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An audio postcard from NPR's Melissa Block in New York, who stumbled upon a movie set in New York, without realizing it...

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with Marshall Goldman, Associate Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University and Melor (MELL-or) Sturua (stir-OO-ah), Senior Fellow at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Policy, about Sunday's elections in Russia.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on tomorrow's election in Albania.

Elvis: Weekend Edition entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell talks about the disparity between movies and television when it comes to opportunities for women.

SCIENCE PROJECT: Essayist Susan Arnout Smith recounts the story of her on's grade school science project.

- Danny talks with NPR's Anne Garrels who is in Moscow about the latest on Russia's presidential elections. He'll also be joined by Sarah Mendelson, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York in Albany who is currently in Moscow who will discuss implications for Russia's future.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports that Boris Yeltsin and the rebel leader in Chechnya have agreed to a ceasefire beginning Saturday in the 17 month-old war. It was not clear whether the Russian military would observe the ceasefire, and the thorniest issue -- the question of Chechen independence -- was put on the back burner.

- Tom talks with MIT economist Lester Thurow about the consequences of a growing elderly population in America. Analysts predict the elderly will become a political majority by the year two-thousand twenty-five. Thurow argues that will change the face of American society, from government to business.

Reporter Dean Olsher remembers a high school reunion he attended last year -- his grandfather's!

- Jazz great Ella Fitzergald - America's "First Lady of Song" - died today. She was 78 years old. Fitzgerald had been in declining health for years. Howard Mandel (Howard MAN-duhl) reports.

Robert Siegel speaks with an Israeli who will vote for the Likud party in tomorrow's election. Ofer Mizrachi (OH-fair miz-RAH-hee), a Sephardic (seh-FAR-dik) Jew, lives with his family in a Tel Aviv suburb close to the border between Israel and the West Bank. He says he is afraid of the final deal that Shimon Peres will make with the Palestinians.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Jane Raymond, a chemistry rofessor from Pasadena, California. Her public radio stations are KPCC in asadena and KCRW in Santa Monica.)