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Terry has a discussion about the politics of identity, the strengths and limitations of social and political movements that define themselves by ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. She talks with: 1) ELLEN WILLIS, professor of Journalism at NYU, and a former senior editor of The Village Voice. She's written extensively on feminist issues. Her new book of essays is "No More Nice Girls." (Wesleyan Press) 2) EDWARD SAID ("sigh-eed"), professor of literature at Columbia. He is a Palestinian American and has seen himself as someone who interprets the west for the middle east, and vice versa. His new book is "Culture and Imperialism," (Knopf) 3) GAYLE PEMBERTON, associate director of African American studies at Princeton. She's the author of "The Hottest Water in Chicago," a collection of autobiographical essays. (Faber & Faber).

DAVID MILCH, creator and a producer of ABC's police drama, "NYPD Blue". Teaming up again with Steven Bochco (who hired MILCH as a writer on "Hill Street Blues"), "NYPD Blue" has come under fire for the show's panorama of moral ambiguity, violence, partial nudity and profanity. The show's eccentric criminality may be traced to MILCH's fondness for horse racing and gambling (he owns "about a dozen" thoroughbreds), and the time he spent in a Mexican jail. CHARLES DUTTON, star of the T-V comedy series "Roc." Dutton came to acting in a very roundabout way: while serving a manslaughter sentence in the Maryland State Penitentiary, he organized the performance of a play, and realized he loved acting. A future episode of "Roc" concerns guns in the schools, and how a single act of violence can escalate tragically.

Legendary Broadway dancer GWEN VERDON. She starred in "Damn Yankees," "Sweet Charity." "Redhead," and "Chicago." VERDON won four Tony awards and she's about to receive a lifetime achievement award from the New Dramatists playwrights workshop.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews the new book of verse by Vikram Seth, "A Suitable Boy."

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Searching for Bobby Fischer" (Paramount Pictures).

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Manhatten Murder Mystery," the new Woody Allen movie.

2: Poet, essayist and screenwriter JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA. He co-wrote the screenplay for the new movie BOUND BY HONOR." It's about three young Chicano men from East Los Angeles and the different paths they take as they grow into adulthood. BACA is a Chicano who grew up in an orphanage in New Mexico and ended up in prison at the age of 20. He taught himself to read and write there. His collections of poetry include Black Mesa Poems, and Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems. (New Direc

British religious scholar, KAREN ARMSTRONG. Her new book, a bestseller in England, is "A History of God" (Knopf). "All religions have been designed to help us touch the God in each other" ARMSTRONG says of her research, which traces 4000 years of Monotheism in the form of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The author, a Catholic nun for seven years in the 1960's, left the order to take a degree at Oxford, and now teaches at the Leo Baeck College for the study of Judaism.

2: Actor NATHAN LANE. He's currently starring in the new Neil Simon comedy on stage, "Laughter on the 23rd Floor." He played Nathan Detroit in the Broadway revival of "Guys and Dolls." Playwright Terrance McNally has written roles for LANE and says, "I need an actor like Nathan to fully express myself. I can't do it with just the words. I need his faces and gestures to finish the sentence." LANE starred in McNally's "The Lisbon Traviata," and in "Lips Together, Teeth Apart." He also was in the films "Frankie and Johnny," (as Michelle Pfeiffer's neighbor -- a part McNally wrote for him), in "Life with Mikey," (co-starring with Michael J. Fox), and has a cameo in "Adams Family Values."

Composer ELMER BERNSTEIN. He's composed the scores for around 80 films, including "Age of Innocence," "The Man With the Golden Arm," "The Magnificent Seven," "The Ten Commandments," "The Grifters," and "Cape Fear." (rebroadcast from 3