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Film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Memory of a Killer, a Dutch noir thriller about a hit man who's developed Alzheimer's disease. The film is based on the much-praised crime novel series by Jef Geeraerts.

Tim Story directed just two feature films before he landed the plum assignment to take on Fantastic Four The thirty-something director talks about growing up in Los Angeles and creating his first movies when he was 12 years old.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Jim Jarmusch's new movie Broken Flowers. It stars Bill Murray, who plays a modern Don Juan.

A Memphis pimp with a midlife crisis tries to make it as a rapper in Hustle & Flow, a film featuring the prodigious acting talents of Terrence Howard. He spent nearly two years researching a role that he initially did not want to accept.

A compilation of Ethel Merman recordings from the '50s, The World is Your Balloon, collects songs she recorded for Decca Records. Few are songs Merman herself made famous.

New Orleans native Harry Connick Jr. first made his mark as a musical prodigy, recording his first songs at age 9. He has returned to New Orleans to lend a helping hand with hurricane relief. (This interview was first broadcast on June 21, 1988.)

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Triplicity, from tenor saxophone player Bob Feldman.

Alex Chadwick chats with legendary comedian, writer and actor Bob Newhart, who will be profiled in a career retrospective airing Wednesday night on PBS.

Critic Ken Tucker reviews Little Fugitive, the new CD from Amy Rigby.

Former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet testified Tuesday he was to blame for an incorrect passage about former Gov. Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial on heated political rhetoric.