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Miami Herald columnist and novelist CARL HIAASEN. His newest comic thriller set in South Florida is Stormy Weather, about the rip off artists and corrupt construction and insurance industries that take advantage of hurricane victims. He's also the author of five other books in the same vein: Strip Tease, a yarn, pitting a seemy Florida politician against the star stripper at Miami's Eager Beaver club. Mr. Hiaasen has spun tales of environmentalists feeding tourists and senior citizens to alligators ("Tourist Season), of a villainous South Florida plastic surgeon who kills a woman during a nose job ("Skin Tight"), and about the amusement park, The Amazing Kingdom of Thrills, where one of the novel's heavies is loved to death by an amorous dolphin ("Native To

Composer and Lyricist RALPH BLANE died Monday at the age of 81 at his home in Oklahoma. He is best known for his work with HUGH MARTIN. Together they wrote songs for Broadway and Hollywood. They are best known for songs in the MGM classic, "Meet Me in St. Louis." That starred Judy Garland and featured the songs "The Trolley Song," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," and "The Boy Next Door." (Originally aired 10/

SCOTT VISITS MONTREAL AND QUEBEC ON THE EVE OF THE REFERENDUM THAT MAY DECIDE IF QUEBEC WILL SECEDE FROM CANADA.

Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Co., BRIAN ANDERSON. In 1993, Shell pulled out of Ogoniland, the oil rich part of Nigeria, after it's pipelines were sabotaged. But they still operate in other parts of Nigeria. Human Rights Watch is calling on them, and other oil companies to close down their operations in Nigeria.

An excerpt of a 1990 interview with trumpeter DON CHERRY. He died recently. He played with Ornette Coleman's free jazz revolution which began in

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Liane Hansen speaks with Wallace Clayton, editor and publisher of he Tombstone Epitaph, which reported the shootout at the OK Corral 114 years go this week.

Liane speaks with author Chris Claremont, who for 17 years rote the Marvel comic book "The Uncanny X-men," which became the most popular omic in the Western hemisphere. He is now writing a new comic book for DC, alled "Sovereign Seven," which he not only created, but owns as well. He also as just co-authored with George Lucas the first book of a fantasy trilogy alled "Shadow Moon," (Bantam Books), which continues the adventures begun in ucas' film, Willow."

Correspondent for The New York Times, CHRIS HEDGES. He's been reporting from Bosnia and Croatia. He talks about the expected signing of the Bosnian Peace Agreement, and the arrival of NATO troops.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Heat" starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino.

TAMMY SCHNITZER lives in Billings, Montana. She grew up there, as a Lutheran and married Brian Schnitzer, a Jew, and then converted to Judaism. They are the subject of a new PBS documentary "Not In Our Town," (December 17th, 10:30 p.m. EST) about how the community in 1993 rallied behind Schnitzer and her family when they were targets of hate crimes. The local newspaper printed full page menorahs and they were displayed in nearly 10,000 homes and businesses. This week, December 10-17, has been declared "Not In Our Town Week," a nationally-coordinated campaign against hate crimes. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE REV. SE