A Controversial New Series.

Director/producer Nick Park is the academy award- winning creator of the much-loved animated British characters Wallace & Gromit. Director/producer Peter Lord is Chairman and co-founder of the clay animation studios Aardman, where Park created his short films featuring Wallace & Gromit (“A Grand Day Out,” “The Wrong Trousers” and “A Close Shave.”) They collaborated on their first full-length feature film, “Chicken Run” an animated escape film with chickens as the escapers. It’s now out on video. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/19/2000)

The documentary film, "Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: a Salute to the Friars" provides an inside look at the club where show business entertainers meet and then roast each other. The 1999 film has just been released on video. Such comic luminaries as George Burns, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, as well as entertainers Will Rogers, George M. Cohan, and Irving Berlin were members of the Friars club. We listen back to an interview with two current members of the Friars-- Freddie Roman, the Dean of the New York Friars' Club, and comic Jeffrey Ross.

Film critic Henry Sheehan review the Taiwanese film “Yi Yi” (yee- yee {long ‘E’}) which was a hit at Cannes and is just making its way to US theaters.