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1: Actress LAUREN BACALL is a legend, though she doesn't like to think of herself as such. She's been a star of stage and screen for fifty years, was married to Humphrey Bogart, and won the National Book Award for her 1978 autobiography "By Myself." Her new book, "Now" (Alfred A. Knopf Inc.), tells the story of her last fifteen years and the experiences that have shaped her life.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "Judge on Trial," by Czech writer Ivan Klima.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Joni Mitchell''s new album, "Turbulent Indigo" (Warner Brothers).

Writer ALEXS PATE ("Alex Payt"). His first novel is called "Losing Absalom." It's a memoir, and tribute, to his father, Absalom Goodman. Pate's book chronicles the end of Absalom's life as his family has gathered around his hospital bed. Writer John Willimas wrote, "Losing Absalom is a powerful yet sensitive embrace with black America today." Pate lives in Minneapolis, where he works as a writer, poet and performance artist. (Coffee House Press

2: The man known as "the King of the Surf Guitar," DICK DALE. He launched surf rock in 1960 with his band, the Deltones. He described the surf sound in a 1963 article as "a heavy staccato sound on the lowkey guitar strings, with a heavy throbbing beat--like thunder, or waves breaking over you." DALE defined the California sound, and influenced The Ventures, The Beachboys, and Jan and Dean. He also influenced later groups like Sonic Youth. His music is now heard under the titles in the new movie, "Pulp Fiction." (REBROADCAST FROM 7

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new movie "THIS BOY''S LIFE." It''s based on an autobiographical novel of the same name by Tobias Wolff. The movie stars Robert DeNiro and Ellen Barkin.

Journalist RANDY SHILTS. He's national correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. His Book, "And the Band Played On," was one of the earliest books written about the AIDS epidemic and it's impact on the gay community. SHILTS' new book is about gay life in the military, "Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf." (St. Martin's Press). SHILTS started the book in 1988, before the current debate about gays in the military. SHILTS, himself, now has AIDS.

Author and museum director JAMES CAMERON. Sixty four years ago, an organized mob of more than 10,000 white men and women dragged CAMERON and two other black teenage men from a jail cell in Marion, Indiana. The mob mercilessly beat the three young men. They lynched two. CAMERON was spared. In 1984, he recounted this experience in his memoir "A Time of Terror" (Available now from Black Classic Press). Then in 1988, CAMERON founded the Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. The Museum houses photographs, books, articles and artifacts documenting the atrocities endured by blacks in this country. CAMERON modeled the Museum after the Jewish Holocaust museum in Israel. (THE INTERVIEW WITH JAMES CAMERON WILL CONTINUE INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW.

MAUREEN CORRIGAN with a review of Martin Amis'' new collection of Essays, "Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions" (Random House).

Director BRIAN DE PALMA. Now 53, he's the son of a orthopedic surgeon in Philadelphia, and sometimes watched his father's surgeries. Perhaps this explains the frequent depiction of blood and violence in many of his films, which include "Carrie", "Dressed to Kill", "The Fury", and "Scarface". His thrillers were often compared with those of Hitchcock. In the 1970's, De Palma, along with other young film directors Martin Scorcese, Steven Speilberg and Francis Coppola made films of such quality that the period is sometimes refered to as another Golden Age of Hollywood. De Palma returns to that era with his new film "Carlito's Way", which stars one of the great actors of the 70s, Al Pacino.