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zz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews two new reissues which were both recorded in New York in the mid-1960''s. Steve Lacy and Rosewell Rudd combine modern jazz, avant-garde, and old blues in their album "School Days" ( Hat Art). Duke Pearson combines piano with Caribbean music on "The Right Touch" on the (Blue Note).INT. 2: Actor DENNIS HOPPER. He made his film debut in "Rebel Without a Cause," and has appeared in "Blue Velvet," "Rivers Edge," and "Hoosiers." Hopper directed, co-wrote, and starred in the 60''s classic, "Easy Rider," for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He has directed several films, including "Colors," and "The Hot Spot." He co-starred with Christian Slater in the 1993 movie "True Romance," and with Wesley Snipes in "Boiling Point." He currently appears in the new film "Speed" with Keanu Reeves, and stars in "Red Rock West," which also stars Nicholas Cage and Lara Flynn Boyle. (INTERVIEW RECORDED IN 10/10/90) REV. : Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new film "Wolf."

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new film, "Ed Wood," starring Johnny Depp.

Author LINDA GRAY SEXTON has just written "Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton" (Little, Brown), her seventh book. She spent a long time coming to terms with her relationship with her mother, who committed suicide in 1974. REV.: Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG tells us about his hand held electronic dictionary.

JOHN GOODMAN may be best known for his role as Dan Connor, a.k.a. Roseanne's husband, on the hit TV show "Roseanne." But he's been able to do what most cannot--carry on a successful film career and TV role at the same time. GOODMAN has appeared as a back-slapping traveling salesman who's also a demonic murderer in "Barton Fink," and as home run king Babe Ruth in "The Babe." His new movie is a remake of the Hollywood classic "Born Yesterday."

2: Journalist NGUYEN QUI DUC. He works for KALW-FM in San Francisco, supplies commentaries to NPR and received the Overseas Press Club's 1989 Award of Excellence for his public radio series about returning to Viet Nam. NGUYEN has written a new memoir about his family's struggle during and after the war. NGUYEN's father was an official in the South Vietnamese government who was captured by the Viet Cong and imprisoned for 12 years. In 1975, NGUYEN gained passage to the U.S. on a cargo ship, and moved about from relative to relative until he settled in California. His mother stayed behind in Vietnam, lost her job as a school princpal and hawked beef noodle soup on the streets of Sai Gon. Eventually NGUYEN was reunited with his family in the U.S. His new memoir is "Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family." (Addison-Wesley).

Rock Critic Ken Tucker reviews Ill Communication, the new album by The Beastie Boys.

2: Film director ANDREW DAVIS. Davis' string of action-thriller hits include "Under Siege" with Steven Seagal and a Chuck Norris picture "Code of Silence". His last film was a remake of a TV series from the 1960's "The Fugitive" and starred Harrison Ford. It has been nominated for a "Best Picture" Acadamy Award. Davis' Hollywood credentials belie his journalistic background: he began his film career as an assistant cameraman to Haskell Wexler on "Medium Cool" which was filmed during and uses footage of the chaos of the 1968 Democratic Convention. Davis served as a PBS reporter and then moved to Los Angeles, where he was director of photography on 15 films before his debut as a director in 1979. (Rebroadcast from 8-19-93).

2: Children's book writer and illustrator MAURICE SENDAK. He's been at it for over 40 years. His books are classics: "Where the Wild Things Are," "In the Night Kitchen," and others. They are "unsentimental fantasizes" (LA Times Magazine), challenging the belief that children should be protected from their fears and anxieties. In all, SENDAK has illustrated 80 children's books (19 of which he wrote). He's also designed over 10 opera sets, including one for "The Nutcracker." (REBROADCAST FROM 10

It's the 25th anniversary of British broadcast debut of "Monty Python's Flying Circus." Therefore, we feature archive interviews with four members of the troupe:TERRY JONES, a member of the comedy troupe Monty Python. JONES did much of the writing for the troupe. He directed most of their movies, often appearing as one of the Python women. JONES now writes children's books in England. He's been involved with two recent films, "Nuns on the Run," and "Splitting Heirs." (REBROADCAST FROM 11

Educator BOB MOSES. He was a leader in the Civil Rights struggle, helping to register black voters in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. He's still a civil rights activist, though his weapon now is Math. He's the director and creator of the innovative Algebra Project which opens up educational opportunities for young African-Americans. MOSES established the project in Cambridge, Mass in 1982. Since then it's been implimented across the country, and has reached 9,000 inner city youths.

In 1989, there was a small outbreak of an extremely contagious virus, the Ebola virus, in a lab in Reston, Virginia. The army was brought in to stop the spread of the disease. The disease essentially causes its victims to bleed to death. RICHARD RESTON has written a new book about the incident, "The Hot Zone" (Random

2: Israeli author DAVID GROSSMAN has just written his third novel, "The Book of Intimate Grammar" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). It tells the story of a young Israeli boy struggling with his family and the world he lives in. GROSSMAN's hero has been compared to Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield, as a boy fighting against growing up.