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2: SUSAN DOUGLAS is a professor of media and American studies at Hampshire College. She has just written a book "Where the Girls Are (Random House)," that looks at women in baby-boomer pop culture. She explains how the media's alternating images of stereotypical femininity and feminism created a kind of "schizophrenia" in American women. She talks about how this confusion has caused ambivalence in American women about what feminism means. In her book, she deconstructs such TV shows as "Bewitched," whose female heroines have magical powers, and "Mary Tyler Moore," whose heroine remains permanently poised between and assertiveness and submissiveness.

Daughter of Everything is a superb pop album with one foot in the past and another in the future.

Husband and wife song writing team, BARRY MANN and CYNTHIA WEIL, the duo responsible for such songs as –Youve Lost that Loving Feeling,— –On Broadway,— –We Gotta Get Out of This Place,— –Here You Come Again,— –Dont Know Much,— and more. The two met when they were both working in the famous songwriting landmark, the Brill Building MANN as a composer and WEIL as a lyricist. The two have been writing ever since. In edition to their many pop hits, MANN and WEIL have also written songs for films. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW.) 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

Singer/Songwriter ELVIS COSTELLO. In the late 1970s he burst out of Britian's pop-music scene with a sound and attitude never seen before. He was the angry young-man with a fresh sound. He's known for making connections between different musical communities. He's collaborated with Paul McCartney, Ruben Blades, Aimee Mann of "'til Tuesday," David Was of "Was (Not Was)," and T. Bone Burnett. The last time COSTELLO was on the show, he had been working with the Brodsky Quartet (known for its interpretations of music by Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven and Bartok) on the release, "The Juliet Letters," (Warner Bros.) Now COSTELLO is back with his original band, "The Attractions," and with producer Nick Lowe. Their latest release is "Brutal Youth," (Warner Bros).

Shrek the Third isn't a great hand-hold movie (action for the kiddies, pop-culture cleverness for the folks), but it's a flat-out triumph of comedy writing, and its slob-happy world view still has appeal.

Roller Derby is being revived at the grassroots level, an effort led by women like those who are part of Baltimore's Charm City Roller Girls... one of dozens of all-female roller derby leagues popping up around the country.

The South Carolina "kid rock" trio Lunch Money has a new CD out titled Dizzy. The group's hook-filled melodies and indie-pop arrangements have a familiar appeal to kids and adults alike.

Tickets to a reunion concert of the pop group in London sold out in 38 seconds this week.

Robert talks to NPR's Don Gonyea about testimony today in so-ccalled "Doctor Death" Jack Kevorkian's trial for yet another assisted suicide.- 8. I SHOT ANDY WARHOL - Critic Bob Mondello reviews the film "I Shot Andy Warhol," opening this week. The movie tells the story of outlaw lesbian feminist Valerie Solanus [suh-LAHN-us], who, in addition to shooting the pop artist, promoted a radical manifesto for doing away with all men. (3:30) FUNDER 0:29 CUTAWAY 0:59 =========================SECOND HOUR======================= BILLBOARD :59 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2A 9. POLITICS THIS WEEK - Noah talks to NPR's national political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold about the efforts by Republicans to repeal the gas tax, efforts by Democrats to raise the minimum wage, and the passage of the immigration bill in the Senate this week.

Robert talks to NPR's Don Gonyea about testimony today in so-ccalled "Doctor Death" Jack Kevorkian's trial for yet another assisted suicide.- 8. I SHOT ANDY WARHOL - Critic Bob Mondello reviews the film "I Shot Andy Warhol," opening this week. The movie tells the story of outlaw lesbian feminist Valerie Solanus [suh-LAHN-us], who, in addition to shooting the pop artist, promoted a radical manifesto for doing away with all men. (3:30) FUNDER 0:29 CUTAWAY 0:59 =========================SECOND HOUR======================= BILLBOARD :59 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2A 9. POLITICS THIS WEEK - Noah talks to NPR's national political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold about the efforts by Republicans to repeal the gas tax, efforts by Democrats to raise the minimum wage, and the passage of the immigration bill in the Senate this week.