Search results for

2: Documentary filmmakers D.A. PENNEBAKER & CHRIS HEGEDUS. Their film, The War Room, is a behind the scenes look at the Clinton presidential campaign from the New Hampshire primary to the election. Pennebaker and Hegedus chronicled the campaign through the eyes of its two main strategists, James CArville and George Stephanopoulos.

One of Israel's leading journalists, TOM SEGEV (pronounced like NEGA in negative). He has a new book,"The Seventh Million: The Israelis and The Holocaust," (Hill & Wang) in which he argues that some Israelis use the holocaust to encourage Israeli chauvinism and aggression. SEGEV writes a weekly column on politics and human rights for the daily newspaper "Haaretz."

2: Director JAMES FOLEY. His most recent film is the screen adaptation of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize winning play, s"Glengarry Glen Ross," which is now out on video. It stars Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, and Ed Harris. FOLEY made his directorial debut in 1984 with "Reckless." He directed and co-wrote the critically aclaimed thriller "After Dark, My Sweet" two years ago. REBROADCAST. Originally aired 10

Professor PATRICIA TURNER, of the African American Studies department at University of California, Davis. Her new book "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (U. of California Press) examines the historical and social ramifications of rumor in African American culture. From Ku Klux Klan-owned clothing and cigarette companies to a military conspiracy to infect Africans with AIDS, she looks at the role of legend and rumor, finding it has long been a feature of the community. Turner argues that this widespread type of communication offers a means of coping for the community as they confront and absorb racial oppression.

2: British-Asian film-maker GURINDER CHADA (Gur-IN-der CHA-da) is making her feature-film debut with the new comedy-drama, "Baji (BAH-gee) on the Beach," a movie in the British social realist tradition, about three Asian women on a day trip to a working class resort in England. CHADA is of Indian descent; she was born in Kenya, but has lived in Britian most of her life. She formed her own independent production company, Umbi Films, in 1990 which produced three documentaries for television. "Baji on the Beach," has recently made the round of film festivals

2: Interview with REV. YOUNGBLOOD cont'd.

SONNY ROLLINS, tenor saxophonist, is one of the jazz world's greatest improvisational artists. At the tender age of 23, he played with Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. After successfully battling a heroin addiction in the early 1950s, he joined the Clifford Brown-Max Roach quintet. He also began a critically-acclaimed solo career. Now in his sixties, he feels obligated to carry on the vision of his own mentors to today's rising stars. His latest album, "Old Flames" (Milestone), focuses on jazz standards and features Sonny backed by a brass section.

Televison critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new CBS telemovie "I Spy Returns," which re-pairs stars Bill Cosby and Robert Culp from the old "I Spy" series. BIANCULLI tells us how the telemovie stacks up against its competition, the regular lineup of NBC sitcoms.

Civil rights attorney and law professor JACK GREENBERG. He was just out of law school--a white Jewish man from the Bronx when he joined the fledgling NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). GREENBERG took over the helm of the LDF from his mentor Thurgood Marshall when Marshall was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeals. During GREENBERG'S tenure there, the LDF litigated some of the watershed cases of the civil rights struggle. He has just published a memoir of his 35 years at the LDF. It's called "Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution" (Basic Books).