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2: Drummer and drum historian MAX WEINBERG. For over a decade, WEINBERG was the drummer for Bruce Springstein's E Street Band. Now he leads the 7-piece band on Late Night With Conan O'Brien on NBC. WEINBERG co-authored The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1984). Now, he has produced and annotated a three-volume compilation of music performed by his favorite rock 'n roll drummers of the 50's, 60's and 70's. (MAX WEINBERG PRESENTS: LET THERE BE DRUMS, VOLS. 1-3. on the Rhino label. Available on compact disc and cassette.) (Interview with MAX WEINBERG continues after ATC P

2: ARNOLD RAMPERSAD, professor of Literature at Princeton, biographer of Langston Hughes and co-author of tennis star Arthur Ashe's memoir, "Days of Grace" (Knopf). Ashe died this year at age 49 from AIDS he contracted during open heart surgery. He was the first African American tennis champion, winning the United States Open in 1968, and going on to capture three Grand Slam titles. He has remained a vital presence in the sport, and his autobiography features portraits of the great celebrities of Tennis. Ashe talks candidly in "Days of Grace" about privacy issues, the media, race and education.

2: Novelist TONI MORRISON. She has a new novel "Jazz," (published by Knopf) and a new book of essays, "Playing in the Dark," (by Harvard). Her novel, "Beloved," won a Pulitzer prize. She's written five novels in all. Today she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4

2: Actor JAMES EARL JONES. His is one of the distinctive voices of our time, yet few people know he fights a stutter; JONES' stage work off-Broadway in Jean Genet's "The Blacks" and Athol Fugard's "The Blood Knot" lead to a Broadway success in "The Great White Way", for which JONES won a Tony. His work in August Wilson's "Fences" won him another. It took one day to record the voice track for Darth Vader in "Star Wars": a performance which lead to many other commercial voice-over projects. JONES has released his memoirs, "Voices and Silences" (Scribners). (Rebroadcast from 9

Actor PETER O'TOOLE. The star of "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Lion in the Winter," and "My Favorite Year," has a new biography about his early years, "Loitering with Intent." (Hyperion). (rebroadcast from 4/

Writer GARRY WILLS. He's analyzed the Gettysburg Address in the book, "Lincoln At Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America." He says that speaking for only three minutes that day, Lincoln changed the history of American political thought. Wills is a presidential historian and and political scientist. He's written other books on Nixon, Reagan and Kennedy, as well as a critical profile of Ross Perot.(REBROADCAST. Originally aired 7

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Saturation," the new album from the band URGE OVERKILL. (G

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.

The film "Silverlake Life: The View From Here" was started by filmmaker and film teacher Tom Joslin to document his and his lover's battles with AIDS. Joslin asked his former film student PETER FRIEDMAN to complete the film after Joslin's death. We'll talk with Friedman about working on "Silverlake Life," which opens the sixth season of PBS' P.O.V. series on Tuesday, Ju

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews the new Elvis Costello album (yes, you read that right), a collaboration between Costello and The Brodsky Quartet. It''s called "The Juliet Letters" (Warner

Film Critic Stephen Schiff reviews Scorcese''s "The Age of Innocence" based on the novel by Edith Wharton.