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Chicago-based blues guitarist BUDDY GUY. Eric Clapton has called him "by far and without a doubt the best guitar player alive." Guy was born in Louisiana, son of a sharecropper. He moved to Chicago in the late fifties and played with all the greats...including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Junior Wells. Guy's now having a comeback. Guy has a new album, "Feels Like Rain." (Silvertone), which follows his Grammy-winning release, "Damn Right I've Got the Blues." (Rebroadcast from 8/

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews "Shanghaied on Tor Road," a new release of German improviser and guitarist Hans Reichel playing an instrument of his own invention, the daxophone. (FMP music).

Film director ANDREW DAVIS. Davis' string of action-thriller hits include last year's "Under Siege" with Steven Seagal and a Chuck Norris picture "Code of Silence". His latest film is a remake of a TV series from the 1960's "The Fugitive" starring Harrison Ford. Davis' Hollywood credentials belie his journalistic background: he began his film career as an assistant cameraman to Haskell Wexler on "Medium Cool" which was filmed during and uses footage of the chaos of the 1968 Democratic Convention. Davis served as a PBS reporter and then moved to Los Angeles, where he was director of photography on 15 films before his debut as a director in 1979.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf," by Kathryn Davis.

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2: Former Congresswoman LINDY BOGGS, who became Louisiana's first woman member of Congress in 1972. She was elected after her husband, then House majority leader Hale Boggs, died in a plane crash. BOGGS was an advocate for civil rights and women's issues before her retirement in 1990. She is the mother of NPR and ABC-TV's Cokie Roberts, Washington lobbyist Thomas Hale Boggs, and the late Barbara Sigmund, who was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey. BOGGS has written her autobiography, "Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Woman" (Harcourt, Brace & Company).

Bandleader and pianist Eddi Palmieri. Through his first band, La Perfecta, labeled "the band with the crazy roaring elephants," Palmieri was credited with originating Latin jazz's trombone sound in New York during the sixties. With the release of "Palmas," (Elektra), many critics feel that this respected 58-year old innovater will finally get the exposure and respect that his sound has long merited. Palmieri's lobbying over the past year culminated in the announcement of a new Grammy Award category for Afro-Carribean Jazz. "I proposed the category to give proper distinction to that segment of jazz music based on rythmical elements and instrumentation of Africa, as opposed to jazz which developed from blues, gospel and other expressions of African-Americans.

2: Literary Spy Master, JOHN LE CARRE (pronounced "Luh Karay"). An author at the pinnacle of the espionage genre, LE CARRE has written such classics as "Smiley's People", "Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy", and "The Russia House". LE CARRE has shifted his gaze to the Gulf War and international arms dealers in his new novel "The Night Manager" (Alfred A. Knopf). (Rebroadcast from 6.25.93).

2: Miami Herald columnist and novelist CARL HIAASEN. "Strip Tease," Hiassen's fifth novel and latest gonzo thriller, is a yarn, pitting a seemy Florida politician against the star stripper at Miami's Eager Beaver club. Mr. Hiaasen has spun tales of environmentalists feeding tourists and senior citizens to alligators ("Tourist Season), of a villainous South Florida plastic surgeon who kills a woman during a nose job ("Skin Tight"), and about the amusement park, "The Amazing KIngdom of Thrills,' where one of the novel's heavies is loved to death by an amorous dolphin ("Native Tongue").

2: Actor DENNIS HOPPER. He made his film debut in "Rebel Without a Cause," and has appeared in "Blue Velvet," "Rivers Edge," and "Hoosiers." Hopper directed, co-wrote, and starred in the 60's classic, "Easy Rider," for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He has directed several films, including "Colors," and "The Hot Spot." He co-starred with Christian Slater in the 1993 movie "True Romance," and with Wesley Snipes in "Boiling Point." He currently appears in the new film "Speed" with Keanu Reeves, and stars in "Red Rock West," which also stars Nicholas Cage and Lara Flynn Boyle. (INTERVIEW RECORDED IN 10