Hi everybody, welcome to Evening from Cottage Creek Manor, I'm Brian Tracy.
And I'm Penny LeGate and this is a little private hideaway located here in Redmond.
What a beautiful spot.
Let me help you down here.
Thank you, I could use that help.
Watch your step.
Well our first story tonight is about another private spot, but this one is very controversial.
It's called the Bohemian Grove and it's located in the Redwood country of Northern California.
Well the Bohemian Grove has been around for about a hundred years and it's been kind of
a private boys club for grownups, actually the rich and the powerful.
Well tonight evening's Gary Grant is going to take us behind the closed doors of the
most exclusive men's club in the world.
Every year, two thousand of the most powerful men in America descend upon a tiny town in
California's wine country.
Political heavyweights, corporate leaders and celebrities arrive at a meeting of the
world's most exclusive men's club.
It's considered to be the wealthiest, most powerful concentration of men anywhere in
the western world at any given time.
The Bohemian club of San Francisco has attracted a host of men from Henry Kissinger to Clint
Eastwood and every Republican president since Herbert Hoover.
They've all been guests in what is billed as an annual cultural and recreational retreat
in three thousand acres of Redwoods.
It's as if all the boardrooms and the Supreme Court, major law firms, had all emptied out
onto fraternity row and was somehow transposed to a Redwood forest.
Security at the Bohemian Grove is extremely tight.
It's almost as if there were a military installation down there.
It's under wraps and in this case, under the trees.
Members and guests at the Bohemian Grove are sworn to secrecy about what goes on inside.
What most people do not know is that for more than a century, they've kicked off their retreat
with a spectacular nighttime ceremony.
From the air, the encampment is lit up with torches.
Suddenly, the night is ablaze as robed men begin the cremation of care, a ritual that
symbolizes the shedding of the burdensome responsibilities of the outside world.
And is the start of a two week celebration.
John Van Der Zee, once a waiter at the Grove, authored a book about his experiences.
He says once inside, these very public figures are quick to enjoy the freedom of privacy.
There was a story that one man told that he realized that he was really in the Bohemian
Grove when he saw Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon believing themselves against the same
Redwood tree.
The motto of the Bohemian Club is weaving spiders come not here.
Simply put, that tells members to leave their business and political deals at home and simply
have a good time.
But some people say with this much power and this much money located in one place, there
is more to the Bohemian Club than campfires and canoeing.
It's considered very, very bad form to use the Grove, especially for overt purposes,
advance your own interests.
At the same time, it's a very useful association that friendships and contacts you make there
carry on into the outside world.
Important issues are discussed daily during Lakeside Talks.
Insiders say that speeches given here can make or break political careers.
Some claim that political deals made in the Grove have changed the course of history.
In 1967, during the encampment, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon arrived at an understanding
that Reagan, who had just been elected governor of California, would not enter the 1968 presidential
race and Nixon faltered.
For years, protesters have demonstrated outside the Grove for a variety of causes.
Mary Moore, a local political activist, feels that such closed meetings of the elite undermine
the democratic process.
The point is that this is where ruling class bonding takes place and that place is not
open to minority people, to people of color.
It is not open to women.
It is open to white men who pretty much run this world.
They're like overgrown boy scouts, only a lot more dangerous as far as the world is
concerned.
Others in the tiny town of Montereo see the Bohemian Grove as a source of money and jobs.
The sudden wave of wealth also brings in outsiders, prostitutes like Carol Lee, who are attracted
by the prospect of 2,000 wealthy men.
For the last five years, she's worked the bars across the river from the Grove.
She says prostitution here is more of a legend than a business.
The men who see prostitutes are in an incredibly small minority.
I mean, it's not that all these guys are seeing prostitutes.
I think people should understand that.
It's a really small percentage.
It's just that it has symbolic meaning in the Grove, that all the Grove members talk
about it.
There's an idea that men who are powerful do have women available.
It's good for men's ego.
Their relationship with prostitutes is highly mythologized.
In the retreat, prostitutes appear to operate openly without interference from law enforcement.
Inside the compound, there have been persistent rumors about closet homosexuality.
Don Heimforth, a former waiter, says there have always been relationships between club
members and employees.
One black waiter, a gay black waiter, years ago said it's whenever they would come over
to the employees' quarters, and he made the comment that it was not unlike coming down
from the big house to the slaves' quarters for a piece of ****.
Such allegations about the camp have angered many who feel that leaders who adamantly embrace
traditional values are not what they appear to be.
These are the hypocrites who, on the outside, are not giving the money that is needed for
AIDS, that is not giving the money that is needed for certain kinds of research, and
yet they indulge in this on the quiet.
What gets me is the secrecy of this and the hypocrisy of it.
There isn't too much overt bad behavior because most of these men are, to the man, are born
and they're well behaved.
Insiders we spoke with all said heavy drinking seemed to be the most popular activity.
For me, the eye-opener was the amount of alcoholism.
I mean, hardcore, third stage alcoholism, watching men going into blackouts and DTs
at the dining tables.
Officials at the Bohemian Club refused to discuss what goes on at the Grove.
The club was recently ordered by the Supreme Court to employ women for the first time.
Despite the controversy, rumors, and the possibility of women working there, many feel the tradition
of power at the Bohemian Grove will endure.
The Grove would continue to attract members simply because it's an association that remains
extremely useful in the outside world, and there seems to be some deep need within men
for this return to nature and male bonding, an extension of a night without rules.
When Ronald Reagan was president, he couldn't show up for the annual gatherings because
of security reasons, but now that he's a private citizen, you can bet he's going to show up
more often.
You know, there are so many powerful people, both in business and government, in this club
that John Bendersey doesn't really think it's any coincidence at all that after his book
came out about the Grove, he was audited for the first time ever.
Up next, travel at home for the domestic goddess, Roseanne Barr.
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Heard they're selling Henry's down at Oregon City.
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Last year, comedian Roseanne Barr hit the big time.
But her life has been like a roller coaster ride ever since.
There have been rumors of erratic behavior, chaos on the set, marital problems, and she's
been in the tabloids almost constantly.
Well, now Roseanne is about to become a movie star, playing opposite Meryl Streep in a film
called She Devil.
And tonight as Sam Rubin finds out, some people think that this title describes the real life
Roseanne as well.
I was in Denver and somebody told me, you know, Sam Kenison and Louie Anderson told me
to go to the comedy star.
So I went there and it was like this dream come true deal.
I hate that word.
I hate the word homemaker too.
I want to be called domestic goddess.
I didn't know this was going to happen.
She goes, you're a married woman and you're going to Barr's at night?
Roseanne, don't you think we should talk about our sexual problems?
Like, I'm going to turn off Wheel of Fortune for that.
In the course of just one year, Roseanne Barr has gone from the domestic goddess of standup
to the princess of prime time TV to finally the queen of the tabloids.
There just are no secrets in her life.
We've dug everything out that there is to find out.
There's been plenty for Janet Charlton of Star Magazine and other tabloid reporters to dig
up about Roseanne Barr.
First, there were the stories of her temper tantrums on the set of her TV show.
She's going through a lot, you know, it's tough on her.
Yeah, I think there might be some people out for her.
Then it was revealed that as a teenager, she gave birth to a child who she put up for adoption.
She had an illegitimate child and certainly an intimate piece of personal news.
And the tabloids were able to dig up the daughter in Texas living a normal life with her adoptive
parents.
And now the hottest headline on TV's hottest female is her divorce from her husband of
15 years, Bill Pentland.
I mean, you may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but 14 years later, you're married
to a reclining chair that burps.
Not to mention her engagement to boyfriend and stand up comic Tom Arnold.
According to Janet, it's enough domestic commotion to give the domestic goddess a nervous breakdown.
Roseanne is like definitely whirling out of control.
I think she's got so many things confusing her now, her family, her children, her boyfriend,
her divorce, her fiance.
She's not reaching a breaking point.
I'm surprised.
I'll tell you.
I'm going to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, Roseanne Bart.
This past February, Roseanne paid a visit to Mr. Pete, host of a Los Angeles cable access
talk show where he teased her about some of these tabloid tales.
Let's get into the Roseanne shocker.
Now, did you read this toilet paper?
Oh, yeah.
Every word in it is true.
Your husband had a heart attack.
He phoned me, said, get home and take me to the hospital.
I'm having a heart attack.
And you did?
Well, you know, I had lunch first.
It says in here that the scripts they got for the show stink.
Now, I know that you want to.
They don't stink.
You just got to punch them up a bit, huh?
Yeah, you just got to punch them up a bit.
And you got to assert yourself, don't you?
Oh, well, I'm learning to be assertive.
Well, I am, too.
Roseanne's asserting herself now on the big screen with big screen heavyweight Meryl Streep
in a movie called She Devil.
In fact, when the cameras started rolling on April 12th, the tabloids started reporting
problems between Meryl and Roseanne.
It was a period of adjustment there definitely with Meryl and Roseanne, but they ended up
really liking each other.
And Meryl was helping Roseanne with her acting.
Of course, Roseanne would offer a few tips of her own to Meryl, which was amusing to
everyone in sight.
Oh, my dead body.
The producers like her so much that she now has a three picture deal, according to Janet.
And there are others in the industry who admire Roseanne's style, including one casting director.
Roseanne Barr has talent.
She has charisma.
She has cuddliness.
She has joy.
She has frustration.
She relates to the public.
And even one rival network executive.
She's in her original.
There was another woman on television who could be on television who does what she does.
We're on TV and we're calling and we just want to say hi.
You are not.
We are.
Honest.
On TV?
Yeah, we're on TV.
It's on number three.
Channel three.
It's on Channel three.
Yeah, this is me.
Listen.
But despite the positive attention she gets for her professional work, Roseanne's private
life continues to attract attention.
The kids suffered a lot with Roseanne's newfound fame, especially the one, the oldest daughter
that ended up in an institution unable to handle it.
I mean, it's like Roseanne went on a wild binge when she became successful.
All of a sudden she's running around with a young guy and she had been real devoted
to her family up until then and very intent on keeping it together.
But suddenly there were new opportunities arising all around her.
Well, I'm rich now and I hardly have time to care about little people like you.
The breaking point I think is right around the corner for her if she doesn't calm down.
How rude.
Now, wherever Roseanne and her new love go, fans and photographers hound them.
This usually gets on Roseanne's nerves quite a bit.
But just recently she responded to one incident with her typical sense of humor.
A fan had come up to the couple that were in a restaurant and said, listen, Roseanne,
show me your engagement ring.
And she said, how about an order of fries?
Well, the fan went off, brought the French fries back and Roseanne was happy to show
them her engagement ring.
Stay with us because next on evening we're going to take you to a firefighter school
in our own backwoods.
I'm Susan Michaels here at the Kingway Apartments with my husband and our two dream kids from
the I Have a Dream program.
This was the third Project Calm Team work party and nearly 100 volunteers showed up
to help out.
If you'd like to volunteer, call 448-3691.
It seemed like a different era.
Diners were popular.
Rock and roll was in.
The air was charged with the power of positive thinking.
Style was in style.
And Mazda introduced the Miata.
A rag top.
A two seater.
A true roadster.
Everyone was excited.
The new Mazda Miata.
It not only gives you a glimpse of 1990, it takes you back as well.
He's always been rather quiet.
It's happening all over Washington.
Suddenly, this morning, he goes totally burrito.
The cause?
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Hi, everybody.
Welcome back to more evening.
Last year, there were seventy five thousand forest fires in the United States.
They consumed millions of acres of our nation's forests at a cost on federal land alone of
over a half a billion dollars.
And without any doubt, our most effective tool against these natural disasters is ordinary
people like you and me.
And many of them get their training right here in the northwest.
Forest fire.
They've been described as a runaway train that wipes out everything in its path.
And sometimes that includes the people who fight them.
Fighting fires is one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the world.
In spite of that, every summer between one hundred and forty and one hundred and sixty
men and women meet in Barrington to learn how.
And in the process, they learn something about themselves.
It is really hard.
The work, the actual digging the line is a lot harder than I thought.
And I think I'm going to learn some things this summer about how hard I can work.
And work is what this is all about.
Fighting a fire can be nonstop for as many as twenty four hours at a time.
When I first started fighting fire, it was one of the hardest things.
You get on a fire and you're working real long hours and it's real mentally fatiguing.
It's real hard to get that mental attitude that you're going to be out there for long
hours and you have to pace yourself both physically and mentally.
Bob Pacific is the crew box.
No, no, just go around it one side.
With thirty or forty fires under his belt, he is responsible for the students' training
and safety.
It's a job he takes very seriously.
People with the Pulaski's, make sure you're getting the ladder fuels.
Stuff above you is coming through.
I'm always thinking to myself, would I forget to tell them because it's a lot of things
you've got to remember.
So if I see somebody doing something wrong or whatever, I'll try to correct them and
show them the right way to do it.
And make sure that they understand what they're doing and why they're doing it.
You can start seeing that dirt down there and you know you're okay.
These would-be forest firefighters come from all walks of life.
Students, photographers, police and teachers.
Today the classroom is the forest and the school is only in session for five days.
Always use leather gloves when you're doing this.
During the five days, the students learn not only how to handle hose lines, tools, equipment
and how to repair the equipment, but they also sharpen their skills at the end of the
day by competing against each other.
Okay, we've got to hook this to the gated wire.
Each crew has to set up pumps, hose lines and power equipment.
It's a race against the fire and the clock.
Quick!
Gated wire in his hand!
Alright, kill it, kill it, kill it!
Day four arrives.
The stage is set for the final test, a real fire set by the instructors.
Students must now use the knowledge that Bob has given them to control this place.
It looks like we're going to be cut in line up to the fire probably about 50 yards worth.
So remember your spacing.
If you're getting too close to the person in front of you, make sure you bump them up.
The students quickly dig a fire line to stop the path of the oncoming flames.
For now, they have proven their skills to themselves and their instructor.
But Bob knows this school never ends.
Each place these new firefighters encounter will be a test of will and endurance, a test
they are now well prepared for.
Over the weekend there was a small fire in Darrington and some of the crew members got
called out.
Now I just spoke with the rangers station up there and they say that the fire is completely
under control and almost out.
Now as I'm sure you might have guessed, the most dangerous month in firefighting is in
August.
Now last year over 100,000 acres in Washington state alone were consumed by fire.
Let's hope that doesn't happen again this year.
Now stay with us.
We're going to be back with more evening in just a minute.
The Corlick Sisters on Denny's Grand Slam Breakfast Specials.
They just served me two Grand Slam breakfasts for the price of one special.
You didn't get two breakfasts.
There's two of everything on my plate.
That's what a Grand Slam special comes with.
Of course it comes with the plate.
I mean the special price includes two of everything.
How come I didn't get two plates?
Because you only ordered one breakfast.
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They usually don't make mistakes here at Denny's.
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I've got a boss who wants me to work four hours.
A husband who wants me to work less.
Two teenagers who don't care.
They just want my car keys and a budget to balance.
How does she do it?
Well for starters I stock up at Drug Emporium.
I save about ten inconvenient stops at the convenience store.
I get the biggest selection of the best brands.
And I save about 30% on my budget every month.
What a gal.
I deserve a promotion.
It's happening this Wednesday.
This Wednesday I've got a date with Larry.
This Wednesday Ross is opening new stores all around the country and all Ross stores
will be celebrating.
Uh oh.
With tremendous savings on department store fashions for the whole family.
I could save a fortune.
And we'll have a huge assortment of special items ordered just for this event to save
you even more.
But Larry's so great.
No sale can compete with these terrific bargains.
I mean he's really, he's really.
You gotta go shopping.
I gotta go shopping.
The celebration starts Wednesday at the Ross near you.
John, you're late for work.
Colin's sick for me.
You're already in trouble.
I can't even think with this hangover.
You need help.
I know.
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That fast?
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Let's go.
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Big day morning starts your day with NBC Sunrise and King Five Morning News.
Then join us at seven for today.
Right here on King Five.
Before we go tonight we just have to congratulate one of our fellow Northwesterners, Greg Lamond
on winning the Tour de France.
A round of applause for Greg.
It is incredible.
Eight seconds, the closest margin ever.
And speaking of cycling, tomorrow night we're gonna be at Marymoor Park at the Velodrome
and we're gonna be kicking off the National Track Cycling Championships.
And here are some of the stories you'll see then.
One year ago, fire consumed nearly half of Yellowstone Park.
Today the controversy still rages.
Let's face it, they burned the Yellowstone Park over policy.
Has Yellowstone recovered?
Tuesday visit the park with evening and see for yourself.
Then, facelifts, tummy tucks, lipo suction.
I think it's a terrible thing that society has placed such a premium on our appearance.
Americans are buying the ultimate body, but unskilled surgeons may be cashing in on our
obsession with perfection.
Plus, it's a story of love and inspiration.
How a Portland foster mother's love changed the life of a very special child.
On the next edition of Evening.
Cottage Creek Manor here in Redmond is available for weddings.
What a beautiful spot this would be.
If you'd like more information about that or how to rent this beautiful antique horse-drawn
carriage, just call the Evening Information Line.
Let me help you up here, Patti.
Thanks, Brian.
If you want to get the Evening Information Line, the number is 448-3505.
Thanks for joining us and we'll see you all tomorrow night from Marymoor Park.
Good night, everybody.
Bye-bye.
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