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Title: Fresh Air, Rebecca Smith, John Emshwiller and Bill Maher

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Wall Street Journal reporters Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller and comic Bill Maher on this edition of Fresh Air. Rebecca Smith is a national energy reporter and John R. Emshwiller is a senior national correspondent who covers white-collar crime. The two uncovered the Enron story: that the company engaged in shadowy partnerships in order to hide Enron's failings and inflate its value by billions of dollars. They've written an account of how they did it in the new book, 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal reporters uncovered the lies that destroyed faith in corporate America. Bill Maher, host of the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher. The weekly show is broadcast on Friday nights at 11, with rebroadcasts through out the week. Like his previous show Politically Incorrect he features a roundtable of guests who make jokes and talk politics. Maher is the author of When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden. (Broadcast Date: August 6, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Jon Krakauer, Richard Turley, and Chiwetel Ejiofor

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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Writer Jon Krakauer talks about his new book about Mormon Fundamentalism, Mormon practitioner Richard Turley and Nigerian-born actor Chiwetel Ejiofor on this edition of Fresh Air. Jon Krakauer is the author of the book Into Thin Air about the disastrous Mt Everest Climb in 1996 in which eight climbers were killed. His new book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith is about Mormon fundamentalism and the story of the two Lafferty brothers who murdered a woman and her infant daughter because - they insist - they had received a revelation from God to do so. Krakauer reports there are some 40,000 Mormon fundamentalists in the American West, Canada and Mexico. They practice polygamy and answer to "prophets" who control their lives. The Mormon Church does not recognize fundamentalists as part of their faith. Richard Turley is managing director of the Family and Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in the new Stephen Frears's film Dirty Pretty Things. Ejiofor plays an immigrant former doctor who now must make his living in London as a cab driver and hotel clerk. Ejiofor graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He won the Outstanding Newcomer award in the London Evening Standard Awards 2000. He recently completed a sell-out run at London's National Theatre as Christopher in Blue/Orange. (Broadcast Date: July 30, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Film director Martin Scorsese and writer/director Paul Schrader on this edition of Fresh Air. Martin Scorsese discusses his film Gangs of New York set in pre-civil war New York City about the street warfare between immigrant groups. It's inspired by the book The Gangs of New York published in 1927 by journalist Herbert Asbury. The film will be out on DVD and VHS next week. Paul Schrader directed the film Autofocus, about the life of actor Bob Crane. It's now available on DVD, and will come out on VHS next week. Schrader wrote the screenplays for a number of classic films, including Taxi Driver and Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese directed). Films he directed include Affliction, The Comfort of Strangers and American Gigolo. (Original Broadcast Dates: January 27, 2003 and October 14, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Gary Giddins on Bing Crosby

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-27-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

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We celebrate the centennial of Bing Crosby's birth with jazz critic and writer Gary Giddins. His biography of Bing Crosby is called, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - the Early Years, 1903-1940. From 1930s to the 50s, Crosby was a pop culture icon, dominating American entertainment with his hit records and movies. In this first volume of the biography, Giddins chronicles the rise of Crosby's career. Giddins may be best known as a jazz columnist for the Village Voice. He won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for his book Visions of Jazz. He was one of the experts featured in Ken Burn's Jazz series on PBS. (Broadcast Date: January 24, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Michael Caine

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

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Actor Michael Caine on this edition of Fresh Air. Caine has made over 70 films, from Alfie to Sleuth to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Hannah and Her Sisters. He has worked with such esteemed directors as Brian DePalma, John Huston, and Woody Allen. His autobiography is, What's It All About? Caine stars in the film The Quiet American based on the Graham Green murder mystery centered on a love triangle set during the French Indochina War in Vietnam around 1952. (Original Broadcast Date: November 17, 1992)

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Title: Fresh Air, Matt Damon and John Ridley

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

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Actor Matt Damon and writer John Ridley on this edition of Fresh Air. Matt Damon's film The Bourne Identity is being released on DVD next week. The Bourne Identity is a thriller about a man with amnesia flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, riddled with bullet holes. Damon has been in many hit films, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, Saving Private Ryan and Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with close friend Ben Affleck. John Ridley wrote the screenplay for the film Undercover Brother, which began life as a web site animation. The film, now out on DVD, is an action comedy, which pokes fun at black action films of the 70s and racial stereotypes. Ridley's latest novel is A Conversation with the Mann, about a black comic in the civil rights era of the early sixties. (Original Broadcast Dates: June 19, 2002 and January 10, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Barry Manilow and Tom Waits

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

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Singer/songwriters Barry Manilow and Tom Waits on this edition of Fresh Air. Barry Manilow made the pop charts in the 1970s and early 80s with love ballads such as "Mandy," "Looks Like We Made It," "I Write the Songs" and "Copacabana (At the Copa)." Before becoming a singer he was Bette Midler's accompanist and arranger. His most recent album is Here at the Mayflower, his first pop album since the 1980s, and a new anthology of his hits. Then, since the 1973 release of Tom Waits' first album, Closing Time, Waits has won fans over with his original songwriting and distinctive, gravelly vocal style. Musicians including Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen and Rod Stewart have recorded covers of his songs. He has also acted in films, including Sylvester Stallone's Paradise Alley, Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law and Robert Altman's Short Cuts. Waits has two recent: Alice and Blood Money. The pair of very different-sounding albums were written and produced by Tom Waits and his wife and long-time collaborator, Kathleen Brennan. (Original Broadcast Dates: March 21, 2002 and May 21, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Paul Auster and Michael Cunningham

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

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Novelists Paul Auster and Michael Cunningham on this edition of Fresh Air. New York based writer Paul Auster is the author of ten novels. His latest is The Book of Illusions. For a year beginning October 1999, Auster gathered stories sent to him by men and women across the United States. The stories were all true, short, and personal. As part of NPR's "National Story Project" Auster read them over the air. Those stories were collected in the book, I Thought My Father Was God. Auster also wrote the screenplays for Smoke and Blue in the Face. Novelist Michael Cunningham won a Pulitzer Prize for his recent novel The Hours. It's also being made into a film. Cunningham's new book is about the town he fell in love with as a young man, has lived in and returned to, Provincetown, Massachusetts at the tip of Cape Cod. The book is Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. Cunningham is also the author of A Home At the End of the World. (Broadcast Date: September 10, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Stan Lee

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Comic book creator Stan Lee on this edition of Fresh Air. Stan Lee was the leading creative force behind the rise of Marvel Comics and is responsible for many of the best-known comic book heroes. Forty years ago, he co-created the character Spider-Man. He also helped create The X-Men, The Fantastic Four, and The Incredible Hulk. He is now chairman emeritus of Marvel Enterprises, and is executive producer of the new movie, Spider-Man. It stars Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, and Kirsten Dunst. His new book is called Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. (Broadcast Date: June 4, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Mary Karr

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Poet and memoirist Mary Karr on this archive edition of Fresh Air. In a follow up to Liar's Club, what critics call "a hard scrabble childhood," Karr returns to East Texas to detail her adolescence in Cherry. The author relates anecdotes of rebellion, self-doubt, and sexual coming of age. The recipient of several literary awards such as the Pushcart Prize and the Bunting Award, she has published two volumes of poetry. She is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. (Original Broadcast Date: October 2, 2000)

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