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Director Brian De Palma's Black Dahlia is based upon James Ellroy's fictional take on a real-life 1947 L.A. murder case. Ellroy's novel L.A. Confidential was turned into a great movie, but don't expect the same of Dahlia.

Slate Mark Jordan Legan reviews what critics are saying about the weekend's movie releases: Pulse, Step Up and Conversations with Other Women.

The newest art museum in Paris is dedicated to non-European pieces, mostly from Africa and Asia. But what might have been a monument to multiculturalism faces criticism for segregating such works into a museum of "the other."

Hollywoodland is an ambitious film that succeeds up to a point, but no further. It's a reasonable facsimile of film noir, but it's also an overly derivative piece of work that thinks it is doing and saying more than it is. And this despite a subtle and effective performance by, of all people, Ben Affleck.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan reviews what critics are saying about the weekend's major movie releases: The Night Listener, Barnyard: The Original Party Animals, and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan reviews what critics are saying about this weekend's movie releases -- Miami Vice, Little Miss Sunshine and the Woody Allen comedy Scoop.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews It's Time, a new reissue of a classic '60s jazz album from the late alto saxophonist Jackie McLean.

In her poems, Margaret Robison describes her recovery from stroke and the time she spent in a psychiatric hospital. But it's her son Augustin Burroughs' words in his memoir Running with Scissors that have defined her.

Actor James Woods is currently starring in the new CBS drama Shark, playing the ruthless super-lawyer Sebastian Stark. Woods' films include Salvador, Ghosts of Mississippi, The Onion Field, Once Upon a Time In America, Nixon and Casino. This interview originally aired on Jan. 12, 1999.

Thursday begins the five-day Indian festival Durga Puja, the largest annual celebration for Bengali Hindus. Commentator Sandip Roy contrasts celebrating the holiday as a child in Calcutta and as an adult in California.