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2: Professor of African-American studies, GERALD EARLY. He'll talk with Terry about the dilemma of being a middle-class African American intellectual. His new book is "Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation." (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press).

Actress and Stanford Theater Professor, ANNA DEAVERE SMITH. She performs solo, multi-casted pieces, the scripts of which are transcripts of interviews with real participants of events. "Fires in the Mirrors" (aired on PBS) gave voice to the many facets of the Crown Heights riots. Her new show is "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992", which condenses 170 interviews Smith conducted herself into a two hour show ranging through the lives of 21 Los Angelinos: Darryl Gates, Reginald Denny, Rodney King's aunt, and a Korean shopkeeper (whose lines are spoken in perfect Korean and translated overhead).

On her latest recording, Devil's Got Your Tongue, jazz singer Abbey Lincoln includes two songs about her parents -- both of whom are now dead. Lincoln says she composed the songs because there were a few things she still needed to write down and to say.

2: Playwright LANFORD WILSON. Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize for his play, "Talley's Folly." His most recent play, "Redwood Curtain," is the story of a Amerasian girl in the Pacific Northwest, looking for her father, a Vietnam Vet. REBROADCAST. (Originally aired 3/13/92).

Writer EDMUND WHITE. He has been called "unquestionably the foremost American gay novelist." WHITE's novels draw significantly from his own experiences in a style he calls "auto-fiction." In his newest book, "Genet: A Biography" (Knopf), WHITE documents the life of controversial French writer, Jean Genet. Genet had a reputation as a dandy, a thief, a vagabond --- a "thug of genius." WHITE calls him "one of France's most original and forceful novelists of the twentieth century." WHITE has also written "Forgetting Elena," "A Boy's Own Story," and six other books of fiction and non-fiction

2: Shanghai-born author, ANCHEE MIN (AHN-chee MIN). She grew up in China during the last years of Mao's Cultural Revolution. In her memoir, "Red Azalea" (Pantheon), MIN recounts her experiences as an 11-year old leader in her school's Little Red Guard, then as a laborer at a work camp where she became the secret lover of her female commander. When Madam Mao began her reform of China's film industry, MIN was chosen from 20,000 candidates to become a screen actress because she had a face that was thought to represent the working class. MIN was also cast to star in a film about Madam Mao's life, but before the film was finished Chairman Mao died, Madam Mao was denounced and MIN was punished. In 1984, with the help of actress Joan Chen, MIN emigrated to the United States, where she works as a writer and photographer.

President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of New York City, ALEXANDER SANGER. Terry will talk with him about his work there, and about carrying on the work that his grandmother, Margaret Sanger pioneered. One of the projects they are involved in is training doctors in abortion practices. This is in response to a drop in training programs in OB/GYN residency programs, where it's fallen 50 percent since 1985.

Kansas City pianist JAY MCSHANN. As a big band leader in the 40s and 50s, McShann helped start the careers of jazz stars like Charlie Parker and Big Joe Turner. He performs "When I Grow To Old To Dream." (rebroadcast from 10/8/87)ARTHEL "DOC" WATSON, one of America's premier acoustic folk guitarists. His flat-pick style of playing traditional folk and bluegrass has made his sound one of the most distinctive of any folk artist. He's won at least four Grammys. In the folk music community, Watson is best known for his part in preserving the traditional ballads and melodies of southern Appalachia. He'll perform "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor." Songwriter, pianist and singer DR. JOHN. Known in his native New Orleans as Mac Rennback, his music has evolved from the psychedelic voodoo-rock he played in the 1960's to the classic piano he plays today. DR. JOHN performs his hit "Lazy River." (Rebroadcast from 1/7/92)In a live concert with New Orleans songwriter, pianist and singer ALLEN TOUSSAINT, he performs his timeless hit "Working in the Coal Mine." For over twenty years he's been a force in New Orleans rhythm and blues scene. (Rebroadcast. Originally broadcast on Friday, May 27,

Terry talks with journalist FORREST SAWYER, whose new television news magazine show, Day One, premieres this Sunday night on ABC. Sawyer was recognized for his reporting during the Gulf War, when he split off from the pack and brought in some of the earliest footage of surrending Iraqi soldiers and the American liberation of Kuwaiti. They also talk about how Sawyer got into broadcasting and what it's been like working on Nightline

2: Actor ED HARRIS. He starred in "The Right Stuff," "The Abyss," and David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross." He's now starring in the new film, "The Firm," based on the best-selling thriller.