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Robert Siegel talks with actress Eva Marie Saint, and her husband, producer/director Jeffrey Hayden. Saint and Hayden talk about the recent death of Hollywood screenwriter Ernest Lehman. Saint co-starred in North by Northwest which Lehman wrote, and she and her husband were close friends of Lehman's.

Rita Coolidge's 1977 solo album, Anytime Anywhere, sold millions of copies. Three singles made the top of the charts, including "We're All Alone." Nearly three decades later, Coolidge sings the same tune on a new CD of jazz standards.

The unique sound of the band Drink Me consists of guitars, ukuleles and the rhythmic rubbing of a Fanta soda bottle. Its songs explore topics from singing clams and sleeping accordions to heart attacks and Grant's Tomb. Producer Trey Kay reports on the quirky, poetic duo that plays music billed as "the quietest rock 'n' roll ever made."

Ninja Thyberg's film about an aspiring porn star challenges conventional wisdom around sex work and women's agency.

To mark Black Music Month, News and Notes with Ed Gordon begins a three-part series of reports on what magazine editors, music industry executives and independent critics think will be the hottest sounds of the summer.

A new animated series, Loonatics Unleashed, debuts this fall. Early promotions of the show made some fans fear the Loonatics would replace classic Looney Tunes characters.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Simulated Progress, from the co-operative trio Fieldwork. The CD features Vijay Iyer on piano, Steve Lehman on alto and sopranino saxophones and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums and percussion.

Rock historian Ed Ward reviews a new history of gospel music, People Get Ready! by Robert Darden.

In their latest works, Azar Nafisi, Elena Ferrante, and Anna Quindlen vigorously assert that reading and writing can pull us out of our mess. In their hands, reading and writing are worth celebrating.

Alex Chadwick talks to independent film guru John Pierson and Brian Clark, one of his students at the University of Texas at Austin. Their last semester's class project was to find someone to distribute the independent film Cavite.