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2: Travel author and novelist, PAUL THEROUX. In a new issue of the Conde Nast Traveler magazine --July 1993-- THEROUX recounts the abundant ailments and diseases he's contracted during his thirty years of world travel. Luckily, "Kuru" isn't one of them: a Papua New Guinea affliction of the nervous system where one goes mad, then dies trembling. The only way to catch it is after eating human brains.

4: Entomologist DAVE BRODY, curator of the entomology department of the Museum of Natural History in New York. Brody was the insect consultant -- a "bug wrangler"-- for films like "Creepshow" and "The Believers." (REBROADCAST from 7/9/87).

Commentator ANNIE LAMOTT reflects on life on the first anniversary of her best friend''s death.

Performer, comic and writer SANDRA BERNHARD. Some know her from her role in the ABC sitcom "Roseanne;" she also had a successful one-woman off-Broadway show called "Without You I'm Nothing," which was turned into a film and album of the same name. Her HBO special last year, "Sandra After Dark," satirized the old "Playboy After Dark" variety show. She appeared in Martin Scorsese's "King of Comedy," among other feature films. She was also linked as a possible love interest to Madonna. Her first book was "Confessions of a Pretty Lady." Her new book is called "Love Love and Love," a collection of short stories and essays. (both HarperCo

Retired ADM. WILLIAM J. CROWE, JR. He was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Reagan and Bush. He's now chair of Clinton's foreign intelligence advisory board. In the late1980s, CROWE developed an unusual friendship with his Soviet counterpart, Marshal Sergei F. Akromeyev, who later committed suicide after being accused of taking part in the Soviet coup. CROWE urged Bush to delay the start up in the Gulf War. And later, he endorsed Clinton for president. CROWE has written a new book, "The Line of Fire: From Washington to the Gulf, the Politics and Battles of the New Military," (Simon and Sch

The attacker grabbed the officer's gun and fatally shot himself, the agency adds. The officer was identified as George Gonzalez, a veteran who served in Iraq, by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.

2: Writer HOWARD NORMAN has been nominated for the National Book Award for his new novel "The Bird Artist" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). The book takes place in Newfoundland in 1911, and is about an artist who murders the town's lighthouse keeper. NORMAN is also the author of a short story collection and "The Northern Lights," a National Book Award Nominee in 1987.

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1: .Playwright DAVID MAMET. His plays include "American Buffalo," "Speed-the-Plow," "Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won a Pulitzer), and "Oleanna." His movies include, "Homicide," "House of Games," and "Things Change." Mamet is best known for his style of writing. New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich described Mamet's writing in "Glengarry Glen Ross" as, "burying layers of meaning into simple precisely distilled idiomatic language." MAMET has written several books of essays; he's just published his first novel, "The Village." (Little Brown and Company).

V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews reruns of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," which air on the cable channel, E! Entertainment Television. The comedy show was canceled in 1969.