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Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new film, "Widow''s Peak," starring Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, and Natasha Richardson.

Retired Astronaut and former test pilot ALAN SHEPARD. He was America's first man in space in 1961; the voyage covered 302 miles and lasted 15 minutes. Ten years later with Apollo 14, he made it to the moon, playing golf on the moon's surface. (In 1969, the Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon). Early in his space career, SHEPARD was diagnosed with an inner ear syndrome which could have ended his career. SHEPARD grounded himself in 1963 and became Chief of the Astronaut Office. Later, after a risky operation took care of his ear problem, SHEPARD returned to flight status, becoming commader of the Apollo 14. SHEPARD has co-written a new book: "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon." (Turner Publi

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Religion historian MARTIN MARTY. Marty, who teaches at the University of Chicago, is one of the foremost authorities on religion and society. He's the author of a four volume work on religion in the 20th century. In 1992 he published the first volume of a multi-volume look at fundamentalism, "The Fundamentalism Project." (The University of Chicago Press). That's when Terry talked with him. He has since published three other volumes; the fifth and last volume in the project will be published next year. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 2

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2: CARYL PHILLIPS, author of five novels, a work of nonfiction and many scripts for film, theater, radio and television. His new novel,"Crossing the River" (Knopf), tells stories of slavery and the relationships forged by and among some of its perpetrators and victims. PHILLIPS takes liberties with time in following the lives of three African children sold into slavery by their desperate father -- one freed and sent back to Africa as a missionary, one searching for her lost husband and child in the American wild west and one, a World War II GI stationed in Yorkshire, England. PHILLIPS was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, but was brought up and presently lives in England.

British mystery writer ANNE PERRY is the author of 19 crime novels based in Victorian England. It was recently discovered that forty years ago, PERRY took part in a murder. She was 15 and on medication for an illness she had at the time. She went to jail for five and a half years. Her newly released 20th book, "The Sins of the Wolf" (Fawcett Columbine), is about a nurse imprisioned for a crime she didn't commit.

TERRY ANDERSON and his wife MADELEINE BASSIL. ANDERSON was held hostage for seven years in Lebanon. Madeleine was pregnant when he was abducted and gave birth to their daughter, Sulome Theresa, while her husband was in captivity. In ANDERSON's new book, "Den of Lions: Memiors of Seven Years" (Crown Publishers), Terry and Madeleine describe the challenges they were forced to face until his release in December of 1991. (This interview continues into the second half of the show.

2: Journalist ARI L. GOLDMAN. He's the former religion correspondent for The New York Times. He's the author of "The Search for God At Harvard". It's about the year he took off from his job to attend the Harvard Divinity School and his experiences there and how they affected his own faith as an orthodox jew. (published by Random House). (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 5/28/91). GOLDMAN now teaches at the Columbia School of Journalism. .Tibetan buddhist master SOGYAL RINPOCHE ("soh-GYAL RIN-poh-chay," the ch as in chair). He was born in Tibet and raised by a master in the buddhist tradition. He also studied at Cambridge University in England. He has lived outside of Tibet, in exile, for 20 years. "Rinpoche" is a title usually given to incarnate Lamas, meaning "the Precious One." John Cleese of Monty Python fame once introduced one of Rinpoche's talks, by saying it was the first time he played warm-up man to an incarnate lama. Rinpoche is the incarnation of Terton Sogyal (1856-1926), a Tibetan mystic and the teacher of the last Dalai Lama. Rinpoche's book, "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying," combines Tibetan wisdom with modern research on death and dying. (HarperCollins) (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4/20/93) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE ATC PROMO).

Documentary film makers ALAN and SUSAN RAYMOND. They made documentary history with "An American Family," living for seven months with the Loud family, to film the life of a "typical" American family. The 12-part series was broadcast over PBS in 1973, and it turned out to be a portrait of a not-so-typical family, and of a family disintegrating before our eyes. The RAYMONDS' documentary "The Police Tapes," was the inspiration for the TV series, "Hill Street Blues." They filmed life in a North Philadelphia inner-city elementary school for their latest film, "I am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School." They will be joined in Terry's interview with the principal of the school, DEANNA BURNEY. ("I am the Promise," premieres on HBO Monday, October 11, at 10pm