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Writer/director Richard Linklater and documentary stars Bill Resler and Devon Crosby Helms on this edition of Fresh Air. Richard Linklater's new film, A Scanner Darkly, is based on the book by Philip K. Dick. It's about drug addiction, paranoia, and surveillance. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and Keanu Reeves. Linklater is a self-taught director whose other films include Slacker, Dazed & Confused, and The School of Rock.

Actor Brian Cox and physician Paul Epstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Emmy award winner Brian Cox will be appearing on the HBO series Deadwood. He's been in over a hundred films and TV shows over the past 40 years. His films include Match Point, The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy and Rushmore. He was a regular guest on Frasier, and he won his Emmy for his role as Reichsmarschall Hermann Wilhelm Goering on the TNT channel's movie Nuremberg.

Actor Joseph Cannascoli who played mob captain Vito Spatafore on �The Sopranos�.

John Powers has just returned from The Cannes film festival whre the top prize winner was The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film about the Irish rebellion against British rule and the country�s subsequent civil war by director Ken Loach.

Author Nick Hornby on this edition of Fresh Air. Hornby's most recent book, A Long Way Down, is now out in paperback.

Legal scholars Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu and actor Jeff Goldblum on this edition of Fresh Air. Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu have co-written a book called Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World. It's about the Internet's challenge to governmental rule. They'll talk about recent controversies including Google in China and the government's role in policing eBay transactions. Jack Goldsmith is a professor of law at Harvard Law School.

Filmmaker Liz Mermin, beautician Shaima Ali, and comic Craig Ferguson on this edition of Fresh Air. Mermin's new documentary, The Beauty Academy of Kabul, is about a group of American female hairdressers who go to Afghanistan and open a beauty school to teach local women how to cut hair and apply make-up, thus making them financially independent. Ali was one of the teachers. She is an Afgan-American who returned to the country after fleeing over 20 years ago.

Journalist Seymour Hersh and film director Mary Harron on this edition of Fresh Air. Hersh speaks about the latest developments between Iran and the U.S. regarding Iran's nuclear power program. In the April 17, 2006 edition of The New Yorker magazine he writes that the Bush administration has clandestine plans for a possible major attack on Iran. Film director Mary Harron's films include I Shot Andy Warhol and American Psycho.

Journalist Michael Pollan and comedians Sean Altman and Rob Tannenbaum on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael Pollan's new book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, follows industrial food, organic food, and food that consumers procure or hunt for themselves, from the source to the dinner plate. It also examines the importance of corn in all of our food products. Pollan is a Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at University of California at Berkeley.

Rabbi Michael Schudrich and writer/director Mike White, on this edition of Fresh Air. Rabbi Schudrich is the chief rabbi of Poland. He is also a native of New York City. Schudrich moved to Warsaw in 1990 to help rebuild Jewish communities there funded by the Ronald S. Lauder foundation, a U.S. charity established to help rebuild Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. Schudrich's grandparents emigrated from Poland before World War II.

Actor Richard Gere and writer/director Jake Kasden on this edition of Fresh Air. Gere has almost 40 films to his credit, including Days of Heaven, American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, The Cotton Club, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and Chicago. In his new film The Hoax, Gere plays a scam artist who gets a major book publisher to pay him a seven figure publishing deal.

Researcher and doctor David G. Nathan and novelist Moshin Hamid on this edition of Fresh Air. New cancer fighting techniques including the development of smart drugs which target and block the growth of cancer cells mean thousands of patients are surviving their cancer. Researcher and doctor David G. Nathan talks about his new book, The Cancer Treatment Revolution. Nathan is President Emeritus of the Dana Farmer Cancer Institute.

Comedian and actor Will Ferrell and film critic David Edelstein, on this edition of Fresh Air. Will Ferrell stars in the new film Blades of Glory. He plays a former Olympic ice skater whom, banned from competition with a fellow competitor (played by John "Napoleon Dynamite" Heder), discovers a loophole which allows the men to compete as a pair.

Journalist Jeffrey Rosen and retired CIA field officer Larry Devlin, on this edition of Fresh Air. Jeffrey Rosen is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine. In March 11 issue, he writes in the article "The Brain on the Stand: How Neuroscience Is Transforming the Legal System" about the emerging new field of study, neurolaw - which combines neuroscience and the law.

Writer Ishmael Beah, on this edition of Fresh Air. Beah has written a new memoir about his years as a child soldier in Sierra Leone.

Investigative reporter Lowell Bergman and musicians Pat Dinizio and Dennis Diken, on this edition of Fresh Air. Lowell Bergman is the producer of the new Frontline documentary, News War: Secrets, Spin and the Future of the News.

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer from New York and Republican Senator Jon Kyl from Arizona, on this edition of Fresh Air.

Journalist Zev Chafets, on this edition of Fresh Air. In his new book, Zev Chafets explores American evangelical support for Israel.

Rapper, producer and actor Andre Benjamin and singer Iggy Pop, on this edition of Fresh Air. Benjamin is also known as Andre 3000. He is half of the Grammy-winning hip-hop duo Outkast, best known for their hit single "Hey Ya!" from the double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.

Authors Richard Powers and Alex Kuczynski, on this edition of Fresh Air. Richard Powers has just won the National Book Award for his novel The Echo Maker. And New York Times reporter Alex Kuczynski's new book is Beauty Junkies: Inside our $15 Billion Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery.

Journalist Jim Newton and book critic Maureen Corrigan, on this edition of Fresh Air. Jim Newton's new book, Justice For All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, looks at the life of the Supreme Court Justice who presided over such landmark decisions as Brown v. Board of Education. Then, book critic Maureen Corrigan on the best fiction books of the year.