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Ed Gordon talks with jazz guitarist Kevin Eubanks. Besides heading the band on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, Eubanks has a successful jazz career of his own, and has been playing on tour with his own band for years.

Gustavo Romero, 40, grew up in a non-musical family. But a neighbor's piano was his entry to the world of performance. He tells Fred Child about his early days and plays selections from Enrique Granados and Federico Mompou in NPR's Studio 4A.

Capote tracks the writer's draining effort to complete In Cold Blood. Dan Futterman, known for acting roles on Judging Amy and Will & Grace, wrote the screenplay. He and director Bennett Miller talk with Linda Wertheimer about the film.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz is also a horror movie fan. He reviews a new DVD collection of the horror films of producer Val Lewton. The films include The Leopard Man, Curse of the Cat People, and I Walked with a Zombie, along with six other films.

Love it or loathe it, domestic work is a common experience and it's celebrated in 'Sweeping Beauty — Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework.' The punch of divorce, the slam of wars at the dinner table, the shroud of a bed sheet; the poems of are peppered with harsh realities.

Host Ed Gordon talks with civil rights activist and actress Ruby Dee about what she's doing now, her plans for the future and her memories of her husband Ossie Davis, who died in February.

After two weeks of strong box office sales, Hollywood's box office revenues slid again this past weekend and have been down most of the year. Speculation is building that Hollywood is facing a demise. Alex Chadwick talks with Slate contributor Edward Jay Epstein about what some are calling Hollywood's "death spiral."

Farai Chideya talks to Slate contributor Josh Levin about a recent Saturday Night Live rap parody called "Lazy Sunday" that follows two SNL stars as they wake up late, get cupcakes and go see a movie -- all to a hard-core hip-hop beat. The video has been a popular download on the Web, and Levin says it's evidence the rap music industry may need to re-evaluate its direction...

Curtis Hanson, director of the new film In Her Shoes, explains how a movie about women and shoes fits in with others he's directed, how he cast the film, and how he wishes the movie could be marketed. His other films include the noir L.A. Confidential and gritty Eight Mile, starring rapper Eminem.

German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer's new documentary features Evelyn Glennie, a deaf percussionist. The director says that just as Glennie feels the sound, he wants his viewers to see it.