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2: Sports doctor ROB HUIZENGA, team doctor to the Los Angeles Raiders for seven years. He is a past president of the National Football League Physicians' Association and has written for "Sports Illustrated" and other publications. His book about his time in the NFL is "'You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise': A Doctor's Sideline Secrets About Pro Football's Most Outrageous Team" (St. Martin's Press).

Crime writer JAMES ELLROY. He sets his novels in 1950's LA, where he grew up. His series of novels, "LA Quartet," was a bestseller. His latest novel is called "Hollywood Nocturnes." (Otto Penzler Books). When he was ten, his mother was murdered near their LA home. He wrote an article about returning to LA to go through the police files on his mother for this month's issue of "Gentleman's Quarterly" where he is a contributing editor. He'll talk today about how his mother's murder led to his crime writing

Prisoner FLEET MAULL. In 1985, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for drug smuggling. Since then, he has devoted most of his time in prison to working with dying prisoners, and to teaching Buddhist practice and meditation. In 1988, MAULL helped establish the National Prison Hospice Association, which establishes hospices to help dying prisoners prepare for death. MAULL is also a devout Buddhist. After establishing a meditation group in his own prison in Springfield, Missouri, he founded the Prison Dharma Network, for prisoners who want to become involved in Buddhist study and meditation. He is now completing his Ph.D in Psychology

2: Singer, songwriter, guitar player, DAN PENN. PENN has written soul music classics--"Do Right Woman," "Cry Like a Baby," "Sweet Inspiration," "I'm Your Puppet," for example. His compositions have been made famous by the likes of Aretha Franklin, James Carr, Percy Sledge, Solomon Burke and Otis Redding. PENN left his tiny hometown of Vernon, Alabama when he was sixteen. . . a white kid, singing like Ray Charles and in love with black music. Now, 36 years later, Penn performs his own songs on his upcoming release "Do Right Man" (Warner Brothers, Sire Label).

World Music commentator Milo Miles finds the ideal record to introduce Americans to Pakistani music: Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn and his "Devotional & Love Songs" (Real World).

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2: Alto Saxophonist VERNARD JOHNSON. He's best known for his Gospel playing, performing with preachers like, E.V. Hill, Billy Graham, and Bishop L. H. Ford. His saxophone was considered too raucous for the Gospel circuit when he began playing there in the mid-60's, but eventually he became a favorite on the evangelical circuit. Robert Palmer, in "The New York Times," writes, "The force and passion of the man's alto saxophone sounds are matched only by its creamy richness...listeners may think it sounds more like rhythm and blues, rock, or jazz than conventional Gospel music." Johnson's collection of performances called "I'm Alive" was released in 1991 on the Elektra Nonesuch label. (REBROADCAST/ Originally aired 8

2:Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF makes his top ten picks for 1994....10. "Natural Born Killers" 9. "To Live" 8. "Ladybird, Ladybird" 7. "Quiz Show" 6. "L627" (L-6-2-7) 5. "The Madness of King George" 4. "Hoop Dreams" 3. "Vanya on 42nd Street" 2. "The Boys of St. Vincent" 1. "Pulp Fiction". His runners-up include "Bullets Over Broadway", "Speed", "Little Women", and "Ed Wood". Terry also talks with SCHIFF about the growing number of independent American films, the state of Hollywood, and the message of Forrest Gump.

Writer and profesor MARY JO WEAVER. She teaches Religious and Women's Studies at Indiana University. She wrote the book, "Springs of Water in a Dryland: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today," (Beacon Press) about the "double bind" that many Catholic women find themselves in, either living within a institutionalized church structure that is oppressive, or rejecting a church which is a source of spiritual enrichment. In her book, WEAVER argues that it is possible for a woman to be a feminist and remain Catholic. WEAVER is also the author of "New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority." (Orginally aired 3

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "The Beverly Hillbillies," the movie version of the popular TV series, starring Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin and Jim Varney.

Lebanese-born author and journalist HANAN AL-SHAYKH. Her novel "The Story of Zahra" (Anchor Books) has just been published in the United States. Several Arab countries have banned the book since its original publication 14 years ago. The Story of Zahra tells of a contemporary Lebanese woman struggling with life in her family and her war-ravaged native city of Beirut. AL-SHAYKH'S novel "Women of Sand and Myrrh" was published in the United States last year

2: Interview with Abraham Verghese continues.