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Actor JAMES EARL JONES. His is one of the distinctive voices of our time, yet few people know he fights a stutter; JONES' stage work off-Broadway in Jean Genet's "The Blacks" and Athol Fugard's "The Blood Knot" lead to a Broadway success in "The Great White Way", for which JONES won a Tony. His work in August Wilson's "Fences" won him another. It took one day to record the voice track for Darth Vader in "Star Wars": a performance which lead to many other commercial voice-over projects. JONES has just released his memoirs, "Voices and Silences" (Scribners).

Actor PETER O'TOOLE. The star of "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Lion in the Winter," and "My Favorite Year," has a new biography about his early years, "Loitering with Intent." (Hyperion). (rebroadcast from 4/

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Saturation," the new album from the band URGE OVERKILL. (G

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a newly discovered concert from 1957 of the Thelonious Monk Quartet featuring John Coltrane, "Live at the Five Spot" (Blue Note).

The film "Silverlake Life: The View From Here" was started by filmmaker and film teacher Tom Joslin to document his and his lover's battles with AIDS. Joslin asked his former film student PETER FRIEDMAN to complete the film after Joslin's death. We'll talk with Friedman about working on "Silverlake Life," which opens the sixth season of PBS' P.O.V. series on Tuesday, Ju

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews the new Elvis Costello album (yes, you read that right), a collaboration between Costello and The Brodsky Quartet. It''s called "The Juliet Letters" (Warner

2: ARNOLD RAMPERSAD, professor of Literature at Princeton, biographer of Langston Hughes and co-author of tennis star Arthur Ashe's memoir, "Days of Grace" (Knopf). Ashe died this year at age 49 from AIDS he contracted during open heart surgery. He was the first African American tennis champion, winning the United States Open in 1968, and going on to capture three Grand Slam titles. He has remained a vital presence in the sport, and his autobiography features portraits of the great celebrities of Tennis. Ashe talks candidly in "Days of Grace" about privacy issues, the media, race and education.

2: Novelist TONI MORRISON. She has a new novel "Jazz," (published by Knopf) and a new book of essays, "Playing in the Dark," (by Harvard). Her novel, "Beloved," won a Pulitzer prize. She's written five novels in all. Today she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4

2: Journalist BETTY ROLLIN. Her 1976 best-selling book about surviving breast-cancer, "First, You Cry," is being reissued. (Harper Rollins). ROLLIN lost one breast to cancer in 1975 and then in 1984 she had the other breast removed. ROLLIN also wrote the book, "Last Wish," in 1986 about helping her mother -- who was dying from ovarian cancer -- to die.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews two new FOX programs, a youth drama, "Class of 96," and a comedy drama, "Key West."