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2: Journalist STEVE ROBERTS. He's the senior writer for "U.S. News & World Report." Before that he covered Congress for The New York Times. He'll talk with Marty about the 103rd Congress which just went into session. It's the most diverse group yet. ROBERTS will tell us what to expect.

In July 1957, Buddy Holly left Texas with only one record climbing the charts. Five months later, sporting capped teeth, a sharp suit, and horn-rimmed glasses, Holly debuted live on The Ed Sullivan Show. Like Elvis Presley only a year before, Holly had made it to prime time TV.

Lukas Foss is a pianist, a conductor and, perhaps most notably, a composer. Foss was born in Germany and was fifteen when his family immigrated to this country in 1937. Even before that he'd begun his prolific output as a composer and was recognized as a child prodigy on the piano.

2: Actor John Goodman, who now stars as Fred Flintstone in "The Flintstones". GOODMAN may be best known for his role as Dan Connor, a.k.a. Roseanne's husband, on the hit TV show "Roseanne." But he's been able to do what most cannot--carry on a successful film career and TV role at the same time. GOODMAN has appeared as a back-slapping traveling salesman who's also a demonic murderer in "Barton Fink," and as home run king Babe Ruth in "The Babe." (Rebroadcast from 3/26/93).

One of Bosnia's leading film makers, and professor of film at the Academy of Film and Theatre in Sarajevo ADEMIR KENOVIC. His newest film "SA-Life" (SA stands for Sarajevo) is compiled of scenes shot by himself, other film makers, and film students in and around Sarajevo that capture the horror of the war. Each day, KENOVIC and his fellow film makers would meet in his basement studio to plan the day's shoot, going out with hand-held cameras. KENOVIC has made three other films. "SA-Life" played at the Cannes Film Festival and is now playing at the "International Video Arts Festival" at Lincoln Center in New York.

2:Journalist MARK DANNER has reported from Haiti for "The New Yorker" since 1986. He's been working on a book about Haiti for the last year and spent most of August there. He's in Port-au-Prince and he talks about what is happening there now.

2: Cihna scholar ORVILLE SCHELL has written nine books about China, as well as contributing to magazines and television. His latest book, "Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China's Future" (Simon & Schuster). This latest work examines the Tiananmen Square massacre and looks at how the younger generation will come to power.

2: Writer DAGOBERTO GILB (pronounced "Dog-o-berto Gilb"). His new book of short stories, "Magic of Blood" (University of New Mexico Press), offers fiction from the Chicano and Anglo working-class worlds of America's southwest. GILB's prosaic realism has been called by one critic, "the most lethal kind of fiction a Chicano can write".

2: Actress and comedian JANEANE GAROFALO. She's a regular on HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show," where she plays the caustic casting agent, and was a regular on FOX's "The Ben Stiller Show." Now she's appearing in the new film directed and starring Ben Stiller, "Reality Bites." Her stand-up persona has been described as "a bitter, boot-wearing feminista." Which they go on to describe as "no act" on her part.

English professor and author GREG SARRIS is part American Indian, Filipino, and Jewish, and was raised in both Indian and white families. He has just written two books related to his experiences growing up. "Grand Avenue" (Hyperion) is a collection of short stories about whites and Native Americans tied by a common ancestor; "Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream" (University of California Press) is a biography of SARRIS' aunt, a world-renowned basket weaver. SARRIS teaches at UCLA. REV.: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI has just gotten a satellite dish. He reflects on seeing network feeds of programs before they're actually aired.