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John talks to Weekend Edition entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the spate of bad tv shows featuring movie stars.

Texas Tech University has decided to hire the highly combustible former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight. Knight was fired by Indiana after a series of confrontations with players, officials and fans over the years. He also won three national championships at Indiana.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Indonesia on President Abdur Rachman Wahid problems.

Ahead of his delivery of a Jefferson Lecture in Washington, D.C., playwright Arthur Miller talks about his lecture topic: Politics and the Art of Acting. He calls it an "attempt to contrast the sincerity of certain people with the performance psychology of so many of them," from FDR, Clinton and Gore to Reagan and George W. Bush.

The Belfast Giants, a hockey team made up of American and Canadian players, is enjoying great popularity in the capital of Northern Ireland. Laura Haydon reports.

A recently unearthed ditty from crooner Wayne Newton....the Newton Rascal Boogie, recorded with his brother, Jerry, in the mid 1950's for the Lou King Rangers television show.

John talks with musician Ben Harper. Next week, Mr. Harper releases his fifth album. It's a two-CD set of concert recordings called Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals: Live From Mars (Virgin Records America).

NPR's John Burnett reports on a radio station in San Antonio that broadcasts the locale of Border Patrol agents to undocumented workers.

Are we in a slowdown, or the beginning of a recession? The Economic Cycle Research Institute studies the stock market and other economic indicators, and NPR's Kathy Schalch has a report on what it thinks is coming.

Tandaleya Wilder of member station WSHU reports on a recent survey of teen gambling in Connecticut. The Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling found that 87-percent of high school students had gambled at some point in their lives. The state-sponsored lottery was their favorite form of legalized gambling.