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In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Anne Frank, NPR's Scott Simon has a special segment about her life and the diary that has become one of the most influential books of the century.

Daniel talks to Norman Mailer, author of "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery." Mailer had access to the KGB documents on Lee Harvey Oswald's time in the Soviet Union, and he talked to many of the people there who knew Oswald.

2: Actor TIM ROTH. ROTH has been in many recent films such as "Tom and Viv" and "Pulp Fiction." He is currently in the new release "Rob Roy."

SIMON/RAPOPORT: SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT, WHICH BEGINS THIS WEEK.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FILM REVIEWER AND AUTHOR PAULINE KAEL ABOUT HER NEW BOOK "FOR KEEPS - 30 YEARS AT THE MOVIES" PUBLISHED BY DUTTON.

NPR's Renee Montagne reports from Los Angeles on how much the O.J. Simpson trial is costing. No one knows how long the trial will take, but cost estimates now are about 700-thousand dollars a month.

SIMON/BURL IVES: WE SHARE A MUSICAL INTERLUDE WITH BALLADEER AND ACTOR BURL IVES, WHO DIED YESTERDAY AT THE AGE OF 85.

Soviet born journalist MASHA GESSEN (GUESS-N) has just edited a new collection of post-Soviet fiction by women, Half A Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women (Cleis Press, Pittsburg, PA.). GESSEN says that most of the writers in the collection belong to the "mute generation" that came of age under Brezhnev. GESSEN's immigrated to the U.S. in 1981, when she was 14 to be with her parents. She's been an editor, primarily in gay and lesbian press, and was international editor at THE ADVOCATE. GESSEN has now repatriated to Russia.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that President Clinton's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Carns, has withdrawn his nomination. The move came after the FBI discovered that Carns may have violated U.S. immigration law by helping someone he knew enter the United States from the Phillipines. Today, President Clinton named John Deutch, the number two man at the Defense Department, to replace Carns as the nominee to head the nation's spy agency.

Actor CHARLETON HESTON. A consistent lead in the biblical epics of the 1950's and 1960's, HESTON had starring roles in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and "The Ten Commandments"; HESTON also covered the Roman era in epics like "Ben Hur," "Julius Caesar," "Antony & Cleopatra," and medieval Spain, in "El Cid." "The Ten Commandments" is being shown on ABC on Sunday. (REBROADCAST FROM 11/30/90). Composer ELMER BERNSTEIN. He's composed the scores for almost 80 films, including "The Man With the Golden Arm," "The Magnificent Seven," and "The Ten Commandments". Lately he's done the scores for "The Field" and "The Grifters." (REBROADCAST FROM 1/10/91)Film Director MARTIN SCORCESE. He directed "The Last Temptation of Christ" in 1988. His other films include "Taxi Driver," "Goodfellas," and "Age of Innocence." In 1993, as part of a retrospective of his work by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU presented "An Evening With Martin Scorcese" - a wide ranging question and answer session taped live before an audience at New York University. In this excerpt from that talk, Scorcese explores some of the special difficulties involved in shooting a biblical epic in the desert with very little money. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/11/93)REV 1: Rock critic ED WARD. Subject TBA.