but it is based on his service in italy and he was serving in italy during the war and the protagonist in it, frederick henry, ends up getting blown up and wounded in the same way that hemingway does. but hemingway puts in this one quote, and it is frequently put in anthologies, because it is seen as hemingway sharing wisdom he gains from his war experience about how war changes men in the first world war. what he writes is -- "i was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glory, and sacrifice, and expressions in vain. we had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain, almost out of earshot, so that only be shouted words came through, and he had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by bill posters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and i see nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were the stockyards at chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. typical hemingway -- lots of ands. there were many words

i like novels about characters and character driven novels and stuff like that in these girls, i try to bring young adult fiction and to these girls, things that were about girls like them. >> host: such as? >> guest: such as a wonderful short novel called the blue-eyed daisy or stuff that was working-class for appalachian girls by authors who would speak to their concerns and my students wanted nothing of that. they turned their noses up at that and said we don't want your kind, meaning we don't want your book. not me as a person but the books i was bringing in. it turned out their favorite book was horror fiction. >> host: like vampire? >> guest: some of that. but one of my students blair is it turned out she was by the age of nine and then also 10 per favorite author was stephan king and they watched it on television and they read steven king. trying to be this iowa state socialistic teacher trying to change the world and change them and all they wanted was steven king. i finally gave in and said we were going to read horror fiction and that was transformative for me and for my st

>> iamb a journalist so i publish novels, literary novel was how i became writing. i am coming out with a book actually. i've been a journalist since the first time i went into north korea in 2002 and that's when if first to mention north korea and that is what i have been covering more or less. >> that is why we invited you and tv to preview your book coming out in the fall of 2014. "without you, there is no us: my time with the sons of north korea's elite". how did you get a job in north korea? how did that come about? >> it took a long time. you know, first of all what i wanted by joining the pro-north korean and then i went to someone's birth day celebration. >> what was the process like of getting in? >> i am south to rhiannon and i am american, but having a south korean background, the korea as you know it's technically still at war. but there are just groups. an organizational place. the first time i went in, it was fascinating because i got to see, you know, i didn't go in there as a tourist. i won and there is a youth delegate, posing as a youth delegate th

i'm working on a romance novel.t's in the subgenre of the paranormal subgenre of the teen romance novel subgenre. the feds say mcdonnell and his wife were showered with gifts from millionaire businessman johnnie williams in exchange for special treatment. that's just one side of the story. what does millionaire businessman johnnie williams say. >> williams says she showered former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife with gifts in exchange for help promoting the tobacco-based bill he invented and was pitching as a wonder drug of sorts. [laughter] >> jon: i guess there is only one side of the story. by the way, the wonder drug he was pitching is called antabloc. you may be wondering how someone could turn a tobacco-based pill into a wonder drug, because that's what it is, seeing as most tobacco-based things are, are wonder carcinogens. you're going to kick yourself for not thinking of this first. he nuked the tobacco in 200 wal-mart microwaves. [laughter] tired of feeling bad? try some of our highly irradiate

inviting those novels, i guess every author writes it differently. some people ask me, that i have outlined? the answer is no. i never wrote, i didn't do an outline. in fact, i had no idea how it's going to end when i started writing. i always had in my mind i wanted to write a story about four boys in high school been good friends, and then much later in their life finding themselves in a situation where they were pitted against each other, and how did the friendship, the old friendship they had, how did that -- how could they handle that if they were pitted against each other in a later series of circumstance. and believe me, somebody on trial ultimately facing the death penalty is a pretty serious circumstance. and so those four boys all play a role in the book. i hope you will all read. so i begin to write this book. i was having a good time writing the book. ultimately, by the way, the book if you go by, is about half of what i wrote. because the editors took it all, you know, killed a lot of little babies that were in the first version. but whe

she was one of the great pioneers of the modernist and novel. it was published in 1927. this isn't her own binding by the way. it is not pretty she could do that with a private press that she ran with her husband. and here you can see she has the names of characters some of which don't appear in the published version and she always true a blue crayon line on the left hand margin and to right and notes to herself as she went along. in this particular case she has a couple of diary entries and down here 1926 she writes i observed today i am writing exactly opposite of my other books very views have first but then will have to tighten finally is always the four and three times the speed. most of her traps are grammatical and very tight and formal productions and in this case is under finished it was a cathartic experience writing about her childhood and adolescence relationship with her parents. >> host: we want to see one more thing over here with the berg collection. is this available for everybody? >> you get a special tour the collection is here for researchers to lead

. >>> plus, could reading ""fifty shades of gray"" novels cause young women to engage in bad behavior? we'll show you what some researchers are saying. >>> back to our breaking news. want to update you on the helicopter crash in cape may courthouse. "nbc 10 news" viewer james smith sent us this picture of the helicopter on its side there. it crashed in cape may courthouse, cape may county. in the past half hour or so. we're working to get information on the condition of the pilot, whether anyone else was injured. again, sky force 10 expected to arrive here. here we are. sky force 10 giving us an ariel view overhead over the scene here. this is off of route 9 in cape may courthouse. we understand that there is a pizza shop close by. again, you see the fire crews there, emergency rescue crews there working to get information on the condition of the pilot, but we're zeroing in on this helicopter. now this helicopter we received confirmation was sent out as part of the mosquito control area -- mosquito control effort in this area here in the jersey shore. you see several individuals down