Terry Gross

He's worked on the shows Life on Parole and Undeclared. Apatow also worked on the Emmy-Award winners Freaks and Geeks and The Ben Stiller Show. He was a writer for The Feig is the creator of the now defunct TV comedy series Freaks and Geeks. He's also the author of the book Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence. Feig was an actor before moving on to writing for TV and film. (This interview was originally broadcast on Oct. 3, 2002.)

He's worked on the shows Life on Parole and Undeclared. Apatow also worked on the Emmy-Award winners Freaks and Geeks and The Ben Stiller Show. He was a writer for The Larry Sanders Show. He began as a stand-up comic and wrote jokes for Roseanne, Jim Carrey and Garry Shandling. Freaks and Geeks was on the air for less than a year, but it developed a cult following and is coming out on DVD on April 6, 2004. (This interview was originally broadcast on Nov. 19, 2001.)

He is the creator, executive producer and head writer of the new HBO series Deadwood, a western drama set in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Milch left a teaching job at Yale University to go to Hollywood and work on the show Hill Street Blues. He also worked on NYPD Blue, for which he won two Emmys. Milch is a former heroin addict and alcoholic.

He calls his latest project a "musical novel." It's a new CD, Greendale, a 10-song cycle with his band Crazy Horse, set in a fictional California seaside town. He also shot a feature film version on Super8, which made the film festival circuit and will be in wider distribution in April.

Clarke is the former national coordinator for security, infrastructure protection and counterterrorism. He held the position in President Clinton's administration and continued for President Bush. He resigned in March 2003. His new book is Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror. In the book he criticizes the Bush administration for failing to heed warnings about al Qaeda before Sept. 11, and for invading Iraq without evidence of a connection to al Qaeda. Clarke also worked for the Reagan Administration and the first Bush administration.

Terry Gross speaks with Kathie Russo, Spalding Gray's widow.

Actor Spalding Gray, famous for his autobiographical monologues, was found dead on March 7 in New York's East River. He'd been missing for two months. In the first of a two-part series, Terry Gross speaks with people who knew Gray well, including his wife, Kathie Russo, and his friend, Robby Stein. The second program features excerpts of Gray’s Fresh Air interviews.

His 1982 novel Schindler's List was adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg in 1993. Now there's a special edition of Speilberg's Schindler's List on DVD. His new book is The Tyrant's Novel.

She is the principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Britain. She was the first woman ever to be named principal conductor of a major British orchestra. Since 1993, Alsop has also been music director of the Colorado Symphony, where her programming won several national awards. She has had guest appearances with many orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Atlanta, Houston, Cincinnati and Indianapolis. She was a protigi of Leonard Bernstein.

Harrison is the widow of George Harrison, the former Beatle. The two were married for 24 years. Harrison died in December 2001. Before his death, he began working on his Dark Horse catalogue (1976-1992), his entire body of work, plus unreleased demos. The box set (on Capitol Records) includes six albums as well as a DVD of seven restored music videos. Just this week Harrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Note: Audio for this feature is not available due to Internet rights issues.