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Writer, actor, director HAROLD RAMIS. He's one of the most influential forces behind some of the biggest comedy hits of the late 70s and 80s. But his influence is not generally known by those outside the industry. (For that reason he's been called the "Clark Kent" of comedy. Also because he's "mild-mannered," "bespectacled," and he "looks as if he would be the first to duck under the table at the first sign of a food fight"). RAMIS wrote for "The National Lampoon Show," and "SCTV." He co-wrote as well as acted in the movies, "Animal House," "Stripes," "Ghostbusters," and others. He directed the new movie, "Groundhog Day," starring his old co-star Bill Murray.

Biomedical ethicist ARTHUR CAPLAN. Among the topics Marty discusses with him are the right to die and the implications of the doctor-assisted suicides, specifically how Dr. Jack Kevorkianhas been helping patients die. Caplan is Director of Biomedical Ethics and a professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Surgery at the University of Minnesota

COMMENTATOR MAUREEN CORRIGAN ON TWO NEW BOOKS OF NON-FICTION: "THEIRS WAS THE KINGDOM" BY JOHN HEIDENRY (NORTON) A HISTORY OF READERS DIGEST, AND "LAND OF DESIRE" BY WLLIAM LEACH (PANTHEON) ABOUT THE RISE OF THE DEPARTMENT STORE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews two new FOX programs, a youth drama, "Class of 96," and a comedy drama, "Key West."

2: Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, ARYEH NEIER (ARIA NIRE). He was in Sarejevo earlier this month. His group has just come out with a second volume of their report on war crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

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." (Hyp

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the coverage of the WACO standoff and tragedy.

2: Actor JEFF BRIDGES of the famous Bridges Family. His father is Lloyd Bridges, star of the TV series "Sea Hunt," and his brother is actor Beau Bridges. He's starred in alot of movies, including: "Winter Kills," "Cutter's Way," "Starman," "The Last Picture Show," "Jagged Edge," "Tucker: The Man and His Dream," "The Fabulous Baker Boys," and "The Fisher King." Now he's let his hair grow for the new film, "American Heart," directed by Martin Bell, who directed the documentary about Seattle street kids, "Streetwise." BRIDGES plays a newly released ex-con who is "cornered" by his teen-age son who he abandoned.

NPR commentator and political analyst KEVIN PHILLIPS. He's known for his ability to tap into the mood of American voters and forecast what's to come: in 1969 he predicted the conservative era with his book, "The Emerging Republican Majority." His 1992 book, "The Politics of Rich and Poor," was described as the "founding document" of the 1992 Presidential campaign. He has a new book, "Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans, and The Decline of Middle-Class Prosperity." (Random House). PHILLIPS is also the editor-publisher of "The American Political Report."

1963. Rock historian ED WARD continues his look back. This time, the year

2: Our classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ has a collection of poems, "Goodnight, Gracie," (published by Phoenix Poets). David Lehman calls this new collection, "a moving and inventive collection, his best and most ambitious to date." LLOYD is also music editor of The Boston Phoenix and is co-director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4/22/93).

2: Interview with MICHAEL BESCHLOSS continued. BESCHLOSS is also the author of "Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance" (1980), and "The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963" (1991). He is editor at large and foreign affairs columnist for "Time" Magazine, and was CNN-on-air analyst during the years when the cold war was ending.