Constantly to be shrouded in extreme levels of secrecy. He joined me to talk about his work and answered questions from our viewers. Let me start with the book and go back to the first time you met Edward Snowden in hong kong. The book reads like a spy novel at that moment. It was like living in a spy film essentially because we knew a couple of things, that this was certainly the biggest leak in National Security history, that if the u. S. Government found out what it was that he was doing that they would take very extreme mezto put a stop to it one way or the other but we didnt know much else. We didnt know whether the u. S. Government knew anything or what they knew or whether hong kong an anything that was happening. Everything that we did needed constantly to be shrouded in extreme levels of secrecy and snowden as a highly trained operative was very well versed in how that needed to be done. Context. You were surprised what he looked like . Ists shocked by what he looked like. I h
And welcome to the repeatedly scheduled meeting of the San Francisco entertainment commission. Tuesday june 18, 2013. Black stone call the roll all right. We have commissioner calling names our brand new commissioner just fully vented. I wrote the. For you thank you. Thats part of our speech id like to thank s g tv for broadcasting our Commission Hearings and making them available to the public free of charge. I want to welcome barbara as our new neb member. She has a lot of experience shes been auditing our commission for months and months and months. Welcome aboard thanks its my pleasure to be here. First order of business is Public Comment. This is the opportunity that the public has to address the items under our jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. Seeing none. Public comments is closed. Item 2 review an approval of the minutes commissioners. I move to approve. Second. We have a motion and a second is there a comment Public Comment is closed. Ill take the vote calling names oh
With its hot bodies and pulsating dance clubs. Thats all a marketing reinvention of a much older miami beach. No, we need to go back 50 years or month when caddies with tail fins were pulling into the newest, glitziest hotel in the west. The fountain bleu. Steven gaines wrote about the era in his book fools paradise. It became a destination for the rat pack, frank sinatra, major stars were a at the fountain bleu, and lots of movies were being filmed there as well. He needed a queen to preside over his palace. He found one in a former cocacola model named bernice. With her beauty and effortless charm, bernice turned out to be the perfect host to entertain the gangsters and guests who made the fountain bleu in its day. They lived in the hotel in a penthouse suite. Then came along a young prince, ben novak, jr. Ben jr. Would be trotted out to shake the hands the likes of jfk, then it was back in the Hotel Elevator to home. Birthday cakes came from room service. And the kids who came to th
Era in his book fools paradise. It became a destination for the rat pack, the major stars and lots of movies were shot there as well. Novak was the king and he needed a queen to preside over his palace. He found one in a former cocacola model named bernice. With her beauty and effortless charm, bernice turned out to be the perfect hostess to greet the celebrities, gangsters and other guests who made it the scene of its day. They lived over the store in a penthouse suite. Along came their young prince, ben novak jr. He was a spoiled kid, a brat. Ben jr, dont call him beveragey, would be trotted out to shake hands with the likes of j jfk, then it was back up the Hotel Elevator to home. Birthday cakes came from room service. The kids who came to birthday parties were strangers, just kids passing through the hotel. The friendless boy, lost himself in the fantasy world of batman. The super hero became an obsession. Even as an adult, he was still amassing a flor to ceiling collection of batm
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