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Film Critic STEPHEN SCHIFF on "Guarding Tess", starring Shirley McClaine and Nicholas Cage.

2: Actor BRIAN BENBEN is co-starring in the new movie, "Radioland Murders," as a radio scriptwriter trying to save his marriage. BENBEN also stars in "Dream On," the HBO comedy series. "The New York Times" has called his "Dream On" character "an adult Charlie Brown," with "offbeat charm."

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews Tom Hanks'' new movie "Forrest Gump

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reflects on "Homicide: Life on the Streets" on NBC.

2: Writer WALTER MOSLEY. His first book, "Devil In A Blue Dress," (Norton) is a hard-boiled detective story starring a black gumshoe up against white prejudice. MOSLEY's mysteries are loosely based on stories his father told him about black culture the 1940's. His latest book is called "A Red Death" (Thorndike). (REBROADCAST FROM 6/8/90)Mystery writer SUE GRAFTON. Her heroine, Kinsey Millhone, is a new breed of hard-boiled detective: competent and self-reliant, thirty-two years old, twice married with no kids, and currently single. The Kinsey Millhone mystery series began with "A is for Alibi" , and continues through the alphabet. GRAFTON's latest mystery is "I is for Innocent" (Fawcett). (REBROADCAST FROM 5

2: Holding immigrants responsible for various health epidemics has been an American pastime for two centuries argues ALAN KRAUT, Professor of History at American University. Just as the Irish were wrongly blamed for the cholera epidemic in the 1830's so too were Haitians in Miami branded as AIDS carriers in the 1980's. His new book "Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, & the "Immigrant Menace"" (Basic Books) traces how immigration policy and health care have been affected by xenophobia and public fears of contamination.

New York Times Reporter CHRIS HEDGES. He's based in Cairo, Egypt where he covers the Middle East. Terry will talk with him about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in countries like Sudan, Algeria, Egypt, and Jordan. She'll also talk with HEDGES about being held captive at the end of the Gulf War by Saddam's Republican Guard. He was held along with NPR's Neil Conan. Before HEDGES covered the MidEast for The New York Times, he was reporting out of Central America.

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2: Television executive and first time novelist, EUGENE STEIN. STEIN's novel is "Straightjacket & Tie" (Ticknor & Fields) a coming of age story about a teenager beginning to understand his sexuality and his newly schizophrenic older brother. He is helped along by a family of wisecracking space aliens visible only to a small segment of the population, including "Jewish lefties with a family history of mental illness". STEIN is a Vice President for Comedy at ABC Productions, and a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism.

2: Singer/Actress DONNA MURPHY. In 1986, Donna Murphy was a woman in drag in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." In 1991, she was introduced as "a girl who will steal your heart and then forget where she put it," playing the amnesiac songstress in "Song of Singapore." Having become one of Broadway's most sought-after actresses, MURPHY is now playing the lead in Stephen Sondheim's latest musical, "Passion." Of the role, which has her playing an ugly, hysterical woman obsessively pursuing a handsome army captain, MURPHY says, "I love transformation of any kind...I want to look in the mirror and not see Donna looking back at me."