Ken Tucker will review the movies of director Sam Peckinpah, now available on home video. Peckinpah's two best-known films are "Straw Dogs," and "The Wild Bunch."
Guest Film Critic Michael Sragow, film critic for "The San Francisco Examiner," will review "Tough Guys Don't Dance," starring Isabella Rossellini and Ryan O'Neal. The film is directed by writer Norman Mailer and based on a Mailer novel.
Ron Koslow, creator of "Beauty and the Beast," the new CBS television series that modernizes the fable and sets it in the tunnels of the New York City subway system.
Language Commentator Geoffrey Nunberg will discuss the effects of Minitel, the computer distributed by the telephone system in France that has brought a word processor to every home with a phone.
Book Critic John Leonard will review two new novels by two young writers, From Rockaway, by Jill Eisenstadt, and The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis.
Indian writer Ved Mehta. He's written several books of autobiography, most all of which have been serialized in "The New Yorker" magazine. His autobiographies are poignant accounts of his blindness, his education in England, and the role that language came to play in his life.
Writer Michael Ignatieff. His new book, Russian Album, recalls, through diaries, photographs and a few mementoes, his forebearers, aristocrats at the time of the Russian Revolution. While most of the upper class was killed in the Revolution, Ignatieff's family fled to Canada.
Jazz Critic Kevin Whitehead will review a reissue of the 1959 album, "Ellington Jazz Party." His review includes a discussion of the controversial biography of Duke Ellington by James Lincoln Collier, controversial because Collier alleges that true credit for many of Ellington's most famous tunes belongs to his band members.
Ralph Bakshi, who did the animation work for the cult hits "Fritz The Cat," and "Heavy Traffic." He's turned his attention away from animation to concentrate on oil painting.
