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This past week, two literary revisions came to light. In penning his parting speech to the Continental Army, George Washington originally described it as his "final farewell," but later crossed out the word "final." And a new annotated version of The Cat in the Hat shows how Dr. Seuss revised his children's classic as he worked. Willard Spiegelman, an English professor at Southern Methodist University, explains how redacted manuscripts help literary critics understand texts.

'Sleepwalkers' is a new film that projects moving images onto the outdoor walls of New York's Museum of Modern Art. The interweaving narratives follow the lives of five characters as they awaken and make their way to work.

Wednesday evening, many PBS stations across the country will broadcast the first part of a new documentary that explores the impact of childhood cancer on five Ohio families. A Lion in the House takes an unflinching look at a subject that many viewers may find uncomfortable.

Capture/Release is the latest album from the British band The Rakes.

Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the new Pixar animated film Cars. He says the movie will likely continue Pixar's run of hits.

Hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan, the Academy named Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog and Denis Villeneuve's Dune as the big possible Oscar winners this year.

Our film critic reviews The Devil Wears Prada, a film adaptation of the book that stars Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.

Alan Cheuse reviews Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise, available in a new translation. The release collects several novels of a seriesthat Nemirovsky penned in France before she was arrested and sent to Auschwitz in 1942. She never returned.

Court TV and the Sundance Channel are both airing a new documentary called The Human Behavior Experiments, which takes a historical look at the psychology of unethical behavior by examining the work of social scientists in the 1960s and 1970s. Television critic Andrew Wallenstein says the documentary is particularly powerful in light of many of today's scandals.

Life magazine has called David Douglas Duncan perhaps the best war photographer since Matthew Brady. In 1999, Duncan received a lifetime achievement award for excellence and bravery from the Marine Corps. We rebroadcast an interview with Duncan from July 2, 1990.