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Filmmaker HAILE GERIMA ("Highly Guh-REE-ma"). He was born in Ethiopia and now lives in America. His latest movie, "Sankofa," ("San-KOH-fah") which he wrote and directed, is an epic about African-American slavery, from Africans' 18th century journey to America to their struggles for liberation, told for the first time from an African viewpoint. Gerima is a professor of film at Howard University in Washington, DC. Along with "Sankofa," two of his past features, "Harvest: 3,000 Years" and "Ashes and Embers" have won international awards. Recently, the Smithsonian's Museum of African Art showcased his career with a seven-film retrospective. "Sankofa" means "returning to one's roots, recuperating your losses, and moving on," in the Akan language of Ghana.

SONNY ROLLINS, tenor saxophonist, is one of the jazz world's greatest improvisational artists. At the tender age of 23, he played with Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. In the early 1950s, he joined the Clifford Brown-Max Roach quintet. He also began a critically-acclaimed solo career. Now in his sixties, he feels obligated to carry on the vision of his own mentors to today's rising stars. His latest album, "Old Flames" (Milestone), focuses on jazz standards and features Sonny backed by a brass section. ROLLINS will be the guest of honor at the JazzTimes Convention in November 16-19, in New York. (REBROADCAST from 2

2: Filmmaker ROSS MCEWLEE. (Pronounced "Mac-al-wee") His new film is "Time Indefinite", a very autobiographical documentary about his marriage, the birth of his son and the death of his parents. MCEWLEE'S earlier film "Sherman's March" started out as a documentary about Civil War General William Sherman's march to the sea and ended up a examination of personal identity and the mysteries of love.

Professor and writer RAYMOND McNALLY has studied the many portrayals of vampires in folklore and film. He has traced the origins of the Dracula story in Transylvania. His book about what he's found is "In Search of Dracula" (Houghton-Mifflin), written with Radu Florescu. McNALLY is a professor of Rumanian and Eastern European culture at Boston College. (REBROADCAST FROM 10

Cartooonist ART SPIEGELMAN, author of "Maus," for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and "Maus II." The two book-length comics are accounts of SPIEGELMAN's parents' experiences in the Holocaust. He is also co-founder and editor of "Raw," a magazine of avant-garde comics. He has now illustrated "The Wild Party: The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March" (Pantheon

Two individuals involved with the Victim/Offender Mediation Program (with The Community Dispute Resolution Center in New York City): Program Director THOMAS CHRISTIAN, and GARY GEIGER, who was shot and wounded during a robbery eleven years ago. Through the program, GEIGER confronted the man who shot him, Wayne Blanchard, who is now in prison. GEIGER's meeting with Blanchard is part of a new HBO special, "Confronting Evil: America Undercover." (It premieres tonight (10:00 - 11:00 p.m. E.T.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews Woody Allen''s new movie, "Bullets Over Broadway."

White South African writer RIAN (rhymes with "neon") MALAN. Malan is an Afrikaner, descendent of a family that settled in South Africa over three hundred years ago, and Malan's great-uncle was the chief architect of the Apartheid system. Malan only realized the horror of Apartheid after he became a crime reporter for a Johannesburg paper. What he learned led him to leave South Africa, and spend the next eight years in exile. Malan's written a book about his return to his homeland, called "My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience." (REBROADCAST FROM 1/30/90).South African labor leader EMMA MASHININI. Mashinini was Secretary of the Commercial, Catering, and Allied Workers Union of South Africa, one of South Africa's biggest trade unions, and was arrested and detained for six months. Mashinini's autobiography, is "Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life." (by Routledge). (REBROADCAST FROM 7/23/91).From 1953 until 1989 HELEN SUZMAN served as an Opposition Member of the South African Parliament. SUZMAN was a pioneering political leader in the fight against apartied and anti-semitism. For thirteen years she was the sole representative in the Parliament to reject race discrimination. In her book, "In No Certain Terms: A South African Memoir" (Knopf), she explains how she used her status to gain access to places out of bounds to the general public--prisons, black townships and "resettlement areas"--and how she came to know Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners. (REBROADCAST FROM 11/09/93).

2: South African playwright ATHOL FUGARD. He still makes his home in South Africa, though he writes plays which confront the apartied system; his plays were the among the first to bring white and black actors on stage together. Perhaps his most well known play was "Master Harold and the Boys"; his latest work was 1993's "Playland." (Rebroa Professor of African Literature (at the University of Pittsburgh) DENNIS BRUTUS. An exiled poet, he spent years in prison with Nelson Mandela; he has since been granted a passport from South Africa, though he chooses to live in the United States. (Rebroa

2: Writer ELAINE MARCUS STARKMAN. STARKMAN's new book, "Learning to Sit in Silence: A Journal of Caretaking" (Papeir-Mache), is a fictionalized journal of caring for her elderly mother-in-law. STARKMAN explores the love, guilt, and anger that accompanies aging and death for so many. STARKMAN has also written "The Best Time" and "Love Scene."

DAVID WHYTE is a poet who uses poetry to teach corporate executives and employees how to find satisfaction in the work place. In his new book, "The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America," (Doubleday) WHYTE looks at the ways people can use their careers not only as a means to earning a living, but as a way of finding personal happiness. WHYTE has served as a consultant for such companies as AT&T and Kodak, teaching his clients how to use poetry and myth to find happiness in the workplace. He also runs a small press in Seattle, Washington.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN has a holiday round-up of some of her favorite books of the year, including two newly published books, "Inspector Imanishi Investigates" by Seicho Matsumoto (Soho), and "The Folding Star" by Alan Hollinghurst (Pantheon). Also included are"The Alienist," Caleb Carr; "Henry and Clara," Thomas Mallon; "The Bird Artist," Howard Norman; "A Map of the World," Jane Hamilton; "The Western Canon," Harold Bloom; "Where the Girls Are," Susan Douglas; "Nellie Bly," Brooke Kroeger; "No Gifts From Chance," Shari Benstock; "You Can''t Be Neutral on a Moving Train," Howard Zinn;"The Silent Woman," Janet Malcolm.