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2: Actor John Goodman, who now stars as Fred Flintstone in "The Flintstones". GOODMAN may be best known for his role as Dan Connor, a.k.a. Roseanne's husband, on the hit TV show "Roseanne." But he's been able to do what most cannot--carry on a successful film career and TV role at the same time. GOODMAN has appeared as a back-slapping traveling salesman who's also a demonic murderer in "Barton Fink," and as home run king Babe Ruth in "The Babe." (Rebroadcast from 3/26/93).

2: Writer DAGOBERTO GILB (pronounced "Dog-o-berto Gilb"). His new book of short stories, "Magic of Blood" (University of New Mexico Press), offers fiction from the Chicano and Anglo working-class worlds of America's southwest. GILB's prosaic realism has been called by one critic, "the most lethal kind of fiction a Chicano can write".

Flyers in and out of Minneapolis-St. Paul airport may notice some new voices on the public address system.

English professor and author GREG SARRIS is part American Indian, Filipino, and Jewish, and was raised in both Indian and white families. He has just written two books related to his experiences growing up. "Grand Avenue" (Hyperion) is a collection of short stories about whites and Native Americans tied by a common ancestor; "Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream" (University of California Press) is a biography of SARRIS' aunt, a world-renowned basket weaver. SARRIS teaches at UCLA. REV.: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI has just gotten a satellite dish. He reflects on seeing network feeds of programs before they're actually aired.

Rock Critic ED WARD on encountering the hip new language in Berlin: English.

2: Interview with Wilbert Rideau continues.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the recent body of work by British actor Hugh Grant. Grant appears in three new movies: "Bitter Moon," "Sirens" and the very popular "Four Weddings and a Funeral."

Since March, Gov. Greg Abbott has launched his own brand of immigration enforcement. But immigration policy is under the purview of the federal government — not states.

MARIA FOSCARINIS is founder and executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. FOSCARINIS has been active in legal issues affecting the homeless since 1983. In 1985, she established the office of the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington. She calls anti-panhandling laws inhumane and possibly unconstitutional, and works to prevent cities from passing laws which attempt to sweep people off the streets. She has litigated several federal laws which enforce the individual rights of homeless people. REV.: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new "CBS Reports" documentary "When America Trembled -- Murrow/McCarthy."

Journalist MISHA GLENNY. GLENNY has been covering the war in former Yugoslavia--first as correspondent for the BBC and now as an independent journalist. He is the author of the book "The Fall of Yugoslavia." He will talk about the recent morter attack on the market in Sarajevo and the effects of the recent downing by NATO forces of four Serbian warplanes. (Interview with MISHA GLENNY continues into the second part of the show.

2: Sporswriter and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, JIM MURRAY. He's just written his autobiography (Macmillan) about his five decades in journalism: as a young reporter for Time magazine following the 1952 presidential campaign and the rise of Richard Nixon's political career; working as one of the original writers for Sports Illustrated; and beginning in 1961, as sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times. His syndicated column once reached 200 newspapers a day and he has won the Sportswriter of the Year award a record 14 times.

Conservative columnist GEORGE WILL, regular contributor to "Newsweek" and "The Washington Post." He has just published a collection of his best essays of the past four years, "The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture & Other News 1990-1994" (Viking). He talks with Terry about last week's elections.