Author Amy Tan on Learning from Her Mother

In celebration of Mother's Day, we replay select clips of past interview with guests talking about their mothers, including comedian Jimmy Tingle; filmmaker Paul Mazusky; author Robb Forman Dew, and writer Gary Paulsen.

Joe Beam died of AIDS in 1989. He was a writer who was in the process of editing his second anthology of Black gay writing. His mother Dorothy helped finish the work her son started, and it was published in 1992 as Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men. (Rebroadcast)

Haggard has been on the country music scene since the early sixties and has more number one hits than any country music star except Conway Twitty. We replay part of our interview with him recorded earlier this year. (Rebroadcast)

In this 1995 interview, poet and countercultural activist talks about caring for his mother, who suffered from mental illness. His poem "Kaddish" is about her.

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Crimson Tide," the new submarine movie starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. Schiff says he wonders why other critics haven't praised the movie for its intelligence.