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2: Filmmaker ROSS MCEWLEE. (Pronounced "Mac-al-wee") His new film is "Time Indefinite", a very autobiographical documentary about his marriage, the birth of his son and the death of his parents. MCEWLEE'S earlier film "Sherman's March" started out as a documentary about Civil War General William Sherman's march to the sea and ended up a examination of personal identity and the mysteries of love.

2: South African playwright ATHOL FUGARD. He still makes his home in South Africa, though he writes plays which confront the apartied system; his plays were the among the first to bring white and black actors on stage together. Perhaps his most well known play was "Master Harold and the Boys"; his latest work was 1993's "Playland." (Rebroa Professor of African Literature (at the University of Pittsburgh) DENNIS BRUTUS. An exiled poet, he spent years in prison with Nelson Mandela; he has since been granted a passport from South Africa, though he chooses to live in the United States. (Rebroa

Cartooonist ART SPIEGELMAN, author of "Maus," for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and "Maus II." The two book-length comics are accounts of SPIEGELMAN's parents' experiences in the Holocaust. He is also co-founder and editor of "Raw," a magazine of avant-garde comics. He has now illustrated "The Wild Party: The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March" (Pantheon

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews Woody Allen''s new movie, "Bullets Over Broadway."

Linguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG comments on the inportence of language to the French.

Author ROBB FORMAN DEW. In her novels--"Dale Loves Sophie to Death" (Harper Perennial) and "Fortunate Lives" (Harper Perennial)--DEW explored the ambiguities and intricacies of families. So she thought she understood the complexities of family love. But then her son informed her he is gay. DEW has written a new memoir about her son's coming out and the family evolution that followed. It's her non-fiction debut and it's called "The Family Heart" (Addison-Wesley). (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 5/12/94.

2: Neurophysiologist WILLIAM CALVIN. He assisted in neurosurgery on a patient named Neil. Neil was to have a portion of his temporal lobe removed to cure his severe epilepsy. But the neurosurgeon, George Ojemann, had to know where to cut. A mistake could cost Neil part of his normal brain function. So, while Neil was awake on the operating table, Dr. Ojemann, probed and stimulated Neil's exposed brain, the whole time carrying on a conversation with the patient. The purpose was to create a detailed roadmap of Neil's brain functioning. CALVIN and co-author George Ojemann wrote about this surgical journey in their new book "Conversations with Neil's Brain: the Neural Nature of Thought and Language" (Addison-Wesley).

Theologian HARVEY COX. His new book is "Fire From Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-first Century" (Addison-Wesley). It is estimated that by the year 2010, there will be more Pentecostals than all other non-Catholic Christians put together. COX traces the growth of the religion from its origins in a converted stable in Los Angeles in 1906 to its present membership of 410 million worldwide. COX is a professor of divinity at Harvard Divinity School, and the author of "The Secular City."

DAVID WHYTE is a poet who uses poetry to teach corporate executives and employees how to find satisfaction in the work place. In his new book, "The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America," (Doubleday) WHYTE looks at the ways people can use their careers not only as a means to earning a living, but as a way of finding personal happiness. WHYTE has served as a consultant for such companies as AT&T and Kodak, teaching his clients how to use poetry and myth to find happiness in the workplace. He also runs a small press in Seattle, Washington.

Foreign correspondent for "Newsday," ROY GUTMAN. He and his photographer were the first western journalists to report on genocide in a Serb-run concentration camp. Shortly after the story was published the camp was closed and the Red Cross let in. Their reporting led to public outrage, and official condemnation by the United Nations. GUTTMAN won a Pulitzer Prize for this reporting. The dispatches have now been collected in a new book, "A Witness to Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dispatches on the 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Bosnia." (Macmillan Publishing). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE