elizabethan english gave us shakespeare. king james gave us the new testament. an interesting -- i am half literate. tavis: you are being modest. why is this predict called -- project called "3 pears'? s. p-a-i-r- it was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the moment that gave me the idea for the song, watching the george harrison documentary. i was watching that in the kitchen one night after i had begun recording the album. i was listening to him tell a story about he and john. people thought we wrote lyrics that were drug induced. we had very little dalliance with drugs. i guess they smoked pot, he said. they dabbled a little bit with some mind opening guru with taking acid. one night, we had taken lsd and we did not have a bad trip. some months lead us acid in a nightclub in london. we did not free doubt. but we did not know where we were -- we did not freaked out. but we did not know where we were for a day and a half. they cut to a piece of footage of john, 1966, later on, he had a shot of him with three pairs of sunglasses on. he had three pair of sunglasses o

an avid reader, he showed us a shakespeare folio he keeps at his estate. >> this is my most-prized booku can see it was printed in 1623. >> this is kind of a sports center. >> right. >> oh, my god. look at this. this is gigantic. >> yeah. >> wow. look at that. oh, great swimming pool. wow, is that a slide? >> that's a waterslide, and my sister's kids have used it quite a bit. although i've seen many adults enjoy it too. including myself. >> and the chihuly art. you have a lot of his stuff. >> i really love his work. >> you became the owner of the seahawks. he likes football; he bought an nfl team. he likes basketball even more; he also bought an nba team. he's a movie buff, so he invested in dreamworks, the hollywood studio. he wants to travel, so he built himself a yacht longer than a football field equipped with its own submarine. he has spent over a billion dollars on philanthropy, including building an institute to study the brain, and like gates, he pledged to give most of his money away to charity. now he got married. >> right. >> you never got married. >> not yet. >> not yet? >>

the population here isn't used to seeing them playing women. and yet that's the way shakespeare'suthority. what an awesome sight. bow down and acknowledge my heights. by magical words, i shall give the illusion of spirit with much nerve. >> as the actors were performing, i looked over my shoulder and i noticed iris was silently reciting every word of the play. so i focused my camera on him and i thought it was pretty cool that he was getting to see his own words coming to life and enjoying it so much. >> all he's known in belief, he shall bury it. i tell you, hags, that this -- [ applause ] >> this is the first time i seen it when he was speaking, i knew everything, i knew the words as he was saying it, right? it's crazy to hear it. to see the words come to life. make you want to continue to do it. like art imitates life. oh, man, that looked good. i like it. they did good. i want to see some more of it, though. >> for iris white, the playwright, it was the first time he had seen a performance of it, and he was really happy. you know, it was like the greatest day of his life. >> b

when we discuss shakespeare with the convicts some said william is our friend. many years ago five hundred years ago he told the story of us our tragedies our guilt of what we did. when we spoke about jago and other characters they found in familiar. then made these people in the horrible scary world they came from where they were lead character unfortunately. has told their story. their acting was very passionate and they need the story real. to caesar he says i loved him but i killed him. when we showed this part up close my brother and i were touched because we knew the through the actor it was not just a scene in a play. he saw something from his past. lives of his friends who were around him. one british director said this is the original to shakespeare unique in comparison to any other staging of shakespeare. and a you said in one of your interviews i quoted that you were a little skeptical at first but the experience sharky to the core what was so shocking for you in the experience of working in the prison. the most shocking thing was watching how the inmates staged these plays. and rounds of applause afterwords. th

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used to be a member of an l.a. street game. is that a treat name? >> it's a hood name. it's taking chaco's out. >> shakespearee him a sort of bonding experience he never had in a gang. >> when you learn a new language you struggle. on the street it's everybody for themselves. that's something that i like about theater. we work as a group. >> he also got a chance to compete against kids from more affluent schools. taco's team won. they went all of the way to broadway. >> we got on broadway row after row after row like a coliseum. for these young actors what grander training for the stage of life. >> bringing aus all together. >> yeah. >> no matter what. i'm david wright for night line in van nuys, california. good luck to all of you, thanks for watching abc news, we hope you check in for "good morning america." jimmy kimmel

board member of women's will, so all women's shakespeare company that resided in various places around the bay area depending on where, here and there they usedto live but they utilized all kind of business, i don't know if they performed at the marsh or not, and then we did have last week or the week before an issue before us involving the sun dance theatre in japan town and there's a restaurant that wanted to have live entertainment and the demising wall between the theatre and the restaurant was not a structural wall so there was issues of sound bleed into the theatre space, so i think we recently have been confronted with sound transmission issues into theatre areas. i don't know what the vote will be, i'm in favor of most of the project. i think it's too big. i think that some design changes could be made. that could lessen the sort of bulk and scale of the building. it might be some height changes but i don't want to get into designing it

shakespeare this is this girl marina. if. i found the answer to my question will store and today. there is a traditional reunion. for priests who used to be students of the moscow state university and there is about a hundred priests of my age coming through. your book every day saints was received really well by russian readers and now it's been translated and published in english. what countries and what kind of people would you like to reach out to with pickling wish edition. no idea so it wasn't your idea when you put it simply suggested translating this book into english and accept a deal with gratitude but you know that it was you know that's what it's a russian edition sold one point one million copies in the first year. we are printing ten thousand copies for the united states. so you know the stuff that. i believe there are many orthodox christians in the united states russian orthodox believe is alone are both strong probably have another million in canada plus we have greece by the way the book has also been translated into greek the first two runs have been sold out and no they're printing the third one in six months in

our friend called us out of the blue and suggested why don't you visit this next some security prison. where the inmates searing very long sometimes even life sentences stage shakespearein dental. shapes. we didn't really want to go we had some doubts about the trip we were busy with other stuff but finally we decided to visit this president. and we were absolutely shocked by what we saw. we saw prisoners redone to be shakespeare on stage. and many of them did it in their regional dialect politan for example. many of the inmates serving long sentences come from the south of italy because of its unfortunate murphy history. speer with passion and their selling dialect made the acting even more intense. because of all that we were really scared shakespeare for ourselves. it was a shock because we're very familiar with shakespeare but there we saw him in a completely new light. no white.

. >> yes, it used to be a dentist office in downtown livermore for a number of years and we restored it and brought it out here and now is the backdrop for shakespearen the vineyard. >> and a backdrop for this beautiful vineyard. i'm looking at all these beautiful grapes, my number one question is, we have thunder storm activity around the bay area yesterday, how did that impact these grapes? >> it really did not affected at all, it was a light rain and actually is good to have some extra time on the vine, we're 10 days away, late on the harvest, but that is ok, the sugars and flavors are coming up very nicely. >> that is important to note, 10 days behind on harvest, why? >> we have not had as many warm days as we have needed but the last several weeks have been perfect, we're getting a 40 degree swing in temperature and that is what livermore is known for, warm days and cool nights. a 40 degree temperature swing. livermore is very unique, >> tell me very quickly, these breaks, on one vine here,, okay, here's the plan. you have a plan? first we're gonna check our bags for free, thanks to our explorer card. then, the united club. my mother was so wro