Search results for

A STEREO in the studio concert and interview with singer/songwriter, guitarist RICHARD THOMPSON. He was a founding member of the band Fairport Convention in the late 1960's. He's since gone solo and is known for his dark songs which blend elements of British folk ballads, the blues, and rock n' roll. His latest album is "Mirror Blue," (Capitol). A retrospective collection of his work was released last year, "Watching the Dark: The History of Richard Thompson," (on Rykodisc.) (THIS CONCERT & INTERVIEW continues into the second half of the show, and the review segements).

Journalists MICHELLE SLATALLA and JOSHUA QUITTNER both work for Newsday. They've collaborated on a new book, "Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace," (HarperCollins). It's about two rival gangs of teenage computer hackers in New York City: Masters of Deception and the Legion of Doom. The gangs, broke into phone company computers, downloaded confidential credit histories, and broke into private and corporate computer files. The rivalry was friendly until a computer remark by one hacker set off a "gang war." (MORE ON THE COMPUTER GANGS IN THE SECOND

From the Beach Boys, BRIAN WILSON. We feature a segment from a 1988 interview with WILSON. This ties in with the next interview:Editor in Chief of Billboard Magazine TIMOTHY WHITE. He has written a new book that traces the evolution of the "myth" of Southern California. WHITE uses the history of the Wilson family and it's migration to California in the 1920s. The Wilson family is that of Brian Wilson, one of the Beach Boys, the band the helped put Southern California on the map as the place of sun and fun. WHITE's new book is "The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience" (Henry

Psychologist and writer CAROL TAVRIS. Terry will talk with her about two things: Her latest book, "The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex." (Simon & Schuster). In the book, TAVRIS looks at the widespread but unacknowledged custom in the social sciences, medicine, law and history, of treating men as the normal standard and women as abnormal. TAVRIS shows that the real differences in gender are in power, resources, and life experiences. Also TAVRIS recently wrote a review of two books dealing with incest, "Beware the Incest-Survivor Machine," (The New York Times Book Review, Jan 3, 1993) in which she calls for a more reasoned, cautious approach to a very complicated issue. The review received a fire-storm of letters from readers (Feb. 14, 1993).

Writer ALLAN BERUBE (bah-RUE-bay). He wrote the book, "Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women In World War II," (1990, The Free Press). For it, BERUBE spent ten years interviewing gay and lesbian veterans, searching out wartime letters, and consulting newly declassified government documents. He found that hundreds of thousands of gays entered the military despite a procedure for screening out homosexuals. Terry will talk with him about the ban on gays in the military and the hearings going on now, about whether it should be repealed.

Filmmaker KEN BURNS is the director of "The Civil War" and "Baseball," the hit documentaries on PBS. The former was the network's highest rated series. BURNS' other documentaries include "The Brooklyn Bridge," "The Statue of Liberty," and "Empire of the Air," about the early history of radio. (This interview was recorded in front of an audience at the Flynn Theater on October 27, in a benefit for Vermont Public R

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the worst single ship isaster in the history of the U.S. Navy. The USS Indianapolis, after dropping ff the atomic bomb, was torpedoed in the South Pacific. 1,100 men were thrown nto the water, but no rescue operations were mounted, due to bureaucratic issteps. For five days, the men battled sharks, fatigue, fear and sunstroke efore they were finally spotted and picked up. Only 316 survived. Afterwards, he captain of the ship was court-martialed and publicly humiliated. He ventually committed suicide. We hear from Jim O'Donnell, one of the remaining urvivors of the Indianapolis, and Dan Kurzman, author of "Fatal Voyage, The inking of the USS Indianapolis." (MacMillan & Pocket Books).

Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Called one of the greatest improvisers in the history of jazz, Jarrett was famous for his wildly passionate solo recitals. In 1996, Jarrett came down with a mysterious illness-- an interstitial bacterial parasite-- that caused him to stop performing for about two and a half years. Jarrett has started performing and recording again, but he still keeps a low public profile, so his condition will not worsen again. His newest CD, Whisper Not (Universal Classics), will be released next month. His other recent CD, Melody at Night, With You, was a solo album Jarrett recorded at his home studio in rural New Jersey.

2: Writer and Chairman of the Center of Post-Soviet Studies, SUSAN EISENHOWER. She is the granddaughter of President Eisenhower who led the United States in the early years of the Cold War. She met and married Roald Sagdeev, the former leader of the Soviet space program. Eisenhower's new book is Breaking Free: A Memoir of Love and Revolution (Farrar Straus Giroux). It focuses on her relationship with husband Roald Sagdeev, and interweaves their romantic memoir with the inner history of the Cold War.

2: Designer, sculptor, architect MAYA LIN. She was a 21 year-old undergraduate student when her design was selected for the Vietnam War Memorial. Her works are known for their ability to elicit powerful emotions. LIN also designed the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, and the "Women's Table" at Yale ( which dealt with the history of female students at Yale, which was mostly all-male for 300 years.) Most recently LIN designed "The Wave Field" in memory of Francois-Xavier Bagnoud, pilot, aeronautical engineer and humanitarian. LIN is the subject of an academy award winning documentary, "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision."