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Journalist MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE. He writes regularly for "The Advocate," and "Out" magazine. He's also written for "The New York Times," "The Village Voice," and other publications. He has a new book, "Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power," (Random House). SIGNORILE is a proponent of "outing" -- that is revealing the homosexuality of someone in power or position whether that person wants it known or not. SIGNORILE caused a controversy by

Physicist STEVEN WEINBERG. He received the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics. He's the author of "The First Three Minutes," about the 'Big Bang.' He's currently working on something known as the "final theory," the search for the ultimate laws of nature--for the final answer to our questions about why nature is the way it is. That search is tied up with work on the Superconducting Super Collider. His new book about that is "Dreams of the Final Theory," (Pantheon).

2:MICHAEL PALIN is best known for his comedy work with England's legendary Monty Python troupe. But Palin's new movie, "American Friends," is a romance based on the life of his great-grandfather. Edward Palin was a 35 year-old tutor at Oxford University when he met 17-year-old Brita, an American girl touring Europe. Oxford tutors in the Victorian era were sworn to chastity, so Edward Palin left his job to marry Brita. Michael Palin found the story in his great-grandfather's journal.

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Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews, "The Bridges of Madison County," by Robert Kincaid (Rant) and acknowledges the 100th anniversary of Dorothy Parker''s birth.

World music commentator MILO MILES tells us about the tango music of Julio de Caro. He and his band set the standard for tango music in Buenos Aires in the 20''s, and his music has just been reissued on the Spanish El Bandoneon label.

Actor LARRY FISHBURNE. He was Cowboy Curtis on "Pee-wee's Playhouse," and at 15, he played a young GI in "Apocalypse Now." He recently played the musician Ike Turner in the filmed biography of Tina Turner, "What's Love Got To Do With It." His new film is "Searching for Bobby Fischer." REBROADCAST FROM 4/6/92.

Iraqi dissident writer KANAN MAKIYA. He wrote, under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil, the book "Republic of Fear," about Saddam Hussein's regime. The book was one of the first alarms about the brutality of Hussein's regime. MAKIYA has a new book, "Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World." (W.W. NORTON). In the book he criticizes Arab intellectuals for keeping silent over escalating cruelties in the Arab world.

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