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2: Film director WALTER HILL. His newest film, which he produced and directed is "Geronimo: An American Legend." He's best known for action-oriented films which include, "Hard Times," "The Long Riders," "48 HRS," "Streets of Fire," and others.

2: Journalist and author LAWRENCE WRIGHT. WRIGHT'S latest book is "Remembering Satan: A Case of Recovered Memory and the Shattering of an American Family" (Knopf) WRIGHT explores the nature of memory and the notions of recovered memory and repression. "Remembering Satan" is the story of Paul Ingram and his family. Ingram was a Washington state deputy sherrif. His two grown daughters accused him of sexually abusing them. They said that Ingram and other members of the sherriff's department had committed Satanic ritual atrocities. At first, Ingram said he had no memory of assaulting his daughters. But after hours of interrogation, Ingram was able to "remember" his crimes and he confessed. He is serving a 20 year prison sentence even though no physical evidence against him has ever been found. WRIGHT is a staff writer for the "New Yorker" where portions of "Remembering Satan" appeared last summer. He has written three previous books.

2: Novelist JAMES LEE BURKE. He's been writing for 35 years but he's best known for his more recent detective novels about Dave Robicheaux (ROW-bah-show), a recovering alcoholic, who is also a troubled Vietnam vet, and a New Orleans police lieutenant. His books include: "The Neon Rain," "Heaven's Prisoners," "Black Cherry Blues," "A Morning for Flamingos" and "A Stained White Radiance." BURKE's new book, his eighth Dave Robicheaux novel, is called "Dixie City Jam." (Hyperion) (REBROADCAST FROM 4/8/92)Int. 3: Mystery writer WALTER MOSLEY. He's written a new book in his series about gumshoe hero Easy Rawlins. It's called "Black Betty" (Norton). Betty's a shark of a woman who leaves dead men in her wake. Like the other books in the series, "Black Betty" has Easy in post-War, but pre-present South Central L.A.--this time the year is 1961. MOSLEY gained public attention when presidential candidate Bill Clinton said that MOSLEY was his favorite mystery writer. His next book,"RL's Dream" (Norton) comes out this August. (REBROADCAST FROM 5

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "The Pelican Brief", another film made from the works of John Grisham.

2: Journalists DONALD BARLETT and JAMES STEELE. Their reports from the front pages of the "Philadelphia Inquirer" later became the book "America: What went Wrong"; it was a bestseller for eight months, and added fuel to the fire of the 1992 Election. Their new book of investigative reporting is "America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?" (Simon & Schuster). They argue the middle class has been soaked by the current tax system; that the same dollar earned by a neighborhood grocer is taxed more than if it was earned by a foreign corporation doing business here. (PART TWO OF THIS INTERVIEW WILL AIR TOMORROW).

2: Satirist HARRY SHEARER. Shearer has an eclectic career: he does many of the voices on the TV series "The Simpsons," he has a weekly program on many public radio stations called "Le Show," he often has character roles in movies, and he's one of the members of the parody heavy metal parody combo "Spinal Tap", who toured the world last year. SHEARER has a new book of the columns he wrote for the Los Angeles Times Magazine: "Man Bites Town" (St. Martins) (Rebroadcast from 4-28-92).

2: Chinese film director CHEN KAIGE. His latest film is "Farewell My Concubine," a love story about two male actors and a prostitute which takes place over the course of half a century, taking them through the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). KAIGE first won international recognition with his debut film, "Yellow Earth." In his latest film, KAIGE includes a scene in which the characters betray each other during the Cultural Revolution. Terry will talk with him about his own experiences during the Cultural Revolution when he betrayed his own father, Chen Huaikai. His father is also a film maker and was artistic director of "Farewell My Concubine."

Biomedical ethicist ARTHUR CAPLAN. Caplan was on the Presidential task force that helped form the new health care proposal. He is the Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota. He is also a professor of surgery and philosophy there. In addition to numerous books and articles, Caplan writes a syndicated column; his work appears weekly in 40 newspapers in the U-S and Canada

2: Novelist BENJAMIN CHEEVER. He's the author of two humorous novels; the latest is called "The Partisan" (Atheneum). It follows on the heels of his first novel, "The Plagiarist." Of his first, one reviewer wrote, "Wit and pathos, so finely meshed they become inseparable, buoy the main events in this achingly funny first novel. . . This is a touching, entertaining debut." Ben is the son of the late writer John Cheever. In writing his novels Ben says he finally found his own voice, separate from his father's. Ben is also the editor of "The Letters of John Cheever," published in 1988. (Rebroadcast. Originally broadcast 3

nnie Lamott on keeping her son safe AND independent.