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Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new movie "Romeo is Bleeding," a black comedy directed by Peter Medak and starring Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis and Roy Scheider.

2: KRISTIN CLARK TAYLOR was President Bush's White House director of media relations. In so doing she was the first African-American woman in history to hold that post. She's written a new book about it, "The First to Speak: A Woman of Color inside the White House." (Doubleday).

Afrikaner poet, painter and dissident BREYTEN BREYTENBACH (BRY-ten BRY-ten-back). In 1975, BREYTENBACH was an anti-apartheid activist in exile. When he made a secret visit to his native South Africa, BREYTENBACH was arrested, charged for treason, and imprisoned for seven years. In his writing, BREYTENBACH "alternates outrage at South Africa's governmental policies of apartheid with love for his country and its landscape". BREYTENBACH's most recent work is "Return to Paradise" (Harcourt Brace). He's also written "A Season in Paradise," "Confessions of an Albino Terrorist," and many other volumes of poetry and essays

Classical Music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ has a review of the Metropolitan Opera''s televised verison of Verdi''s fourth opera, "I Lombardi", starring Luciano Pavarotti and bass Samuel Ramey. It airs tonight on most PBS stations.

Con-man-turned actor HARRY ANDERSON. Anderson is best known as Judge Harry Stone on the former NBC comedy series "Night Court." Anderson began his con-man career as a street performer. He eventually drifted to San Francisco where he would perform near Fisherman's Warf or to lines of moviegoers outside theaters. He then graduated to Las Vegas, opening for acts like Kenny Rogers. Appearances on "Saturday Night Live" and in various television shows led to his work on "Night Court." Anderson put his cons and schemes into a book, "Games You Can't Lose: A Guide for Suckers." In the introduction, titled "Hello, Sucker!," Anderson states his intent: "It's not whether you win or lose ... it's whether I win or lose." (REBROADCAST FROM 5

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Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews, "The Man Without a Face."

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new Boz Skaggs record, "Some Change" (Virgin).

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Remember Laughter," Neil Grauer''s biography of James Thurber (University of Nebraska Press).

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A CONCERT with the McGarrigle sisters, Kate and Anna. There's a new CD of their first two albums, released in the late 70s: "Kate & Anna McGarrigle" and "Dancer with Bruised Knees." The McGarrigles are known for their close and "subtle harmony." Their music is considered hard to categorize, although it sounds folky. The sisters absorbed an eclectic blend of music when they were growing up in Canada: Victorian ballads, blues, jazz, French-Canadian folk songs, Broadway tunes, and country music. They may be best known for their song, "Heart Like a Wheel," which was the title track on Linda Ronstadt's most successful album.

Poet, writer, and teacher NANCY MAIRS. She's Catholic, but started out Protestant; late in life she became a feminist. She calls herself, "the connoisseur of catastrophe." She's known for writing honestly about her struggles with multiple sclerosis, depression, and the life-threatening illness of her husband. MAIRS also writes about being a woman, a mother, and a wife. Her newest book of personal essays is "Ordinary Time," (Beacon). One revewier calls it, "a small miracle of honesty mediated by dignity and humor." (REBROADCAST FROM 7/19/93).