he had the backing, diane feinstein has been there, willy brown has been there, some -- i think sammy davis junior went there once. so it's not famous people haven't visited it and it's not that sam jordan was very well known. i think in this case it's what has been happening and how his spirit has been kept alive by serving the poor. that's what we need, that's what we need in the bayview. we need people who are compassionate, people who do not forget their roots. people say they represent, if you represent and you know your people, especially the people who came from the south, i'm talking to the people at home, then your representatives should be those that represent the poor, much like phillip burton did, much like other good representatives did that you respect in city hall. so if sam jordan was here i think he would have said that his work was something for the community, that working for the community, that working for uplifting somebody, that would bring joy to his heart. i think that's what he would have said and i am glad there are a few members, i don't know his family members pe

the lead ever of the glamorous rat pack which featured the likes of dean martin and sammy davis, jr.is latest hit on the charts was "call me irresponsible" and his movies were still doing big business at the box office. he was in the middle of filming another rat pack movie robin and the 7 hoods which costarred barbara rush who also happens to be my mother. >> how do you do? >> do you know my name. >> quite. >> i what was it like there on the set working with frankcy that trace gallagher. >> he loved dean martin and those two were so funny together. dean not only wasn't in tim intimidated by frank at all. >> for the sinatra family, a three day nightmare after crossing paths with an judge employed 23-year-old stockbroker. down on his luck, keenan calculated he needed $240,000. in today's money around $1.7 million to get his once thriving career back on track. >> so i was trying to think of anything. kidnapping came up. >> kidnapping. in keenan's twisted mind it made perfect sense. grab a celebrity kid and hold them for ransom. they would have the means to pay big bucks to get the chil

the singer and actor was the leader of the rat pack with sammy davis junior and dean martin.is movies were doing big business at the box office. >> what do you say? >> he was in the middle of filming another rat pack movie which co-starred barbara rush who also happens to be my mother. >> how do you do, pablo. >> you know my name? >> quite well. >> what was it like on the set working with frank sinatra? >> he loved dean martin. they were funny together. i think dean not only -- (inaudible) frank love the the way dean looked. >> celebrity has a three-day nightmare crossing paths with an unemployed stockbroker named barry keenan. down on his luck he calculated he needed 240,000 dollars. in today's money around 1.7 million to get his once thriving career back on track. >> i was trying to think of anything, kidnapping came up. >> kidnapping. in keenan's twisted mind it made perfect sense to grab a celebrity's kid and hold them for ransom. they would have the means to pay big bucks to get their child back and keenan believed he would pay back the ransom money with interest. >> in

the lead ever of the glamorous rat pack which featured the likes of dean martin and sammy davis, jr.is latest hit on the charts was "call me irresponsible" and his movies were still doing big business at the box office. he was in the middle of filming another rat pack movie robin and the 7 hoods which costarred barbara rush who also happens to be my mother. >> how do you do? >> do you know my name. >> quite. >> i what was it like there on the set working with frankcy that trace gallagher. >> he loved dean martin and those two were so funny together. dean not only wasn't in tim intimidated by frank at all. >> for the sinatra family, a three day nightmare after crossing paths with an judge employed 23-year-old stockbroker. down on his luck, keenan calculated he needed $240,000. in today's money around $1.7 million to get his once thriving career back on track. >> so i was trying to think of anything. kidnapping came up. >> kidnapping. in keenan's twisted mind it made perfect sense. grab a celebrity kid and hold them for ransom. they would have the means to pay big bucks to get the chil

it being detroit, a black member of the pack, sammy davis jr. was conscripted to handle vocals but his son, hello detroit, failed to burn up the charts. we used to play it every morning on one of the local radio stations. except in belgium where it reached number one. i didn't know that. it says but now much to the attention being showered on detroit from the trendiest quarter came no small measure thanks to the city's flag. detroit's brandon became authenticity and a key component of this had to do with the way the city looked. fixing the very real problem faced by detroit that began to wonder inevitably robin detroit of some part of its essential detroitness. two your four people in the last couple days to have given the book to read have come to me and asked about that specific last line and they are curious whether what you are saying is our dysfunction is such a part of us that we can't afford to let it go? that we can't afford to lose it? a couple people were mad when they asked me about that. i said i don't know. >> i definitely don't mea

sammy davis junior, knew how to play the piano an could yusheck up and make sure certain people didn'tanoid about their allegiance to him. >> a great shot of lbj and something on her head, to he other page, not a big surprise. 5 out of 5 champagne glasses. >> bill and hillary were very set on not getting stamped with the kind of heehaw stigma of the carters, who banned hard alcohol and, of course, you know, had picnics on the white house lawn while he was wearing cardigan. bill made sure he again got big names and bringing in many of the hollywood stars he saw in movies he saw in arkansas. >> this makes me sad. another former southern governor didn't do as well, jimmy carter, 1 out of 5 champagne bad food, no alcohol and billy carter. >> oh, no, it didn't. >> the official drink was sweet tea. >> nothing wrong with that. >> i do like sweet tea, but i like a little something in it sometimes. >> reagan five out of five. no surprise, he was the master. >> he was the master and most of the, a lot of the memories we had of very glamorous nights like that. pictures of princess di were during