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Actor Adrien Brody and actress Miriam Colon on this edition of Fresh Air. He won the Oscar this year for his role in Roman Polanski's The Pianist. He played Wladyslaw Szpilman, the Polish Pianist and Holocaust survivor.

Hear TV producers Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer, and climatologist Kerry Emmanuel, on this edition of Fresh Air. Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer co-created the HBO series Big Love, now in its second season. It's about a man (Bill Paxton) and his three wives (Chloe Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Amanda Seyfried).

Country singer/songwriter Jim Lauderdale, music director Charles Hazlewood, and South African singers Sandnile Kamle and Pualine Malefane. Jim Lauderdale's been called the "not-so missing link between soul and country." His songs have been recorded by Vince Gill, George Strait, the Dixie Chicks, Shelby Lynne, and many others. But he's also recorded over a dozen of his own solo albums and has sung background vocals on more than 40 albums.

Hear author and TV executive Bill Flanagan, TV critic David Bianculli, and British singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson on this edition of Fresh Air. Bill Flanagan is executive vice president of MTV Networks. His new novel New Bedlam skewers the cable TV business. Flanagan is also the author of A&R (another funny book) about the music industry.

Former fighter pilot Keith Rosenkranz and poet Sam Hammill on this edition of Fresh Air. During the first Gulf War, Keith Rosenkranz flew thirty combat missions in his F-16. He wrote about the experience in his book, Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot. In January, Sam Hamill was invited by First Lady Laura Bush to the White House for a symposium on poetry.

Spanish and Portuguese professor Maria Rose Menocal and writer, musician, and broadcaster Jamie Bernstein Thomas on this edition of Fresh Air. Maria Rose Menocal is a R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She is also the author of the new book: The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in Medieval Spain.

Filmmaker Jamsheed Akrami is a scholar of Iranian film. His two documentaries are Dreams Betrayed and Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the Revolution. Together, they explore Iranian filmmaking before and after the 1979 revolution. In Iranian films, male and female characters are not allowed to touch, ever, and women must be veiled at all times. Despite these and other limitations, Iranian cinema has garnered international critical acclaim.

Hear German photographer Astrid Kirchherr, rock historian Ed Ward, and linguist Geoff Nunberg on this edition of Fresh Air. Astrid Kirchherr met the Beatles in 1960, before they were famous, when they came to perform in Hamburg, Germany. She took some of the earliest photographs of the group and was engaged to the late Stu Sutcliff, the original bassist for the Beatles.

Journalists Cam Simpson and Flynn McRoberts and actor Peter Sarsgaard on this edition of Fresh Air. Simpson and McRoberts collaborated (along with journalist Liz Sly) on a three part special series in the Chicago Tribune. The series, "Tossed Out of America," is about the crackdown on Muslims who are illegal immigrants in the US.

Rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson and actor Robert Forster on this edition of Fresh Air. Wanda Jackson had several hits in the late 50s and early 60s, including "Mean Mean Man". "Let's Have a Party" and "Fujiyama Mama".

Author Philip Dray on this edition of Fresh Air. Philip Dray is the author of the book At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. Dray chronicles the incidents of lynching: from 1882-85 the number of whites lynched exceeded the number of blacks. But after 1886 the number of blacks lynched exceeded that of whites. And not until 1952 did a year pass without a single recorded lynching.

On this archival edition of Fresh Air, playwright and satirist from South Africa Pieter Dirk-Uys, and writer and director Todd Haynes. Dirk-Uys has a television talk show in South Africa that has an unusual twist. Instead of hosting his show as himself, he dresses drag as an Afrikaner dowager named Evita. His guests include such leaders as Nelson Mandela. His show is said to be "a way of making the country's leaders seem more human."

Film director Rob Marshall and conductor Paul Bogaev on this edition of Fresh Air. Rob Marshall directed and choreographed the new film adaptation of Chicago. It stars Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and Queen Latifah. Previously, Marshall won an Emmy for Best Choreography for his work on the movie musical Annie.

Writer Samuel Freedman on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Samuel Freedman wrote a book about the state of the American Jewish Community called Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. Freedman believes that three fundamental questions are rending the American Jewish community today: "What is the definition of Jewish identity? Who decides what is authentic and legitimate Judaism? And what is the Jewish compact with America?"

From the Library of Congress, Recording Sound Specialist, Samuel Brylawski and acquisition specialist Cooper Graham and former White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater on this edition of Fresh Air. The two compiled a collection of presidential speeches dating back 85 years Historic Presidential Speeches (1908-1993).

Record producers Charles Granata and Didier Deutsch talking about Frank Sinatra on this edition of Fresh Air. Charles Granata and Didier Deutsch have collaborated on the new CD box set, Frank Sinatra In Hollywood (1940-1964) which collects Sinatra's film recordings - many of them rare. In fact, only ten percent of the 160 tracks included on the collection have been released before. Granata is a Sinatra historian and author of Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording.

Voice artist and animation historian Keith Scott on this edition of Fresh Air. Scott has written the new book, The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose.

Hear film producer Richard Zanuck and TV producer and writer Marshall Herskovitz on this edition of Fresh Air. Richard Zanuck produced the new film Sweeney Todd, based on the Broadway musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The film stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, and is directed by Tim Burton. Richard Zanuck is an Academy award-winning producer.

Author Martin Amis on this edition of Fresh Air. Amis is considered one of the leading British writers of the late twentieth century and one of the most controversial.

Screen writer and director Christopher Nolan and writer James Sallis. Christopher Nolan's new film Memento, is about a man who is unable to make new memories since the violent murder of his wife.