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Fargo Star and Oscar Winner Frances McDormand

This week, McDormand won an Academy Award for her performance as the very pregnant chief-of-police in a rural Minnesota town in the film "Fargo." She's worked with the Coen Brothers for 14 years, beginning with their film "Blood Simple." She also had roles in "Raising Arizona" "Mississippi Burning" and "Lonestar." (REBROADCAST from 5/6/96)

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Other segments from the episode on March 28, 1997

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 28, 1997: Interview with Frances McDormand; Interview with Walter Murch; Review of Kristen Bakis's novel "Lives of the Monster Dogs."
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Film Editor and Sound Designer Walter Murch

This week Murch won an Academy award for editing of the film "The English Patient" Previously, he won an Academy Award for sound design for "Apolcolypse Now." Some of the films he's edited and/or mixed are "The Conversation," "American Graffiti," "Apocalypse Now," "The Godfather (II, and III)"and "Crumb." He's also written a book about his work, "In the Blink of An Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing," (Silman-James Press, L.A.) (REBROADCAST from 4/15/96)

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