FDA Proposes Warnings For Ephedra; Election Preview; The Roy Jones Junior Fight; Hollywood History From The Bottom Up
FDA Proposes Warnings For Ephedra
In a press conference on Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and the FDA proposed that warning labels should appear on bottles of the popular herbal supplement Ephedra. This comes less than weeks after the heatstroke death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler, which a Florida medical examiner has linked to his use of ephedra. Larry talks with Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Election Preview
Larry Mantle discusses the upcoming Los Angeles County election including Los Angeles City Council candidates, Los Angeles Board of Education candidates, and various other municipal elections with Raphael Sonenshein, Professor of Political Science at Cal State University Fullerton, and author of Politics In Black and White: Race and Power In Los Angeles, and Jaime Regalado, Executive Director of the Edmund G. Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs, Cal State University Los Angeles.
The Roy Jones Junior Fight
Larry Mantle talks with Mackie Shilstone, performance trainer for Roy Jones Jr. about the fight that took place on Saturday night.
Hollywood History From The Bottom Up
Some of the biggest names in entertainment, including David Geffen, Barry Diller and Michael Ovitz began as trainees in talent agency mailrooms. In his new book, The Mailroom: Hollywood From The Bottom Up, veteran Hollywood writer, David Rensin travels behind the scenes and through sixty-five years of show business history to tell the real stories of the marvelous careers that began in the lowliest places.