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British actor Tom Wilkinson is starring in two new films: Separate Lies, opposite Emily Watson, and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Many American viewers first met Wilkinson in the popular British film The Full Monty; he was nominated for an Oscar for In the Bedroom.

North Country, starring Charlize Theron, is about the sexual harassment class action lawsuit that the women of EVTAC mines in Minnesota filed in the 1980s. Critic Turan says the taint of melodrama affects the entire movie, despite a good performance by Theron.

The latest blockbuster animated film from the Pixar hothouse was a huge hit in theaters. But NPR's Art Silverman, not a huge fan of animated films in general, sums up the plot in one sentence and says only the behind-the-scenes vignettes on the DVD set's bonus disk makes the home version worthwhile.

The Edward Albee play featuring one of American drama's most notorious married couples returns to Broadway. Bill Irwin plays George, and Kathleen Turner plays Martha in the new production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

As the British royal wedding approaches, Elaine Fantham, professor emerita of classics at Princeton University, recalls history's first famous Camilla. She was a warrior leader who became an attendant to the goddess Diana in Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan offers a round-up of what movie critics are saying about this weekend's major film releases -- Miss Congeniality 2, Guess Who and D.E.B.S.

Robinson's first novel, Housekeeping, won a PEN/Hemingway Award. Now, 23 years later, her second novel, Gilead, has won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book is written as a letter from a 76-year-old Congregationalist preacher to his 7-year-old son. This interview originally aired Feb. 8, 2005.

A British artist named Banksy has been able to sneak his work into some of New York's top museums over the past month. He tells Michele Norris what he does and why.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Old Boy, a South Korean film that won the Grand Jury Prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival.

Actress, activist and exercise guru Jane Fonda discusses the three things she's most famous for: her films, her husbands and her politics. Her new autobiography, My Life So Far, has just been published.