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Filmmaker John Waters on this edition of Fresh Air. John Waters's latest film is Cecil B. Demented 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. Waters other movies include, Pecker about a young amateur photographer who becomes the darling of the New York art world; Cry Baby, a juvenile delinquent love story set in the 1950's, which brought together such performers as Patty Hearst, Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake, David Nelson, and Polly Bergen.

Writer Simon Winchester on this edition of Fresh Air>. He wrote the best seller The Professor and the Madman.

Hear pro golfer John Daly, cartoonist Mathew Diffee, and rock historian Ed Ward on this edition of Fresh Air. John Daly has two new books: a memoir, My Life In and Out of the Rough: The Truth Behind All That Bull**** You Think You Know About Me, and a golfer's guide, Golf My Own Damn Way: A Real Guy's Guide to Chopping 10 Strokes Off Your Score.

Washington Post reporter Peter Baker on this edition of Fresh Air. Baker is the journalist who co-wrote the story breaking the news about Monica Lewinsky, and he's just written a book about that episode of the Clinton presidency, called The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton.

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong on Islamic fundamentalism on this edition of Fresh Air. She's the author of the best selling books The Battle for God, Jerusalem, and The History of God. She's also the author of Islam: A Short History. (Broadcast Date: October 17, 2001)

Actor Michael C. Hall and director and screenwriter Hal Hartley on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael C. Hall plays David Fisher, the gay brother who co-runs a funeral home on the HBO hit Six Feet Under. The American Film Institute has nominated Hall for Best Male TV Actor-Drama for his role in the series. Hall comes to TV from the stage. Most recently, he was on Broadway as the emcee in Cabaret. Prior to that role, he was in a number of off-Broadway productions.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, religion scholar and former nun Karen Armstrong, the religious leader of the Islamic Center of America in Detroit, Iman Sayed Hassan Qazwini and American Muslim Asma Gull Hasan on this edition of Fresh Air. Thomas Friedman covered the Middle East for many years, work that won him two Pulitzer Prizes. He's also the author of the book, From Beirut to Jerusalem.

Photographer and reporter Scott Peterson and psychologist Robert Jay Lifton on this edition of Fresh Air. Scott Peterson of the Christian Science Monitor has been covering the war on terrorism since the September 11th attacks. He is also the paper's Moscow Bureau Chief, and their former Middle East Correspondent. Peterson recently attended a training camp for journalists to learn how to deal with kidnappers and gunmen. He was also a friend of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl.

British novelist Martin Amis and actress Lauren Bacall on this edition of Fresh Air.

Comic book artist and writer Frank Miller and keyboard player and record producer Ray Manzarek on this edition of Fresh Air. Frank Miller transformed Batman into a brooding, tortured vigilante in his remakes of the classic Batman comic: The Dark Knight Returns and The Dark Knight Strikes Again.

Hear guitarist, songwriter, and actor Dave Grohl of the band Foo Fighters, and TV critic David Bianculli, on this edition of Fresh Air. The Foo Fighters' latest album, Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace, has been nominated for a Grammy as album of the year. Previously, Grohl was the drummer for the grunge band Nirvana. He formed Foo Fighters after the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994.

Actor and comedian Martin Short and British journalist and documentarian John Ronson on this edition of Fresh Air. Martin Short's TV series.

An expert in climate change research, Paul Mayewski and science fiction writer Sheri S. Tepper on this edition of Fresh Air.

Linguist John McWhorter and photographer Joel Meyerowitz on this editin of Fresh Air.

Author Martin Amis is considered one of the leading British writers of the late twentieth century and one of the most controversial.

Robert Ludlum's string of best sellers, such as The Bourne Identity and The Matarese Circle, established him as one of literature's most successful espionage novelists. Terry Gross interviewed Ludlum on March 10, 1988.

Cage, Keitel, Coppola, and 15 other stars of the stage and screen speak candidly with Fresh Air's Terry Gross in this compilation of classic interviews. Also available: Fresh Air: Laughs, featuring Pryor, Carey, Mason, and more.

A compilation of Fresh Air celebrity interviews with host Terry Gross.

Singapore's first Prime Minister and its current Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew and journalist Stan Sesser on this edition of Fresh Air. A very controversial figure, Lee Kuan Yew formed the People's Action Party and won the first Singapore general election in 1959. Since it was granted independence in 1965, Singapore has gone from British colony to Asian economic powerhouse.

Fresh Air, Sissy Spacek and David Atkins