It's the Small Moments that Make "The Rock" Rock.

Miami Herald columnist and novelist Carl Hiaasen. The adaption of "Strip Tease," Hiassen's fifth novel, will be released on June 28 in a film starring Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds. In it, a seamy Florida politician is pitted against the star stripper at Miami's Eager Beaver club. (re-broadcast from 8/23/93) (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

Book critic Maureen Corrigan gives her summer reading round-up (part one): "Neanderthal," by John Darnton (Random House); "Firestorm," by Nevada Barr (Putnam); "The World at Night," by Alan Furst (Random House); "Ruined By Reading," by Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Beacon).

Writer Joe Kane talks about his book "Savages." (Knopf 1995) It's his first-hand account on the confrontations between Amazonian warriors and multi-national oil companies, environmentalists and missionaries. Kane writes about the Huoarani (Wow-rahn-nee) tribe's fight for its culture and environment. Kane's earlier book "Running the Amazon" was a 1989 New York Times best-seller. (re-broadcast from 11/20/95) (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane).