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

2: What does 'artistic temperament' really mean? In her new book, "Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament" (Free Press), Kay Jamison has studied the psychological makeup of many of our most revered artists--Byron, Tennyson, Van Gogh, Hemingway--and linked their genius to manic-depression. Jamison looks at current treatments for manic-depression, and considers their affect on a patient's ability to create. Kay Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

KIM RICH. She's written a new memoir, "Johnny's Girl," (William Morrow & Co.) about growing up in Anchorage, Alaska during the oil boom years, the daughter of "one of the most notorious underworld figures in the city." Her father operated illegal gambling houses and massage parlors all over the city. RICH's father was eventually murdered

Psychologist and writer CAROL TAVRIS. Terry will talk with her about two things: Her latest book, "The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex." (Simon & Schuster). In the book, TAVRIS looks at the widespread but unacknowledged custom in the social sciences, medicine, law and history, of treating men as the normal standard and women as abnormal. TAVRIS shows that the real differences in gender are in power, resources, and life experiences. Also TAVRIS recently wrote a review of two books dealing with incest, "Beware the Incest-Survivor Machine," (The New York Times Book Review, Jan 3, 1993) in which she calls for a more reasoned, cautious approach to a very complicated issue. The review received a fire-storm of letters from readers (Feb. 14, 1993).

2: ROBERT OLEN BUTLER is the 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction for "A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain," (Henry Holt & Co.) a collection of 15 first-person stories by Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana. BUTLER has written seven novels in all, several of them dealing with the Vietnamese experience, in Vietnam and in America. BUTLER's latest book is "They Whisper," (Henry Holt), about intimacy between a man and a woman.

Executive Vice President of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, MAX RICHTMAN (the "t" is silent). Terry will talk with him about how Clinton's budget proposal will impact Social Security and Medicare. RICHTMAN is critical of Clinton's plan to raise the tax on Social Security benefits.

2: Live question and answer session continues with Martin Scorcese.

Journalist MOLLY MOORE. She is New Delhi bureau chief for "The Washington Post." She covered the war in the Gulf, traveling with a general and his troops into Kuwait, where she says she witnessed "the fiercest and most chaotic 100 hours" of the War. This was the allied ground attack on Iraqi troops, and the liberation of Kuwait. MOORE has written a new book about it, "A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines." (Charles Scribner's

Irish writer and journalist TIM PAT COOGAN. In the expanded edition of his twenty-some year old book, "The IRA: A History" (Roberts Rin , COOGAN explains the historical background of the Irish struggles. For hundreds of years the Irish Republican Army has been fighting for home rule in Northern Ireland...their latest attack was a massive bombing of London last April. "The IRA: A History," is being released for the first time in the U.S., thought it's been required reading for British and Irish Military officers alike. COOGAN is the author of four other books, including "The Man Who Make Ireland: The Life and Death of Michael Collins" (Roberts Rin

RICHARD PRICE wrote and produced the movie "Mad Dog and Glory," which stars Robert Deniro, Bill Murray and Uma Thurman. His most recent novel is the best seller, "Clockers," (published by Houghton Mifflin). Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times wrote "the signal achievement of "Clockers' is to make us feel the enormous power of these giants that are drugs, alcoholism, poverty." "Clockers" has just been published in paperback. PRICE also wrote the screenplays for, "The Color of Money," "Sea of Love," and Martin Scorcese's section of "New York Stories." (REBROADCAST FROM 3/