On the eve of the Olympics, the BBC's New York correspondent James Cox , explores the city of the Angels where the Russians fear to tread. He finds it in many ways a lotus-land, but the lotus-eaters seem oblivious of how they're destroying their own version of the American dream. The golden Californian sunshine is all too often obscured by a purple smog, and the dream factory of Hollywood is built on the hard reality of slums like the Watts ghetto.
