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2:Writer HOWARD RHEINGOLD. In his newest book, "The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier" (Addison-Wesley) he argues that although computer mediated communication has made it possible for people to have access to almost anything, it is dangerous as well. RHEINGOLD says individuals must keep using the internet as a way to express their views or they will loose the ability to do so, as the government and large corporations become more aware of the technology's capabilities. RHEINGOLD is the author of "Virtual Reality" and three other books and editor of "Whole Earth Review."

2:Novelist FAE MYENNE NG. (fay me-yen ing) She's just written her first novel, "Bone," (HYPERION) is about three sisters brought up in San Francisco's Chinatown. One reviewer writes, "I learned a lot from "Bone" about the high cost of living in two worlds," another writes that the story is "beautifully conceived, full of feeling and the sound of the streets."

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews "Vivaldi: 6 Cello Sonatas," by Peter Wispelwey and Florilegium (Channel Classics).

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new summer thriller, "Speed," starring Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper.

TV critic David Bianculli will review the television coverage of the Olympic skating showdown.

Politcal writer and correspondent in the Middle East for the New Yorker, MILTON VIORST. Terry will talk with him about the massacre last week in the mosque in the West bank, and it's affect on the peace process between Israel and the P.L.O. They'll also discuss his new book "Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of The Modern World" (Knopf). Called by one commentator "a psychological and social tour of the Arab people and the wonderous cities they live in", "Sandcastles" features VIORST's travels in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon. In high-level talks with the political and intellectual leadership of these countries, like Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz and Iraq's, Tariq Aziz, former Iraqi Foreign Minister, VIORST offers an inside look into the diplomacy of the Gulf War, and a background to the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

2: Interview with TERRY WAITE, continues.

1: Television and movie score composer HENRY MANCINI, who died of cancer on Tuesday. He is best known for composing "Moon River" for the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and the title theme to the movie "The Pink Panther." In 1954 he received his first Academy Award nomination for his score to "The Glenn Miller Story," and in 1961 his score for the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" won that year's Academy Award. Among his other film scores were those for "Mommie Dearest" (1981), and the remake of "The Glass Menagerie" (1987).When he died, Mancini was completing work on a musical-theater adaptation of "Victor/Victoria". The show is scheduled to open on Broadway in the fall. (INTERVIEW RECORDED IN 11

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2: Poet and Professor of English at Yale, WAYNE KOESTENBAUM explores the affinity of gay men for opera in his new book: "The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire" (Vintage). KOESTENBAUM traces the art-form back to its origins in The Camerata, a 16th century group of Florentine gentlemen, who studied ancient Greek musical theory. A self proclaimed "Opera Queen", KOESTENBAUM explores this rarely examined territory with what one critic has called "a brilliantly obsessive and funny memoir".