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Actor Elliott Gould recalls time spent with director Robert Altman. They worked together on several films -- notably M*A*S*H, The Long Goodbye and California Split.

Writer Mark Jordan Legan offers this round-up of what movie critics are saying about the weekend's releases. He looks at the Spanish-language film Volver and the animated film Flushed Away. He also checks out Borat: Cultural Learnings of America Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakstan.

Deja Vu is in the business of confounding expectations. It's not the routine potboiler starring Denzel Washington that the advertising indicates. The film makes little sense, but that hardly matters because it's some first-class genre fun.

The ancients didn't use radioactive Polonium-210 to take out their enemies, but poisoning has long associated with the deaths of the powerful -- though not always through assassination. Classics commentator Elaine Fantham reminds Scott Simon of some historic poisoning cases, starting with Socrates.

Three new prime-time TV series premiere this week: scripted dramas on ABC and CBS, and a new quiz show on ABC. This week also brings the season finale of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, and lots of other activity involving first-run weekly television shows. Our TV critic says that all this action is related -- and little of it is cause for celebration.

The new TLC reality series The Monastery follows five troubled men who are invited to live with a cloister of Benedictine monks for 40 days. An Iraqi war veteran, a recovering alcoholic and a former gang member are among those who move in to the monastery and agree to abide by its rules.

The last time director Ridley Scott and star Russell Crowe got together, the Oscar-winning action epic Gladiator was the result. This time it's a romantic comedy, and the results are not nearly so successful.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a recently re-released 1940 recording from pianist Frank Melrose called Bluesiana.

The Prestige matches Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as rival magicians who try to sabotage each others' tricks, and steal them when they can. It's a magical mystery tour of subterfuge, directed by brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan of Memento fame.

Classic R&B songs get sung over and over. A half a century after his first forays in the genre, crooner Pat Boone is back on the R&B train with We Are Family: R&B Classics.