A Progressively More Timid Film.
Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Before and After" the new film starring Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson. . . This will be Stephen's last Fresh Air film review. He'll be going on to a new career in screenwriting. His adaptation for "Lolita" will hit the screen this Fall.
Other segments from the episode on February 23, 1996
From the Archives: The Life and Poetry of Langston Hughes.
Biographer Arnold Rampersad is professor of Literature at Princeton. His two-volume biography of writer Langston Hughes was praised by critics as one of the best biographies of a black American writer. Rampersad also is the author of a biography of Richard Wright and co-author of tennis star Arthur Ashe's memoir, "Days of Grace. There's a new paperback edition of "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes" edited by Rampersad and David Roessel (Vintage Classics). We'll hear Terry's interview with Rampersad about Langston Hughes.
Goodbye, Stephen Schiff.
Terry talks with Stephen Schiff about his work as a screenwriter.
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