as a character, stein was a fascinating study.orn, art professor emeritus at stanford and guest curator of this stein show, has delved into her life and her friends. >> many of her friendships, it need be said, were rather short- lived, because she would quickly move on to another interest, another artist, another project that she was taking on. >> reporter: one friend she did keep was her companion, alice b. toklas, a major feature of this exhibit. >> gertrude and alice fell in love, and eventually alice moved into the apartment of leo and gertrude. it was gertrude who continued to bring artists into them. >> reporter: but gertrude stein wanted to be more than a collector. >> she liked collecting, but after awhile, her public image as a patron and collector bothered her. she wanted to be known the same way picasso was known-- for her creative work, not just for her collecting of others. >> reporter: stein thought of herself primarily as a writer, whose work, corn contends, has come back into fashion. >> she was always just a litt

she was alice, when she made a daring trip to paris, she met stein. stein proposed to alice.ooked less and less like a female. and toward the end of their tour, gertrude took alice on a nostalgic visit to oakland. it was supposed to be nostalgic: but the town had become a city and everything had changed. she later wrote about this visit in a book called the auto biography of everybody. and it was in this book that she wrote the famous dictum about oakland. but according to katherine giovanni. she didn't mean the comment as a -- but more as a lament. >> what she meant meant by there was no there, there is that if you didn't feel like you where from there, you are not there. [ male announcer ] in here, small business solutions from at&t can get you there. like the at&t all for less package, starting at just $70 per month, voice plus broadband. it's the at&t network. helping you do what you do... even better.

there is one i want to talk about, "seeing gertrude stein." >> gertrude stein is a local woman.he was raised in oakland. she was an extraordinary individual who helped create -- many people call for the mother of modernism. years ago, i was introduced to someone doing research on her. i thought it would be an extraordinary exposition to take her and understand her at all for complexity. that is what we have on view during the summer of 2011. >> it is full of wonderful drawings, paintings, and sculpture. >> there is incredible art on view. we have photographs. we have sculpture. we have a lot of different things. we have a little something made for her by picasso. there are five different ways of looking at her life. it is not in chronological installation. it is looking at how she is portrayed in help artists, painters, and photographers presented her and how she thought about her own style and presentation. many people think she always had short hair. it was not until she was 52 that she cut off all of her hair. the second element is called "domestic stein." alice b. toklas was

stein love today claim she discovered picasso, and it was a whole new level of art making in the beginning of the 20th century. she was a writer who liked to think about writing very different way than anybody else before her. so in this exhibition at the contemporary jewish museum you get to discover all of these different aspectsover her. and the way in which she still has an extraordinary legacy that continues today that inspires art and writers and poets, and musicians and dancers. she really has this ability to really tap into people's creative creativity. >> what is it about her that keeps her so fresh and vibrant even today. >> it is a really good question because most people know who gertrude stein is. some people don't. i really feel she was somebody who was very quite but yet very powerful. she likes to think of herself as a genius but loved to talk to the everyday person on the street. he was proud of her judaism and didn't practice it. >> she was a native daughter, born in oakland. >> she was she was born in pennsylvania and raised in oakland. many people think of oak plan. onc

i would like to a college dan stein, who has been instrumental. -- i would like to acknowledge dan stein. megan. leslie. where is john? he is moving his car. well, he will be your. the colors will make sure we ask questions on different topics throughout the night, and we will know of any specific issues that are especially important. i will call on people to either come up to read their question, or if they prefer, i can read them. we will try to get through these presentations quickly so that we have as much time as possible left for questions at the end. remember, we are all here to hear the voices in this room. i hope that we can find solutions to be very difficult situation, and again, i would like to thank everyone again for coming, and i would like to now turn things over to mayor ed lee. thank you. [applause] mayor lee: thank you. thank you, supervisor cohen, and thank all of you for welcoming us here to district tend to talk about our city-wide budget. i also want to recognize the department heads that are here today, joining here sitting in the front row as well as various comm

and ger trude stein is blunt and yet helpful at the same time. so people have said oh it's just a cartoon of all these people. i think that's the point. i mean it's the heroes managing what these people are like if he could have them to himself for a party evening. >> that's a chming idea. >> rose: and owen wilson. >> owen wilson is a wonderful proxy for woody allen, sort of makes the movie it is a wisp of a movie, it is really quite insubstantial and when you compare it to the purple rose of cairo a similarly themed early woody allen movie, what does that say about where he is and where he going. >> with late woody allen are you grading on a curve and there are moments i get disgusted and that i'm to the seeing any more of his movies but something comes that wins you. >> i think you are right. e of the little ironies of this movie is that by now woody allen himself is an object of those tall gaj for many of us. >> tree of life. >> i'm curious what david has to say about tree of life to. me t is one of those movies that is an event, it comes alon