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Daniel talks with Karen Schwab of Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital about how it's started offering hotel service to family members of patients who are critically ill. The rooms cost $150 dollars a night and offer amenities such as the New York Times each morning, cable TV service, and high tea in the afternoon.

Critic MILO MILES reviews "Blues, Rags, and Hollers," a reissue of a 1963 debut album of Koerner, Ray, and Glover (Red House Records Elektra).

Probation officer for Los Angeles County, JIM GALIPEAU (GAL-ih-poh). He works with gangs in Los Angeles GALIPEAU has been a probation officer for almost 30 years. He's a Vietnam vet, and when he was a teenager, he was a street fighter and drug addict. Terry also talked with GALIPEAU in 1993 when he discussed the truce he was working on with the gangs.

Halloween's a few days away, and that gives us an excuse to find out what exactly happens to your body when you're scared out of your wits. Danny talks with Dr. Antonio Damasio of the University of Iowa medical school.

Mary Stucky has a report about a St. Paul, Minnesota foster care program that mentors entire families: parents and kids included.

2: Interview with William Maxwell continued.

ABC News political and media analyst JEFF GREENFIELD. He appears regularly on Nightline and World News Tonight. He also has a weekly column on World News Sunday. He's just written his first novel about presidential politics and the electoral college, The People's Choice: A Cautionary Tale, (G.P. Putnam).

Psychologist KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is an authority on manic-depression, and the author of the 1993 book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, (Free Press/MacMillan). Recently JAMISON disclosed her own 30-year battle with manic-depression in the new memoir, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Knopf). JAMISON is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Jazz Critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews a cd featuring Carl Stalling''s cartoon music. From 1936 to 1958 Stalling composed music for Warner Brother''s cartoons including: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the Road Runner. The title is "The Carl Stalling Project, Vol. 2, Warner Bros." REV. : Film Critic Stephen Schiff reviews Spike Lee''s new film "Clockers." Then we heard an excerpt from a 1993 (?) interview with novelist Richard Price who wrote "Clockers."

SCOTT SIMON VISITS THE MARIO LANZA MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA. HE ALSO SPEAKS WITH A MAN WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE THE SINGING SON OF THE GREAT TENOR.