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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.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews a 2-CD reissue of trumpeter Don Cherry''s albums recorded for Blue Note in the 1960''s.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the recent body of work by British actor Hugh Grant. Grant appears in three new movies: "Bitter Moon," "Sirens" and the very popular "Four Weddings and a Funeral."

2: JAMES RESTON, JR. has just written a biography of Galileo, called "Galileo: A Life." (HarperCollins) In it he explores how Galileo was publicly humiliated for supporting the theory that the Earth revolved around the sun. RESTON recently wrote a cover story for "Time Magazine," on the comet crash into Jupiter, before the crash became national news.

2: Sporswriter and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, JIM MURRAY. He's just written his autobiography (Macmillan) about his five decades in journalism: as a young reporter for Time magazine following the 1952 presidential campaign and the rise of Richard Nixon's political career; working as one of the original writers for Sports Illustrated; and beginning in 1961, as sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times. His syndicated column once reached 200 newspapers a day and he has won the Sportswriter of the Year award a record 14 times.