Terry Gross

Journalist Jennifer Gonnerman's new book is Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett. It's an account of Bartlett's struggle to get out and stay out of jail. Bartlett spent 16 years in prison for a single sale of cocaine. Gonnerman follows Bartlett as she is released from prison at 42.

He's been playing piano and singing at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City since 1968. He's considered one of the great cabaret singers of our time. The 79-year-old song stylist was slated to retire from the Cafe Carlyle this coming New Year's Eve, but he's extended his schedule, and he's not going anywhere for the time being. Short has been named a "living landmark" by New York's Landmark Conservancy and a "national living legend" by the Library of Congress.

The 1966 classic spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly has been fully restored and is now out on a special edition DVD. Eastwood is now at work on the film Rope Burns, to be released in 2005. (Originally broadcast Nov. 21, 1996.)

He also stars in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, now out on special edition DVD. Wallach has had a long career on stage and screen, starring in many spaghetti westerns in the 1960s, as well as in the Godfather trilogy. He won a Tony award for his role in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo. He will appear in the upcoming film, King of the Corner, to be released later this year. Originally broadcast Nov. 13, 1990.)

He's just published his autobiography, My Life. Clinton talks about what he knew about Osama bin Laden during his administration and how he tried to strike a balance between informing and terrifying Americans. Clinton currently lives in Chappaqua, New York and works in Harlem.

Pritchard is a retired U.S Army colonel and the former point man on North Korea for Colin Powell. He worked on North Korea issues in both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Pritchard resigned from the Bush administration in August 2003 and has criticized the administration for lacking an effective strategy. This week the United States is participating in six-party talks in an attempt to freeze North Korea's nuclear programs and restart inspections.

One of their most beloved musicals — Fiddler on the Roof — is back on Broadway. The production, at the Minskoff Theatre, stars Alfred Molina as Tevye and includes a new song they wrote. There's a new cast recording of the show. Bock and Harnick collaborated on Fiorello (which won a Pulitzer Prize), She Loves Me and The Rothschilds.

He's the author of The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Family. It's about how attached many of us have become to our dogs, treating them more like family members and human surrogates than pets. Katz is also the author of A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me and Running to the Mountain: A Midlife Adventure. He is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers. This interview first aired October 21, 2003.

Beilin is the leader of Israel's social democratic party, a member of the Knesset and a former government minister. He was an initiator of the 1993 Oslo Accords, and 10 years later, was an architect of the Geneva Accord, a framework for peace between Israel and Palestine. Beillin has written a new book, 'The Path to Geneva: The Quest For a Permanent Agreement, 1996-2004.'

If you know him by his full name, you probably watch Six Feet Under on HBO, of which he's co-executive producer. If you know him by his initials, B.E.K., you probably read The New Yorker, where his single-panel cartoons are regularly featured. A new collection of his cartoons, This is a Bad Time, has just been published by Simon and Schuster.