The Progressive Prosecutor

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN looks at who won''t be performing at the upcoming inauguration activities, but who should be.

Author LORENZO CARCATERRA (Car-CA-terra). He is managing editor of the CBS weekly series "Top Cops." He's written a memoir, "A Safe Place," (Villard Books) about growing up, the son of a violent, loving, murderous, and generous father. They lived in New York's Hell's Kitchen during the 50s and 60s. Lorenzo found out at the age of 14 that his father had murdered his first wife when she threatened to leave him. Lorenzo's father went on to terrorize his second wife, beating her and Lorenzo. Yet his father also could be warm and affectionate, taking Lorenzo to the ballpark, or showering him with kisses. His father would cry at the sound of a beautiful aria, but he could also be extremely violent at even the midest affront to his ego.

2: Former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the former Editor-in-Chief of "Connoisseur," THOMAS HOVING. ("Hoving" with a long "O".) He's written a new book "Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art." (Simon & Schuster). The metropolitan is probably the richest museum in the world, "owning" three million works of art, and artifacts that span 50 centuries. HOVING was with the Met for ten years and has been credited with transforming it from a somber monolith into a friendly and exciting place. His book is about the "battleground" behind the calm surface of the institution.

World music critic MILO MILES reviews the music of African reggae star Alpha Blondy. Blondy''s new albums are Masada (World Pacific label) and The Best of Alpha Blondy. (Shan

FRESHMAN CONGRESSMAN BOBBY RUSH (D-Illinois), who in the late 60's and early 70's was a leader of the Black Panther Party. At one time he served as minister of Defense for the Panthers. From 1983 till his election to Congress last year he served as an Alderman in Chicago.

2: We remember songwriter SAMMY CAHN, who died last Friday at the age of 79 with an interview Terry Gross recorded with him in 1985. Cahn wrote many of the songs that Frank Sinatra recorded, including Come Fly With Me, Teach Me Tonight and High Hopes. He also wrote the scores for many Broadway shows including Walking Happy and Skyscraper, and for the movies Come Blow Your Horn, Robin and the Seven Hoods, and A Pocketful of Miracles.

Two individuals involved with the Victim/Offender Mediation Program (with The Community Dispute Resolution Center in New York City): Program Director THOMAS CHRISTIAN, and GARY GEIGER, who was shot and wounded during a robbery eleven years ago. Through the program, GEIGER confronted the man who shot him, Wayne Blanchard, who is now in prison. GEIGER's meeting with Blanchard is part of a new HBO special, "Confronting Evil: America Undercover." (It premieres tonight (10:00 - 11:00 p.m. E.T.

2: Writer THULANI (pronounced "tah-lawn-nee") DAVIS. Her novel, "1959," is the story of a young black girl coming of age at the dawn of the civil rights movement. Previously, Davis worked for The New York Times and The Washington Post, and wrote the libretto for the opera "X: The Life and Times of Malcom X." ("1959" is published by Grove Weidenfeld). REBROADCAST. Originally aired 2/13/92.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews two new FOX programs, a youth drama, "Class of 96," and a comedy drama, "Key West."

2: Singer/Songwriter ELVIS COSTELLO. In the late 1970s he burst out of Britian's pop-music scene with a sound and attitude never seen before. He was the angry young-man with a fresh sound. He's known for making connections between different musical communities. He's collaborated with Paul McCartney, Ruben Blades, Aimee Mann of "'til Tuesday," David Was of "Was (Not Was)," and T. Bone Burnett. On his new release, "The Juliet Letters," (Warner Bros.) he's working with the Brodsky Quartet (known for its interpretations of music by Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven and Bartok). The compositions on the new album are based on a correspondence addressed to Juliet Capulet of "Romeo and Juliet."