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Documentary film makers ALAN and SUSAN RAYMOND. They made documentary history with "An American Family," living for seven months with the Loud family, to film the life of a "typical" American family. The 12-part series was broadcast over PBS in 1973, and it turned out to be a portrait of a not-so-typical family, and of a family disintegrating before our eyes. The RAYMONDS' documentary "The Police Tapes," was the inspiration for the TV series, "Hill Street Blues." They filmed life in a North Philadelphia inner-city elementary school for their latest film, "I am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School." They will be joined in Terry's interview with the principal of the school, DEANNA BURNEY. ("I am the Promise," premieres on HBO Monday, October 11, at 10pm

Scholars, social critics, and futurists ALAN and HEIDI TOFFLER, authors of Future Shock (1970). They've gotten a lot of publicity lately, because of their association with Newt Gingrich. GINGRICH sought them out 20 years ago because he was fascinated by their ideas about the "intersection of history and the future." One of the books that GINGRICH has suggested that every member of congress read, is the TOFFLERS' newest. It's Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave. (Turner Publishing

ONCE WERE WARRIORS director LEE TAMAHORI (TOM-a-hore-ee) and it's star RENA(Rain-a) OWEN. This critically acclaimed new film takes a front-line look at an urban Maori(MOW-er-ee) family plagued by poverty, violence and alcoholism. The movie recently became the top grossing film in New Zealand history

Writer and economist DENISE CHONG, author of "The Concubine's Children" (Viking). The book is a history of her family, beginning with her grandmother, May-Ying, a concubine brought to Canada by CHONG's wealthy grandfather. May-Ying had two daughters in China, and CHONG's mother in Canada -- three sisters who hadn't met until Chong persuaded her mother to take the trip to China when she was writing this book. "Publisher's Weekly" says "this suberbly told saga of family loyalties and disaffections reads...like a novel.

2: Pulitzer Prize winning playwright DAVID MAMET (MAM-ette) has written a new book, Passover. (St. Martin's Hood) It details a conversation between a grandmother and granddaughter preparing a traditional Passover meal. Through their conversation the grandmother reveals the horrific family history of living through the Polish Pogroms. MAMET also wrote Glengary Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), Writing in Restaurants, and he wrote the screenplays for The Untouchables and Hoffa.

NPR's Brenda Wilson has a special report on South Africa's explosive AIDS epidemic. The crisis is rooted in South Africa's history and the movement of its people. Labor migrations have occurred in South Africa since the beginning of the century. In the decade of the 1970's, under Apartheid, three-and-a-half-million black South Africans were forcibly relocated to rural homelands. The number of men who moved to industrial centers for work, living away from their wives and families for months at a time, significantly increased. Then, in the late 1980's, as white South Africans were being forced to relinquish political power, AIDS hit the country. Greater freedom for blacks brought an increase in travel between homelands and industrial centers and the AIDS epidemic moved with the people. Dependence on cheap, black labor and the removal of black South Africans to the homelands is continuing to drive the epidemic. A tenth of the population of South Africa is now infected with the AIDS virus.

Musician Michelle Zauner talks about the history and process behind her soundtrack for the new video game Sable – including inspiration from The Secret of Mana and indie legends Yo La Tengo.

Writer SHELBY FOOTE has created a niche for himself as a civil war historian. He is best known for his three volume history of the Civil War, called "The Civil War: A Narrative." He has just written a new book, "Stars in Their Courses," (The Modern Library) which re-creates the three-day Gettysburg Campaign. He was also the narrator of the eleven-hour PBS series "The Civil War," which aired in 1990. FOOTE is also the author of six novels.

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." Also a show which parodied the variety shows of the 60s, "The Charles Busch Revue," in which he made seven costume changes in an hour and 15 minutes. BUSCH's also wrote a novel, "Whores of Lost Atlantis," (published in 1993 by Hyperion). BUSCH currently stars in the one-man show in New York City, "Flipping My Wig." (REBROADCAST from 7/

Gordon is a sports journalist and Bonner is a specialist on North Korea. They collaborated on the documentary The Game of Their Lives about the most shocking upset in World Cup History: It was July 19, 1966, and the scrappy underdog North Korean team beat the favored Italians, whose players were some of the finest in the world. Later the Korean team lost in the quarterfinals to Portugal. Then the players returned home and disappeared from view. After years of effort, Gordon and Bonner were given permission to enter North Korea and to interview the seven surviving members of the North Korean team. The documentary has been on tour and can be seen in Chicago, March 5th, and at the San Francisco International Asian American film Festival (Mar 8, 10 and 15th).