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Gone Baby Gone, a new film based on the Dennis Lehane novel, stars actor Casey Affleck as a blue-collar private investigator drawn into a child-abduction case. The film is directed by Affleck's movie-star brother, Ben Affleck.

A new book from Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Faludi says America turned after the Sept. 11 attacks to timeworn notions of manliness and femininity — and rolled back women's rights in the process. Fresh Air's book critic has a review.

Academy-award winning director Jonathan Demme discusses his latest project, a film about former President Jimmy Carter. Demme followed Carter around the country as he promoted his controversial book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

As the Hollywood writers' strike enters its second week, one striking scriptwriter argues that it's time to rewrite the whole TV industry. In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, writer Rob Long states that what's going on in Hollywood isn't a negotiation — it's a murder-suicide pact.

Off-Broadway shows had a great weekend as Broadway went dark because of striking stagehands. Tourists and regular theatergoers found their way to off-Broadway theaters, packing those smaller houses.

It's been nearly a week since the stagehands union strike shut down Broadway. As the lucrative holiday season approaches, the pressure to end the strike mounts. Producers and the union plan to meet at the negotiating table over the weekend.

The Czech writer tackled big topics — sex, surveillance, death, totalitarianism — but always with a sense of humor. Blacklisted and banned in the Soviet Union, he left for France in 1975.

In a special pre-Thanksgiving special, hear recipes from diverse cultural cultural traditions. Dave Vera offers up Hawaiian flavors.

Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's 1997 memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is an unexpectedly funny film. It was written after a stroke left Bauby almost completely paralyzed.

Talk of the Nation's weeklong "Next Big Thing" series continues with a look ahead to the movies in 2008. From films remastered in 3D, to the effects of the writers' strike, Murray Horwitz, director and COO of American Film Institute Silver Theater, discusses movies in the new year.