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All Things Considered film critic Bob Mondello examines Sputnik's impact on the silver screen.

Three brothers, privileged but bereft, go looking for themselves on a trek through rural India. Fresh Air's film critic says Anderson manages to sustain a sense of lyric melancholy — though he could use more perspective on his characters' over-entitlement.

A new documentary takes a look inside the Arkansas school at the center of a key Civil Rights moment 50 years ago. Farai Chideya talks with Craig and Brent Renaud who directed the HBO documentary "Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later," and Minnijean Brown-Trickey, one of the original Little Rock Nine.

From David Bowie to Ice Cube, several big-name stars are lending their support to the Jena Six. Newsweek entertainment writer Allison Samuels has more on that, plus Shaquille O'Neal's divorce and the recent development in the Notorious B.I.G.'s murder investigation.

Snacking on water beetles in Laos, dining on dog in Korea: Tom Parker Bowles, food writer for Britain's The Mail on Sunday, Night and Day, and Tatler (and son of Prince Charles' wife, Camilla Parker Bowles), has written what he's described as "a travel book about weird food."

Rita Moreno's acting career spans more than five decades and is decorated with the business' highest honors: the Tony, an Oscar, a Grammy and two Emmy awards. Many remember her work in the hit production West Side Story. Moreno talks about her mother's influence, her fear of being type cast and her role in Cane.

The Darjeeling Limited, director Wes Anderson's newest film, opened the New York Film Festival this weekend. Jason Schwartzman, who co-wrote the screenplay and plays Jack Whitman, talks about the role India plays in the movie.

On the second anniversary of the playwright's death, Michele Norris talks to two actors from the Broadway production of his final play, Radio Golf.

French authorities are calling for tougher penalties on people who damage works of art after someone put a fist through Monet's "The Argenteuil Bridge."

Philip Roth's newest novel, Exit Ghost, is his ninth and final Nathan Zuckerman book. The series began in 1979 with The Ghost Writer; a compendium, Zuckerman Bound, is now available. Roth, author of 28 novels, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for American Pastoral.