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2: Political satirist and impressionist JIM MORRIS. He's always done impressions. He began lampooning the Presidents at about the time Reagan was sworn in to office. Since then he's impersonated Bush, and Clinton, as well as presidental contenders, Michael Dukakis, Paul Tsongas, and Ross Perot. He's also impersonated some well known broadcasters. In 1989 he impersonated Bush at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, in front of the President himself. CBS's Mike Wallace described it as "Mean. Mean. Mean. Mean." Recently MORRIS was invited again to the White House, where he did his impersonations of Vice President Gore, and President Clinton in front of them. The New Yorker says of MORRIS, "Like an obsessive character actor, Mr. Morris doesn't just impersonate his subjects; he becomes them."

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE NEW CBS MONDAY NIGHT COMEDY "CYBILL," STARRING CYBILL SHEPARD.

2: Pulitzer Prize winning playwright DAVID MAMET (MAM-ette) has written a new book, Passover. (St. Martin's Hood) It details a conversation between a grandmother and granddaughter preparing a traditional Passover meal. Through their conversation the grandmother reveals the horrific family history of living through the Polish Pogroms. MAMET also wrote Glengary Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), Writing in Restaurants, and he wrote the screenplays for The Untouchables and Hoffa.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Exotica."

SCOTT SIMON HAS SOME THOUGHTS ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORMAL IDENTIFICATION OF V-1 AND V-2 ROCKETS, OR BUZZ-BOMBS, THAT RAINED DOWN ON LONDON DURING WORLD WAR II.

AILEEN (eye-LEAN) LeBLANC OF MEMBER STATION WHQR IN WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, REPORTS ON "VANISHING POINT," A SERIES OF VIRTUAL-REALITY RADIO PLAYS FOR THE MTV-GENERATION.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that February had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the last 4 years. But that's not necessarily good news for everyone... Daniel talks to two brothers, both economics professors, who sit on either side of the issue. Robert Gordon from Northwestern University in Illinois and David Gordon from the New School in New York.

The film "I am Cuba" is a Soviet propaganda film made in 1964 that is being shown for the first time in the United States. Daniel talks to film director Martin Scorcese who is presenting the film and Russian poet Yevgeny Yevteshenko who wrote the script about the film's artistic and cultural value.

Joe talks with Jon Miller, play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles and for E-S-P-N. Miller is an announcer without a team as his employer, the Orioles, is refusing to field a team of players to replace those who are on strike. The Orioles are the only major league team to not field a replacement team, so Miller is waiting and wondering if he'll be working.