Shakespeare & Co.

This is one of my early pieces. I went to Paris to sleep in a a bookstore run by an American who didn't go home after WWII. Instead, George Whitman created Shakespeare & Co on the Left Bank. It's a place where people like Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller & William S. Burroughs lived for a while before they became Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller & William S. Burroughs. Today, George lets writers, poets and wanderers sleep in his store if they do 3 things for him - write him a story of their life, help around the store for a couple of hours, nd read a book a day. I stayed there for a week. I had never shot anything before this, but Bart Noonan of Reuters had a great tip for me: If it looks cool, shoot it. Air date: March 2000 Network: CBC Newsworld Producer, Camera, Writer, Presenter: Yasir Khan Editor: Liz Rosch