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2: Actor RAUL JULIA. His films include "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Moon Over Parador," "Tequilla Sunrise." and "Romero." He also starred in "The Addams Family" series, as Gomez, the patriarch. He had a long career in musical theater as well, including "The Three-Penny Opera," "Nine," and "Man of la Mancha." JULIA died this morning, after a stroke last week. (REBROADCAST FROM 8

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews a new reissue "The Lester Young Trio," (on Verve).

2: Writer and professor JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN is the author of "Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society" (Pantheon), which explores WIDEMAN's relationship with both his father and his son. WIDEMAN's earlier book, "Brothers and Keepers," tells of his relationship with his brother, who, like his son, was convicted of murder. WIDEMAN is also the author of novels and short stories, and is a professor of English literature.

Former president of Harvard DEREK BOK. In his new book, "The Cost of Talent: How Executives and Professionals Are Paid and How It Affects America" (Free Press), BOK argues that the rich shouldn't be so much richer. He says that huge salary gaps result in social and economic losses, "jeopardiz democracy by weakening faith in the economic system". Bok was the president of Harvard University from 1971 to 1991. He has written five other books

TV critic David Bianculli reviews new PBS sitcom "The Steven Banks Show."

1: Actor CHARLTON HESTON. A consistent lead in the biblical epics of the 1950's and 1960's, HESTON had starring roles in " The Greatest Story Ever Told" and "The Ten Commandments"; HESTON also covered the Roman era in epics like "Ben Hur", "Julius Cesar", and "Antony & Cleopatra." Medieval Spain was not beyond his ken: HESTON had the lead as well in "El Cid." (REBROADCAST FROM 11/30/90). Film Director, MARTIN SCORCESE. He directed "The Last Temptation of Christ" in 1988. In June of 1993, as part of a retrospective of his work by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU presented "An Evening With Martin Scorcese": a wide ranging question and answer session taped live before an audience at New York University. Scorcese explores some of the special difficulties involved in shooting a biblical epic in the desert with very little money. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/11/93). Composer ELMER BERNSTEIN. He's composed the scores for almost 80 films, including "The Man With the Golden Arm," "The Magnificent Seven," and "The Ten Commandments". Lately he's done the scores for "The Field" and "The Grifters." (REBROADCAST FROM 1/10/91) INT. 2: Actor KIRK DOUGLAS. The star of "Lust for Life," "Paths of Glory," "Champion" and Stanley Kubrick's epic, "Spartacus," the story of a slave uprising during the Roman Empire. (REBROADCAST FROM 8/22/88). Actor TONY CURTIS. In 1960 he starred in the film, "Spartacus" about a leader of slaves revolting against Republican Rome. A restored version of the film has been released that includes previously cut scenes, including one where Laurence Olivier --as a general-- tries to seduce his slave, played by CURTIS. (REBROADCAST FROM 4-19-91).

V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews reruns of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," which air on the cable channel, E! Entertainment Television. The comedy show was canceled in 1969.

FRANK SMYTH is a freelance journalist who has written on Rwanda for "The Village Voice," "The Nation," and "The New Republic," and an investigative consultant for Human Rights Watch/Africa. He wrote a report for Human Rights Watch/Africa based on his visit to Rwanda in May and June of 1993. The report, "Arming Rwanda," is about the arms trade and the human rights violations in Rwanda

MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "The Bird Artist," by Howard Norman (Farrar.Straus &Giroux).

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. Terry talks with RAFAEL SCHARF. He's compiled a new book of photographs, "In The Warsaw Ghetto Summer 1941," (Aperture). The photographs were all taken one summer day in 1941 by German soldier and have never been published before. SCHARF was born in Poland, but left the country shortly before World War II. He is one of the founders of "The Jewish Quarterly," a London literary and political magazine. Many of SCHARF's relatives were killed in the camps.

2: Actor and filmmaker BEN STILLER. He's the son of the comedy team, Stiller and Meara, (Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara). He's acted in the Lincoln Center's revival of "House of Blue Leaves," and appeared in the films, "Fresh Horses," "Stella," and "Empire of the Son." He's also made a number of comedy shorts that parody movies and television. He's got his own comedy show "The Ben Stiller Show," on FOX, which premiered last fall. The show grew out of his work as a writer-performer with "Saturday Night Live," in 1989. Stiller plays various roles ranging from an obnoxious Hollywood agent to an adult Eddie Munster. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 9/25/92).

2: From the film "The Last Seduction" (October Films), actress LINDA FIORENTINO and screenwriter STEVE BARANCIK. BARANCIK's screenplay tells the story of a woman who robs her husband of the proceeds of a drug deal and then leaves town. FIORENTINO stars as "one of the screen's most formidible femme fatales ever" ("Variety"), as she displays her character's "spellbinding talent for getting exactly what she wants" ("The New York Times").