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Ann Curry was named news anchor for NBC News's Today in 1997 and is also a correspondent for Dateline NBC. At the beginning of the war in Iraq in 2003, Ms. Curry reported live from the aircraft carrier Constellation soon after its planes were dropping the first bombs over Baghdad. Immediately following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Ms. Curry reported extensively from the World Trade Center site, and when the US bombed Al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan in November 2001, she reported from the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt.

Terry Gross, host of the radio program Fresh Air for more than 25 years, isn't afraid to ask tough questions, but she sets an atmosphere in which her guests volunteer the answers rather than surrender them. Ms. Gross began her radio career in 1973 at public radio station WBFO in Buffalo, New York. Two years later, she joined the staff of WHYY-FM in Philadelphia as producer and host of Fresh Air, then a local, daily interview and music program. In 1985, WHYY-FM launched a weekly half-hour edition of Fresh Air With Terry Gross, which was distributed nationally by National Public Radio (NPR). Since 1987, a daily, one-hour national edition of Fresh Air has been produced by WHYY-FM; it now airs on 425 stations.

James Lipton has interviewed more than 170 contemporary film, theater, and television talents as host of Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio. An accomplished actor, director, choreographer, producer, and writer, Mr. Lipton created what has been referred to as "a unique archive" of in-depth looks at the crafts of acting, directing, and writing. The extensive information he compiles during the two weeks required for each interview is the basis for his questions, which are printed from his computer on the 300 to 400 blue cards for which the show has become noted.

Patricia Cohen is theater editor for The New York Times.

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