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ommentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews two new collections of essays. "Criminal Convictions" by Nicholas Freeling (David R. Godine) and "Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature" by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand Books).

1: Actor CHARLTON HESTON. A consistent lead in the biblical epics of the 1950's and 1960's, HESTON had starring roles in " The Greatest Story Ever Told" and "The Ten Commandments"; HESTON also covered the Roman era in epics like "Ben Hur", "Julius Cesar", and "Antony & Cleopatra." Medieval Spain was not beyond his ken: HESTON had the lead as well in "El Cid." (REBROADCAST FROM 11/30/90). Film Director, MARTIN SCORCESE. He directed "The Last Temptation of Christ" in 1988. In June of 1993, as part of a retrospective of his work by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU presented "An Evening With Martin Scorcese": a wide ranging question and answer session taped live before an audience at New York University. Scorcese explores some of the special difficulties involved in shooting a biblical epic in the desert with very little money. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/11/93). Composer ELMER BERNSTEIN. He's composed the scores for almost 80 films, including "The Man With the Golden Arm," "The Magnificent Seven," and "The Ten Commandments". Lately he's done the scores for "The Field" and "The Grifters." (REBROADCAST FROM 1/10/91) INT. 2: Actor KIRK DOUGLAS. The star of "Lust for Life," "Paths of Glory," "Champion" and Stanley Kubrick's epic, "Spartacus," the story of a slave uprising during the Roman Empire. (REBROADCAST FROM 8/22/88). Actor TONY CURTIS. In 1960 he starred in the film, "Spartacus" about a leader of slaves revolting against Republican Rome. A restored version of the film has been released that includes previously cut scenes, including one where Laurence Olivier --as a general-- tries to seduce his slave, played by CURTIS. (REBROADCAST FROM 4-19-91).

FRANK SMYTH is a freelance journalist who has written on Rwanda for "The Village Voice," "The Nation," and "The New Republic," and an investigative consultant for Human Rights Watch/Africa. He wrote a report for Human Rights Watch/Africa based on his visit to Rwanda in May and June of 1993. The report, "Arming Rwanda," is about the arms trade and the human rights violations in Rwanda

2: Actor and filmmaker BEN STILLER. He's the son of the comedy team, Stiller and Meara, (Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara). He's acted in the Lincoln Center's revival of "House of Blue Leaves," and appeared in the films, "Fresh Horses," "Stella," and "Empire of the Son." He's also made a number of comedy shorts that parody movies and television. He's got his own comedy show "The Ben Stiller Show," on FOX, which premiered last fall. The show grew out of his work as a writer-performer with "Saturday Night Live," in 1989. Stiller plays various roles ranging from an obnoxious Hollywood agent to an adult Eddie Munster. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 9/25/92).

MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "The Bird Artist," by Howard Norman (Farrar.Straus &Giroux).

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. Terry talks with RAFAEL SCHARF. He's compiled a new book of photographs, "In The Warsaw Ghetto Summer 1941," (Aperture). The photographs were all taken one summer day in 1941 by German soldier and have never been published before. SCHARF was born in Poland, but left the country shortly before World War II. He is one of the founders of "The Jewish Quarterly," a London literary and political magazine. Many of SCHARF's relatives were killed in the camps.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the newest retelling of the Frankenstein story, "Mary Shelly''s Frankenstein," directed by Kenneth Branagh.

1: Actor BURT REYNOLDS. Star of "Evening Shade," and such films as "Deliverance" and "Smokey and the Bandit." He's written his autobiography, "My Life" (Hyperion). Terry spoke with REYNOLDS before he cut short his book tour.

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2: From the film "The Last Seduction" (October Films), actress LINDA FIORENTINO and screenwriter STEVE BARANCIK. BARANCIK's screenplay tells the story of a woman who robs her husband of the proceeds of a drug deal and then leaves town. FIORENTINO stars as "one of the screen's most formidible femme fatales ever" ("Variety"), as she displays her character's "spellbinding talent for getting exactly what she wants" ("The New York Times").