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DR.IRA RUTKOW is a surgeon and the author of the new book, "Surgery: An Illustrated History," (Mosby). The book has 386 illustrations including documents, photographs, cartoons, drawings and paintings related to surgery, taken from museums throughout the world. RUTKOW has also written a two-volume history of surgery in the U.S. and has written studies on Civil War surgery. He's also consulting editor for surgical history for the Archives of Surgery. RUTKOW is founder and surgical director of The Hernia Center in Freehold, N.J. and is clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY has just written a new political satire, "Thank you for Smoking" (Random), which pokes fun at everything and everyone associated with the tobacco industry-- from anti-smoking advocates to tobacco company executives. BUCKLEY was George Bush's speechwriter from 1981-1983 when Bush served as Vice President. The son of William F. Buckley, he is the author of other political and social satires, including "The White House Mess" and "Wet Work." He is the editor of "Forbes FYI" magazine.

elevision critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews Aaron Spelling''s newest Fox network show, "Models Inc.," about a woman who runs a modelling agency. Spelling is the executive producer of the successful shows "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Melrose Place."

2: Anthropologist ELLIOT LIEBOW (LEE-bow). He is the author of the classic 1967 study "Tally's Corner," a look at African-American street corner life. The bestseller was Liebow's doctoral dissertation, and it's still used by many college students. His new work, the first he's published in over twenty years, is called "Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women."(Free Press/Macmillan). He investigates the patterns and routines of homeless women around Washington, DC. LIEBOW is a guest researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and a professor at Catholic University in Washington, DC.

Singer/songwriter SAM PHILLIPS is a former Christian singer who became disillusioned with the form, left it, changed her name (from Leslie), and started writing songs which explored her own singular spirituality. Since 1989 she's been making pop music that's been admired by the critics. One critic wrote of her 1991 album; "On the surface, Phillips seems just another wispy-voiced, ethereal singer-songwriter, writing moody songs chronicling the dangers of corruption and obsessive love. But (its) fraught with both beauty and tension." PHILLIPS newest album is "Martinis & Bikinis." (Virgin Records). PHILLIPS is married to T. Bone Burnett, who has produced several of her albums.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "The Alienist" a new suspense novel by Caleb Carr. (Random House)REV. :World Music critic MILO MILES reviews two new releases by Oumou Sangare, the woman singer from Mali: "Moussolou" and "Ko Sira" both on Rounder''s World Circuit Label.

1: Writer LAURIE GARRETT has been a science reporter for NPR, New York "Newsday," "Omni," and other publications. GARRETT is also the author of the new book, "The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). The book explores the emergence of new infectious viruses like AIDS and Ebola, and the new strains of known diseases that are resistant to many treatments. GARRETT examines the conditions that favor the spread of these microbes and looks at possible solutions to stop the diseases.

2: Actor RIP TORN, who now plays the Arty, the producer on the HBO comedy series, "The Larry Sanders Show". TORN has been a stage actor since the mid-1950's, when he left his native Texas (and his first name "Elmore") behind, for New York City and the Actors Studio. Described by one reviewer as "the good-looking no-talent with the ludicrously sinister name", Torn was often typcast as a heavy in television shows like "Dr. Kildare" and "Bonanza." (He also portrayed Henry Miller in an X-rated film version of "Tropic of Cancer."). His latest feature film is "Where the Rivers Flow North" (Caledonia Pictures), where he plays a rural hero who has to survive by his wits, and with a hook hand.

2: The "Orphans of Jonestown," JIM JONES JR AND STEPHEN JONES. They are the surviving sons of Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple in Guyana. Fifteen years ago Jim Jones orchestrated the mass suicide of over 900 people after a California Representative visited the temple, charging Jones with holding people against their will. Now, after the Waco tradgedy, JIM JR AND STEPEN JONES remember their loss. Their were 85 survivors from Jonestown--260 children died.

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." He has a new show which parodies the variety shows of the 60s, "The Charles Busch Revue," in which he makes seven costume changes in an hour and 15 minutes. One reviewer writes, "Among New York's drag performers, he is certainly the most congenial. Instead of freezing into imperious divalike poses and spewing hostile sexual challenges, he is a man who revels in the opportunity to get himself up in drag, the more flamingly tacky the better, and create a party around it." BUSCH's first novel, "Whores of Lost Atlantis," will be published in November. (Hyp

JERROLD LADD is a 24-year-old writer, who has just published an autobiography, "Out of the Madness." (Warner Books) In his book, he writes about growing up in the Dallas housing projects, with his mother who was a heroin addict. He describes how he struggled to educate himself and eventually became a writer. His book started out as an article, written when he was 20, and published in "Dallas Life." This article won him the prestigious "Sunday Magazine Editors Association National Essay of the Year Award." LADD currently writes for the "Dallas Morning News," and attends college.

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