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Lately, movie star Tom Cruise has been everywhere in the media, talking about his love life, his devotion to Scientology... and sometimes, he promotes his new movies.

Guitar legend Les Paul is about to turn 90 and still going strong. He plays weekly at New York's Iridium Jazz Club, and he has a string of new albums coming out. Tom Vitale visits with Paul in New York.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews The Constant Gardener, the new thriller based on the John Le Carre novel. The film is directed by City of God's Fernando Meirelles and stars Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.

The Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice takes to the screen again, in an adaptation starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet; Matthew MacFadyen as Mr. Darcy; and Donald Sutherland as Elizabeth's father.

Sweet Honey in the Rock is a Grammy Award-winning, African-American female a cappella ensemble. Ed Gordon talks to founding member Carol Maillard about the group's unique sound, which is rooted in the hymns, gospel music and spirituals of the black church, as well as jazz and blues. The group's latest CD is Raise Your Voice.

Hugh Masekela comes from an extensive jazz background; he is also known as one of the greatest innovators in world fusion. Now Masekela has a new CD, Revival, that draws on pop, jazz and R&B influences.

A novel about vampires prowling around dark forests and damp crypts in Central Europe may not seem like ideal summertime reading, but The Historian, a debut novel about Dracula by Elizabeth Kostova, is shaping up to be one of this season's big beach books. Book critic Maureen Corrigan has a review.

Architect Daniel Liebeskind's design for the new structure undergoes a facelift to include more safety precautions. Melissa Block talks with Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker.

The dark comedy by David Hare chronicles the tangle of diplomatic maneuvers leading to the war. It hints that President Bush and top advisers intended to invade Iraq even before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson examines a new series of ads from the gin maker Tanqueray that are generating a lot of buzz. The campaign hopes to appeal to a younger demographic by introducing a foppish, engagingly odd fellow in tailored suits named Tony Sinclair, with the catch phrase "Ready to Tanqueray?"