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NPR's Scott Simon talks with humor writer Joe Queenan about "Closing Time," Queenan's memoir of growing up in a Philadelphia housing project with an abusive father and indifferent mother.

Actor Oliver Platt takes the stage in the latest revival of the legendary musical Guys and Dolls. Platt tells NPR that modern audiences can still relate to his classic character: Good Old Reliable Nathan Detroit.

Tony Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson died this week at the age of 45 after an accident at a Canadian ski resort. Another actress died this week — a woman whose career was also cut short.

The Hollywood Reporter says that a remake of the Three Stooges is on the way. The surprising thing is the casting: The stooges will be played by Jim Carrey, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro.

Megan Holley was working with crack-addicted rats when she heard a piece on NPR about women who cleaned up crime scenes. So she wrote a movie script that became the new release Sunshine Cleaning. Holley talks about her strange journey.

In 2006, Grammy-winning rock singer Rick Springfield returned to the ABC soap opera General Hospital, reprising the role of Dr. Noah Drake, which he played in the early 1980s. Madeleine Brand talked with Springfield, co-star Jacklyn Zeman and others about Springfield's return.

Filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck talk about Sugar, their new drama about a Dominican baseball player who follows his major-league dreams to the United States.

The 2009 Pritzker Prize for architecture — one of the highest honors in the field — has been awarded to 65-year-old Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

Showtime's series The L Word says goodbye Sunday night after six years as one of the few outlets for lesbian characters on mainstream TV. Ilene Chaiken, the show's creator, and actress Laurel Holloman talk to host Jacki Lyden about what they'll miss when the show is gone.

From Matisse to Mondrian, Braque to Giacometti — the list of venerable artists who were inspired by Paul Cezanne reads like the syllabus of an art history class. Now, a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates the master painter's legacy.