Sep 4th, 2006 · Country music singer and songwriter Willie Nelson's newest book is The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart. Nelson, who has been performing for more than 50 years, has recorded 250 albums and appeared in 25 films. (Original airdate: 5/25/06)
Sep 4th, 2006 · This summer, at age 53, Texas singer James Hand released his debut album, The Truth Will Set You Free. Hand has been singing and playing for nearly four decades, but he performs mostly in small-town dives. When he's not singing, Hand works as a horse trainer. He has been compared to Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell. (Original airdate: 6/20/06)
May 26th, 2005 · Film producer Ismail Merchant died Wednesday at age 68. In conjunction with James Ivory, he produced A Room With a View (1985), Howards End (1992) and other films. Their newest film, Heights, hits theaters in June. (Original airdate: 9/10/87)
Mar 30th, 2005 · Criminal defense attorney Johnnie Cochran died Tuesday at age 67 of cancer, after having been diagnosed in 2003 with an inoperable brain tumor. In 1995, Cochran won O.J. Simpson a not-guilty verdict in the slayings of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Over the years, Cochran defended celebrities as well as lesser-known individuals. He represented football great Jim Brown, as well as rappers Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg and Sean Combs. (Originial airdate: 10/10/96)
Mar 28th, 2005 · We present an excerpt of our 1994 interview with the singer Marianne Faithfull, who has returned to music after her battle with drug addiction. (Original airdate: 9/26/94).
Dec 27th, 2004 · Former standup comic Tom Kenny is the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, the star of his own cartoon show on Nickelodeon cable and a recent feature film. Kenny's other voices include the narrator and the mayor on Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls, Dog in Nickelodeon's CatDog, and Boo Boo on Yogi Bear. (Original airdate: 11/16/04).
Jul 9th, 2004 · Her latest book, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, is just out in paperback. It's about a religious text that is little known -- the secret Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945. She will explain why it was suppressed by the church and kept out of the canon. Pagels has been called one of the world's most important writers and thinkers on religion and history. She won the National Book Award for her book, The Gnostic Gospels. Pagels is a professor at Princeton University. (Original airdate: June 4, 2003)