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Internationally successful mario conde detective series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood? or another neighborhood? >> leonardo: more or less. more or less. >> anthony: happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> leonardo: yeah, yeah. i was totally free. >> anthony: i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here?...

There are people pulled off vacation if theyre anywhere in the region, theyll drop what theyre doing and do a lot of this saturation coverage. i see this more of what the trump administration has been pretty open about. this goes all the way back to the convention and on the campaign trail where they said they are specifically trying to discredit the media as a source of information, that it is part of their politics, to make sure people have more attachment to the administration and its words a...

Secret for 40 years? >> i was good at that, wasnt i? >> reporter: fisher was born in beverly hills, mother debbie reynolds and father singer eddie fisher. >> i was primarily brought up by my mother, but i saw my father. >> reporter: fisher poked fun at the absurdities of show biz life and all manners of self-medication, including taking piste to control her emotions. >> any mood stabilizer is a weight gainer. whether you feel better, but then youre fat. so what you gain is a loss. its not a good...

Edge, and i thought of it in the car driving back in palm springs with the music up loud. >> reporter: she pushed her book into a movie starring meryl streep. >> remember my 17th birthday party when you lifted your skirt up in front of all these -- >> i did not lift any skirt. it twirled up. >> reporter: fisher poked fun at the absurdities of show business life and matters of self-medication. including taking pills. >> any mood stabilizer is a weight gainer. you feel better but youre fat, so a g...

With soon to be co-star harrison ford. >> when r2 has been safely delivered to my forces. ♪ >> reporter: critics pointed to the strong chemistry between fisher and ford and with good reason. fisher recently revealed that she and ford were off-screen lovers. >> 40 years, is that right? >> 40 years i thought id wait. >> you revealed that you were having an affair with harrison ford. >> i was. >> well, you say it. >> yes, i did. >> so, how did that stay a secret for 40 years? >> i was good at tha...

Father --. fisher wove her experience as the kid who struggled with addiction into a best selling comedic novel postcards from the edge. >> i think of that as sort of the edge. the obsession. and i thought of it in the car one day. >> and fisher turned the book into a movie starring meryl streep. >> remember my 17th birthday party when you lifted your skirt up in front of all those people, including that guy michael. >> i did -- it twirled up. >> reporter: pokes fun at the absurdities of the sho...

Thought of in the the car one day driving back from palm springs with the music up loud. >> reporter: she turned her acclaimed book into a movie starring meryl streep as a recovering addict embroiled in constant often funny mother/daughter drama. >> remember my 17th birthday party when you lifted your skirt up in front of all those -- >> i do not lift my skirt up! it twirled up! >> reporter: fisher poked fun at the absurdities of show biz life and all manner of self-medication, including taking ...

This is a typical street of this neighborhood. houses of wood, houses of concrete. the street is not in good condition. here was the bus station. its not a bus station anymore. now its a building. its a monument. of the past. >> montea is a suburb of havana, home to one of cubas most celebrated writers. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> author of the internationally successful mario detective series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. its a deli...

Of prostitution, his grandmother was a madam who ran a brothel, and thats where he was raised. >> my grandmother was the lady that used to discipline me, beat my ass. >> kareem was always doing imitations of richard pryor like when we were traveling, he would start laughing out loud no matter where we are. i would say what were you thinking about when you laughed? and he says, something richard pryor said once, and he would do it is and do it in such an animated way, the exact way you could see ...

Kind of scary aspects of his life, he was raised in a house of prostitution, his grandmother was a madam who ran a brothel, and thats where he was raised. >> my grandmother was the lady that used to discipline me, beat my ass. >> when we were traveling, he would laugh outloud and i would say what were you thinking about when you laughed? and he says, something richard pryor said once, and he would do it and do it in such and an mated way, you could see richard pryor doing it. >> hes been dead so...