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ENTERTAINMENT: ELVIS MITCHELL, WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC TALKS WITH SCOTT SIMON ABOUT THE NEW SCOTTISH FILM "SHALLOW GRAVE."

2: GESHE THUPTEN JINPA (GE-shee TOOP-ten JIN-pa), the principle translator for the Dalai Lama. THUPTEN JINPA was a refugee in India as a child, became a monk at a Tibetan monastery, and is now working on his Ph.D at Cambridge University. He is the translator, editor and annotator of The World of Tibetan Buddhism (Wisdom Publications, written by the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

LINDA WERTHEIMER has been with NPR since the network first went on the air with All Things Considered, May 3, 1971. Wertheimer is a host of NPR's "All Things Considered." Wertheimer has come out with a book that looks back at some of the key events in American history as they were covered by NPR. Stations: Linda Wertheimer's Listening to America: Twenty-Five years in the Life of a Nation as Heard on National Public Radio (Houghton Mifflin) It will be released May 29, 1995. The book marks 25th Anniversary of the founding of NPR not ATC.

2: Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG discusses good and bad accents in the movies. Actor KIRK DOUGLAS. The star of "Lust for Life," "Paths of Glory," "Champion" and Stanley Kubrick's epic, "Spartacus," about a leader of slaves revolting against Republican Rome. (REBROADCAST FROM 8/22/88). Actor TONY CURTIS. In 1960 he starred in "Spartacus." A restored version of the film was released in 1991 that includes previously cut scenes, including one where Lawrence Olivier --as a general-- tries to seduce his slave, played by CURTIS. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/19/91).

2: ANN CHARTERS, the biographer of beat writer Jack Kerouac. She has just edited two new collections of Kerouac's writings: The Portable Jack Kerouac, and Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters (both published by Viking). She reads from some of Kerouac's letters, and discusses how he translated his life into his writing. CHARTERS teaches at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.

Journalist/Rock Historian DANIEL WOLFF has written a new biography, You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke (Morrow) WOLFF was aided in his research by many people who were close to Cooke. One of them, S.R. CRAIN, a co-founder of the Soul Stirrers (Sam Cooke) and later Cooke's manager, is also interviewed. Susan Richardson of Rolling Stone describes WOLFF'S book as "alive, springing off the page to engage you like the latest box office draw." WOLFF has also written about pop and gospel for Vogue, Musician , The Nation and many other publications

ENTERTAINMENT: LUMIERE: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE NEW CANADIAN FILM "EXOTICA," DIRECTED BY ATOM EGOYAN. THE FILM HAS WON THE INTERNATIONAL CRITICS' PRIZE AT THE CANNES (KAHN) FILM FESTIVAL. AND... 100 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK, FRENCHMEN LOUIS AND AUGUST LUMIERE (loo-mee-AIR) FIRST CAPTURED WORKERS ON FILM WITH THEIR WOODEN CINEMATOGRAPH CAMERA IN LYON, FRANCE. THIS WEEK, 38 FILM DIRECTOR FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD GATHERED TO RE-ENACT THAT FIRST FILM. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH TIERRY FRAYMAUX (TERRY Fray-MOO), THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE LUMIERE (loo-mee-AIR) INSTITUTE IN LYON (lee-OAN), FRANCE.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that two Americans being held by Iraq for alledgedly tresspassing on Iraqi soil, were convicted today and sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Jacki talks with Washington Post reporter Nora Boustany who has in Algeria. Boustany reports violence in Algeria is increasing as the people there struggle to find their identity and place in the world.

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