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He became a star for his role as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. He's been nominated for numerous Academy Awards, and he stars with Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins in the suspenseful drama Mystic River.

She stars in the new film Casa de Los Babys, by director John Sayles. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her starring role in the film Secretary. Her other films include Adaptation and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Electric Version, the new CD from The New Pornographers.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews St. Louis Shoes (Blue Note) by composer and saxophonist Greg Osby.

Writer Vivian Gornick responds to a commentary we broadcast last week by book critic Maureen Corrigan about Gornick's admission that she had invented some scenes and conversations in her acclaimed memoir.

His new film is the military thriller Basic, which reunites him with Pulp Fiction co-star Samuel L. Jackson. Some of Travolta's other films include Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Urban Cowboy and Get Shorty.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new short story collections: The Winter Without Milk by Jane Avrich, and The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters.

Muslim journalist M.J. Akbar is founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, an English language newspaper published in India. He's also the author of five books, including his latest, The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam & Christianity. (Rout

Mark Malloch Brown heads the United Nations Development Program. He'll discuss their efforts in Afghanistan, the West Bank and Gaza to help with reconstruction. Brown is also the chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee of the heads of all U.N. development funds, programs and departments.

Former deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott. He was also the architect of the Clinton administrations policy toward Russia. Hes written the new book, The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (Random House).