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Tom Wopat — yep, good ol' Luke Duke — has worked hard to avoid letting one role define his career. He's a Broadway success, and now comes a CD of Harold Arlen standards.

While Harry Potter has grown to become a huge a marketing event, the book series is still, at its heart, a literary event. Critic-at-large John Powers considers kids today lucky to have that experience. He compares it to his experiences purchasing and reading the Hardy Boys mysteries as a child.

Sunday marks the last episode of the HBO show Six Feet Under. In five seasons, the series introduced viewers to the Fisher clan and their funeral business. The show's creator, Alan Ball, speaks with Susan Stamberg.

Astronomers have pinpointed the exact moment when Ansel Adams snapped his famous photo "Autumn Moon," capturing a serene night in the Yosemite Valley. Now there's plans to re-create that photograph Thursday night.

His role as David Fisher, the gay brother who co-runs a funeral home on Six Feet Under, is Michael C. Hall's first television part. On Broadway, his roles have included Billy Flynn, an oily attorney in the revival of Chicago, and the emcee in Cabaret. (This interview originally aired March 26, 2002.)

The French-language film Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is based on an autobiographical novel by Dai Sijie. The book was published all over the world, though not in the author's native China. Now he's adapted it as a screenplay, and directed the movie, too.

Rome's Colosseum hosts an exhibit of sculpture from the mystery cults of Greek and Roman antiquity. The display documents secret religious rituals, some of which are still practiced today.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews this weekend's new releases: thriller Red Eye and the comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin, starring Steve Carell of The Office.

Jazz guitarist and band leader Bill Frisell is the focus of our third show. The former "house guitarist" for pioneering German modern jazz label ECM, Frisell has worked with artists as varied as Elvis Costello, John Zorn and classical composer Gavin Bryars.

Commentator Judy Muller has been reading NBC anchorman Brian Williams' new Web blog, and she's not sure she likes where this new journalistic medium is going. The postings often detail newsroom discussions over what stories should lead the broadcast.