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Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Interview with a Vampire," starring Tom Cruise.REV. 2: We remember jazz singer Carmen McRae, who died last night at age 74. McRae has been called one of the three greatest female jazz singers, along with Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new adventure movie, "The River Wild." It stars Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon.

2: American artist, ROY LICHTENSTEIN. He was one of the inventors of pop art in the 1960's, finding inspiration for his paintings in comic books and advertisments. (More recently, he's found it in the yellow pages of the phone book). LICHTENSTEIN's work often replicates the heavy black outlines, bright colors and dots of a color comic strip found in a newspaper. Called by one critic the "supreme virtuoso of pop", his work is filled with constant references to high and low arts as well as to his own work. The Guggenheim Museum is featuring a retrospective of LICHTENSTEIN's paintings, sculpture, and his stage set-sized murals.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Love Field," starring Michelle Pfieffer.

Film critic Steven Schiff reviews "Short Cuts"

2: Sociologist SARA LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT has written a new book about the Black middle class, "I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation" (Addison-Wesley Publishing). In the book she follows the lives of six people who are at midlife and in the black middle class, reflecting on the "necessary losses" for the price of privilege. Her book was written, in part, as a response to the 1957 book "Black Bourgeoisie" by the black sociologist Franklin Frazier. LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT took issue with Frazier's portrait of middle class blacks as materialistic assimilationists, repressed and disconnected from the larger black community. LIGHTFOOT is herself the product of the Black middle class. Her mother is a child psychoanalyst and was the subject of LIGHTFOOT's 1984 book, "Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer." LIGHTFOOT teaches at Harvard and was a recipient of a MacArthur Prize Award.

We rebroadcast a 1991 live concert with jazz pianist, singer, and lyricist DAVE FRISHBERG. Frishberg's long been known for his satirical songs, such as "My Attorney Bernie," and "I'm Hip" (written with Bob Dorough), and the "I'm a Bill" segment for ABC's Schoolhouse Rock series. A record of his songs is "Quality Time" (Sterling Records), and a new record of standards (as pianist) with singer Rebecca Kilgore is "Looking At You." (PHD Music, Portland, Oregon). (Rebrodcast from (9/12/91).

Actor SAMUEL JACKSON. JACKSON won critical raves for his portrayal of a crack addict named Gator in the Spike Lee film, "Jungle Fever." That role was a breakthrough for Jackson after 20 years of bit parts, commercials, and all types of theater. He also put in two years as Bill Cosby's stand-in on The Cosby Show. Jackson currently appears in the new film "Fresh", and in perhaps this fall's most anticipated release, "Pulp Fiction."(REBROADCAST. Originally aired 7

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Webb Pierce: King of the Honky Tonk," (from the Original Decca Masters, 1952-1959) on MCA.

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Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "Smilla''s Sense of Snow," the new book by Danish writer Peter Hoeg.

DONNA WILLIAMS. Her first book "Nobody Nowhere" offered a journey through the mysterious condition of autism; it was an international bestseller. Once her case was properly diagnosed, Williams began therapy which took her out of the "world under glass" and into the real world of speech and emotion. This treatment is the subject of her new book "Somebody, Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism" (Times Books).