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COMMENTATOR MAUREEN CORRIGAN ON TWO NEW BOOKS OF NON-FICTION: "THEIRS WAS THE KINGDOM" BY JOHN HEIDENRY (NORTON) A HISTORY OF READERS DIGEST, AND "LAND OF DESIRE" BY WLLIAM LEACH (PANTHEON) ABOUT THE RISE OF THE DEPARTMENT STORE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

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 new movie, "Groundhog Day," starring his old co-star Bill Murray.

2: 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 released his memoirs, "Voices and Silences" (Scribners). (Rebroadcast from 9

Civil Rights attorney CHAI (pronounced "HI") FELDBLUM ("BLUM" pronounced like "plum"), visiting professor, Georgetown University law Center. She was also former legislative counsel, AIDS and Lesbian and Gay Rights projects of the ACLU. She's policy director for the new group, "Campaign for Military Service," organized to rally support for the end of the ban on gays and lesbians in the military.

Journalist STAN SESSER. A "Reporter at Large" in Southeast Asia for the New Yorker, Sesser has collected some of those pieces in a new book "The Lands of Charm and Cruelty: Travels in Southeast Asia" (Knopf). Sesser discusses the recent elections in Cambodia; elections which featured violence, twenty political parties and massive voter turnout

Law Professor CATHERINE MACKINNON. She's well known for her feminist take on legal issues, and she's just written a new book called "Only Words." (Harvard University Press) She argues that as long as sexual harassment, pornography and hate speech are protected by the First Amendment, equality will only be a word, not a reality. MacKinnon pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination. She now teaches at the University of Michigan Law School.

Commentator GAYLE PEMBERTON on the importance of African-American magazines.

2: Drummer and drum historian MAX WEINBERG. For over a decade, WEINBERG was the drummer for Bruce Springstein's E Street Band. Now he leads the 7-piece band on Late Night With Conan O'Brien on NBC. WEINBERG co-authored The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1984). Now, he has produced and annotated a three-volume compilation of music performed by his favorite rock 'n roll drummers of the 50's, 60's and 70's. (MAX WEINBERG PRESENTS: LET THERE BE DRUMS, VOLS. 1-3. on the Rhino label. Available on compact disc and cassette.) (Interview with MAX WEINBERG continues after ATC P

Film Critic Stephen Schiff reviews Scorcese''s "The Age of Innocence" based on the novel by Edith Wharton.

Writer GARRY WILLS. He's analyzed the Gettysburg Address in the book, "Lincoln At Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America." He says that speaking for only three minutes that day, Lincoln changed the history of American political thought. Wills is a presidential historian and and political scientist. He's written other books on Nixon, Reagan and Kennedy, as well as a critical profile of Ross Perot.(REBROADCAST. Originally aired 7