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Nichols directed such movies as The Graduate and Birdcage and Broadway musicals such as Spamalot. He won nine Tony Awards. Nichols died Wednesday at 83. He talked with Terry Gross in 2001.

Tony Award-winning Fiorello! is a big-hearted look at Mayor La Guardia and his battle for the people of New York City. With music and lyrics by Tony…

T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the latest of MTV''s "Unplugged" concert series, featuring Tony Bennett.

Actor, CLARENCE WILLIAMS III. He is best known as the bell-bottomed clad hippie cop on the "The Mod Squad." WILLIAMS is noted as a theater actor and Tony Award nominee. In addition, he has appeared in numerous TV shows such as "The Cosby Show" and "Hill Street Blues", and films such as "Purple Rain" and "Sugar Hill." WILLIAMS plays a mortician in the new action horror film "Tales From The Hood.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London that British prime minister Tony Blair remained defiant today, vowing not to give in to protests against high fuel prices. But Blair said the blockades of refineries are posing a "real danger" to the nation's health services. The government says doctors and nurses can't get to work, and operations are being cancelled. Supermarkets are starting to ration food, for fear deliveries will soon be cut because of the gas shortages.

Producer-director Harold Prince is the producer of 3hree, three one-act musicals which opened last week in Philadelphia. He also directs one of the three musicals The Flight of the Lawnchair Man. In the 46 years of his career, he has won 20 Tony Awards in music theater, as well as acclaim for his work in film, drama and opera.

Shes currently appearing in Lysistrata at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia. Jones is a founding member of the American Repertory Theatre and has appeared in 23 A.R.T. productions. Shes won Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League awards. Jones has starred or appeared in many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Her film appearances include The Perfect Storm, Cradle Will Rock and the upcoming Signs, directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

The House Judiciary Committee holds hearings on the "Downing Street Memo," notes that suggest the Bush administration decided to invade Iraq months before the conflict began. The memo is from a meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair with his aides in July 2002.

President Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar reinforce today's deadline for the U.N. Security Council to endorse the use of force to compel Iraq's immediate disarmament. Meeting with the foreign leaders in the Azores for an emergency summit, President Bush calls today a "moment of truth for the world." Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair end two days of war talks at Camp David. At a joint news conference, President Bush vows to persevere for "however long it takes" to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.