Terry Gross

President and co-founder of The Long Island Alzheimer's Foundation, Janet Walsh. As a teenager, she watched her father suffer with Alzheimer's. Later, when genetic testing became available for Alzheimer's, she took it and discovered that she is at the highest risk for genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's. Walsh will talk about how she choses her conduct her life with this knowledge, and her efforts to make the lives of Alzheimer's patients better.

Songwriter, musician and former leader of the Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Fogerty. He wrote the hits "Born on the Bayou," "Susie Q," "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Proud Mary" and "Bad Moon Rising." He was with the band from 1967 to 1972. His blend of rock, blues, country and bluegrass has influenced a generation of musicians. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Last year he released a solo album of new songs "Blue Moon Swamp" (Warner) and went on tour.

In celebration of her 80th birthday, we play excerpts from two of our interviews with the writer Doris Grumbach. She's the author of the memoirs "The Presence of Absence" and "Fifty Days of Solitude."

Author Don DeLillo on his new novel "Underworld." (Scribner) It's now out in paperback. This 827-page work weaves in and out of the latter half of this century, incorporating modern icons such as Frank Sinatra, Lenny Bruce, and J. Edgar Hoover. The novel's first scene visits the Giant-Dodgers pennant game of October 3rd, 1951 -- also the date of the first nuclear test in the Soviet Union. DeLillo is also the author of such novels as "White Noise," "End Zone," and "Great Jones Street." (Rebroadcast from 10/2/1997)

Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict for the United Nations, Olara Otunnu. He is a former Ugandan diplomat who is now heading the effort to see that guerrilla armies do not use children as soldiers, and that children are protected in wartorn areas. Experts say that the number of children in combat is on the rise, and that as many as 300,000 children in at least 30 countries are directly involved in conflict as soldiers, porters, or slaves.

William Pollack is a psychologist and codirector of the Center for Men at Harvard Medical Center. His new book "Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood" (Random House) is about how the stereotypes about masculinity are hurting young boys. Pollack contends that boys are in crisis, that they are given conflicting messages about what's expected of them, and that research shows that boys are doing less well in school than before, many of them have fragile self-esteem, and that rates of depression and suicide in boys is on the rise.

Eigeman is currently starring in two films "The Last Days of Disco" and "Mr. Jealousy." In "Mr. Jealousy" he plays Dashiell, the ex-boyfriend of Ramona, played by Annabella Sciorra, a young woman who falls in love with Lester, played by Eric Stoltz. Eigeman has spent the last decade working with two film directors: Noah Baumbach ("Kicking and Screaming") and Whit Stillman ("Metropolitan," "Barcelona" and "The Last Days of Disco").

Baumbach's latest film is "Mr. Jealousy," about an irrationally jealous young man who is obsessed with his girlfriend's ex-lovers. He joins the therapy group of his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend in order to learn more about him. Baumbach wrote and directed the film, as well as his previous debut film "Kicking and Screaming." "Mr. Jealousy stars Eric Stoltz, Annabella Sciorra, and Chris Eigeman who we hear from later in the show.

Gazzaniga is a pioneer in the study of brain-mind relations His new book "The Mind's Past" (University of California Press) is about how our brain and mind construct the past. Gazzaniga is a professor and Director of the Program in cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College.

Holzman founded the record label in 1950, initially focusing on recording folk and ethnic music. In the 1960s he signed on some of the big pop and rock voices of the era like Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Carly Simon, Jackson Browne, and the Doors. He talks with Terry Gross about working with the Doors. Holman headed Elektra Records for 23 years. He has a new book, "Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture" (FirstMedia Books)