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DAVID VON DREHLE (VON DRAY-Lee) has written a new book, "Among the Lowest of the Dead: the Culture of Death Row"(Times Books). VON DREHLE reawakens the capital punishment debate using historical and personal observations and accounts of death row inmates, victims survivors, and the people in charge of the executions. He says keeping people in prison is a bargain compared to the price of death row appeals and the fact that only 5% of death row executions actually occur. VON DREHLE is arts editor of the Washington Post

ENTERTAINMENT: ELVIS MITCHELL, WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC TALKS WITH SCOTT SIMON ABOUT THE NEW SCOTTISH FILM "SHALLOW GRAVE."

ENTERTAINMENT: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE NEW MOVIE "DON JUAN DeMARCO" STARRING JOHNNY DEPP, MARLON BRANDO AND FAYE DUNAWAY.

We hear listener comments responding to the Weekend dition Sunday medical commentators' segment on the study of calcium channel lockers.

PAULA DOBBYN OF MEMBER STATION KTOO IN JUNEAU, ALASKA, REPORTS ON THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING THE IDITAROD, A GRUELLING 1,000-MILE SLED-DOG RACE FROM ANCHORAGE TO NOME, WHICH BEGINS TODAY.

LINDA WERTHEIMER has been with NPR since the network first went on the air with All Things Considered, May 3, 1971. Wertheimer is a host of NPR's "All Things Considered." Wertheimer has come out with a book that looks back at some of the key events in American history as they were covered by NPR. Stations: Linda Wertheimer's Listening to America: Twenty-Five years in the Life of a Nation as Heard on National Public Radio (Houghton Mifflin) It will be released May 29, 1995. The book marks 25th Anniversary of the founding of NPR not ATC.

2: Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG discusses good and bad accents in the movies. Actor KIRK DOUGLAS. The star of "Lust for Life," "Paths of Glory," "Champion" and Stanley Kubrick's epic, "Spartacus," about a leader of slaves revolting against Republican Rome. (REBROADCAST FROM 8/22/88). Actor TONY CURTIS. In 1960 he starred in "Spartacus." A restored version of the film was released in 1991 that includes previously cut scenes, including one where Lawrence Olivier --as a general-- tries to seduce his slave, played by CURTIS. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/19/91).

JENNIFER SCHMIDT FROM MEMBER STATION KPLU IN SEATTLE REPORTS ON A HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER THAT IS TESTING A DIFFERENT ASPECT OF JOURNALISTIC FREEDOM BY DEFYING THE POLICE AND A COURT ORDER BY REFUSING TO TURN OVER PHOTOGRAPHS OF A CAMPUS BRAWL.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH JOHN WHITESIDE, CITY EDITOR FOR THE JOLIET HERALD NEWS, ABOUT MOLLY ZELKO. SHE WAS A JOURNALIST WHO REPORTED ON THE MOB AND DISAPPEARED ONE NIGHT IN 1957. THE CASE HAS RECENTLY BEEN REOPENED AFTER A MOB INFORMANT TOLD POLICE ZELkO WAS BURIED IN A CITY SIDEWALK IN JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

2: ANN CHARTERS, the biographer of beat writer Jack Kerouac. She has just edited two new collections of Kerouac's writings: The Portable Jack Kerouac, and Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters (both published by Viking). She reads from some of Kerouac's letters, and discusses how he translated his life into his writing. CHARTERS teaches at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.

Journalist/Rock Historian DANIEL WOLFF has written a new biography, You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke (Morrow) WOLFF was aided in his research by many people who were close to Cooke. One of them, S.R. CRAIN, a co-founder of the Soul Stirrers (Sam Cooke) and later Cooke's manager, is also interviewed. Susan Richardson of Rolling Stone describes WOLFF'S book as "alive, springing off the page to engage you like the latest box office draw." WOLFF has also written about pop and gospel for Vogue, Musician , The Nation and many other publications

NPR'S DAVID MOLPUS REPORTS THAT ALTHOUGH EXPERTS AGREE THAT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DEFINITELY HELPED MINORITIES INITIALLY, THEY ARE NOW QUESTIONING THE LONG TERM BENEFITS, EXPECIALLY AMONG MINORITIES.