We continue our Classic Films and Movie Icons series and feature archival interviews with Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini. They co-starred in the movie Blue Velvet, and after it became a hit, both of their careers were redefined.

Later, on the centennial of singer Dinah Washington's birth, jazz historian Kevin Whitehead has appreciation.

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