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Searchlight Pictures suspended production while investigating, but has not confirmed reports that the complaint was about Murray.

After a global dance hit, the country star returns from lockdown with an intimate new album — and a new son, who helped inspire it.

When Yeoh first read the script for Everything Everywhere All at Once, she gave a big sigh of relief: Finally, here was a film that put a middle-aged mother in the role of action hero.

Jori Lewis tells eye-opening stories of individuals despite scant historical record. At the outset she asks: "How do we tell the stories of people that history forgets and the present avoids?"

"The next move, if I don't walk away ... it's going to be a bloodbath, like it was on the island," actor Johnny Depp says on the recording played in court on Monday.

Leon Botstein leads The Orchestra Now in works by Julia Perry, George Frederick Bristow, and Scott Wheeler, featuring Violinist Gil Shaham.

The Walt Disney Co. is blocking its Miramax division from distributing Fahrenheit 9/11, a new documentary from filmmaker Michael Moore highly critical of the Bush administration. Reports suggest Disney was worried about upsetting the president's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Moore discusses the controversy with NPR's Michele Norris.

Best-selling author John Irving is known for creating sweeping narratives spiked with melodrama and full of vivid characters, complex plots and overwhelming information. It's easy to see why he credits his style to lessons in storytelling from Victorian author Charles Dickens. For Intersections, a series on artists' influences, NPR's Ketzel Levine reports.

Composer Charles Ives died 50 years ago Wednesday. Though Ives is now widely recognized as one of America's most important composers, his work was not performed during his most creative years. Biographer Jan Swafford says Charles Ives was a "Walt Whitman of sound," able to write pieces in traditional European styles, but with an American accent. Swafford has a remembrance.

Elvin Jones, a renowned drummer and member of the John Coltrane Quartet, died Tuesday in a New Jersey hospital of heart failure. He was 76. Jones' powerful, complex playing helped changed the role of the drummer in jazz groups and influenced a generation of rockers, including The Doors, the Grateful Dead and Santana. NPR's Renee Montagne has a remembrance.