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Despite a fall during one of their qualifying runs, Shaun White and Chloe Kim were able to move on to the medal round of the men's and women's halfpipe events.

The creators of South Park have something new to insult the sensibilities of just about everyone — an R-rated satire of big-budget action movies, the politics of Hollywood, Michael Moore, jingoistic patriotism and racial profiling gone awry. NPR's Bob Mondello says Team America: World Police, populated entirely by puppets, gives creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker a chance to blow up some of the most elaborate miniature sets ever built.

BBC America is airing a special two-hour version of The Office Thursday night. TV critic David Bianculli has a review.

Alan Cheuse reviews Country of Origin by Don Lee, a mystery whose main character is a young American woman who was born in Japan under mysterious circumstances and returns to the country of her birth to find out her true origins.

The lights will apparently continue to light up Broadway's theater district. Contract talks between Actor's Equity and the League of American Theatres and Producers have produced a tentative agreement, averting threats of a strike. Jeff Lunden reports.

The 2004 New Yorker Festival begins next weekend -- NPR's Scott Simon talks to actors Stanley Tucci and Cynthia Nixon, both panelists on a festival session entitled "The Method: Acting Onstage and Onscreen."

Legendary comedian Groucho Marx's TV game show You Bet Your Life is celebrated in a new DVD. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and DVD co-producer Robert Bader.

Jolie Holland has a voice reminiscent of some of the great old blues vocalists, but the fresh approach of a 21st-century singer and songwriter. She was a founding member of the Vancouver roots band the Be Good Tanyas, and there is some of that sound in her music, an unschooled style with soul and heartache. Her latest CD is called Escondida.

Some might say actor John Lithgow was born into the craft: His father, Arthur, was a college professor and Shakespearean actor. As Father's Day approaches, the Emmy and Tony-winning actor -- and writer and composer -- reflects on his father's influence on his own career. For Intersections, NPR's Noah Adams reports.

Tony Hendra, a writer and performer best known for his biting satire, has written a loving memoir called Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul. Hendra, former editor of Spy magazine and National Lampoon, writes of the Benedictine monk who has had a life-long spiritual influence on him. Hear Hendra and NPR's Scott Simon.