Fresh Air, Matt Damon and John Ridley

Actor Matt Damon and writer John Ridley on this edition of Fresh Air. Matt Damon's film The Bourne Identity is being released on DVD next week. The Bourne Identity is a thriller about a man with amnesia flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, riddled with bullet holes. Damon has been in many hit films, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, Saving Private Ryan and Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with close friend Ben Affleck. John Ridley wrote the screenplay for the film Undercover Brother, which began life as a web site animation. The film, now out on DVD, is an action comedy, which pokes fun at black action films of the 70s and racial stereotypes. Ridley's latest novel is A Conversation with the Mann, about a black comic in the civil rights era of the early sixties. (Original Broadcast Dates: June 19, 2002 and January 10, 2002)