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Songwriter and Producer, ELLIE GREENWICH. She co-wrote some of the most popular songs of the early 1960's, for the girl groups produced by Phil Spector: songs like "Leader of the Pack" and "River Deep, Mountain High". She got her start out of the Brill Building with the songwriting team of Lieber and Stoller. In the 1980's, when she was writing songs for Cyndi Lauper and Irene Cara, she performed some of her hits in a Broadway Review called "Leader of the Pack". (Rebroadcast from 1986).

Classical Music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviewed a new recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, played by Nigel Kennedy, conducted by Klaus Tennstedt, on the EMI label.

The biggest event in soccer, the World Cup, takes place in the United States this month (June 17 - July 17), in nine different cities. Journalist PETE DAVIES will talk with Terry about the game so few Americans know about. He's written a new book about the game and the upcoming event, "Twenty-Two Foreigners in Funny Shorts: The Intelligent Fan's Guide to Soccer and World Cup '94." (Random House).

2: Novelist TIM O'BRIEN. He was writing about Vietnam long before it became fashionable to do so. His Vietnam memoir, "If I die in a Combat Zone," was published in 1973. O'BRIEN's 1979 novel "Going After Cacciato" was praised for its depiction of the Vietnam War. It also was the surprise winner of the 1979 National Book Awards -- beating out books by John Irving and John Cheever. His book of stories that followed a group of soldiers in Vietnam, "The Things They Carried," (Houghton Mifflin) began as a short story in "Esquire," and received the 1987 "National Magazine Award." A new novel is due in October. (Rebroadcast from 3

2: Comedian and actor GARRY SHANDLING. He stars in HBO's parody of talk-shows, "The Larry Sanders Show." It features SHANDLING as a veterantalk-show host. His guests have included Robin Williams, Howard Stern,and, actual talk show host, David Letterman playing themselves.SHANDLING also starred in "It's Garry Shandling's Show" a few years back. Just this week,"The Larry Sanders Show" completed its secondseason with Larry quitting the show.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews the new re-issue by the little-known jazz organist BABY FACE WILLETTE called "STOP AND LISTEN" (BLUE NOTE.) .

2: PHIL NIEKRO, Manager, and LISA MARTINEZ, pitcher for the new all female professional baseball team, the Colorado Silver Bullets. This is the team's inaugural season. The Silver Bullets are the first all-female team to be recognized by the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues and the first to compete only against men. Manager NIEKRO says, "Every time they make an error, they say 'I'm sorry.'"

2: Comedian BRETT BUTLER had an abusive marriage before getting on stage with her comedy act. She is now the star of the sitcom "Grace Under Fire," one of the top rated shows of the season. Her character is a single mother with three kids, and, like BUTLER, is divorced from an abusive husband.

ANG LEE is the co-writer and director of the new movie, "Eat Drink Man Woman." The movie looks at sex and food as the two main things that create and maintain families. The film centers on Taiwan's leading chef and his disappointments-- both in his career as a chef, and in his attempts to raise his three daughters. The movie also examines his daughters' relationships to food and sex. LEE is the director of "The Wedding Banquet," a movie about a love triangle between an American man, a Chinese woman and, a Chinese-American man. "The Wedding Banquet" won the Golden Bear award. REV. : Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews two new Spike Jones reissues-- "The Spike Jones Anthology" (Rhino), and "Spiked!" (Catalyst).

2: PAUL RUDNICK is a essayist, novelist, and playwright. His latest play off-Broadway is a comedy about AIDS, "Jeffrey," about a man who swears off love and sex. RUDNICK also wrote the Broadway play, "I Hate Hamlet," about John Barrymore's ghost. And he writes a column in Premiere, "If You Ask Me," in which he writes in the voice of a quintessential Jewish mother who critiques movie stars' personal lives more than their acting (Rebroadcast from 4/8/93). RUDNICK also wrote the screenplay for the movie "Addams Family Values," starring Angelica Houston and Raul Julia.