Terry Gross

Film critic Henry Sheehan reviews Moulin Rouge, starring Nicole Kidman.

British novelist Martin Amis is considered one of the leading British writers of the late-twentieth century and one of the most controversial. His books include Night Train, Money: A Suicide Note, The Information, and London Fields. His memoir, Experience, is now out in paperback (Vintage Books). Much of it is about his father, the late writer Kingsley Amis.

Actress Lauren Bacall is a legend, though she doesn't like to think of herself as such. She's been a star of stage and screen for nearly sixty years, was married to Humphrey Bogart, and won the National Book Award for her 1978 autobiography By Myself. This weekend, Bacall is being honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the fifth annual Tony Awards Party, which takes place Sunday June 3 2001.

Broadway music director Paul Gemignani has been the musical director of almost every Stephen Sondheim work over the last 30 years. His other productions include Kiss Me, Kate, Crazy for You, and High Society. Next Sunday Gemignani will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Tony Awards.

Darren Star is the creator and executive producer of the HBO series, Sex and the City which begins its fourth season on June 3rd. The series stars Sarah Jessica Parker as a columnist in New York City who chronicles the mating habits of single New Yorkers. Much of her material comes from her life and that of her three closest friends. STAR is also the creator of Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place.

El Tiempo is one of Columbia's leading dailies. Enrique Santos Calderon will talk about putting out a newspaper under the threat of kidnapping, torture or death from leftist guerillas and right wing paramilitary groups. In Columbia, more journalists have been killed in the past five years than in any other country.

Her films include Addams Family Values, The Ice Storm, Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas, The Opposite of Sex, and the new film The Man Who Cried.

Film Critic Henry Sheehan reviews the film "Pearl Harbor."

She made her debut at the Grand Ole Opry in 1959. Since then she's written thousands of songs, including the hits Coat of Many Colors, Jolene, and I Will Always Love You. And she's had hits on both the country and pop charts. PARTON wrote her autobiography in 1994, My Life and Other Unfinished Business Her new all-accoustic CD is Little Sparrow (Sugar Hill/Blue Eye Records). (This interview continues into the second half of the show). (Rebroadcast from 1/23/2001) Plus, film critic Henry Sheehan reviews Pearl Harbor.

Dr Barron Lerner writes of how science and culture influenced the battle with breast cancer in the new book, The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America. (Oxford) He writes of how the once-accepted practice of the radical masectomy gave way to lumpectomy and radiation and of how women activists helped alter the way doctors treated their patients and their cancers.