all of that zroibs founder alan stillman. fake it until you make it. what made you think you had the skill set to do this? >> lack of knowledge. i had no understanding that i couldn't do it. >> reporter: he opened his first bar and restaurant in 1965 way $5,000 loan from his mother. is it fair to say you got into the business because you wanted to meet women? >> absolutely fair. not only fair, but accurate and true. and it worked. >> reporter: but you insisted on good food, you insisted on an atmosphere -- >> excuse me, i insisted on good french fries and hamburgers. beyond that, i didn't know anything, that's for sure. we just discovered it as we went along. >> reporter: the bar would become a hot spot for unmarried men and women on new york's upper east side. it was a magical clientele that provided the perfect combination. i think that you have been dubbed the man who invented the singles bar. >> they only call me the man that invented the singles bar. i happened to open up a restaurant that turned into a singles bar. at t

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to his left is whit stillman whose first feature, metropolitan earned the best first film award fromk critics circle and an academy award nomination for best screenplay. and his most recent film is barcelona. i happen to have been born in france and i've spent some time in europe. i've noticed that the french have a term for hollywood movies, "le happy end"--

alix: i appreciate this, amy stillman and nymia almeida.a hit, worth staying more than a year? ♪ ♪ alix: here's what i'm watching, part 2. looking at value, and joining me is the bloomberg asset -- >> we have a chart of our bloomberg fear factor for the portfolios, and it had its worst day in over a year. interestingly, in the long-short portfolio, -- did well and you can thank nasdaq for performing, rather than the lungs doing especially poorly. especially the fact that retailers had screened on those metrics fairly well. taking a longer review on the factor rotation that we wanted to have or have been looking for all-time s&p 500's high in september, we've seen value do worse than momentum and growth over that stretch, a bit surprising i think to a lot of people. what it is doing worse is leverage. i think we are seeing russell underperforming, more floating , and just the idea of cracks starting to appear in the credit market. >> i wonder how much of that is oil. large caps, small caps for the s&p. a lot of it is part of the russell stor

david: stillman like 33% of the company. alix: 85% of net income will be paid out.ent funds. alix: and pay off some debt. pg&e corp. we have been talking about this morning. brooke: not great numbers about these california fires. at least 31 people killed three at 6100 structures damage. apart from just being heartbreaking that represents potential liabilities for pg&e and edison which provide utilities to southern california where we've seen those fires in malibu. pg&e is dealing with a significant liability overhang from those fires in napa. we don't yet have a report from investigators on exactly what pg&e corp.'s liability is. california has a law it does not matter if they were negligent or not. they are on the hook for those liabilities. those 2017 liabilities are estimated to be $17 billion. is start talking about another $10 billion, a pretty significant balance sheet hold. toid: there was a move change that law. customers to try to pay off the bonds is that going to help them? brooke: there is a strict standard area they have to prove they were reasonably m

guy: -- vonnie: stillman seeing what would emerge. what will dell say?later on today, and there is a court hearing november 5 to determine whether they will expedite this process and get the information that ichan wants. this is all leading up to a vote on the matter on december 11. vonnie: so kendell people this information from him? -- can dell keep this information from him? scott: the bar is pretty low on these things, but i think you will get some of the information he wants. vonnie: this would be considered -- scott: this is one of the things we see all the time and activist situations, where there will be these lawsuits filed. and campbells, another lawsuit was filed to get additional details about the company on that activist situation. you know, there is a proxy fight there, obviously. vonnie: has there been pushed dell through all of these quarters, people who might be providing some of the money for this? generally, dell has said hired a special committee, they had their own advisors and came to their own conclusions to support this transactio