About, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than power point as a term. Im not good at power point. Its not that im a luddite. Im just not good at technology. Im just a technological idiot. Well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. The original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and its an untold story actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a
Alex kellner . Guest alex kellner was the name that my uncle, alexander korda, was born with and which he changed when he moved to biewd past as a University St as a University Student, because it sounded jewish. At first he spelled the new name crda, then changed it to korda because it looks hungarian that way. Host who was sir alex korda . Guest he was the prototypical film producer, also film director. He directed his first film at a teenage age in 1914 and directed at least 100 or twice that many movies during the course of his life and produced i dont know how many. Europe, the United Kingdom, hollywood when he was fair, he was an affable genius and being his nephew was a fulltime excitement. Host what was his influence on you . He and your father and your other uncle . Guest and enormous respect for talent of any kind. He was that making films and recognizing all sorts of talent even if they dont share it themselves. Secondly although they were in tense at making the best possibl
Of the 1970s all in the family. I was the laziest white kid my father ever met. In total, lear wrote produced produced. We dont know what the episode is all about. Oh, its about abortion. Lear has left his mark on american politics. Founding people for the american way and hes fought against religious fundamentalism. What can i say about Jerry Fallwell. I was the number one enmy in the generation. In his 90plus years he has lived a multitude of lives. One of those lives as a bomber in world war ii. Americans love america. But there was a time after world war ii when we were in love with america. I had a chance to speak with norman lear, of all of this, and his thoughts of being a father of six, he tells about his recent book, all this i get to experience. You have tackled issues of racism, home owes phobia, did you set out being a trail playser . I didnt think of it as being a trail blazer. It was american life. We were the family of people, my family, other people that joined when we
I was the laziest white kid my father ever met. In total, lear wrote produced produced. We dont know what the episode is all about. Oh, its about abortion. Lear has left his mark on american politics. Founding people for the american way and hes fought against religious fundamentalism. What can i say about Jerry Fallwell. I was the number one enmy in the generation. In his 90plus years he has lived a multitude of lives. One of those lives as a bomber in world war ii. Americans love america. But there was a time after world war ii when we were in love with america. I had a chance to speak with norman lear, of all of this, and his thoughts of being a father of six, he tells about his recent book, all this i get to experience. You have tackled issues of racism, home owes phobia, did you set out being a trail playser . I didnt think of it as being a trail blazer. It was american life. We were the family of people, my family, other people that joined when we went into television were all me
Of the 1970s all in the family. I was the laziest white kid my father ever met. In total, lear wrote produced produced. We dont know what the episode is all about. Oh, its about abortion. Lear has left his mark on american politics. Founding people for the american way and hes fought against religious fundamentalism. What can i say about Jerry Fallwell. I was the number one enmy in the generation. In his 90plus years he has lived a multitude of lives. One of those lives as a bomber in world war ii. Americans love america. But there was a time after world war ii when we were in love with america. I had a chance to speak with norman lear, of all of this, and his thoughts of being a father of six, he tells about his recent book, all this i get to experience. You have tackled issues of racism, home owes phobia, did you set out being a trail playser . I didnt think of it as being a trail blazer. It was american life. We were the family of people, my family, other people that joined when we