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Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews Rising Sun, starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes. It''s based on a novel by Michael Crichton (CRY-ton), who also wrote Jurassic Park.

2: LESLIE HARRIS is the writer and director of "Just Another Girl on the IRT." This is HARRIS's first film, and with it she became one of few African-American women film directors to have her film released nationally. The film won the special jury prize for a first-time film maker at the Sundance Film Festival. It's about a highschool junior, Chantel, who is an A-student, with a gift of gab and an attitude. The New York Times's Vincent Canby wrote of the character that she is, "almost as significant of her place and time as Booth Tarkington's Penrod is of his."

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews, "The Children of Men," by P.D. James (Knopf).

2: Writer YELENA KHONGAS (E-lane-a HONGAS). Her new book "Soul to Soul," is about her family's multi-cultural, multi-ethnic background. KHONGAS' grandparents met in jail where they were being held for political activism. Her grandfather was African-American and her grandmother Jewish. They moved to Russia, where KHONGAS's mother was born, and subsequently YELENA herself.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD switches art forms and has some thoughts on the tv soap opera form, specifically on the waning days of his soap opera obsession "Santa Barbara." The last episode airs tomorrow.

Journalist PHILLIP LONGMAN. He specializes in politics and public policy. He'll talk with Terry about the items in Clinton's address last night dealing with entitlements. Clinton wants to a impose higher-income tax on Social Security benefits for individuals with incomes over $25,000 and couples over $32,000. The administration says this would affect fewer than one-quarter of retirees. LONGMAN is the author of "Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America," (published in 1987 by Houghton Mi

STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "A Bronx Tale," actor Robert DeNiro''s directorial debut.

Interview with MAX WEINBERG continued.

An old and a new interview with UPDIKE: From March 16, 1989, UPDIKE's interview about his memoir, "Self-Consciousness."And a new interview with UPDIKE. His new novel is "Brazil," (Knopf). (THEINTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE ATC PROMO). REV. : More with JOHN UPDIKE.

2: Film Director JOHN DAHL. His new film is a thriller called "Red Rock West." It takes place in a tough little town in Wyoming over a forty-eight hour period. It has a film noir feeling and plot that twists and turns. It stars Nicholas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle and J.T. Walsh.