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JOHN HELYAR'S new book, "Lords of the Realm" (Villard Books) looks at the corporate world of baseball. Instead of tracing the history of the game through its players, HELYAR focuses on the behind the scenes people-- the agents,owners, and general managers-- who shaped baseball. HELYAR is a reporter for "The Wall Street Journal," and co-author of the "New York Times" bestseller, "Barbarians at the Gate.

2: DAVID RUSSELL is the writer and director of movie "Spanking the Monkey," (Fine Line Features). The film is about Raymond, who returns after his freshman year at MIT to find he has to spend the summer caring for his mother, who's broken her leg. His loneliness combined with his mother's depression results in a dark comedy about mother-son incest. "Spanking the Monkey" won the Audience Award for the most popular dramatic film at the Sundance Film Festival in January. DAVID RUSSELL has also written and directed two short narrative films, "Bingo Inferno" and "Hairway to the Stars," which were also shown at the Sundance Film Festival.

Actor David Caruso left "NYPD Blue" on last night's episode, to pursue a film career. The show's co-creator, DAVID MILCH, will talk about writing out Caruso, who played one of the main characters. MILCH was also co-creator of "Hill Street Blues," with "NYPD Blue" collaborator Steven Bochco.

The new film, "Heavenly Creatures" tells the story of two teenage girls, so caught up in an intense friendship that they murder the mother of one of them, when she tries to seperate the two. It's set in New Zealand during the 1950s and based on a true story. We feature a previous interview Terry did with writer ANNE PERRY. It was recently revealed that PERRY was one of those young girls, was convicted of murder, and spent time in prison. She's now a popular mystery writer in Britian. (ORIGINAL Broadcast from 9/21/94). In the second half of the show we feature interviews with two individuals involved in the film.

2: We feature interviews with two individuals involved in the film, "Heavenly Creatures." New Zealand film director and writer PETER JACKSON and co-screenwriter FRANCES WALSH. They have collaborated on two other films, "Dead Alive" a horror-movie spoof which developed a cult following in New Zealand, and "Meet The Feebles," a zombie film which was also a hit in that country.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Vs" (Versus) the new album by the Seattle rock band Pearl Jam. (Epic).

1) Songwriter STEPHEN SONDHEIM. (rebroadcast from 11/10/88).2) Writer, producer, and director ARTHUR LAURENTS. Laurents wrote the stories for the plays "Gypsy" and "West Side Story" and the screenplays for the movies "The Way We Were" and "The Turning Point." Laurents is currently directing the Broadway revival of "Gypsy," starring Tyne Daily. (rebroadcast from 1

Today it was announced that scientists had unearthed in Ethiopia the first nearly complete skull of the earliest recognized human ancestors. It's that of a male who lived three million years ago, giving a face to the species first identified in 1974 with the discovery of the skeleton named "Lucy." Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON discovered Lucy and was part of the team to make this new discovery. The discovery could settle the debate of whether various fossils from this time period were from a single species, Australopithecus afarensis, or from different species. It also completes the picture of what the species looked like and will help confirm Lucy's position in human lineage. DR. JOHANSON is the president and founder of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, and hosted a three-part Nova miniseries "Ancestors: In search of Human Origins." The companion book to the series is also called "Ancestors." (Villard

Journalist RAY BONNER cricises WWF for exaggerating the problem pay more attention to animals than people need to think about the economic needs of Africans and give them an economic reason for keeping the elephants alive.We also talk with Jinette Hemley, director of the Wildlife trade monitoring program of the World Wildlife Fund.

New York Times European diplomatic correspondent, CRAIG WHITNEY. WHITNEY is the author of a new book about espionage and spy swaps during the cold war in the two Germanies: "Spy Trader" (Times Books). Now living in Bonn, WHITNEY reports on the issues surrounding European unity: the rise of ethnic conflicts, and the crisis in Bosnia