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First-time film-maker TIANA (the Americanization of the name THI THANH NGA) has made a personal documentary tracing her 1988 journey back to Vietnam, where she was born: "From Hollywood to Hanoi." Her father was the head of press relations for the South Vietnamese government, and she enjoyed a priviledged childhood. But her father moved the family to the United States just before the fall of Saigon. TIANA was raised in California from the age of three and became an actress in low-budget exploitation films. One reviewer writes about the film that TIANIA's "puckish humor and eye for incongruity are editorially lethal."

Musician and record producer, RON LEVY. He was asked to played in B.B. King's band, when he was just out of high school. He went on to form "Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom, and recorded with the "luminaries" of the late seventies blue wave revival: Kim Wilson and Jimmie Vaughan and others. He started producing for Rounder Records and ended up working with old blues legends on Rounder's Blues label. LEVY has long championed the Hammond B-3 organ which has come back into vogue. And he has a new Wild Kingdom release, "B-3, Blues and Grooves." (Ro

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Two archive interviews with singer-songwriter ELVIS COSTELLO. First, we present a conversation from 1989, then we fast forward to an interview recorded earlier this year (1/27/94). In the late 1970s COSTELLO burst out of Britain's pop-music scene as the angry young man with a fresh sound. He's known for making connections between different musical communities. He's collaborated with Paul McCartney, Ruben Blades, Aimee Mann of "'til Tuesday," David Was of "Was (Not Was)," and T. Bone Burnett. Now COSTELLO is back with his original band, "The Attractions," and with producer Nick Lowe. Their latest release is "Brutal Youth," (Warner Bros).

DR. SUSAN WICKLUND. She provides abortions services to women in Montana and South Dakota, traveling 4 hours each way. Without WICKLUND's services, abortions would not be available to women in North Dakota. In the past she has worked in up to five clinics in three states while living in Montana with her teenage daughter. WICKLUND has been featured on "60 Minutes." She will recieve the Elizabeth Blackwell Award for her outstanding dedication to women's health care on October 29th

2: Writer and former film maker GRETEL EHRLICH is the author of "The Solace of Open Spaces," a collection of essays about life on Wyoming's high plains. It was while walking on the Wyoming plains, that EHRLICH was struck by lightning. The force of it threw her forty feet, severly damaged part of her nervous system, and sent her into a "solitary limbo." EHRLICH returned to her parents home for medical treatment and began trying to understand what happened to her. She found explanations in medical books and in The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which described a wandering state between life and death, confusion and enlightenment. EHRLICH's new book is "A Match to the Heart." (Pantheon).

NPR and NBC legal affairs corespondent, NINA TOTENBERG. She broke the story of Anita Hill's allegations of sexual harassment against Clarance Thomas. In covering the Thomas/Hill Judiciary Committee hearings some conservative senators accused TOTENBERG of ruining the lives of both Thomas and Hill. TOTENBERG also brought the fact that Judge Douglas Ginsburg had smoked marijuana into the public eye, costing him a Supreme Court nomination. TOTENBERG's reports regularly for "Morning Edition," "Weekend Edition," and "All Things Considered."

2: GERALD EARLY is Director of African American Studies at Washington University, and author of several books. His newest book is a memoir about raising his two daughters, "Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood," (Addison-Wesley). One reviewer wrote, "a powerful reminder of the complexity and mystery, and abiding love that exists in families. . . this narrative. . is also suffused with the glory and pain and generational patience of black culture in America."

T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "Tribeca," which premieres tonight on Fox. It"s a drama series, and Robert DeNiro is one of the producers.

Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg on the oral culture of Somalia.