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Critic Bob Mondello reviews the new Australian film 'Muriel's Wedding' and Ireland's 'Circle of Friends' which he feels have some similar traits.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr thinks there is indeed a New orld Order, but not the one former President Bush hoped for. Organized crime as taken hold, and may be taking over, in a number of countries that were ormerly communist.

Laura Seidel reports from New York on the extradition to Oklahoma of convicted double murderer Thomas Grasso. Grasso had been serving a sentence of 20 years to life in New York--a state with no death penalty--but is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma early tomorrow morning.

Jacki recently visited the Japanese music group the Kodo Drummers as they prepared for a concert at the Kennedy Center. We have this sound moment of the drummers.

SIMON/RUBE GOLDBERG: THE 8TH ANNUAL NATIONAL RUBE GOLDBERG CONTEST WAS HELD LAST SATURDAY, AND WON BY A TEAM OF EIGHT PURDUE STUDENTS FOR DESIGNING AND BUILDING A GADGET THAT CAN TURN ON A RADIO IN THE MOST ELABORATE MANNER. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH CHARLES KROUSGRILL (krowse-grill), PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY IN WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA, AND A JUDGE IN THE CONTEST.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

WEEKEND EDITION SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH SUSAN EISENHOWER, GRANDDAUGHTER OF THE LATE DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER AND FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTER FOR POST SOVIET STUDIES, AND ROALD SAGDEEV (row-ALD zag-DAY-ev), DIRECTOR EMERITUS OF THE SPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN MOSCOW, ABOUT THE CHANGES IN RUSSIA SINCE THEIR WEDDING, FIVE YEARS AGO.

STAMBERG/CUOMO: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG "CHASTIZES" MARIO CUOMO, WHO IS NOW OUR COMPETITION! THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK THAT HE WILL HOST HIS OWN TALK RADIO SHOW, WHICH WILL AIR SATURDAY MORNINGS.

Jacki talks to Bernard McMahon about the relationship between the CIA and the Congressional committees created to oversee the spy agency. McMahon, who as worked for both the CIA and the Congress, says that in terms of budget and management, the CIA does not mind Congress looking over its shoulder, but when it comes to operations, relations can be tense.

A certain co-dependence has long driven the relationship etween lobbyists and politicans in the Nation's capital. Much influence and nformation is channeled through these contacts. NPR's Peter Overby visited the efferson Group, a professional lobbying office in Washington D.C., and reports n the current state of this relationship, as well as the influence community's esponse to the first one-hundred days of the Republican-led Congress.