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2: Shanghai-born author, ANCHEE MIN (AHN-chee MIN). She grew up in China during the last years of Mao's Cultural Revolution. In her memoir, "Red Azalea" (Pantheon), MIN recounts her experiences as an 11-year old leader in her school's Little Red Guard, then as a laborer at a work camp where she became the secret lover of her female commander. When Madam Mao began her reform of China's film industry, MIN was chosen from 20,000 candidates to become a screen actress because she had a face that was thought to represent the working class. MIN was also cast to star in a film about Madam Mao's life, but before the film was finished Chairman Mao died, Madam Mao was denounced and MIN was punished. In 1984, with the help of actress Joan Chen, MIN emigrated to the United States, where she works as a writer and photographer.

Kevin Whitehead on the new film "Sleepless in Seattle"; Rock critic Ed Ward on the enduring legacy of Roxy Music.

In Bosnia, Cambodia, Somalia, and other countries, the role of U.N. peacekeeping forces is being redefined. BRIAN URQUHART, former U.N. Under-Secretary General, talks about what these forces are up against and what they can reasonably achieve.

Writer EDMUND WHITE. He has been called "unquestionably the foremost American gay novelist." WHITE's novels draw significantly from his own experiences in a style he calls "auto-fiction." In his newest book, "Genet: A Biography" (Knopf), WHITE documents the life of controversial French writer, Jean Genet. Genet had a reputation as a dandy, a thief, a vagabond --- a "thug of genius." WHITE calls him "one of France's most original and forceful novelists of the twentieth century." WHITE has also written "Forgetting Elena," "A Boy's Own Story," and six other books of fiction and non-fiction

Poet, writer, and teacher NANCY MAIRS. She's a Catholic feminist, who started out Protestant, and who late in life became a feminist. She calls herself, "the connoisseur of catastrophe." She's known for writing honestly about her struggles with multiple sclerosis, depression, and the life-threatening illness of her husband, also about being a woman, a mother, and a wife. Her newest book of personal essays is "Ordinary Time," (Beacon). One revewier calls it, "a small miracle of honesty mediated by dignity and humor."

2: The world of New York drag queens was captured on film long before "Paris Is Burning." In 1968, a movie called "The Queen" documented the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant. The film was a sensation in New York City; it was even shown at the Cannes Film Festival. This month "The Queen" has been revived for a short run at New York's Film Forum. Terry talks with JACK DOROSHOW, also known as Sabrina, the organizer and mistress of ceremonies of the 1968 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant.

2: Comedian and actor, JERRY STILLER. He's currently playing George Costanza's father on this season's "Seinfeld" show. STILLER got his start in standup comedy with his wife Anne Meara as The Stillers, the befuddled jewish guy and the heart-of-gold Irish girl. They performed for nine years on the Ed Sullivan Show, and did popular radio spots for Blue Nun wine and other TV shows and specials.

Film critic Stephen Schiff on the new comedy: "Ace Ventura Pet Detective."

2: What does 'artistic temperament' really mean? In her new book, "Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament" (Free Press), Kay Jamison has studied the psychological makeup of many of our most revered artists--Byron, Tennyson, Van Gogh, Hemingway--and linked their genius to manic-depression. Jamison looks at current treatments for manic-depression, and considers their affect on a patient's ability to create. Kay Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Rock historian Ed Ward pays tribute to Otis Redding.

Stephen Schiff reviews the new film by director Jane Champion, "The Piano," starring Holly Hunter, and Harvey Keitel.

GARY ORFIELD. He is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Director of its Project on School Desegration. His report, "The Growth of Segregation in American Schools: Changing Patterns of Separation and Poverty since 1968" was recently issued to the National School Board Association. In 1954 the United States Supreme Court found that the races in America's schools were segregated and the education was unequal. For awhile, integration was on the increase. But ORFIELD has found that today our schools have slipped backward. African American and Latino students are increasingly isolated by both race and poverty. ORFIELD argues that well designed school desegration programs can help.