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2: Irish actor/producer GABRIEL BYRNE. He got his big break playing a slick gangster in the Coen Brothers' "Miller's Crossing." One reviewer wrote, "a subtle yet forceful performance as an impassive man, concealing deep pain." BYRNE was the executive producer of "In the Name of the Father." He also starred in and produced the films "A Dangerous Woman," and "Into the West." BYRNE is now appearing as Prof. Bhaer in the remake of "Little Women," directed by Gillian Armstrong.

2: Writer for the Village Voice and The Nation, PAGAN KENNEDY. KENNEDY ("Pagan" is not her real first name) has staked out a niche for herself as a "1970's survivor and devotee." KENNEDY has written an investigation of that decade, seen through its artifacts and social upheaval, "Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970's" (St. Martins). In the 70's she says, "we inherited this idea of recycling culture. I wanted to write a nostalgia book about the period when nostalgia began as an industry and everything became like an image of itself..."Sha-Na-Na," "Happy Days," "American Graffiti." KENNEDY'S new book of fiction is "Stripping & Other Stories" (Serpent's Tail Press).

Musical theater historian ROBERT KIMBALL. Kimball compiled and edited The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin (Knopf) and is artistic advisor to the estate of Ira Gershwin. Kimball knew Ira Gershwin and his wife Leonore. He also edited The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter

2: Documentary film maker ALLIE LIGHT. Her new film, "Dialogues With Madwomen," won the 1994 "Freedom of Expression Award" at the Sundance Film Festival. In the film, seven women describe their bouts with mental illness, including LIGHT, who checked herself into a day psychiatric facility for three months in 1963 because of problems with depression. LIGHT co-produced the film with Irving Saraf. Their previous work, "In The Shadow of the Stars," won the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Disclosure," starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore.

Film critic Stephen Schiff on the new Robin Williams picture, "Being Human".

2: Actor HARVEY KEITEL. He is known for his roles in Martin Scorcese pictures like "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," and "Last Temptation of Christ." He played the sympathetic police officer in "Thelma And Louise" and the unsympathetic one in "Bad Lieutenant". REBROADCAST FROM 1-13-92 (Note language advisory

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Writer and playwright JIM GRIMSLEY. He is a writer-in-residence at the 7 Stages Theater in Atlanta, and the winner of Newsday's George Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Playwright in 1988. His first novel is "Winter Birds" (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill), about a eight-year-old hemophiliac in a poor family, watching a violent fight between his parents on Thanksgiving. GRIMSLEY says the book is "autobiographical, but not an autobiography." He also has been HIV positive for 14 years, making him one of the longest survivors of the virus.

Country music singer and yodeler DON WALSER, "the best pure cowboy singer in the state" ("Houston Chronicle"). At age 60, WALSER has retired from his job as a Texas state internal auditor to concentrate on his music, and has just released an album, "Rolling Stone From Texas" (Watermelon Records). He is "a middle-aged man with a potbelly and glasses" ("Houston Chronicle") whose "yodeling is better than sex." ("Pla