About the Show: Celebrity and the City : Bay Window : KQED


	When to Watch An encore broadcast aired on KQED Public Television 9 and Digital TV 9 on May 3, 2002 at 9pm. The program originally aired in October of 2001. Want to Buy the Video? Email us and we will let you know when it is available, how much and how to order the videotape of The Celebrity and the City. Program Description The Celebrity and the City KQED and Talbot Productions present The Celebrity and the City, a one-hour documentary about Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland. Part of the ongoing KQED series Bay Window, the documentary examines Mayor Brown's efforts to revitalize the city of Oakland. "Nothing in my past shows that my ambition is limited," Oakland's famous Mayor Jerry Brown tells the producers of The Celebrity and the City, "and I'm too old to change." No one expected the former governor of California and three-time presidential candidate to run for mayor of the Bay Area's racially diverse, sometimes down-on-its-luck, predominately blue-collar city. But Brown has spent a lifetime being unpredictable, whether it's working with Mother Theresa in India, dating rock star Linda Ronstadt or hosting a radical talk show on Berkeley's KPFA. Since Oakland voters elected him in a landslide in 1998, Brown has raised hopes that he can preside over an "Oakland Renaissance." The Celebrity and the City investigates what Brown has managed to accomplish in his first three years and where he has stalled. If nothing else, he has brought attention to the long-neglected city. "Traveling with Jerry, it's like traveling with a rock star," exclaims Oakland's city manager, Robert Bobb. "It's good for Oakland, it really is." Brown, always a political maverick, has shaken up the city's entrenched bureaucracy, courted developers and retailers, ordered a crackdown on crime, started a new military charter school over the objection of the local school board, and proposed opening a casino. Candid, canny and confrontational, The Celebrity and the City reveals Jerry Brown as he seeks to rebuild Oakland and evaluates his political future.		City Councilman Dick Spees and Mayor Brown. Reading proclamation on Korea Day.

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