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Nicole Holofcener's Friends with Money is a "modern comedy of manners," according to Morning Edition and Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan. The film features Catherine Keener, Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusack as four Los Angeles women who have issues with love and money.

Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan reviews American Dreamz, directed by Paul Weitz. It stars Hugh Grant as a Simon Cowell-like host of an American Idol knockoff. It's is satire that takes on pop culture and politics.

Bob Mondello looks at a new phenomenon that's been popping up on the web: people recutting footage from old movies and adding familiar music to suggest radically different films from the ones we know.

From Atlanta's Spivey Hall, the young pianist plays "Concert Arabesques on the Blue Danube," an arrangement by Andrei Schultz-Evler of Strauss's Blue Danube Waltz and "Embraceable You," by George Gershwin, arranged by Earl Wild.

Tony Alleyne loved the Star Trek universe so much, he wanted to live in it. So he remodeled his condominium to look like the inside of the Starship Enterprise. He has started a science-fiction interior-design business to recoup the cost, and now he's an Internet hero. Technology maven Xeni Jardin profiles Alleyne and his most unusual home.

Musician Allen Toussaint is a native son of New Orleans. He plans to return in the New Year. He lost a piano the storm. As for his next one: "I'm going to put it on the second floor this time... we won't be flirting with water anymore."

Morrissey has been a fixture on the pop-music landscape for more than two decades. Music critic John Brady says listening to his eighth solo album is like having a conversation with a neighbor — a mopey, gothic, somewhat strange but always exciting neighbor.

Every time Andrew Hill takes a seat behind a piano, the jazz world takes note. "Time Lines" speaks to his brilliance at teetering between the worlds of the blues and the abstract. And it's one of the funkiest compositions in Hill's massive repertoire.

The Arctic Monkeys' CD, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, is the fastest-selling debut album in U.K. history. Their first two singles topped the British charts and their CD is being released in the United States.

One of the contenders for Best Foreign Film at this year's Academy Awards is an entry from South Africa, called Tsotsi. Renee Montagne talks to the writer-director and lead actor about the story of a brutal young thug living in the slums of Soweto. The film opens on Friday.