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Actor CHRISTOPHER WALKEN. He got his start in the business as a tap-dancing kid and went on to play some of the most menacingly evil characters around. His films include –At Close Range,— –The Comfort of Strangers,— –King of New York,— –The Dead Zone,— and –Annie Hall— (in which he played Annies creepy brother who had an impulse to drive his car into oncoming traffic.) His new film is –The Opportunists.— 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on Republican Presidential Nominee George W. Bush's low key treatment of the issue of foreign policy.

Host Alex Chadwick talks with Mario Martinez, county commissioner of Hale County, Texas, where the duties of local government were recently limited by the county attorney.

NPR's Renee Montagne profiles writer Thomas Lynch. He's an award winning essayist and poet ...and he leads a double life. Lynch also is the proprietor of Lynch and Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. (8:40) The name of the book mentioned Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch is published by W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 03930

Host Alex Chadwick talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts and Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report about this week's Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Last night, Texas governor George W. Bush accepted his party's presidential nomination in a speech that warned of a tough fight ahead against Vice President Al Gore.

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN continues.In light of the news that Republican V-P candidate Dick Cheneys daughter is a lesbian, we speak to two people close to the issue. First, REVEREND LOUIS SHELDON, Chairman and Founder of the Coalition for Traditional Values (www.traditionalvalues.org). The Coalition for Traditional Values is the largest non-denominational grassroots church lobby in America, founded in 1980. Then, Terry talks with WINNIE STACHELBERG(–STACK-el-berg—), Political Director of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian and gay political organization in the United States(www.hrc.org). Founded in 1980, it is a bi-partisan lobbying group.TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI gives us his take on the Republican National Convention coverage.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next fresh air playing the villain. . a conversation with actor CHRISTOPHER WALKEN. . .his films include –At Close Range,— –The Comfort of Strangers,— –King of New York,— and –The Dead Zone.— Hes starring in the new film –The Opportunists.— Then, we get reactions from both sides to the news that Dick Cheneys daughter is a lesbian. Later, T-V critic David Bianculli takes a look at G-O-P convention coverage. Join us for the next fresh air.

Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, talks to author Bob Greene about the bombing and the lingering effects of World War II on those who fought in it. Greene's previous conversations with Tibbets were the basis for his bestselling book, Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War.

Co-Host Madeleine Brand talks to Susan Fillapelli, a communications professor at the University of Auburn in Alabama about some of the speeches at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

Linda speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep who is travelling with the Bush-Cheney campaign on its train tour of several Great Lakes states. The newly nominated Republican team rallied in Philadelphia this morning, flew to Pittsburgh, and boarded a train for the Middle West.

As more than 70 fires burn across the west, fire managers are scrambling to deploy enough personnel to contain and fight the blazes. In Central Idaho, 500 army troops from Ft. Hood Texas are receiving some basic fire training as they prepare to join the 17,000 civilian firefighters in the west. NPR's Mark Roberts reports from McCall, Idaho.