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Ed Gordon talks with Grammy-winning R&B singer Toni Braxton about her music career, her new Oxygen Channel special and her latest CD, Libra.

Peter Ostrum played Charlie in the 1971 film based on Roald Dahl's Chocolate Factory. Now he takes his family to see a new film version of the beloved children's book.

Pawel Pawlikowski is one of Britain's most decorated filmmakers. Now his latest film has reached the United States, amid much critical praise. My Summer of Love revolves around two girls of different classes who meet and find themselves drawn to each other.

Ed Gordon talks with Terrence Howard, the star of Hustle & Flow, a new drama about a pimp trying to break into hip-hop music. The film, opening this weekend, prompted a record bidding war at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

A summer movie season is hardly complete without a popcorn epic by Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, Armageddon.) Bay's latest, The Island, has a scifi premise rooted in fear of genetic engineering.

The entrance to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., is topped with a gigantic pair of mouse ears right now to promote a new exhibit celebrating Disneyland's 50th anniversary. Detroit Public Radio's Celeste Headlee reports.

Co-curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher scour dumpsters, flea markets and thrift stores for unwanted and discarded film and video gems -- then they present it, along with their own commentary.

Turkish novelist Elif Shafak and producer Sandy Tolan set out to capture the voices of Turkey and its cultural attitude on one street: Kazanci Yokushu, the "Street of the Cauldron Makers."

A talk with George Clooney about the new movie he's co-written and directed, Goodnight, and Good Luck. The movie covers the conflict between newsman Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

Editor and writer Walter Kirn's latest novel, Mission to America, is about a fictional quasi-religious group, the Aboriginal Fulfilled Apostles, seeking new converts to help them survive. The topic is one Kirn has experience with: When he was 12, Kirn's family became Mormons.