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Writer A.E. HOTCHNER. His memoir, about growing up in a flophouse during the depression, "King of the Hill," is being made into a movie, directed by Stephen Soderbergh (who directed "Sex, Lives, and Videotape). Hotchner is best known for his controversial 1966 biography of his personal friend Ernest Hemingway, "Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir." Presented in the unusual form of dialogue, Hotchner faced criticism from the literary community and an attempt by Hemingway's widow to ban the sale of the book.

Former Major Leaguer KEITH HERNANDEZ. Called by some baseball purists the finest First Baseman in the game, HERNANDEZ played with the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Mets, and the Cleveland Indians. He is the winner of eleven consecutive Golden Glove Awards for fielding, and played in two World Championships. HERNANDEZ's new book is "Pure Baseball: Pitch by Pitch for the Advanced Fan" (Harper): analysis of two 1993 match-ups, with play by play commentary, based on his seventeen years in the game. (Rebroadcast Originally aired 2/

A broadcast of a panel held at New York University in April called "Cops and Writers: Crime and Punishment in Literature and Real Life." The panel, sponsored by the PEN American Center and The New York Review of Books, features police officials and writers, including crime writer Walter Mosley, whose novel "Black Betty" is on the bestseller list, and author Joyce Carol Oates. The panel focuses on the fine line between crime fiction and crime reality. The writers talk about the fact that crime novelists generally draw on real criminals and real crimes to create their characters and plot. While these crime novels often seem implausible to readers, they say, what happens in the real world of crime is often even more unbelievable.

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TV critic David Bianculli reviews a new mystery-comedy series NBC seems eager to kill.

2: Comic writer and actor CHRIS ELLIOTT. He was an emmy-award winning writer for "Late Night with David Letterman," where he originated such characters as "the panicky guy" and "the guy under the seats." ELLIOTT followed his success on the Letterman show with his own FOX TV-series, "Get A Life," about a young adult man who lives with his parents and has a paper route. It was a cult hit. ELLIOTT comes to the business naturally. His father is Bob Elliott, one half of the comedy duo "Bob & Ray." ELLIOTT has a new tongue-in-cheek book, "Daddy's Boy: A Son's Shocking Account of Life with a Famous Father," and he's starring in a new movie, "Cabin Boy."

2: WU NINGKUN (WOO NING-kwun), author of a new personal and political memoir, A Single Tear, about surviving three decades of Communist rule in China. Wu was born in China and received his college education in the United States. He left a promising academic career in this country to return to China in 1951 with hopes that the new Communist regime would benefit his country. Instead, he was labeled counter-revolutionary for teaching works by Western authors and was sentenced to serve time at various labor camps and prisons. He now lives in the United States with his family. (Atlantic Monthly Press).

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD is back on his usual beat, after a stint of movie reviewing. He reviews three releases by alto saxophonist Lee Konitz: 1) Zounds (Soul Note); Lee Konitz and Chet Baker in Concert (India Navigation); Paul Motian on Broadway, Vol. III (JMT).

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BBC correspondent MISHA GLENNY. (MEE-shah GLEN-knee) He's covered the war in the former Yugoslavia and is the author of the book "The Fall of Yugoslavia." Terry will talk with him about why he thinks there should be no intervention in Bosnia. (Terry last talked to him in December when his book cam