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French film legend JEANNE MOREAU. She's best known for her work in the French New Wave films (between 1958 and 1962), working with such directors as Francois Truffaut, Louis Malle, and Jean-Luc Godard. She's probably best known for her role in Truffaut's "Jules et Jim" about a complicated menage a trois. MOREAU has led an admittedly unconventional life, from her choice of movie roles, to her succession of love affairs. She's now 65, and starring the new film, "The Summer House.

2: AIDS researcher and pioneer DR. JEROME GROOPMAN. Groopman, who is chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the New England Deaconess Hospital, is director of an innovative AIDS program there that is unusual in combining clinical research and medical services to approximately 1000 HIV-infected people. As a cancer specialist, Groopman has been at the forefront of the battle against AIDS since the early 80's.

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.

2: MARIN ALSOP is the music director of the Colorado Symphony. One of the few woman conductors in the world, she has also served as music director of the Lond Island Philharmonic, and has been the guest conductor for many orchestras, including the St. Louis Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Boston Pops Orchestra. ALSOP founded Concordia, a 50-piece chamber orchestra whose repertoire combines classical and jazz music, and String Fever, a swing band for which she plays violin. ALSOP has recorded three CD's: "Fever Pitch," by String Fever, and "Blue Monday" and "Victory Stride" by the Concordia Orchestra.

2: Two segments: 1) Pro-life activist HELEN ALVARE (AL-va-ray). Alvare is an attorney who is Director of Planning and Information for Pro-Life Activities at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. She talks about the pro-life movement is re-grouping in light of the new Administration in Washington. Alvare considers herself an anti-abortion feminist and has also worked to get pro-life women candidates elected. 2) Pro-choice activist KITTY KOLBERT. She is an attorney who argued against Pennsylvania's restrictive abortion law in the Supreme Court last year. This summer, she founded the Center for Reproductive Law And Policy to focus on reproductive rights world wide.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews two new books by Germany writer Christa Wolff, "What Remains & Other Stories," and "The Author''s Dimension." (Farrar, Strauss & G

2: MARIN ALSOP is the music director of the Colorado Symphony. One of the few woman conductors in the world, she has also served as music director of the Lond Island Philharmonic, and has been the guest conductor for many orchestras, including the St. Louis Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Boston Pops Orchestra. ALSOP founded Concordia, a 50-piece chamber orchestra whose repertoire combines classical and jazz music, and String Fever, a swing band for which she plays violin. ALSOP has recorded three CD's: "Fever Pitch," by String Fever, and "Blue Monday" and "Victory Stride" by the Concordia Orchestra.

Journalist and professor RANDALL BALMER. He hosted the PBS series, "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America," which aired in May. There's also a companion book to it, the same title (published by Oxford University Press in 1989). BALMER is Associate Professor of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University.

DR. FRED SHEFTELL. He's founder and co-director of the New England Center for Headache and National President for the American Council on Headache Education. In "Headache Relief" (Simon & Schuster), which SHEFTELL co-authors with Alan Rapoport, the authors argue that chronic headache sufferers have suffered further from the stigma that they brought it on themselves and that headaches are not a genuine illness. "Unlike the pain of ulcers or colitis, the pain caused by a headache has no easily visible source. This relects more on the state of medical knowledge than on the reality of the condition." FOR LISTENERS' INFO: The American Council on Headache Education is 875 King's Highway, Suite 200, Woodbury, N.J. 08096; phone: 1-800-255-ACHE.

2: HARVEY KRAVITZ and JACK TREATMAN are coffee experts. KRAVITZ is a coffee consultant. TREATMAN is the co-proprietor of Old City Coffee in Philadelphia. They talk about coffee beans, coffee history and the coffee culture.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the Academy Awards presentation, which aired last night on ABC.

Banjo player, TONY TRISHKA. He's been called the "premier banjo madman of our time." TRISHKA incorporates jazz and rock and roll into his style, with bluegrass at the heart of his music. TRISHKA's new album, "World Turning" (Rounder Records), is a "loose history of the banjo" with everything from an African banjo tune to banjo Dixieland style. He has a number of albums out on the Rounder label.REV:Maureen Corrigan reviews Wendy Lessers book, "Pictures at an Execution," looking at why we are fascinated with murder.