Terry Gross

Writer David Osborne. He's co-author of a new book, "Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector." The book argues that government bureaucracies are outdated and inefficient, and comes up with proposals to decentralize city and state governments, and promote competition. Osborne has been a consultant to Bill Clinton, among other politicians. (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co).

Baseball great Tom Seaver. He was recently voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the largest vote in baseball history. His new book is "Great Moments in Baseball."

Money Trader Andrew Krieger. He resigned in 1988 from his position at Bankers Trust where he specialized in trading currency-options, and in taking long-term riskier positions for the bank. The bank so believed in his strategies that they entrusted him with $700 million of bank funds, whereas other individual traders usually worked with $50 million. He's co-authored a new book, "The Money Bazaar: Inside the Trillion-Dollar World of Currency Trading." (published by Random House.)

Actor Danny Aiello (eye-EL-oh). He starred in "Moonstruck," and "Do the Right Thing." He's now starring in "Ruby," the new film about Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald. He talks with Terry about acting. He used to be an official with the New York transit union and quit it when he was 35 to take up acting.

Australian actress Judy Davis. She first gained fame in the 1979 film "My Brilliant Career." She later starred in "A Passage To India." More recently, she had supporting roles in "Barton Fink" and "Naked Lunch." Her latest role is as a prissy Victorian Englishwoman in the film version of E.M. Forster's "Where Angels Fear To Tread."

Documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Her documentary, "American Dream," chronicles one of the most bitter strikes in recent labor history, the 1984 strike against the Hormel meat packing plant in Austin Minnesota. The film won the 1991 Oscar for best documentary feature. Kopple also won an Oscar in 1977 for "Harlan County, UsA," her documentary of a coal mine strike in Kentucky.

Homeless expert Joel Blau (rhymes with "plow"). Blau spent years as a policy analyst for the city of New York, trying to solve their homeless problem. He eventually became disillusioned with government's approach to dealing with the homeless. He explains the fallacy of some of our basic assumptions about the homeless in his new book, "The Visible Poor: Homelessness in The United States." (It's published by Oxford University Press).

Veteran crime novelist Lawrence Block. He's written nine novels staring Manhattan private eye Matt Scudder. His latest is called "A Ticket To The Boneyard."

German Film Director Volker Schlondorff His films include "The Tin Drum," and as "The Handmaid's Tale." His new film is "Voyager," starring Sam Shepard. (Rebroadcast. Original date 11/18/91).

Time magazine art critic Robert Hughes. Despite his huge influence in the art world, Hughes prides himself on being a perennial outsider in that world. He'll talk about the current state of the arts.