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2: Comic LEA DELARIA. (LEE-ah Dah-LAHR-ea) Don't call her a lesbian. She's a dyke. . . who does standup, and jazz singing. She has a new recording of songs, "Bulldyke in a China Shop," (LadySlipper Music).

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews the new book by Croatian journalist Slavenka Draculic, "The Balkan Express." (N

2: Writer, actor, director HAROLD RAMIS. He's one of the most influential forces behind some of the biggest comedy hits of the late 70s and 80s. But his influence is not generally known by those outside the industry. (For that reason he's been called the "Clark Kent" of comedy. Also because he's "mild-mannered," "bespectacled," and he "looks as if he would be the first to duck under the table at the first sign of a food fight"). RAMIS wrote for "The National Lampoon Show," and "SCTV." He co-wrote as well as acted in the movies, "Animal House," "Stripes," "Ghostbusters," and others. He directed the movie, "Groundhog Day," starring his old co-star Bill Murray. (REBROADCAST from 2/11/93).

2: Filmmaker ALLISON ANDERS. Her 1992 film "Gas Food Lodging" has just been released on home video. It's about a single mother and her two teenage daughters living in a trailer. ANDERS herself was a single mother on welfare with two teenage girls. Previously, ANDERS collaborated on the film "Border Radio." (REBROADCAST FROM 7

Actress LIV ULLMAN. She's best known for her work with director Ingmar Bergman. She's making her directing debut with the new film, "Sofie," based on a novel by Danish writer Henri Nathansen. ULLMAN also travels around the world on behalf of starving children, as Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.

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New York Times journalist JANE PERLEZ. She's been reporting from Africa since 1988. And has been credited with recognizing stories before the rest of the media. She was reporting on the trouble in Somolia, and the threat of famine a year ago, long before it became the focus of world attention. PERLEZ's assignment in Africa has ended. Soon she'll be reporting from Eastern Europe.

Novelist STANLEY ELKIN. He's been called "one of the most entertaining stylists in contemporary American fiction." And that ELKIN's use of metaphor, "transforms grotesque situations and the drab vulgarity of popular consumer culture into comic affirmations of human existence." (from "Contemporary Literary Criticism). His novels include, "The MacGuffin," "The Magic Kingdom," and others. His latest book of novellas is "Van Gogh's Room at Arles." (Hyperion). ELKIN was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis twenty years ago. He'll talk about his writing and his life and how it's changed since the disease has progressed

Child Psychologist and an expert on how chronic violence affects a child's growth and development JAMES GARBARINO. He's just co-authored a new book, "Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence," (Jossey-Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series) about the children who grow up in the "war zones" of cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. GARBARINO has also co-authored, "No Place to be a Child: Growing Up in a War Zone." (Lexington Books). GARBARINO is president of the Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "The Future," the new release by singer/songwriter/poet Leonard Cohen. (Col