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Director Darren Aronofsky talks about making a realistic film about a notoriously fake sport. His Oscar-nominated film, starring Mickey Rourke as a professional wrestler well past his prime, will be released on DVD next week.

The pianist, who died last week, was an inspiration to a generation of Black and brown musicians who followed in his pioneering footsteps.

Most people probably know Kathie Lee Gifford best from her days as Regis Philbin's sassy co-host on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. But she's played gigs from cruise ships to Broadway, stage to studio — and has a new book: Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg: Life and Other Calamities.

Host Jacki Lyden talks to director Atom Egoyan about his latest film, Adoration. It's a meditation on loss and identity that centers around a young boy who lost his parents in a car wreck. In the film, the boy spins a lie about their true identities that ends up getting out of control.

Timothy Olyphant once again plays Elmore Leonard's quick-tempered U.S. marshal in Justified: City Primeval, an eight-part sequel brimming with colorful, volatile characters.

Emily Monosson says fungi and fungus-like pathogens are the most devastating disease agents on the planet, causing the extinction or near extinction of species of trees, bananas, bats, frogs and more.

The highly-anticipated summer blockbuster film Star Trek earned a whopping $76.5 million dollars in its opening weekend at the box office. Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris talks about its big splash and spotlights other big productions slated for Summer 2009.

Ken Tucker reviews Robert McCormick's Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey, and Robert Mugge's Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey Through American Music.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with author Ann Beattie about her latest book Onlookers.

The London-born star, whose British accent and natural style charmed her adopted country of France, died on Sunday. Her fame rivals the Hermès luxury handbags named after her.