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Television executive GRANT TINKER has written a memoir about his life in TV. "Tinker in Television: From General Sarnoff to General Electric" (Simon & Schuster). TINKER was co-founder of the production company MTM Enterprises with his then wife Mary Tyler Moore. He left MTM at the peak of its sucsess to become the chairman of NBC, and made it the top-rated network, with shows like "Cheers," "The COsby Show," and "St. Elsewhere."

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the film "Reality Bites," a comedy about Love in the ''90''s, directed by Ben Stiller and starring Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke.

2: LEonard FEather, one of the world's most prominent jazz critics died of pneumonia, yesterday at the age of 80. Jazz critic Francis DAvis once wrote of him, No other critic has fought the good fight longer, on as many fronts, or communicated the joys of jazz to as many generations of readers. Leonard Feather grew up in England and moved to America in 1940. Feather's LA Times column was syndicated around the world. His most important writing was his encylopedia of jazz, an essential reference work of musician bios. He had spent his final months editing a new edition, which is scheduled for publication next year. Feather also produced about 200 recording sessions, composed for many of the musicians he worked with, and even played piano on some of their sessions. Throughout his career he campaigned on behalf of women in jazz, and worked for racial equality in field.

2: Interview with TERRY WAITE, continues.

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Witness Agianst the Beast" by the late British writer E.P. Thompson.

2: Actress ANGELA BASSETT. She recently had the intimidating job of playing Tina Turner in the new film, "What's Love Got to Do with it." Her performance has been widely praised. BASSETT's other roles include the mother of a troubled teenager in "Boyz N the Hood," and the wife of the black Muslim leader in Spike Lee's "Malcolm X."

Terry talks with New Yorker writer JOHN SEABROOK about the downside of electronic mail. Then she gets a response from STEWART BRAND, the inventor of The Well, a computer conference system. . . Last January SEABROOK wrote an article in the New Yorker magazine about Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates. SEABROOK was flooded with electronic mail as a result, and to his surprise he was "flamed" for the first time. In Internet jargon, to be "flamed" is to receive an obscene or derogatory E-mail message. SEABROOK said he'd never received anything like it before. His article about the lawless frontier of computer networks appears in the May 30, 1994 issue of the magazine, "My First Flame." STEWART BRAND is an inventor and designer who founded the Whole Earth Catalog, and The WELL, (the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link) a computer teleconference system.

2: Jazz musician JOSHUA REDMAN. A self-taught tenor saxophonist, REDMAN has a new album, "Wish," which is his second album released this year. REDMAN won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1991. Son of renowned free-jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman, JOSHUA REDMAN had the most influence from his mother who raised him alone. After REDMAN graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1991 he decided to pursue his love of jazz.

2: Folklorist ALAN LOMAX. He's spent more than a half century recording the folk music and customs of the world. Here in America, he's responsible for priceless recordings of Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, and many others. (REBROADCAST from 7/9/90). LOMAX won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his non-fiction book, "The Land Where the Blues Began."

2:Novelist FAE MYENNE NG. (fay me-yen ing) She's just written her first novel, "Bone," (HYPERION) is about three sisters brought up in San Francisco's Chinatown. One reviewer writes, "I learned a lot from "Bone" about the high cost of living in two worlds," another writes that the story is "beautifully conceived, full of feeling and the sound of the streets."

Politcal writer and correspondent in the Middle East for the New Yorker, MILTON VIORST. Terry will talk with him about the massacre last week in the mosque in the West bank, and it's affect on the peace process between Israel and the P.L.O. They'll also discuss his new book "Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of The Modern World" (Knopf). Called by one commentator "a psychological and social tour of the Arab people and the wonderous cities they live in", "Sandcastles" features VIORST's travels in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon. In high-level talks with the political and intellectual leadership of these countries, like Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz and Iraq's, Tariq Aziz, former Iraqi Foreign Minister, VIORST offers an inside look into the diplomacy of the Gulf War, and a background to the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

2: Interview with MISHA GLENNY continues.