meets las vegas. >> ver eye-a-go-go. >> reporter: what if luis had to do versailles on this budget?ed the elvis room. it could also be called the 70% off at macy's sale because this is all done with sheets that i found on closeout. >> reporter: larry uses a cake decorator for fancy plaster work. >> this is all done with the cake decorator. the leaf work and the ribbons and the fleur de lis. >> reporter: you never heard of anybody doing this before. do people think you're nuts? >> i'm sure of that. >> reporter: there's never a dull moment here at hartland. you might stumble upon a wedding. tony is an ordained minister. her son gary filled in as best man at this ceremony. >> forsaking all others in the past be faithful to her as long as you both shall live. >> i do. >> reporter: the harts themselves are as eccentric and flamboyant as the house they live in. (bells ringing). >> reporter: if you're lucky you might catch a matinee featuring larry and his mom. larry is, of course, after a grammy-winning singer and composer. ♪ get you closer to god >> my mom inspired me to write this count

helped draft wilson's 14 points plan to end the war and worked closely with the president on the versaillesreaty and the covenant of the league of nations. but then he was abruptly dismissed from the prickly wilson in a circle. -- inner circle. >> wilson was going beyond -- he was talking to people. wilson had a paranoid streak. he was very controlling. he ultimately feuded with his about everyone in his circle. i have always felt that it was wilson's personality that doomed the league as much as anything else. he was incapable of dealing with opposition or descending argument in any practical way. colonel house was kind of an intriguing figure. he was a texan but was from new york. he became the first informal -- he did not want a cabinet post. he was an informal adviser to wilson. he had wilson became very close. wilson became very dependent on him. when world war i broke out, he sent house over to london to try and stop the war, and then to advance american interests, whatever they may be. the intimate papers of colonel house is a work edited by charles seymour, a diplomatic historian at

i interviewed a guy who lives in the middle of china who has built a replica of the palace of versailles where he lives. i was at a meeting where a bunch of millionaires from inner mongolia were looking through yacht designs, having their yachts they would sail around some place. and then the entrepreneurial level there's all sorts of... tens of millions of mom-and-pop-type enterprises. so i think you find tremendous vitality there and also many, many business leaders have been to berkeley, to m.i.t., to oxford. the political leadership is more "commitment 2010" flex. i think the closest analogy would be to the career u.s. military. that's essentially how the communist party rotates and chooses its leader. they rotate among different parts of the country, different assignments, they work their way up. i think there is some concern that just as the private economic leadership is becoming more worldly, more free-wheeling richer and all the rest, the governmental leadership is becoming sort of a less risk taking and so i think there is the potential for tension ten and 15 years from now bet