Henry Sheehan points out on Fresh Air today that while K-19 is prompting elbow nudges for the fact that it's an action movie directed by a woman, it's not like there are any great male action movie directors, so Katheryn Bigelow is anything but an apprentice in a mastered genre.

Also on the show, interesting interviews (on tape from months ago, but still provocative) with Sarah Jessica Parker and writer Michael Patrick King of Sex and the City:

http://freshair.npr.org/dayFA.cfm?display=day&todayDate=07/19/2002