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Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Bound by Honor," the new film directed Taylor Hackford.

2: Jazz vocalist BETTY CARTER. Her last album in her four decade career is "It's Not About the Melody," on the Verve Record Label. Carter signed to Verve in 1988, and released her Grammy-winning debut, Look What I Got, that same year. She has another album coming out in October called "Feed the Fire." She's often been called jazz's preeminent female singer. (REBROADCAST from 11

Novelist TIM O'BRIEN has been called "one of our most eloquent writers about Vietnam" (Playboy). "In the Lake of the Woods" (Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence) is his new novel about a man whose involvement in the war is much like O'BRIEN's. The character was at the My Lai massacre, as was O'BRIEN, and they shared a need to be accepted which drove many of their actions in the war.

The four-man comedy troupe, THE FIRESIGN THEATRE. The FIRESIGNS created satire out of the political and civil upsets of the late 1960's, drawing big underground radio and college campus audiences. Now, more than ten years since the last tour, THE FIRESIGN THEATRE is making a comeback. Known for their eclectic comedy routines, they're celebrating their 25th anniversary with a reunion tour. THE FIRESIGNS (Phil Proctor, Peter Bergman, Phil Austin, and David Ossman) got their start doing a late night radio talk show, "Radio Free Oz," with the host in the persona of the Wizard of Oz. Since then, the FIRESIGNS have done 13 comedy albums for CBS, including "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers.

Medical Examiner and "detective of death", MICHEAL BADEN, the former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City. BADEN argues that there is a national crisis in forensic medicine. He writes that the search for scientific truth is often sullied by the pressures of expediency and politics. His new book is "Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner" (Ivy Books). (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 1/12/94) DR. BADEN is now working on O.J. Simpson's defense team.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews this weekend''s HBO miniseries, "Laurel Avenue," about a large working class African American family in St. Paul, Minnesota.INT. 2: Baseball legend Mickey Mantle. We''ll hear a 1985 interview with the Yankees slugger, whose father had his career in pro baseball planned before he was born. Mantle played his entire 17-year career with one team, the New York Yankees.INT 3: A 1986 interview with former Yankees pitcher JIM BOUTON. In 1970, BOUTON''s memoir "Ball Four" was published. Those who wanted to maintain major league baseball''s image as the home of heroes were scandalized by the book; others thought it was about time someone revealed that baseball is full of real people and real problems. "Ball Four" made an enemy for Bouton of baseball legend Mickey Mantle by reminiscing about Mantle''s on- and off-field drunkenness.

Author LINDA GRAY SEXTON has just written "Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton" (Little, Brown), her seventh book. She spent a long time coming to terms with her relationship with her mother, who committed suicide in 1974. REV.: Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG tells us about his hand held electronic dictionary.

JOHN GOODMAN may be best known for his role as Dan Connor, a.k.a. Roseanne's husband, on the hit TV show "Roseanne." But he's been able to do what most cannot--carry on a successful film career and TV role at the same time. GOODMAN has appeared as a back-slapping traveling salesman who's also a demonic murderer in "Barton Fink," and as home run king Babe Ruth in "The Babe." His new movie is a remake of the Hollywood classic "Born Yesterday."

2: Journalist NGUYEN QUI DUC. He works for KALW-FM in San Francisco, supplies commentaries to NPR and received the Overseas Press Club's 1989 Award of Excellence for his public radio series about returning to Viet Nam. NGUYEN has written a new memoir about his family's struggle during and after the war. NGUYEN's father was an official in the South Vietnamese government who was captured by the Viet Cong and imprisoned for 12 years. In 1975, NGUYEN gained passage to the U.S. on a cargo ship, and moved about from relative to relative until he settled in California. His mother stayed behind in Vietnam, lost her job as a school princpal and hawked beef noodle soup on the streets of Sai Gon. Eventually NGUYEN was reunited with his family in the U.S. His new memoir is "Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family." (Addison-Wesley).

Rock Critic Ken Tucker reviews Ill Communication, the new album by The Beastie Boys.