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Speech Therapist SAM CHWAT. Chwat's "New York Speech Improvement Services" attracts 200 to 250 clients a week. He taught Robert DeNiro how to gain an Appalachian accent for his role in "Cape Fear." Julia Roberts sought him out to relearn her southern drawl for "Steel Magnolias." He helped another southerner, Andie McDowell, after her lines for "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan" were dubbed by Glenn Close. In addition to the stars, Chwat assists people in business, politics, and communications to lose their accents and or to learn Standard American English. (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 6/27/94.

Legendary American filmmaker, MARTIN SCORCESE. As part of a retrospective of his work by the Film Society of Lincoln Centerthis summer, The Department of Cinema Studies at Tisch School of the Arts presented "An Evening With Martin Scorcese," a wide ranging question and answer session taped live before an audience at New York University. We play a portion of this discussion, where Scorcese examines the art of cinema and his own body of work. SCORCESE has recently funded the restoration of the Hollywood Classic "El Cid" and released his new film, "Age of Innocence". REBROADCAST FROM 6

He's the man behind the family adventure films Spy Kids and Spy Kids 2. His list of credits include writer, director, producer, director of photography, production designer, editor, visual effects supervisor, sound designer, re-recording mixer and composer. His first feature film was El Mariachi, which he made in 1993 for $7,000. It won the Audience Award for best dramatic film at the Sundance Film Festival. He also wrote a book about making El Mariachi called Rebel Without a Crew. Spy Kids 2 is now out on video. This interview first aired August 6, 2002.

This Tiny Desk Contest entry is a psychedelic invocation of the "sombra en el cielo" ("shadow in the sky") that takes us to the afterlife.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with winner Nancy Tolisano and puzzlemaster Will Shortz

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Jane Brody literally wrote the book, and the newspaper column, on personal health. Brody has written on medicine and health for the New York Times for…

It's that time again -- cold and flu season. And if a family member or close co-worker comes down with a cold, what's the best way to avoid catching…