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Writer TOBIAS WOLFF. Terry talked with him in 1989 after the release of his acclaimed memoir, "This Boy's Life" about his unhappy upbringing in a working-class town in Washington State in the late 1950s. The book has been adapted for screen; there's now a movie version starring, Robert DeNiro, and Ellen Barkin. WOLFF, who served in Vietnam, later worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, and has also written two highly regarded collections of short stories. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 1

: We pay tribute to Professor and filmmaker MARLON RIGGS, who died Tuesday. His film about gay black sexuality, "Tongues Untied," unleashed a storm of controversy for its graphic content; it was used by Senator Jesse Helms (Republican, North Carolina), to argue against government grants to the arts. Another RIGGS film was "Color Adjustment," a critique of prime time TV's myths and messages on American race relations. RIGGS was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

2: How did a second tier New York department store called Bloomingdale's --where the city's domestic help bought their uniforms in 1950-- evolve into "the most celebrated store in the world": the pinnacle of designer fashion and self promotion? The answer can be found in MARVIN TRAUB, the former chairman of Bloomingdale's for forty years. His new memoir is called "Like No Other Store..." (Times Books).

2: Actor JOHN LEGUIZAMO (pronounced "Leh-gwee-zamo"). Leguizamo created and starred in the hit one-man show "Mambo Mouth," based on his experiences as a Latino growing up in Jackson Heights, Queens. "Mambo" premiered on H-B-O and later was published as a book (Bantam). Leguizamo's second one-man show, "Spic-O-Rama," had long runs in Chicago and New York, and was also shown on HBO. As an actor, Leguizamo has appearred in "Whispers in the Dark" and "Super Mario Brothers." He now is on the big screen with Al Pacino in "Carlito's Way." (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 10

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a new recording of the opera "Lord Byron," (Koch International) by American composer Virgil Thomson. It's the first complete recording of the opera. The librettist is JACK LARSON (an interview with LARSON follows): Librettist, poet, playwright JACK LARSON. Though, he got his career start as an actor: Jimmy Olsen, the cub-reporter on the original "Superman" TV show. One of his poems "The Relativity of Icarus" was part of a Joffrey Ballet." He's also written a couple of versed plays, "The Candied House," and "Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul." He's also been a film producer.

Actress MERCEDES MCCAMBRDGE who chilled audiences in the 1970's as the voice of the Devil in "The Exorcist". She won an Academy Award for her first film role -- in 1949 for "All the King's Men". She also starred with Joan Crawford in Nicholas Ray's western, "Johnny Guitar".

Poet, writer, and teacher NANCY MAIRS. She's a Catholic feminist, who started out Protestant, and who late in life became a feminist. She calls herself, "the connoisseur of catastrophe." She's known for writing honestly about her struggles with multiple sclerosis, depression, and the life-threatening illness of her husband, also about being a woman, a mother, and a wife. Her newest book of personal essays is "Ordinary Time," (Beacon). One revewier calls it, "a small miracle of honesty mediated by dignity and humor." (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 7/19/93).

2: Former homeless man and writer, LARS EIGHNER (EYE-ner). He's written an account of his time on the streets with his dog, "Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets," (St, Martin's Press).

Novelist ALBERT FRENCH. He found inspiration for his first novel, "Billy" (Viking), in the true story of an 11-yr-old getting the electric chair in the 1930's. "Billy," is the story of the "legal lynching" of a ten year old boy in the deep south who inadvertantly kills a white girl. FRENCH writes in "Delta" dialect, epitomizing racial hatred in America

Tibetan buddhist master SOGYAL RINPOCHE ("soh-GYAL RIN-poh-chay," the ch as in chair). He was born in Tibet and raised by a master in the buddhist tradition. He also studied at Cambridge University in England. He has lived outside of Tibet, in exile, for 20 years. "Rinpoche" is a title usually given to incarnate Lamas, meaning "the Precious One." A few months ago, John Cleese of Monty Python fame introduced one of Rinpoche's talks, saying it was the first time he played warm-up man to an incarnate lama. Rinpoche is the incarnation of Terton Sogyal (1856-1926), a Tibetan mystic and the teacher of the last Dalai Lama. Rinpoche's new book, "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying," combines Tibetan wisdom with modern research on death and dying. (HarperCollins