Terry Gross

Actor Eli Wallach will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar this weekend in Los Angeles. Fresh Air pays tribute to the 95-year-old star of The Good, the Bad and The Ugly and The Magnificent Seven with highlights from a 1990 interview.

Country singer Loretta Lynn married at 13, had six children and created controversy by singing songs about divorce and the pill. Here, she talks about her decades in the music business, her relationship with her husband and a new tribute album, Coal Miner's Daughter.

Dr. Barry Straube, the chief medical officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, offers his assessment of the nation's kidney dialysis program -- and what it could mean for the future of universal health care.