1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:04,559 Speaker 1: They say. The Irish goodbye is when you slip out unnoticed, 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 1: without bidding anyone farewell, an easy exit. The Jewish goodbye, however, 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: is when you do, in fact say farewell, but you 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: never leave. When we've decided it's time to leave a 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: dinner or a party or any kind of get together. 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: My husband Jordan prefers to just call it, give a 7 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: wave and walk out the door. Me when it comes 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: to the Jewish goodbye, I'm basically a rabbi. Have I 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: approved over time? No, I think you'd like to be 10 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: in a Jewish goodbye for hours? Some say I'm out 11 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: of bar mitzvah. To this very day. In March of 12 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: nine seventy sped Lana Alijeva finds herself in just such 13 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: a dilemma. She said goodbye, and she's ready to leave, 14 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: yet somehow compelled to remain at Talias in West Well. 15 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: She did have plans in San Francisco the following week. 16 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: She could also see the appeal of this community of 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: artists throwing flashy parties in the desert. Not to mention, 18 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: she was falling for West Peters, the tall, sad architect 19 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: with an Abraham Lincoln face. Fearing of involvement with this 20 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: charning men approaching me. I told firmly to my hostess 21 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: that I was delighted to be her guest, but that 22 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: now I must continue further my preplaned trip. Her hostess, 23 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: Olga Vanna doesn't like the sound of this. Why are 24 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: you in such a hurry? But I must leave us right, 25 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: I have ticket days I must leave. Why do you 26 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: have to me? Oh, because I have other and but 27 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: Easter is coming, Olgavannah declares, it's our biggest party of 28 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: the year. The desert is blooming just for you. And 29 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: then Olgavana asks slyly, by the way, I do like Chris, 30 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: Olgavana is gaze is powerful, almost hypnotics. Fed Lana admits 31 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: she likes West very much, but she really must be 32 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: going stay for another week. Old Gavanna implores that'll yet, 33 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: if I stay for another week, I'll never get out 34 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: of here. She might not be a member of my tribe, 35 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: but spent Lana is a practitioner of the Jewish. Goodbye 36 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 1: in the highest regard. She says goodbye to Old Gavana, 37 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: but she doesn't leave after one week. Oh no, she stays, 38 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: My name is Dan Catroser and this is s fent Lana, 39 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 1: s fent Lana. You wake up in the morning, you 40 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: live your day, and then you do it tomorrow and 41 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: over and over again and over again, and act one goodbye. 42 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: I must be staying so through Olga Vanna's irresistible powers 43 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: that Lana pushes her plans and extends her visit another 44 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: week through Easter. Now, as a Jewish kid growing up 45 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: in the nineties without cable, I spent my Easters watching 46 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: Franco Zepharelli's six and a half hour epic Jesus of Nazareth. 47 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: His disciples must have come in the night, removed the 48 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: stone and taken away the body. Now that I'm older 49 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: and wiser, I know that that was just a movie. 50 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: That Easter is the springtime holiday where a giant rabbit 51 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: lays eggs and children eat them because they are chocolate. 52 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: For the folks at tally Essen, Easter wasn't over the 53 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: top blowout bash. Easter was like all the other celebrations 54 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: at tali Essen, a monumental fair. That's Leslie Lockhart Bisharatte. 55 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: Her parents were both Fellowship apprentices. She grew up at 56 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: tali Essen and stayed there until she was nineteen. As 57 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,799 Speaker 1: you can tell, I'm getting very excited talking to you. 58 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: Oh my god, is ever going to stupor no, are 59 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: you kidding me? I'm like, oh my god, are you 60 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: going to tell me everything? Leslie is in her seventies now, 61 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: but she recounted the Easter celebration as if she were 62 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: still a kid, just three ft tall, overcome by the 63 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: magic of it all. You know, the festivities were just 64 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 1: they had a childlike quality them because they had these 65 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: long strings. The balloons coming out of the reflecting pools 66 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: that would sore a woy up in the sky. They 67 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: were held in place with boulders in the bottom of 68 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 1: the pool. They festooned the whole Italians and West property, 69 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: and then the zillions of flowers, So the whole place 70 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: is decked out like a Christian fairytale wonderland. A hundred 71 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 1: and fifty people are here to feast and to party, 72 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: and the food preparations are elaborate, starting days in advance. 73 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: On the menu a sweet Slavic cheese called posca, dotted 74 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: with almonds and raisins. Oh and don't forget Olgavana's signature 75 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 1: Easter bread Baba, the Baba cooling when it came out 76 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: of the oven. That was like all hands on deck 77 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: with pillows of thin pillow cases and towels, and you're 78 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: rolling to Baba on the side cooling so it doesn't collapse, 79 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: so it stays light. Each step of the food preparation 80 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: was almost ceremonial. There was a two well, there were 81 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: certain people at telling us and who did it every year. 82 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 1: I found Olgavana's recipe for Baba in her autobiography. Here's 83 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: my favorite step quote. Twenty boys beat Baba four at 84 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: a time, and to hold the pan. Don't be too 85 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: gay at first, you may regret it. End quote. I 86 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: could write a follow up joke for this, but I 87 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 1: don't have to. And then there were the Easter eggs. Oh, 88 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: the Easter eggs. These architects who became little Michelangelo's, each 89 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: with her own flare. Dude, I've seen these Easter eggs. 90 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 1: They are intense, far beyond your average crayon and dip die. 91 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: There are portraits of Olga Vanna and Frank Lloyd Wright 92 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: wrapped around an egg, replications of paintings by Gustav Clint 93 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: and Da Vinci, and writes signature geometric patterns. They're vibrant 94 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: and detailed and kept the architects occupied together through much 95 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: of the evening. And you know who is a freakishly 96 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: good egg painter, West Sucking Peters. According to one newspaper article, 97 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: West painted fourteen eggs that Sunday first beet Lana, each 98 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: decorated with a medieval station of the cross hot. The 99 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: whole event of Easter Sunday and the days of preparation 100 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: and kinship leading up to it must have been dizzying 101 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: fir spet Lana. You know when people work together or 102 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: have an evening like that, there is such a strong 103 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: connection you You feel this common spirit and love and 104 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: reverence for the place. It was truly memorable. I'm trying 105 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: to place myself in set Lana's shoes, trying to see 106 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: this world through the eyes of a woman who grew 107 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: up in the gray scale of the Soviet Union, And 108 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: here she is in the most technical or world one 109 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: could imagine. Is she not Dorothy emerging from her black 110 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: and white Kansas house. Are the apprentices not Munchkin's parading 111 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: her through their utopian as This is very difficult not 112 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: to get charmed. It's very difficult not to get charmed. 113 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: After the festivities are over, West takes her out for 114 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: another dinner in Scottsdale. It had been just two weeks 115 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: since ft Lana had arrived at the Phoenix International Airport 116 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,439 Speaker 1: and been picked up by Yavanna Lloyd Wright, who casually 117 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: remarked that spent Lana could be her sister. Two weeks 118 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: since Olga Vanna had embraced her by the front pool, 119 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:46,439 Speaker 1: repeating her name over and over again. Two weeks since 120 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: she had first met West at a party throne in 121 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: her honor, where Olga Vanna proudly said West and spent 122 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: Lana are together again. She had stayed until Easter, just 123 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: like Olga Vanna had asked. Now she was free to 124 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: be on her merry way back to life as she 125 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: left it before she stumbled into this colorful desert mirage. 126 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: But something was still pulling her deeper, and it was 127 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: this evening over a meal at a French restaurant. That's 128 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: feed Lana says, she fully surrendered. The Jewish goodbye strikes again. 129 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: Act two. I don't like people who are happy. Now, 130 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: as you recall, West had already taken spent Lana on 131 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 1: a few dates outside the walls of tally Esen in 132 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: downtown Scottsdale. But on those dates, fet Lana describes West 133 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: as being quiet and removed. She knew the man had 134 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: stories to tell. He was frank Lloyd, writes protege after all, 135 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: and had married into the family by wedding Olga Vanna's 136 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 1: daughter the first set Lana, But West had revealed very 137 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: little about his personal life thus far. This even ng 138 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: is going to be different. This night, after the dizzying 139 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 1: affair of Easter, after all that world class egg painting, 140 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: This night, William Wesley Peters is going to tell speed 141 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: Lana his story, and it's gonna draw her to him 142 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: like a moth to a flame. We went to some 143 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: French place and ate and drink and said there until 144 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: the place was closed. And here he talked about himself. 145 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 1: He was full of pain. I always feel compassionate to 146 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: people who have some kind of yin or misfortune or whatever, 147 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: and he says those kinds of said. I don't like 148 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: people who are happy, go lucky, rich, successful me either. 149 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: I only like sad, unlucky, poor people myself. Now, look, 150 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: I wasn't there at the French restaurant when st Lana 151 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: fell for West. In fact, when I went to Scottsdale, 152 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: no such restaurant existed, but I found a record of one. 153 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: Shey Louis, a French joint that clows down in the eighties. 154 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 1: It's very possible that this was the room where it happened. 155 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: So let's go there now to say Louis, And remember, 156 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: I'm a playwright. I can't help a dramatize. According to 157 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: an old listing in the Arizona Republic, reservations are recommended, 158 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: but I bet West doesn't need one. He's west wearer 159 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: of tan suits and Lapis Lazuli bolo ties. He'd be 160 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: greeted at the door by the restaurant's owner, Louis himself, 161 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: who sports his usual black tuxedo and has the debonair 162 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: appearance of a retired James Bond. Louis would snap his 163 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: fingers and a waiter would instantly escort Mr Peters and 164 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: his unusual guest, a red haired woman with a wide 165 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: smile to match her wide eyes, to a table in 166 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: the back. Oh what a relief it probably is for 167 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: both of them to take their seats and study the 168 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: menu while some quiet French jazz drums the background. After 169 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: a long day of celebrating and mingling with hundreds of 170 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: people in the bright desert sun, finally it's just the 171 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: two of them in a dimly lit lounge spent. Lana's 172 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: focus is entirely on West, and while we obviously don't 173 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: have an audio recording of that date, we do have 174 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: West recounting his life story in an oral history interview 175 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: from June Nanto. I heard about the Frenchy rights starting 176 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: in a smooth dispensation where he had students are apprentices, 177 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: as we were called. God, He's so born to listen 178 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: to West's story of becoming Frank Lloyd Wright's first apprentice 179 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: is romantic. The m I t engineering genius who dropped 180 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 1: out of school, hitched a ride to tally Essen and 181 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,079 Speaker 1: walked up the path to meet the master. And then 182 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: I saw him Mr. Right and he's certainly impressive, and 183 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: right away I decided that I wasn't going to go 184 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: back to and I said I was the first person 185 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: through a roll and sign up actually paid. West was 186 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 1: running towards the dream to study architecture at the foot 187 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: of a five ft eight giant. It was an exciting mission. 188 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 1: Everyone coming to gather to build something larger than life. 189 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: I wonder what West hold spet Lana that night. He 190 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: may have smiled as he finished his glass of wine 191 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 1: moved over to a Martini while he recounted the early 192 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 1: days of building tally Esen and the fellowship. We went 193 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 1: up in the hills and cut down big trees and 194 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: reports or sandstone for the hillside buildings, and limestone for 195 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: callias and proper everybody thravan entusiast. It was while hauling 196 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 1: firewood that West gets to know Olga Vans fifteen year 197 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: old daughter that Anna Hinzenberg Right, the first set Lana, 198 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: who franklod Wright had adopted as his own. It didn't 199 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: take long for them to fall hopelessly in love. At first, 200 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: it was a forbidden love. When the Rights found out, 201 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: they were furious betrayed. But when they cooled down and 202 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: spet Lana was old enough to marry, she and West 203 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: tied the knot. He became more than just the first apprentice. 204 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: He became family. You know. He was, of course the 205 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: Sudden Law, which gave him special status, but he also 206 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: was widely recognized by I think frankloud Right and everybody 207 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: at tally es and as very smart and very technically competent. 208 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: That's Harold Zelman again, co author of The Fellowship with 209 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 1: Roger Friedland. West was the engineer behind some of Wright's 210 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: greatest accomplishments, Falling Water, the crazy columns at Johnson Wax, 211 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: the Goggenheim Museum. But it wasn't just engineering proficiency that 212 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: endeared him to the other fellows. He was a punster, 213 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: he was. He was a practical joker. West was also 214 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: extremely generous, always buying gifts for the apprentices, staying up 215 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: with them all night while they were drafting. They looked 216 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: up to him. Here's Roger. He liked speed, he liked daring. 217 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: It was he who insisted upon getting this World War 218 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: two jeep that had a very narrow wheelbase and hence 219 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: made it dangerous to go too fast on a curve. 220 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: And that's what killed her. That's what killed sped Lana. 221 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: I imagine it's late at She Louis now after midnight. 222 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: The lights are at their lowest, the other diners all gone, 223 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: the olives waiting in the tiniest of pools in the 224 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: third or fifth martini, and West is finally telling the 225 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: awful tragic store of the death of his young wife 226 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: nearly twenty four years ago. Spent Lana Hinsenburg right Peters 227 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: was a young mother with two small kids in the 228 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: back seat, pregnant with her third. While West was busy 229 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: working at tally Essen, speed Lana was driving in the jeep, 230 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: the one West had chosen with the narrow wheelbase that 231 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: made it dangerous to go fast on a curve. She 232 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: got distracted the storm wheel. Turned out she was coming 233 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: over a bridge she had the car flipped over into 234 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: a stream stet. Lana was twenty nine, Daniel was just two. 235 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: The only survivor of the crash was West and speed 236 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: Lana's four year old son, brand Doc. He climbed out 237 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: of the muddy stream and ran a mile to tally Essen. 238 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: By the time West found out, it was far too 239 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: late to do anything. I can't imagine what it was 240 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: like to hang up the phone from a client and 241 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: look down at your four year old son, covered in mud, 242 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: alone giving you the news that the rest of your 243 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: family is dead. West took the guilt on himself off 244 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: for the death of feed Lannach. Seems quite clear. I 245 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 1: think you've always carried that guilt with him. I imagine 246 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: sped Lana's eyes glazing over in tears at West, this 247 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: stoic man's man, who had said so little in the 248 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 1: previous two weeks, and now here they are, just the 249 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: two of them, and he's bearing his soul, handing it 250 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: over to her like it was a spoonful of creme brulet. 251 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure they ordered this was special Speed. Lana knew 252 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: in her heart that it was something special about her, 253 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: about the two of them, about the alchemy of two 254 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: grieving souls which can make a bond impenetrable. I felt that, 255 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: Oh my God, finally, finally, I would love to stay 256 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 1: with this man, in on him, end of my days. 257 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: The only problem is spent Lana doesn't know if West 258 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: loves her back. It's like a middle school crush in 259 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: your forties, and just like any crush in preteen, she 260 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 1: needs someone to mediate the budding romance. West. Do you 261 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: like spent Lana? Check? Yes, maybe no, Enter one matchmaking 262 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: mother in law. According to an unpublished chapter of Olga 263 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 1: Vanna's autobiography, when spent Lana returns to tally Us in 264 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: that evening, she is overcome. She runs to Olga Vanna's 265 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 1: private chamber, puts her head in Olgavonna's lap and exclaims, mother, 266 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:39,360 Speaker 1: I'm afraid I'm falling in love with West. That's right. 267 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: Spent Lana called a woman she just met two weeks 268 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: ago mother and called her mother because everybody did, yeah, 269 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:53,919 Speaker 1: everybody did, Okay. In nine seventy, Hello, Dolly was playing 270 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: at seventh and finally You're on Broadway. And if I 271 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 1: had to say I would one have asked Olga Vanna, 272 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:06,160 Speaker 1: as Dolly Levi, musical theater's greatest matchmaker, give me Carol Channing. 273 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: I have always been a woman who arranges things like lunching, parties, 274 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: poke a games and loud. And what's amazing is spent 275 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 1: Lana lets her play the part. Olga Vanna has been 276 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 1: auditioning ever since that first night, when she declared emphatically 277 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: over dinner that West and sped Lana were together again, 278 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 1: repeating their names like a chant. Sped Lana had bristled, 279 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:39,679 Speaker 1: but now spent Lana is love struck and vulnerable, throwing 280 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: herself at Olgavanna's feet, desperate for some motherly advice, and 281 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: old Gavanna, who has matched so many other Tali esen 282 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: couples throughout the years, is ready and rare to go. 283 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: Olga Vanna pushes prods pozzoings West all throughout tali Essen 284 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: at the mess hall, at his drafting table in the garden. 285 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: She cups her hands together dramatically and says, West, you 286 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: have a jewel offered to you right there for the taking. 287 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: Imagine I will die in much more peace knowing that 288 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: you are no longer alone. Mother in Law's m a right. 289 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: You know, I used to really not like olives, but 290 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: I wanted to be someone who likes olives, so I 291 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,680 Speaker 1: forced myself to start eating olives, and now I like olives. 292 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:33,199 Speaker 1: What I'm saying is spent Lana is an olive. And 293 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: after a few days of twisting, stirring, mixing, and meddling, 294 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: Olga Vonna tells fed Lana, perhaps you should be a 295 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:45,400 Speaker 1: bit bolder. And it's this gas in the tank, this 296 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: magic bullet in the gun, this pickle from the deli 297 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 1: that pushes fed Lana over the edge to tell West 298 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 1: she wants to be married the next time they go out. 299 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: Sped Lana brings up the idea of marriage, and after 300 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: a mere twenty days of courtship, West says those magic words. 301 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 1: Every little girl dreams of hearing their prince charming deliver, 302 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: he says, and I quote sure pressure with the tombs. 303 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: Matrimony comes when I got my hand and Dan heday more. 304 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: After the break Act three, here comes the bride. Tuesday, 305 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 1: April seven, three weeks after Selana's arrival, the day of 306 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:58,439 Speaker 1: her wedding to West. Girl moves fast in the grand 307 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: sunlit living room of tom Yes and West, with its 308 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:06,919 Speaker 1: sloped wood and glass ceiling, stone walls, and burnt orange cushions. 309 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: People gather. Fancy people are there. Even fancier people were invited. 310 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 1: I found the invites while going through the archives that 311 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: Tally Essen. I'm just going through her everything for her wedding. 312 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 1: This is just insane. I wish that you could come on, 313 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: my love, Mrs Dwight Eisenhower, Mr Sterling Rockefeller, Miss Georgia O'Keefe. 314 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 1: I lost a paper clip. I should not be an archivest. 315 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: Most of the guests are members of the Fellowship, but 316 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: we've also got a Quaker minister, a reporter for the 317 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,919 Speaker 1: Arizona Republic, and spent Lana's lone honored guest, her lawyer 318 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: Olga Vana's records of the wedding are meticulous and comprehensive. 319 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 1: There was the detailed day of itinerary, replete with which 320 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: architect apprentices would be assigned to park cars or serve refreshments. 321 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: Svet Lana and West wedding reception underlined and capitalized. Setting 322 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: up since at terrace, the tables, chairs and flowers, living room, 323 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 1: decorating you Vanna introducing the guest to Mrs Wright, set 324 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: Lana and West. Oh my god, all the fellowships will 325 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: be host that's oh my god, Ladies, powder room, Cornelia 326 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 1: and Eloi's men's room, Tony and Stephens. Oh my god, 327 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: Oh to be a fly on the duty. In those bathrooms. 328 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 1: The place is decked out in florals, Shye Louis, caters, 329 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 1: the or d'oeuvres, while a huge wedding cake, baked and 330 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: decorated with sweet peas by the fellows sits in the 331 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: kitchen with the rest of the wedding spread. They've prepared 332 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: a pirogue, hamburger pie, yum and cabbage work, and at 333 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 1: the center of it all is s ft Lana, beaming 334 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: like a young ride in a white knee length dress. 335 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: She just happened to pack in Princeton, and West, looking 336 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: dapper in a black tuxedo and bow tie. Drawn nearly 337 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: to tears of joy, Spent repeats her vows, faltering slightly, 338 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: holding West's hands tightly. In the presence of these friends, 339 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: I promised to be a faithful and loving wife. West 340 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 1: kisses his bride, and then so do all seventy five 341 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: of the guests. Wait a minute. Seventy five people kissed 342 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: the bride after the wedding. That's a lot of people 343 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: kissing in such a short time. Spent Lana had a 344 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: new home, she had a new husband, new friends. She 345 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 1: even had a mother and a sister. She hadn't had 346 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: a mother in thirty eight years. How did she feel well? 347 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: The Arizona Republic ends their wedding coverage with this line 348 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 1: from sped Lana, and then she says, could you add 349 00:24:55,200 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 1: somewhere how happy I feel? She has all Now, weddings 350 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 1: usually take months to prepare, but this one takes place 351 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: one week after. West says, sure, why the rush will speed? 352 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: Lana really wants to be married on April seven. She 353 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,360 Speaker 1: believes the number seven holds some mystical powers in her life. 354 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 1: The phone number for the taxi and Delhi that drove 355 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: her to the US embassy seven five dash seven seven 356 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 1: seven the dates she flew from India to Rome March seventh, 357 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,479 Speaker 1: sixty seven. Not to be captain obvious, but there is 358 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: a seventh day of every month. Hell, just a few 359 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 1: months down the road, speed Lana could be married on 360 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: seven seven seventy. But like Tom Petty one sang, the 361 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: waiting is the hardest part. So maybe it had something 362 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: to do with a lucky number. But maybe speed. Lana 363 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 1: also thought West would back out if she didn't move 364 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 1: at lightning speed. Or maybe this was just her being 365 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: characteristically impulsive. Remember, she hadn't originally planned to defect from Russia. 366 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: It was just that the pieces were in place for 367 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: a defection to happen when she first came here. She 368 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: clearly hadn't planned on marrying West, but the pieces were 369 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: in place, and she went for it hard. Oldavanna was 370 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 1: quick to oblige, and from what I can tell, she 371 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: used it as an opportunity for publicity to spread the 372 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 1: good word of tally Essen's offerings to potential students, donors, 373 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: and clients. Among all the international press spent Lana hadn't 374 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: wanted reporters at her wedding, so Olga Vanna invited just 375 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: one local newspaper. But Olga Vanna also planned a three 376 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 1: hundred person blowout and major press conference later that week. 377 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: You win some, you lose some. Three weeks ago, the 378 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: two mended tali Essen West, the Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Foundation, 379 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: Neurophoenix Tuesday Night and almost absolute secrecy. They were mayor 380 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: read Today the new Mrs Peters talked about the private ceremony. 381 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: In the photos and videos from that week spent, Lana 382 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 1: is glowing, not a weary mother of two grown adults, 383 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: but a young, vibrant, beautiful woman with her whole life 384 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: in front of her. There's a thirteen minute newsreel that 385 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: I've watched over and over and over again. I had 386 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: to share it with my husband, Jordan's. The first few 387 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: minutes of the video are silent images of tally Essen West, 388 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, sped Lana and West appear. 389 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 1: He's a footaller than her. He looks like a SNL 390 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: version of like a sexy Nixon. They wouldn't go with 391 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:48,680 Speaker 1: sexy a Saturday Nixon. The audio starts When they reach 392 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: one of the sitting rooms, a tally essen, West in 393 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 1: his gray wolf suit sped Lana in a sleeveless white dress. 394 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: The to sit next to each other. And it's kind 395 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: of weird. Well, less is man spreading, but spot Lana 396 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: is I think as small as she could possibly be, 397 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: closed off and West is looking probably at the chair 398 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: which is for that looks like it's a furiture. Yeah, spit. 399 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 1: Lana's eyes bulge wide as she sits listening to West talk. 400 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: Reporters are asking him about the courtship, the romance, how 401 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: quick it was, how he proposed. She sits there waiting 402 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,880 Speaker 1: for him to reveal something to divulge his true passionate feelings. 403 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: Mrs Peters, can you tell me something about your courtship? Oh, 404 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: it's very difficult question. Maybe, ah, well, maybe you would 405 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: further ask my husband. West just sort of sits there, stammering, 406 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: unsure of any answers, unsure of anything. Is he board annoyed? 407 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: Is his brains somewhere else? Entirely? Wow, we are not 408 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 1: here at us in the West. Are mutual feeling developed 409 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: very fast? And this is the result of that. That's 410 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: about the details. And then there's the most painful part 411 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: of the entire interview. Is it possible, Mr Peters, that 412 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: you would reenact for those of us who are not 413 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: here the kissing of the bride as the end of 414 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: the best conference. The interviewer has just asked the newlyweds 415 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: to kiss for the camera, and West rejects it in 416 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 1: the most formal and stoic way possible. Well, I don't 417 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: think that's I don't really think that's necessarily certainly no 418 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: reason to object to. So if I think that's a 419 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: rather private and personal matter, yes, it's a very romantic 420 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: thing with the American people. That's why I asked that. 421 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: West stairs blankly, and then the camera hands over to 422 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: spet Lana. She's looking down off to the side. West 423 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 1: maybe super uncomfortable on camera, a sexy sad Nixon, but 424 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: spent Lana seems to be a bit out of it too. 425 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: Is it because after three weeks of peaceful anonymity, the 426 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: last thing she wants is global media attention? Or is 427 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: it because Oldavana had just revealed to her that West 428 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 1: had a problem. On the eve she called me and 429 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: she told me West his tremendous did she cannot fade. 430 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: He's facing bankruptcy. West, in all his generosity, was a spendthrift. 431 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,719 Speaker 1: He compulsively bought expensive clothes and jewelry and gifts, not 432 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: just for himself but for everyone. When I went to 433 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: tally Esen, some of his former colleagues told me about 434 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: how he'd leave whole coat racks of expensive, fashionable attire 435 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: for the other apprentices to just take. West was underwater 436 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: and spent Lana was the new lifeguard. Here she is 437 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: with Harold and Roger recount unting her talk with Olga Vanna. 438 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised because he looked wealthy. They 439 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: all looked wealthy. The whole place looked prosperous, and he 440 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: was chief architect. And how come he is in this well? 441 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 1: I didn't ask questions, but she says he has this problem. 442 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: Spent Lana had never had to worry about a financial 443 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 1: burden before marrying someone in communist Soviet Russia. Just meant 444 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: you split your potatoes. I think, I don't know, I'm 445 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: not that smart. Spent Lana doesn't really know or care 446 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 1: to understand the details of her wealth, but she knows 447 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: she has money, and she's a woman in love. What 448 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 1: better way to prove her love and devotion than with 449 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: a grand gesture of money. I said, oh, yes, Mrs Right, 450 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: of course, of course it's now our death. You know 451 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: it's our death. Of course Will will pay it all 452 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: bog design and she was pleased. Then we have my 453 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 1: last hypothesis. Spent Lana's awkness in that wedding news reel 454 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 1: stems from the fact that Olga Vanna was introducing her 455 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: to guests and reporters, not as a national bestselling author, 456 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: not as the new wife of tali Essen's chief architect, 457 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: not even as Joseph Stalin's daughter. She proclaimed, loud and proud, 458 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 1: this is my daughter, sped Lana. I knew there was 459 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 1: something deeply wrong in the identification with another woman who 460 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: died long ago, but it was too hate to think 461 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 1: or doubt. Sped Lana had a new husband in West, 462 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: a new mother in Oldavana, a new sister in Yavannah, 463 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: a whole new tali Essen family. But three weeks in, 464 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: how well could she really know any of these people? 465 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: Who exactly is Wes Peters, Who exactly is Olga Vona 466 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: Lloyd Wright? And why would Roger have this to say 467 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 1: about them? Had powers. There's no question about its psychological powers, 468 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: and she figured out how to control him and to 469 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 1: break him on the next episode of steed Lana. Stet Lana. 470 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 1: Stet Lana. Stet Lana is a production of iHeart Podcasts 471 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 1: and the documentary group I'm Your Host Dan Controlser. The 472 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 1: show was written and produced by me Adam Webber, Alison Joy, 473 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 1: and Catherine Isaac. We also serve as executive producers at 474 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: the documentary group. Our executive producer is Joe Bazilhouett's with 475 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 1: production oversight by Stacy Cleeger An additional support from Tom 476 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:50,600 Speaker 1: Yellen and Gabrielle Tennenbau. Our I Heart Team is supervising 477 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: producer Casey Pegram and executive producer Maya Howard. Editing assistance 478 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 1: from producers Christina Loranger and Joey Patt. Original music by 479 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: Ella on is A cop Production counsel by Slas Eckhouse, 480 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: Dasty Haynes Locko, clearance counsel by Ballard spar Back checking 481 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: assistance by Megan Trout, Research assistance from Caleb Martin Rosenthal. 482 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 1: Special thanks to my husband Jordan's Siegel and Roger Friedland 483 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 1: and Harold Selman, authors of the book the Fellowship, who 484 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 1: kindly granted permission to include excerpts from their taped interview 485 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: with speed Lana. Excerpts from spet Lana Alujeva's book The Faraway. 486 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 1: Music are performed by Cassie Greer.