Each week, and American Historys real america gives you archival films that help tell the 20th century. In the last of fivepart look at hollywood directors who made films for the u. S. Government during world war ii we feature , john huston and the battle of san pietro, a 32 minute u. S. Army film. It depicted the december, 1943 battle which destroyed the town of san pietro, italy. Praise at the time the film was , composed entirely of reenacted scenes. We speak with film historian mark harris. The book is titled five came back a story of hollywood and the second world war. Joining us from new york is mark harris. As he look at some of the leading directors, including john huston. What can you tell us about him . He was a fascinating larger than life figure. His career in hollywood was just starting when the war broke out. He had a neredowell adolescence. His reputation was not great. He had been involved in a few car crashes. He fled to paris at one point. He came back to hollywood an
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Its unclear whether we can manage promoting the development of energy overseas and support for Climate Change. Its uncertain whether we can utter the words natural gas in a policy statement, you know, coming out of the white house and say that we actually want other countries to develop it rather than we want to make the world more resilient because were using less, and theyll have more. So its unclear s. So the question as it affects russia and ukraine and i would say europe and the caspian too is are we doing all we can with all that we have to maximize this advantage. And i think the short answer to that is, no, not yet. And what i hope well talk about today is what our ageneral da should be for europe agenda should be for europe. You cant move gas from point to point. Are we doing enough as the United States to move europe in that direction . Is europe doing enough for itself . Development of shale gas. A lot of the opposition comes from gas [inaudible] some of it comes from Energy
Dont worry about the cameras. Aggressively ram yourself through those aisles and get a seat because its worth it for the lineup we have today. Hamdi, thank you so much for joining us. Youre a young man growing up in turkey. You came over here to study business and you said, aha, feta cheese. And were not even at the yogurt story. But you were going to make your fortune in feta cheese. I need to know why feta . Well, two things. One is, i came to learn english. I didnt know a word of english. And feta was a great english word. Actually, we dont call it feta, we call it white cheese. [laughter] the reason i came up with that idea is my father came to visit, and the cheese, the white cheese, is very big in our breakfast dishes. When i brought the cheese i couldnt find in the supermarkets my father said, is this it . I said yes. He said why dont you make some. I grew up in turkey, in cheesemaking, yogurtmaking. So basically my father not liking the cheese that i brought for him for breakfa