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Filmmaker John Waters on this edition of Fresh Air. His film Cecil B. Demented has just been released on video and DVD. It's about an underground filmmaker and his cult following who declare war on bad cinema by kidnapping a starlet and forcing her to star in their own film.

Historian Clayborne Carson, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, and Rhythm and Blues musician Barbara Lynn on this edition of Fresh Air Clayborne Carson is director of Stanford University's King Papers Project, dedicated to editing and publishing all the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Carson is the co-editor of the new book A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr a collection of eleven speeches delivered at turning points in the civil rights movement.

Host Terry Gross talks to two past transition directors who helped presidents move into the White House and satirist Harry Shearer on this edition of Fresh Air. Mark Gearan, now the head of the Peace Corps, he served on President Clinton's transition team as Deputy Director in 1992.

Former presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bill Bradley and Doctor Muriel Gillick on this edition of Fresh Air. Bill Bradley discusses the state of politics today. He published his memoir, Time Present, Time Past in 1996. In addition to his political career, Bradley was also a star basketball player with the New York Knicks. His latest book is called The Journey from Here. Doctor Muriel Gillick talks about the problems associated with care for the elderly.

Former Clinton White House Press Secretaries Michael McCurry and Joe Lockhart on this edition of Fresh Air. From 1995-1998, Michael McCurry was press secretary when the Monica Lewinsky story first broke. Joe Lockhart was White House Press Secretary from 1998 to October 2000, during Clinton's impeachment trial.

Psychologist Judith Wallerstein and journalist Fred Schulte on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Judith Wallerstein interviewed over 50 couples about how and why their relationships work. She summaries her findings in her book The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts. Fred Schulte writes for the Ft. Lauderdale South Florida Sun Sentinel. He investigated the telemarketing industry for his latest book, Fleeced! Telemarketing Rip-Offs and How to Avoid Them.

White House Correspondent for The Washington Post Dana Milbank on this Fresh Air. He covered the recent presidential campaign and the aftermath. He's written a new book about it, Smashmouth: Two years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush.

Poet John Balaban on this edition of Fresh Air. He's translated the poetry of an 18th century Vietnamese concubine in the new book, Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuang Huong. Ho Xuang Huong won acclaim for her poetry despite the fact that she was a woman and she challenged established conventions. Most of her poems also were double entendres: a hidden sexual meaning lay behind her words.

Fresh Air, January 1, 2001

Jazz musician James Moody and Screenwriter and novelist Richard Price. Just after World War II, Moody joined the bebop big band of Dizzy Gillespie and played with Milt Jackson. His most famous recording is of an improvisatory piece he performed in 1949, now known as "Moody's Mood For Love." Terry talked to him in 1996, about his CD, Young At Heart, which had just been released. It is a collection of Frank Sinatra tunes.

Reporter and author Stephen Handleman on this edition of Fresh Air. For the many bureaucrats, corrupt army generals, black market racketeers, and others who held power and wealth in the old Soviet system, making a buck has never been easier. Organized crime is in the downside of free enterprise in the new Russia.

Journalist John Hockenberry on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Hockenberry spent more than a decade with National Public Radio as a general assignment reporter, Middle East correspondent, and program host. Hockenberry is paralyzed from the waist down and he writes of his life's obstacles and accomplishments in his new book Moving Violations.

Author Lorenzo Carcaterra on this rebroadcast of Fresh Air. Carcaterra was the managing editor of the CBS weekly series Top Cops. He is the author of two memoirs, A Safe Place and Sleepers, about growing up in New York's Hell's Kitchen during the 50s and 60s.

Editors Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball on this edition of Fresh Air. Gottlieb and Kimball have collaborated on the new book Reading Lyrics, an anthology of some of the most important lyricists of the last century, including the lyrics of George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Dorothy Field, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, and more.

Actress Christine Baranski and garbage expert Benjamin Miller on this edition of Fresh Air. Baranski is probably best known for her work on the TV series Cybill, in which she played Maryann, the best friend of Cybill Shepherd. She's currently starring in the TV sitcom Welcome to New York. She also plays Martha May Whovier in the new film Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Kirk Varnedoe on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Ed Harris is starring as Jackson Pollack in a new movie about the artist's life. We'll feature an interview from our archives about Pollock. Varnedoe was the chief curator for a major Jackson Pollock exhibit that ran last year at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Pollock is widely considered the most challenging and influential American painter of the twentieth century and one of the primary creators in modern art since 1945.

Reporter Eric Schmitt and historian Bernard Weissberger on this edition of Fresh Air. Schmitt covers Capitol Hill for The New York Times. He'll talk about the new Congress and power sharing in the 50/50 Senate. Schmitt will also talk about how the just resolved Presidential election - along with a truncated transition period for George W. Bush - may effect political decision making on the Hill.

Law professor Cass Sunstein and journalist Jefferey Toobin on this edition of Fresh Air. An expert in Constitutional interpretation, Sunstein explains the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore handed down last night. He talks about the legal difficulties of the case, what the final decision means for each candidate, and what sort of historical precedent a decision such as this one sets for the future.

Lead singer Big Sandy, author Dr. Esther Sternberg, and classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz on this edition of Fresh Air. Big Sandy is the lead singer of the Fly Rite Boys, a band that combines rockabilly, western swing, and hillbilly boogie sounds. They are currently on tour and have a new album, Night Tide.

Serbian writer Jasmina Tesanovic on this edition of Fresh Air. She's just published a book called The Diary of a Political Idiot. The book, comprised of excerpts from her personal journal, narrates daily life in Belgrade during the political upheaval and bombings in Serbia. She is one of the founders of 94, the first feminist publishing house in Serbia. She lives and works in Belgrade.