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Set in 1950's America, Good Night and Good Luck portrays the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

Motown's success has made its musical catalog one of the most recognizable in American history. Oliver Wang says it takes some guts to tackle these iconic tunes, but the producers have pulled it off.

Updated federal guidance means many low-income families that want their children to keep learning remotely are losing access to a school program that helped them pay for meals.

British actor Tom Wilkinson is starring in two new films: Separate Lies, opposite Emily Watson, and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Many American viewers first met Wilkinson in the popular British film The Full Monty; he was nominated for an Oscar for In the Bedroom.

Actress, activist and exercise guru Jane Fonda discusses the three things she's most famous for: her films, her husbands and her politics. Her new autobiography, My Life So Far, has just been published.

In 1954, the pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams walked away from jazz and returned, a convert to Catholicism, three years later. A new recording of one of her masses, Music for Peace (also known as Mary Lou's Mass), shows the breadth of her talent.

Robinson's first novel, Housekeeping, won a PEN/Hemingway Award. Now, 23 years later, her second novel, Gilead, has won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book is written as a letter from a 76-year-old Congregationalist preacher to his 7-year-old son. This interview originally aired Feb. 8, 2005.

The Edward Albee play featuring one of American drama's most notorious married couples returns to Broadway. Bill Irwin plays George, and Kathleen Turner plays Martha in the new production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

As the British royal wedding approaches, Elaine Fantham, professor emerita of classics at Princeton University, recalls history's first famous Camilla. She was a warrior leader who became an attendant to the goddess Diana in Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid.

He's been a mad scientist, a gun-slinging cowboy, a twisted chocolate maker and other zanily hilarious characters. But actor Gene Wilder still doesn't consider himself a funny man. He speaks about his career and his new autobiography Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art.