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A 1950s novella gets its fourth big-screen adaptation this winter. Neda Ulaby talks to the story's fans and the film's creators to find out why the apocalypse just keeps on coming.

The Broadway stagehands strike is over. Meanwhile, the Hollywood writers strike continues, and strike by news writers looms.

Fresh Air's film critic is feeling a little overwhelmed, as he always does during this week in December. So today's review is a roundup, with notes on I Am Legend, Atonement, The Kite Runner, Charlie Wilson's War, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Sweeney Todd, and more.

The Holmes story appeared in the pages of Beeton's Christmas Annual. Holmes traces a sordid London murder to the heart of the American West.

Richard Zanuck grew up on movies — literally. The son of legendary producer Darryl F. Zanuck, who founded and ran Twentieth Century Fox studios in Hollywood's golden era, he became an Oscar-winning producer himself. His latest project: Sweeney Todd, the big-screen version of the legendary Stephen Sondheim musical.

The star of the new comedy Juno is an indie phenom, and the characters she plays can be strikingly different. To the Canadian-born, Buddhist-schooled actress, the difference is that they're simply real.

Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody are the director-screenwriter team behind the new film Juno, about a tough, sardonic 16-year-old girl; when she gets pregnant, she gives the baby up for adoption to a couple she finds through the PennySaver.

You know too well where Hollywood would take a story about a stutterer who joins the debate team to get a girl. But writer-director Jeffrey Blitz is a Hollywood outsider, and he's going someplace else — into quirky, indie-flick social satire.

For a prolific singer-songwriter like Ryan Adams, this has been a relatively quiet year. The four-time Grammy nominee's new CD, Easy Tiger, is his first release of 2007.

Many of the 350,000 Latina girls turning 15 this year will celebrate with a bash called the "quinceanera." It's a rite of passage, and a growing industry in the U.S. Julia Alvarez, author of Once Upon a Quinceanera, shares aspects of the ceremonies with Renee Montagne.