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Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Joni Mitchell''s new album, "Turbulent Indigo" (Warner Brothers).

Maureen Corrigan reviews "A Very Long Engagement," by French novelist Sebastien Japrisot.

Journalist RANDY SHILTS. He's national correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. His Book, "And the Band Played On," was one of the earliest books written about the AIDS epidemic and it's impact on the gay community. SHILTS' new book is about gay life in the military, "Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf." (St. Martin's Press). SHILTS started the book in 1988, before the current debate about gays in the military. SHILTS, himself, now has AIDS.

Boris Yeltsin may be forced out of office tomorrow when the Congress of People's Deputies meets in a special session. WILLIAM TAUBMAN, a political science professor at Amherst College, was in Russia this January, and has visited the beleaguered country five times in the last 18 months. He talks about the current chaotic state of Russian politics

Writer ALEXS PATE ("Alex Payt"). His first novel is called "Losing Absalom." It's a memoir, and tribute, to his father, Absalom Goodman. Pate's book chronicles the end of Absalom's life as his family has gathered around his hospital bed. Writer John Willimas wrote, "Losing Absalom is a powerful yet sensitive embrace with black America today." Pate lives in Minneapolis, where he works as a writer, poet and performance artist. (Coffee House Press

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new movie "THIS BOY''S LIFE." It''s based on an autobiographical novel of the same name by Tobias Wolff. The movie stars Robert DeNiro and Ellen Barkin.

MAUREEN CORRIGAN with a review of Martin Amis'' new collection of Essays, "Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions" (Random House).

1: .Playwright DAVID MAMET. His plays include "American Buffalo," "Speed-the-Plow," "Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won a Pulitzer), and "Oleanna." His movies include, "Homicide," "House of Games," and "Things Change." Mamet is best known for his style of writing. New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich described Mamet's writing in "Glengarry Glen Ross" as, "burying layers of meaning into simple precisely distilled idiomatic language." MAMET has written several books of essays; he's just published his first novel, "The Village." (Little Brown and Company).

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Director BRIAN DE PALMA. Now 53, he's the son of a orthopedic surgeon in Philadelphia, and sometimes watched his father's surgeries. Perhaps this explains the frequent depiction of blood and violence in many of his films, which include "Carrie", "Dressed to Kill", "The Fury", and "Scarface". His thrillers were often compared with those of Hitchcock. In the 1970's, De Palma, along with other young film directors Martin Scorcese, Steven Speilberg and Francis Coppola made films of such quality that the period is sometimes refered to as another Golden Age of Hollywood. De Palma returns to that era with his new film "Carlito's Way", which stars one of the great actors of the 70s, Al Pacino.

1: Actress LAUREN BACALL is a legend, though she doesn't like to think of herself as such. She's been a star of stage and screen for fifty years, was married to Humphrey Bogart, and won the National Book Award for her 1978 autobiography "By Myself." Her new book, "Now" (Alfred A. Knopf Inc.), tells the story of her last fifteen years and the experiences that have shaped her life.

The attacker grabbed the officer's gun and fatally shot himself, the agency adds. The officer was identified as George Gonzalez, a veteran who served in Iraq, by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.