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V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the final episode of "Cheers" which airs tonight.

Novelist PATRICIA O'BRIEN. She spent twenty years as a reporter for the Chicago Sun Times. In 1988, she worked as Michael Dukakis' press secretary when he ran for president. She now writes novels about women on the inside of Washington power circles. Her latest novel is called "The Ladies Lunch," (Simon and Schuster) about a group of Washington women who meet weekly for lunch, until one of their group, the White House press secretary, dies a violent and mysterious death

Excerpt from an interview with DESMOND TUTU.

2: Singer TONY BENNETT. Columbia Records has issued a retrospective set of recordings covering Bennett's 40 years in the business. (Rebroadcast from 7-3-91).

TV critic David Bianculli reviews the premiere of the second life of NBC''s cop- show, "Homicide".

JIM MOSS was one of the original creators and writers of "Sesame Street." He created Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch, and wrote such songs as "Rubber Ducky" and "People in Your Neighborhood." He has won 13 Emmy's, four Grammy's, and an Oscar nomination for his work on "Sesame Street" and with the Muppets. Moss is also the author of four books for children, the newest of which is "Hieronymus White: A Bird Who Believed That He Always Was Right" (Ballantine Books).

Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG comments on his young daughter''s use of the exclamation "YESSSS!"

Rock musician MARSHALL CRENSHAW. According to The New York Times, many critics have ranked CRENSHAW "among the finest rock artists of the last dozen years." Now he has written a book. It's a reference guide to Rock 'n' Roll in the movies ("Hollywood Rock" HarperPerennial). According to his longtime bass player Graham Maby, CRENSHAW has an encyclopedic knowledge of rock music. And he knows about the rock and roll movie genre from first-hand experience. He played Buddy Holly in the 1987 movie "La Bamba" about musician Ritchie Valens.

Physician and author KENNETH ISERSON, M.D. ISERSON wanted to promote organ and tissue donation. So he wrote a book about what happens to dead bodies. It's called "Death to Dust" (Galen Press). ISERSON believes that death is the pornography of our culture. He says that after-death activities are shrouded in secrecy. His book explores the mundane--burial choices and advance directives--and the arcane--head shrinking, cannibalism and cryonic preservation.

Astrophysicist GEORGE SMOOT. Since 1974 he's worked on NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, leading the instrument team that detected cosmic "seeds." In 1992 he announced that he and a team of researchers had detected the biggest, oldest objects ever observed in the universe, the "cosmic seeds" that were the origin of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. He was quoted as saying then, "If you're religious, it's like seeing God." SMOOT has co-authored a new book about the development of the big bang theory, and the effort he's been involved in, looking for what he calls "wrinkles in time, those distant echoes of the early formation of the galaxies." It's called "Wrinkles in Time," (William Morrow) by Smoot and Keay Davidson.

MILO MILES, world music COMMENTATOR, reviews "Boto," a debut album by Lokua Kanza`on the French label Night and Day.REV. 2: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI previews the third installment of "Prime Suspect." It will air on PBS tonight. Helen Mirren stars as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison. "Prime Suspect" is part of PBS''s anthology series "Mystery."

Grammy Award winning jazz musician WYNTON MARSALIS. He's been playing the trumpet since he was six, and won his first Grammy at 20. His albums include "The Majesty of the Blues," "Thick in the South," and "Citi Movement," with the Wynton Marsalis Septet. MARSALIS is also the cofounder and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He recently announced that he is breaking up the Septet so he can spend more time with the Lincoln Center. "Sweet Swing Blues on the Road" (W.W. Norton & Company), is his new book, written in collaboration with photographer Frank Stewart. The book, in MARSALIS's words, "tries to document as my fellow musicians and I have lived it."