Barbara. She tells the untold story and the 28 years of a relationship between hearst and his architect julia morgan. She chronicles the evolution of this hilltop. Not only do we view the hilltops, but the spectacular pools and the collection of fine arts and antiques. Sprinkle throughout her books are stories of the famous parties hosted at the Hearst Castle. With his companion movie star Marion Davies, and their celebrity guests, which combined together to bring to life americas most glamorous country home. Please join with me in welcoming victoria kastner. [applause] very glad to be here. One of americas oldest museums to talk about a uniquely american subject, that is William Randolph hearst and his beloved home. He had more than half a dozen houses, all very large and filled with art. But the one he loved the most was san simeon, i think its been most known, this is appropriate for a media personality, like William Randolph hearst, not through historic events, but through a media
Show up. He was lying in the road and there were a few people around him trying to help him out. And i know nothing about medical. So i didnt want to touch him. So i just put my jacket over his legs and i started directing traffic. I just i want you know, i told him everything i said to him, you know, youre going to be okay. Youre going to be all right. Just keep breathing. Reporter and what caused him to fall is still under investigation. But tonight, ken, police tell me that he was not wearing a safety harness. 11 stories unbelievable he is even alive tonight. All right, thank you, linda. Another view on this story as we zoom into 400 montgomery. Consider the numbers here. He was 11 stories up. His deathdefying plunge lasted all of 2. 8 seconds as we figure it and he hit the car at 60 mileanhour freefall. Stanford physicist that we talked to said it made a huge difference that the man actually hit the top and the back of that car. The car is moving forward. If you fall in the front w
Find the best writers that we can and bring them to albany. Its like bringing the world to a particular place, and i dont think i cant think of any other organization, even some of the better known ones in major cities that that have such a rer flow of creative talent coming through and at no cost to the public. With our open door policy. So we bring the literary world to albany. So all these people whose names, faces and dates, events you see are people who have come from far and wide to read to the, to the general public here. And weve had somewhere, my most recent count now has gotten us up to at least 10 or maybe 11 Nobel Laureates across the years ranging from Toni Morrison who actually used to teach at albany to most recently a South African writer, and along the way people like the nigerian writer or the caribbean writer, derek walcott, or the irish poet, seamus haney. The names go on. But along the way, we archive all of the by video and audio all of the people who have come th
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Way that is sympathetic. I am sympathetic thats true in either way, just the facts. So you try to tell the story in a way that is, where the reader is on the edge of his or her of ceasing all my god, what would ive done in this situation . And any great movie, any great book that youve read, so i novelized biography, its a creation, and artistic creation. But i would say other than just the bare facts as you saw in that book, anything thats written about her necessarily 100 years later has to have some degree of projection of whoever is writing. So what i have tried to do is show her as much as a man can get into a womans head or into a womans heart, show her going through the various struggles and surmounting a lot of these difficulties that she was able to surmount in her life. What it did for her inside and out a broader to this place. That whole catholic world reveres her and explained that in such a way to tell the story to people who find it an enjoyable experience, to read and e