Fresh Air with Terry Gross, July 19, 1993: Interview with Nancy Mairs; Interview with Jeff Apple and Jeff Maguire; Review of the film 'Orlando.'

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INT. 1: .Poet, writer, and teacher NANCY MAIRS. She's a Catholic feminist, who started out Protestant, and who late in life became a feminist. She calls herself, "the connoisseur of catastrophe." She's known for writing honestly about her struggles with multiple sclerosis, depression, and the life-threatening illness of her husband, also about being a woman, a mother, and a wife. Her newest book of personal essays is "Ordinary Time," (Beacon). One reviewer calls it "a small miracle of honesty mediated by dignity and humor." INT. 2: Producer JEFF APPLE and writer JEFF MAGUIRE. Their latest project is the new film, "In the Line of Fire," starring Clint Eastwood as a burnt-out Secret Service agent, haunted by the assassination of President Kennedy. APPLE has produced hundreds of TV commercials as well as documentaries and promotional films. He came up with the idea for the film, and approached MAGUIRE to write the film script. REV. : Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new film, "Orlando," based on the novel by Virginia Wolff.