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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.

2: SHEILA ROTHMAN author of "Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in america."

In Bosnia, Cambodia, Somalia, and other countries, the role of U.N. peacekeeping forces is being redefined. BRIAN URQUHART, former U.N. Under-Secretary General, talks about what these forces are up against and what they can reasonably achieve.

Rock historian Ed Ward pays tribute to Otis Redding.

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."

2: The world of New York drag queens was captured on film long before "Paris Is Burning." In 1968, a movie called "The Queen" documented the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant. The film was a sensation in New York City; it was even shown at the Cannes Film Festival. This month "The Queen" has been revived for a short run at New York's Film Forum. Terry talks with JACK DOROSHOW, also known as Sabrina, the organizer and mistress of ceremonies of the 1968 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant.

Stephen Schiff reviews the new film by director Jane Champion, "The Piano," starring Holly Hunter, and Harvey Keitel.

2: Comedian and actor, JERRY STILLER. He's currently playing George Costanza's father on this season's "Seinfeld" show. STILLER got his start in standup comedy with his wife Anne Meara as The Stillers, the befuddled jewish guy and the heart-of-gold Irish girl. They performed for nine years on the Ed Sullivan Show, and did popular radio spots for Blue Nun wine and other TV shows and specials.

Film critic Stephen Schiff on the new comedy: "Ace Ventura Pet Detective."