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Guitar "Genius" Bill Frisell

Frisell is a prolific performer and recording artist; one reviewer likened him to both a "painter and sonic psychopath." His latest album, "Have a Little Faith," pays tribute to American music makers like Muddy Waters, Madonna, John Hiatt and John Philip Sousa.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 8, 1993: Interview with Paul Rudnick; Interview with Bill Frisell; Review of the made-for-TV movie "The Positively True Adentures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader…
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Playwright Paul Rudnick Finds Comedy in the AIDS Epidemic

Paul Rudnick is an essayist, novelist, and playwright. His latest play on off-Broadway is a comedy called "Jeffrey," about a man who swears off love and sex because of his fear of AIDS. Rudnick also wrote the Broadway play, "I Hate Hamlet," about John Barrymore's ghost. He writes a column in "Premiere," called "If You Ask Me," in which he adopts the voice of a quintessential Jewish mother who critiques movie stars' personal lives.

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Reality Spills Into a Dramatic Retelling of the Wanda Holloway Story

TV critic David Bianculli reviews the second TV movie about the Texas mother who wanted to secure her daughter's place on the cheer leading squad by conspiring to kill a rival student and her mother. This one is on HBO, called "The Positively True Adentures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom."

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