Terry Gross

Record producer and former guitarist for the band Chic, Nile Rodgers. In the late 1970s Chic was one of the most successful disco groups. Hits included "Dance, Dance, Dance," "Le Freak," and "Everybody Dance." As a record producer, Rodgers has worked with Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, INXS, and Madonna. (Rebroadcast of 8/20/1996)

Costume designers Carol Oditz and Mark Bridges. Oditz planned the look for the film The Ice Storm, attempting to create surface tension for the movie through wardrobe. Bridges is responsible for collecting and coordinating the 70’s and 80’s styles seen throughout the movie Boogie Nights.

Writer David Shipler. A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America (Knopf) is his newest book. It looks closely at the ever present race question in the United States through interviews of folks across the country and analysis of stereotypes he found. Shipler is the author of Russia and won a Pulitzer Prize for Arab and Jew: Wounded Sprits in a Promised Land.

Photojournalists Horst Faas and Tim Page They've compiled and edited a book of photographs by photojournalists who lost their lives covering war in Indochina and Vietnam from the 50's to the mid 70's. The book is titled "Requiem" (Random House). It features 135 different photographers including Robert Capa, Larry Burrows, and Sean Flynn. Horst Faas was an Associated Press photographer in Vietnam and Tim Page worked in Laos and Vietnam for United Press International and "Paris-Match." They were both wounded in Vietnam.

Historian Dayton Duncan. He's the author of the book "Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery -- an Illustrated History" (Knopf). He also co-produced the PBS series of the same name with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, and is the author of "Out West" (Penguin), in which he re-travels the Merriweather Lewis and William Clark journey.

Film historian David J. Skal. He's an expert on the horror film genre. His books include "Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen" and "Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning: Hollywood Master of the Macabre" (written in collaboration with Elias Savada) (Anchor Books).

Professor and writer Raymond McNally has studied the many portrayals of vampires in folklore and film. He has traced the origins of the Dracula story in Transylvania. He wrote the book "In Search of Dracula." McNally teaches at Boston College. (Next Month, November 8-9, McNally hosts the 150th celebration of Bram Stoker's birth at Boston College. For information call 617-552-3804 or e-mail him at mcnally@bc.edu) (REBROADCAST from 10/29/85)

Veteran film actor Christopher Lee. A British actor whose "tall, dark and gruesome" persona (from the title of Lee's autobiography) has been featured in scores of sinister roles, beginning in the early 1950s. Lee's gallery of villainous portraits includes his famed Dracula impersonations, a handful of outings as Fu Manchu and a memorable turn as Rasputin--the Mad Monk (1966). He has been based in the US since the mid-70s and became a familiar TV presence in the 80s. (Originally aired 7/3/90)