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2 & 3: Standup comic RICHARD LEWIS. In his act, Lewis portrays a spastic, tortured, self-deprecating man living a life of unrelieved pain. He says of his comedy that after he's finished his act "people throw prescription drugs and the names of their therapists instead of roses. I'm the wreck they can't be." Lewis is in Mel Brook's latest film "Men in Tights" and stars in a new TV series on Fox with Don Rickles. (REBROADCAST FROM 6-16-88). Film director and comedian, ROBERT TOWNSEND. His first film, "Hollywood Shuffle" took a satiric look at the roles offered to blacks in Hollywood, and established Townsend --with Spike Lee and others-- as a new group of talented black filmmakers who won industry acceptance after making independent films. His new film is "Meteor Man". (REBROADCAST FROM 6

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new Boz Skaggs record, "Some Change" (Virgin).

A CONCERT with the McGarrigle sisters, Kate and Anna. There's a new CD of their first two albums, released in the late 70s: "Kate & Anna McGarrigle" and "Dancer with Bruised Knees." The McGarrigles are known for their close and "subtle harmony." Their music is considered hard to categorize, although it sounds folky. The sisters absorbed an eclectic blend of music when they were growing up in Canada: Victorian ballads, blues, jazz, French-Canadian folk songs, Broadway tunes, and country music. They may be best known for their song, "Heart Like a Wheel," which was the title track on Linda Ronstadt's most successful album.

2: Actress TANTOO CARDINAL. She appeared in the film "Black Robe" and played Black Shawl, wife of the spirtual leader, in "Dances With Wolves." She has earned very positive reviews for her performance in the new independent film "Where the Rivers Flow North" (Caledonia Pictures) has been acclaimed. CARDINAL and will soon be seen in "Legends of the Fall" with Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt. (This interview was recorded in front of an audience at the Flynn Theater on October 27, in a benefit for Vermont Public R

Composer and saxophonist MANU DIBANGO. He is considered one of the founders of world music. His first album, "Soul Makossa," was a big hit in 1973. His latest album is called "Wakafrika"(Giant Records) and blends traditionally African music with European pop. This album features such artists as Youssou N'Dour, Peter Gabriel and Sinead O'Connor. His new autobiography is "Three Kilos of Coffee" (The University of Chicago Press).

A concert with playwright VERNEL BAGNERIS (ver-NEL BAHN-er-eese), pianist MORTEN GUNNAR LARSEN. BAGNERIS has just rewritten his and LARSEN's 1992 nightclub revue "Jelly Roll Morton: A Me-morial," and expanded it into an Off-Broadway musical, called "Jelly Roll!" The show is about the legendary New Orleans pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton, who boasted that he was the inventor of jazz. BAGNERIS also wrote, directed, and performed in the off-Broadway shows "One Mo'Time," and it's sequel, "Further Mo'." He also wrote the musical fable "Staggerlee," with Allen Toussaint. (CONCERT REBROADCAST FROM 11/12/92) REV.: Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Natural Born Killers," starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis.

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2: Producer Amy Salit interviews singer/songwriter, guitarist JOE ELY. He's been called the "underappreciated American rock 'n' roll legend." This country rocker hails from Lubbock, Texas and has been recording and playing music for about 20 years, and has released nine albums. He began his career playing more traditional country but now leans more toward the country-rockin' blues that has become a distinctive Texas sound. His latest album is "Love and Danger," (MCA/Nashville). Another reviewer says of ELY's music, "it's got the dynamic locomotion of rock, the righteous sassiness of blues, the narrative twang of country, and the hook-filled melodic sheen of pop."

Academy Award winning writer-producer-director JAMES BROOKS. BROOKS will discuss his new movie, "I'll Do Anything," a romantic comedy about a struggling but talented Hollywood character actor, played by Nick Nolte. BROOKS directed the movies "Terms of Endearment" and "Broadcast News." In television, his credits include "Room 222," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Lou Grant," "Rhoda," "Taxi," "The Tracey Ullman Show," "The Associates," "The Simpsons" and the new animated series, "The Critic.

T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI previews the premiere of "I''ll Fly Away," the drama series set in the south at the time of the civil rights movement. It used to air on NBC; PBS has just picked it up and added tonights episode to it.