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Interview with ROY GUTMAN, continued.

2: Comic writer and actor CHRIS ELLIOTT. He was an emmy-award winning writer for "Late Night with David Letterman," where he originated such characters as "the panicky guy" and "the guy under the seats." ELLIOTT followed his success on the Letterman show with his own FOX TV-series, "Get A Life," about a young adult man who lives with his parents and has a paper route. It was a cult hit. ELLIOTT comes to the business naturally. His father is Bob Elliott, one half of the comedy duo "Bob & Ray." ELLIOTT has a new tongue-in-cheek book, "Daddy's Boy: A Son's Shocking Account of Life with a Famous Father," and he's starring in a new movie, "Cabin Boy."

2: Chinese film director CHEN KAIGE. His latest film is "Farewell My Concubine," a love story about two male actors and a prostitute which takes place over the course of half a century, taking them through the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). KAIGE first won international recognition with his debut film, "Yellow Earth." In his latest film, KAIGE includes a scene in which the characters betray each other during the Cultural Revolution. Terry will talk with him about his own experiences during the Cultural Revolution when he betrayed his own father, Chen Huaikai. His father is also a film maker and was artistic director of "Farewell My Concubine."

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD is back on his usual beat, after a stint of movie reviewing. He reviews three releases by alto saxophonist Lee Konitz: 1) Zounds (Soul Note); Lee Konitz and Chet Baker in Concert (India Navigation); Paul Motian on Broadway, Vol. III (JMT).

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN tells us about the short horror story that has haunted her through the years. (It''s "August Heat," by W.F. Harvey).(Rebroadcast from 8

Writer A.E. HOTCHNER. His memoir, about growing up in a flophouse during the depression, "King of the Hill," is being made into a movie, directed by Stephen Soderbergh (who directed "Sex, Lives, and Videotape). Hotchner is best known for his controversial 1966 biography of his personal friend Ernest Hemingway, "Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir." Presented in the unusual form of dialogue, Hotchner faced criticism from the literary community and an attempt by Hemingway's widow to ban the sale of the book.

A broadcast of a panel held at New York University in April called "Cops and Writers: Crime and Punishment in Literature and Real Life." The panel, sponsored by the PEN American Center and The New York Review of Books, features police officials and writers, including crime writer Walter Mosley, whose novel "Black Betty" is on the bestseller list, and author Joyce Carol Oates. The panel focuses on the fine line between crime fiction and crime reality. The writers talk about the fact that crime novelists generally draw on real criminals and real crimes to create their characters and plot. While these crime novels often seem implausible to readers, they say, what happens in the real world of crime is often even more unbelievable.

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2: Satirist HARRY SHEARER. Shearer has an eclectic career: he does many of the voices on the TV series "The Simpsons," he has a weekly program on many public radio stations called "Le Show," he often has character roles in movies, and he's one of the members of the parody heavy metal parody combo "Spinal Tap", who toured the world last year. SHEARER has a new book of the columns he wrote for the Los Angeles Times Magazine: "Man Bites Town" (St. Martins) (Rebroadcast from 4-28-92).

2: Novelist BENJAMIN CHEEVER. He's the author of two humorous novels; the latest is called "The Partisan" (Atheneum). It follows on the heels of his first novel, "The Plagiarist." Of his first, one reviewer wrote, "Wit and pathos, so finely meshed they become inseparable, buoy the main events in this achingly funny first novel. . . This is a touching, entertaining debut." Ben is the son of the late writer John Cheever. In writing his novels Ben says he finally found his own voice, separate from his father's. Ben is also the editor of "The Letters of John Cheever," published in 1988. (Rebroadcast. Originally broadcast 3

2: WU NINGKUN (WOO NING-kwun), author of a new personal and political memoir, A Single Tear, about surviving three decades of Communist rule in China. Wu was born in China and received his college education in the United States. He left a promising academic career in this country to return to China in 1951 with hopes that the new Communist regime would benefit his country. Instead, he was labeled counter-revolutionary for teaching works by Western authors and was sentenced to serve time at various labor camps and prisons. He now lives in the United States with his family. (Atlantic Monthly Press).

Biomedical ethicist ARTHUR CAPLAN. Caplan was on the Presidential task force that helped form the new health care proposal. He is the Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota. He is also a professor of surgery and philosophy there. In addition to numerous books and articles, Caplan writes a syndicated column; his work appears weekly in 40 newspapers in the U-S and Canada