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Singer and songwriter CAROLE KING. In the 1960s, she wrote hit songs like "Up on the Roof" and "Will you still love me tomorrow?" But in the 70s, she achieved lasting fame with songs like "Natural Woman" and her album "Tapestry," which was the best-selling album of the decade. Carole King's latest album is titled "Color of Your Dreams" (Rebroadcast from June 19, 1989.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Natural Ingredients"(Grand Royal). It''s the first full-length collection by Lucious Jackson, a four-woman band from lower Manhattan, whose drummer was the original drummer for the Beastie Boys.

Playwright, female impersonator, and now novelist CHARLES BUSCH. His play, the camp classic, "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom," was the longest-running play in Off-Broadway history. His other plays include, "Psycho Beach Party," and "Red Scare on Sunset." His latest show parodies the variety shows of the 60s, "The Charles Busch Revue," in which he makes seven costume changes in an hour and 15 minutes. BUSCH's first novel, "Whores of Lost Atlantis," (Hyperion) came out in November. (Rebroadcast from 7/29/93) BUSCH can now be seen in the film, "Addams Family Values," playing Morticia's Countess cousin

2: PAUL RUDNICK is a essayist, novelist, and playwright. His latest play off-Broadway is a comedy about AIDS, "Jeffrey," about a man who swears off love and sex. RUDNICK also wrote the Broadway play, "I Hate Hamlet," about John Barrymore's ghost. And he writes a column in Premiere, "If You Ask Me," in which he writes in the voice of a quintessential Jewish mother who critiques movie stars' personal lives more than their acting (Rebroadcast from 4/8/93). RUDNICK also wrote the screenplay for the movie "Addams Family Values," starring Angelica Houston and Raul Julia.

2: Magician and juggler PENN JILLETTE. He's one half of the comedy team of Penn and Teller. They are to traditional magic what the Rolling Stones are to the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Penn and Teller revel in making fun of traditional magicians, whom they characterize as sleazy lounge performers. Their hit Broadway show was a mix of rock and roll, insults, self-injury and baffling illusions. When David Letterman invited Penn and Teller to "Late Night," the pair made hundreds of hissing cockroaches appear on Dave's desk. On "Saturday Night Live," they seemingly cut a live snake in half. Their home video and book were both titled "Penn and Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends"; their latest book is "Penn & Teller: How To Play With Your Food" (Random House). (REBROACAST FROM 6/19/87). RICKY JAY, one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists: a scholar of the unusual, currator of the Mullholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts, an actor and author of "Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women." Currently, JAY performs to sold out shows at Broadway's Second Stage, in a show directed by playwright David Mamet, "Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants." (REBROADCAST from 10/21/87). The AMAZING RANDY: a card shark who is skeptical about psychic phenomena and seeks to debunk it.

2: Singer and actress BARBARA COOK. Since the 1950's COOK has been in countless Broadway musicals--"Oklahoma", "The King and I", and Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" to name a few. She's been called a "no nonsense singer...able to thrust with gentility of tone." COOK latest album--her first in five years-- is "Dorothy Fields: Close as Pages in a Book." She won a Tony Award for her part as "Marian the librarian" which she originated in "The Music Man." (REBROADCAST from 11

Writer JILL KER CONWAY. CONWAY grew up in a remote sheep station in the Australian outback, and later became the president of Smith College. Her girlhood memoir, "The Road from Coorain," was a bestseller, but it ended as CONWAY entered adulthood. In her new book, "True North," (Knopf) she continues her story, writing about organizing for women's rights on campus, and creating a marriage in which she and her husband are equal partners. CONWAY was the first female vice president of The University of Toronto, and from 1975 to 1985 was the president of Smith. Since then, she has been a visiting scholar and professor at M.I.T.'s Program in Science, Technology and Society

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Jazz singer/songwriter, ABBY LINCOLN. Her new record is "Devil's Got Your Tounge" (Verve). Once married to legendary jazz drummer Max Roach, she's made her mark on jazz for almost 40 years, singing with giants like Benny Carter, Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins. Lincoln has been hailed by one critic as the "Last Great Diva", and says herself that she sings in the tradition of Sarah Vaughan, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews two tribute concert specials airing this weekend on PBS. One to honor Bob Dylan, the other for Stephen Sondheim.

Tom Chapman was in the trenches with the 101st Airborne Division, in the midst of the Battle of the Bulge. He says the Germans had captured the U.S. supply trucks, so he and his fellow soldiers had no coats, no gloves, no blankets, just their regular uniforms.

World music commentator MILO MILES looks at old and new releases by BADEN POWELL, a guitarist associated with Bossa Nova.