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Hear the late Beverly Sills and filmmaker Werner Herzog on this edition of Fresh Air. First, classical-music critic Lloyd Schwartz pays tribute to opera singer Beverly Sills, who died Monday at the age of 78 from lung cancer. Then, we feature a 1985 interview with Sills. Also, film critic David Edelstein reviews Rescue Dawn, the first Hollywood feature film by Werner Herzog.

Former NPR reporter Sarah Chayes and current field director of Afghans for Civil Society on this edition of Fresh Air. Afghans for Civil Society is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded to promote a democratic alternative and to assist in the development of a civil society. ACS involves the community in reconstruction efforts: everything from physical reconstruction of a bombed-out village, to organizing a women's income generating project to launching an independent radio station.

The host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, Scott Simon and remembering dancer Gwen Verdon on this edition of Fresh Air. Simon's written a memoir, Home & Away: Memoir of a Fan. Fresh Air remembers dancer Gwen Verdon. She died today at the age of 75. She became an overnight Broadway sensation in 1953 as a dancer in Can Can, for which she won her first Tony Award.

Hear United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, book critic Maureen Corrigan, and rock critic Ken Tucker, on this edition of Fresh Air. From 1996 to 2000 Louise Arbour, a Canadian, was chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. She indicted former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

John Lasseter, Executive Vice President of Creative for Pixar, Inc. on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Lasseter was one of the founding members of the computer animated filmmaking company. He served as Director and Animator of the feature films Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and A Bug's Life. He was also Executive Producer of Monsters, Inc. Toy Story was the first computer-animated feature film.

Novelist Jay McInerney and actress Eva Marie Saint on this edition of Fresh Air. Jay McInerney broke onto the literary scene with his best selling novel Bright Lights, Big City, about the excesses of the a Manhattan yuppie in the 1980s. His new book is a collection of essays about the pleasure of wine. It's called Bacchus & Me: Adventures in the Wine Cellar.

Actress Tracey Ullman, and authors Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor on this edition of Fresh Air. Ullman plays Frenchy, a manicurist married to an ex-con dishwasher in Woody Allen's new comedy Small Time Crooks. She also worked with Allen on two of his previous films Bullets Over Broadway and Everyone Says I Love You. Ullman is the star of her own shows, HBO's Tracey Takes On, and The Tracey Ullman Show.

Hear actor Michael Chiklis and songwriter Bobby Braddock on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael Chiklis stars as rogue cop Del Vik Mackey in the FX Channel dramatic series The Shield. The Peabody award-winning show is now in its sixth season. Previously, Chiklis starred in The Commish. Over the years, he's also made guest appearances on Seinfeld, L.A. Law, Miami Vice, and Wise Guy.

Hear Win Butler and Regine Chassagne of Arcade Fire on this edition of Fresh Air. Win Butler and Regine Chassagne are the husband and wife team who lead the art-rock band Arcade Fire, which hails from Montreal. They have two albums to their credit: Neon Bible and their 2004 debut album, Funeral. The band is made up of seven performers whose instruments, at times, include Dobro, hurdy-gurdy, piano, sax, violin, harpsichord, xylophone, and Caribbean steel drums.

Hear Romanian film writer-director Cristian Mungiu on this edition of Fresh Air. Mungiu's film 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is about a young woman who gets an illegal abortion during the final days of the communist Ceausescu regime. The film won the Palme d'Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the top prize.

Syndicated columnist and biographer Richard Reeves and Pakistani novelist and New Yorker writer Moshin Hamid on this edition of Fresh Air. Richard Reeves' most recent book is President Nixon: Alone in the White House. He's also written books about Presidents Reagan, Kennedy, Clinton, and Ford. Reeves lived in Pakistan during the 1980s.

Actor Alec Baldwin and Al Roker of The Today Show on this edition of Fresh Air. Baldwin is starring in the new film The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers, and in the upcoming film The Cooler with William H. Macy. Baldwin's other films include State and Main, Glengarry Glen Ross, and The Hunt for Red October.

Hear director, screenwriter, musician, and actor Christopher Guest; actor, comedian, composer, and musician Michael McKean; and vocal coach Melissa Cross, on this edition of Fresh Air. Christopher Guest co-wrote the rock parody This Is Spinal Tap (and the other mockumentaries Best in Show and A Mighty Wind), and he was a writer and regular performer on Saturday Night Live. (Original Airdate: 9/14/1989)

John Lasseter, Executive Vice President of Creative for Pixar, Inc. on this edition of Fresh Air.

Founder of the Federal Witness Protection Program Gerald Shur and journalist Pete Earley on this edition of Fresh Air. They've collaborated on the new book, WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program. Shur started the program in the 1960s after realizing that many witnesses would not testify because they were afraid of being killed as a result. WITSEC assigns a new identity and relocates witnesses and their dependents.

Psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela on this edition of Fresh Air. Her new book is A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness. It's about Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads.

Journalist James Bennet on this edition of Fresh Air. Bennet is The New York Times's Jerusalem Bureau Chief. He's been in the Middle East covering how the crisis there is affecting both Israelis and Palestinians. (Broadcast Date: July 23, 2002)

Lieutenant Colonel Martha McSally and her lawyer, John Whitehead, on this edition of Fresh Air. Martha McSally is our nation's highest-ranking female fighter pilot. Last month, she sued the Defense Department for its policy toward women military personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia. When traveling off-base women are required to wear traditional Islamic religious clothing, covering themselves from head to foot.

P.W. (Peter) Singer, security analyst at The Brookings Institution and writer and physician John Murray on this edition of Fresh Air. P.W. Singer is an Olin Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and Coordinator of the Brookings Project on U.S. Policy towards the Islamic World. He is also the author of the new book, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry.

Comedian and actor Tim Meadows and singer Keely Smith on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Meadows was a regular on TV's Saturday Night Live for some nine years. Leon the Ladies Man, a swingin' politically incorrect radio love doctor that he played on the show, is featured in the film The Ladies Man, now available on video. Keely Smith has been called "The Queen of Swing" and "The First Lady of Las Vegas." Smith is perhaps best known as the duet partner and wife of Louis Prima.