Introduce the panelists, and as i introduce each of you, if you could just spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography, and what is it you love about the genre . First we have a professor in the graduate acting program at new york universitys tish school of the arts with an affiliation in the graduate musical theater writing program, and is particularly interested in the history of broadway and of comedy. He has written biographies of xoeter Richard Rogers and p playwright. His most recent is a documentary film sammy davis jr. Ive got to be me. So, larry, tell us what has drawn you to biography. Well, i may be a little different from the rest of the panel. My venue is really entertainment. So obviously in entertainment youre dealing with the public persona of performers, what they sang, what they danced, what they acted. And then, of course, what happens off stage or behind the curtain is equally fascinating as you try to make some sense out of wha
Yes. We are looking at clearing and sunshine as we had through the day. A pleasant day across the area and High Pressure will start to build in today. Heres a live look with our camera. You can see the clouds in the sky. We are in the 40s and 50s as we start off our day. Mid 50s there. 57 in san jose and 47 in santa rosa. Through the day we will look at 67 in San Francisco and low 70s in san jose and mid 70s in concord. Today is the start of a warming trend for us. We are going to see temperatures rise as we had through the week. I will talk about that Holiday Weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. We are continuing to follow a developing story. The Investigation Continues after big fire left a firefighter injured this morning. The fire broke out at about 2 30 at calderon tires. It was mainly contained to a big pile of tires right next to there was some damage to the outside of the building from the smoke and flames. Firefighters were able to put the fire out by spraying water on
For coronavirus for people coming out of wuhan city and china. Right now there are 8 confirmed cases in california including 2 in santa clara county. And businesses have been slowing down in china towns all across the country and here in the bay area in san frcisco. Theres golden ge Fortune Cookie factory which is world famous and theyve seen a drop of 70 to 80 . Dropoff in business since the outbreak and it was even slower during one of their biggest celebrations which is the lunar new year. Business owners say the slowdowis not only impacting businesses but also their livelihood. We have 50 yars never happened. I have that in a stab chinese are much runs the because they want to move to the virus come from china. So they might just dont do with the chinese so they can lessen fact that. So which is not fair we cannot be fearl of and the fires i illness whatever we have to live life. And just gone. The last direct flight fro San Francisco to china leaves tonight as e told you after tha
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