I remember catching that--last spring, was it?--and being struck by the loathing Terry Gross permitted to surface in her voice. I'd heard her become slightly flustered during other interviews (most notably, perhaps, when, interviewing actor/director Paul Bartel, she innocently asked him a question predicated on her assumption that he and leading lady Mary Woronov were an item; he corrected her, noting that he was gay, and she made strangled noises on-air for a couple of seconds), and it was gratifying that on this occasion she showed a spine of steel. And Simmons won't allow transcripts to be circulated? Perhaps he got a clue...

cordially,