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2: Actor JASON ALEXANDER. He's best known as George Costanza on the NBC series "Seinfeld", where he plays Jerry Seinfeld's best friend. Alexander won a Tony Award in 1989 for his performance in "Jerome Robbin's Broadway." (REBROADCAST FROM 6/23/92).

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Former Major Leaguer KEITH HERNANDEZ. Called by some baseball purists the finest First Baseman in the game, HERNANDEZ played with the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Mets, and the Cleveland Indians. He is the winner of eleven consecutive Golden Glove Awards for fielding, and played in two World Championships. HERNANDEZ's new book is "Pure Baseball: Pitch by Pitch for the Advanced Fan" (Harper): analysis of two 1993 match-ups, with play by play commentary, based on his seventeen years in the game. (Rebroadcast Originally aired 2/

V Critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews an unusual departure PBS'' Great Performances: a production of "PsychoDerelict", the new multi-media composition by the rock and roller, Pete Townsend.

Irish author, RODDY DOYLE, winner of the 1993 Booker Prize for his novel "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" (Viking). Doyle taught school in Dublin for fourteen years; during that time he wrote and self-published his first novel, "The Commitments" about a band of musicians who bring soul music to Dublin. (It was made into a popular film here). Doyle's other novels include "The Snapper" (soon to be a film) and "The Van", all fictions which take place in a rough and tumble neighborhood of Dublin, and whose slang-filled dialogue has been hailed for its authenticity

TV critic David Bianculli reviews "The Building", a new summer series co-produced by David Letterman.

BBC correspondent MISHA GLENNY. (MEE-shah GLEN-knee) He's covered the war in the former Yugoslavia and is the author of the book "The Fall of Yugoslavia." Terry will talk with him about why he thinks there should be no intervention in Bosnia. (Terry last talked to him in December when his book cam

KEMAL KURSPAHIC. ("Ke-MAL COURSE-pack-hitch") He was editor-in-chief of Sarajevo's only surviving daily newspaper, "Oslobodenje." ("Oslobodenje" means liberation in Serbo-Croatian.) Now he is Washington correspondent for the paper. It has been a trial to get out the paper each day. The staff braved sniper fire just to get to work. After the paper's high rise offices were gutted by mortar fire, publication was transferred to an underground bunker. Three staffers were killed covering the war and KURSPAHIC himself was wounded. KURSPAHIC offers his perspective on recent developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina and on post-war prospects there.

Two poets, married to one another, coming to grips with illness and mortality: DONALD HALL and JANE KENYON. HALL's new memoir of life on his New Hamphire farm and his "absorbedness" with writing are the subject of his new book "Life Work" (Beacon . Halfway through its completion, HALL was diagnosed with liver cancer; the following surgery and recovery provided rich material for his work and KENYON's: a new book of poems entitled "Constance" (Graywolf

TV critic David Bianculli reviews a new mystery-comedy series NBC seems eager to kill.

2: Readings from the PEN American Center's benefit for Bosnian Writers, "An Evening For Sarajevo", held last night in New York City. Fifteen American writers read from their work to raise money for the writers of Sarajevo for food and supplies; writers in the beseiged city are fighting to keep their literary culture vital and undiminished in a time of war.

2: Creator and CEO of the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN), BRIAN LAMB. He launched the network in 1979 because he felt society was being treated unfairly by television news. He wanted to broadcast information from beginning to end, so that audiences could get a full picture of what transpired, and not just pieces of it. The channel provides hours of footage of the U.S. Congress and its committees, party conventions, and provided sprawling coverage of the Presidential campaign -- all without commentary or editing. The network has no advertisers, no government or corporate funding, and has no concern for ratings, because its funding comes from local cable companies. (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 1/