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Film critic Bob Mondello takes a look at how American cinema has typically portrayed gays and lesbians as maniacs or perverts. But Mondello reports that gradually those negative stereotypes are changing and in the next year, there will be several films with prominent gay characters in less stereotypical roles.

FROM MEXICO CITY, NPR'S DAVID WELNA REPORTS ON NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TWO HI PROFILE POLITICAL MURDER CASES, AND HOW THEY HAVE AFFECTED THAT COUNTRY'S AILING ECONOMY.

With block grants being the new mantra for how to allocate federal dollars, NPR's Jon Greenberg profiles a community in Baltimore that went from burned out buildings to a revitalized neighborhood with the block grant scheme.

Daniel visits 84-year old identical twins who teach physics at the University of Maryland. The Slawsky brothers, Mitch and Zack, talk about their eight decades together.

NPR's Anne Garrels visited several villages in the southern part of the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya and reports that residents are divided as to whether to continue fighting Russian troops. The Russians have occupied the capitol Grozny for several weeks.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MICHELLE LOVRIC WHO COMPILED A BOOK OF OLD LOVE LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE TITLED "LOVE LETTERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PASSION," PUBLISHED BY MARLOWE & CO.

Daniel talks with NPR's David Welna about the crackdwon on the Zapitista rebels in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The Mexican government announced this week that because talks between the Zapitistas and the government have broken down, the government has decided to arrest the leaders of the group.

NPR foreign correspondent TOM GJELTEN (jell-ton) has a new book, "Sarajevo Daily: a city and its newspaper under siege." During the height of the Serbian siege on Sarajevo the city was in ruins but one symbol of hope remained constant for its people, Oslobodjenje (Oh-slo-bo-JANE-ya), the city's multi-ethnic daily newspaper. When the siege began the paper's editor vowed, "As long as Sarajevo exists this paper will publish everyday." Gjelten uses the paper as a backdrop for his book in order to look at the larger issue of the war torn country and its people. GJELTEN was the Eastern and Central European correspondent for NPR from September1990 to December 1993. (GJELTEN INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO SEGMENT

NPR'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR TALKS WITH SENATOR ORRIN HATCH (R-UT), AND DR. LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON, CHAIRMAN OF THE WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISORS, ABOUT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S BUDGET AND THE PROSPECTS FOR A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT.

Daniel talks to Tom Levenson, author of "Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science" (Simon and Schuster). Levenson says that during the Enlightenment, scientists thought that they could explain and understand everything in the universe, but that really isn't true.