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The new film, "Heavenly Creatures" tells the story of two teenage girls, so caught up in an intense friendship that they murder the mother of one of them, when she tries to seperate the two. It's set in New Zealand during the 1950s and based on a true story. We feature a previous interview Terry did with writer ANNE PERRY. It was recently revealed that PERRY was one of those young girls, was convicted of murder, and spent time in prison. She's now a popular mystery writer in Britian. (ORIGINAL Broadcast from 9/21/94). In the second half of the show we feature interviews with two individuals involved in the film.

San Francisco monologuist MARGA GOMEZ. In "Memory Tricks," her current show at the Public Theater in New York, Gomez talks about her mother, who worked as an exotic dancer. Her mother now suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

World music critic Milo Miles. Review TBA.

From the Metropolitan Opera, soprano DAWN UPSHAW. She has a new recording of Broadway showtunes, called "I Wish It So" (Electra/Nonesuch). It includes lesser known works by Marc Blitzstein and Kurt Weill as well as songs by Sondheim and Bernstein. UPSHAW has played more then 20 roles at the Met, including the current "The Marriage of Figaro" (through November 5), and the recently completed "Idomeneo," both by Mozart.

Actor David Caruso left "NYPD Blue" on last night's episode, to pursue a film career. The show's co-creator, DAVID MILCH, will talk about writing out Caruso, who played one of the main characters. MILCH was also co-creator of "Hill Street Blues," with "NYPD Blue" collaborator Steven Bochco.

Author MELBA BEALS. Forty years ago today the United States Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional in "Brown v. Board of Education." Three years later, BEALS and eight other black teenagers chose to attend the all white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In the process BEALS suffered a school year marked by unremitting violence and hatred. Danny, the soldier assigned to protect her, warned her that she too would have to become a soldier. He advised her, "Never let them see you cry." BEALS has written a memoir about her experience called "Warriors Don't Cry" (Pocket

1) Songwriter STEPHEN SONDHEIM. (rebroadcast from 11/10/88).2) Writer, producer, and director ARTHUR LAURENTS. Laurents wrote the stories for the plays "Gypsy" and "West Side Story" and the screenplays for the movies "The Way We Were" and "The Turning Point." Laurents is currently directing the Broadway revival of "Gypsy," starring Tyne Daily. (rebroadcast from 1

Today it was announced that scientists had unearthed in Ethiopia the first nearly complete skull of the earliest recognized human ancestors. It's that of a male who lived three million years ago, giving a face to the species first identified in 1974 with the discovery of the skeleton named "Lucy." Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON discovered Lucy and was part of the team to make this new discovery. The discovery could settle the debate of whether various fossils from this time period were from a single species, Australopithecus afarensis, or from different species. It also completes the picture of what the species looked like and will help confirm Lucy's position in human lineage. DR. JOHANSON is the president and founder of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, and hosted a three-part Nova miniseries "Ancestors: In search of Human Origins." The companion book to the series is also called "Ancestors." (Villard

2: PABLO MEDINA is a Cuban-born poet and essayist who has just written his first novel, "The Marks of Birth" (Farrar.Straus.Giroux). In the novel, MEDINA explores the experience of exile through the eyes of a young character whose family is forced to flee the political unrest of a Caribbean island-nation, and begin again in America. MEDINA has also written two collections of poems: "Pork Rind and Cuban Songs" and "Arching into the Afterlife," and a book of personal essays entitled "Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood." MEDINA currently teaches at the MFA writing program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.

2: Novelist JAMES LEE BURKE. He's been writing for 35 years but he's best known for his more recent detective novels about Dave Robicheaux (ROW-bah-show), a recovering alcoholic, who is also a troubled Vietnam vet, and a New Orleans police lieutenant. His books include: "The Neon Rain," "Heaven's Prisoners," "Black Cherry Blues," "A Morning for Flamingos" and "A Stained White Radiance." BURKE's new book, his eighth Dave Robicheaux novel, is called "Dixie City Jam." (Hyperion) (REBROADCAST FROM 4/8/92)Int. 3: Mystery writer WALTER MOSLEY. He's written a new book in his series about gumshoe hero Easy Rawlins. It's called "Black Betty" (Norton). Betty's a shark of a woman who leaves dead men in her wake. Like the other books in the series, "Black Betty" has Easy in post-War, but pre-present South Central L.A.--this time the year is 1961. MOSLEY gained public attention when presidential candidate Bill Clinton said that MOSLEY was his favorite mystery writer. His next book,"RL's Dream" (Norton) comes out this August. (REBROADCAST FROM 5

New York Times European diplomatic correspondent, CRAIG WHITNEY. WHITNEY is the author of a new book about espionage and spy swaps during the cold war in the two Germanies: "Spy Trader" (Times Books). Now living in Bonn, WHITNEY reports on the issues surrounding European unity: the rise of ethnic conflicts, and the crisis in Bosnia

2: Journalist and author LAWRENCE WRIGHT. WRIGHT'S latest book is "Remembering Satan: A Case of Recovered Memory and the Shattering of an American Family" (Knopf) WRIGHT explores the nature of memory and the notions of recovered memory and repression. "Remembering Satan" is the story of Paul Ingram and his family. Ingram was a Washington state deputy sherrif. His two grown daughters accused him of sexually abusing them. They said that Ingram and other members of the sherriff's department had committed Satanic ritual atrocities. At first, Ingram said he had no memory of assaulting his daughters. But after hours of interrogation, Ingram was able to "remember" his crimes and he confessed. He is serving a 20 year prison sentence even though no physical evidence against him has ever been found. WRIGHT is a staff writer for the "New Yorker" where portions of "Remembering Satan" appeared last summer. He has written three previous books.