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Tucked back in the woods of East Hampton, Long Island is a house that some believe may prolong life. It's modeled on residences in Japan called "reversible destiny lofts." These places have bold colors, concave floors, doors too short to walk through and columns to hold on to when you lose your balance.

Gangster movies tend to do well at the box office -- from James Cagney in The Public Enemy to Denzel Washington in American Gangster. Guests and callers weigh in on what is it about gangster allure that movie watchers find so enjoyable.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the new DVD of The Threepenny Opera. G.W. Pabst's 1931 film version of the Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill musical, with Weill's wife Lotte Lenya as Jenny, is newly out from the Criterion Collection.

Don Imus is coming back to radio next month — and maybe to television. One report says his show might be simulcast on RFD-TV, a channel for farmers, ranchers and rural America.

Fresh Air's arbiter of things filmic offers his annual year-end movies wrap-up. This time, his Top 10 list has 11 entries, as the number-nine slot features a tie. At the top: Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

The career of Quebec-born hockey legend Maurice "The Rocket" Richard — first NHL player to score 50 goals in 50 games — gets a handsome if conventional look in this biopic; Roy Dupuis stars.

A study finds that in 2002, only 52 percent of America's young adults read a book voluntarily.

Possibly the world's coolest gathering of artists, patrons and hangers-on, Miami's annual Art Basel happens this week. Lindsay Pollock of Bloomberg News sets the scene.

Director Jake Kasdan woke up one night knowing suddenly that his next film would be a fake music biopic called Walk Hard. He cast John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox, the putative legend who has trouble with women and drugs — and who tries on a multitude of musical personalities.

The Sotheby's auctioneer had estimated that the statuette could fetch $1.2 million. A 1940 copy of Orson Welles's 156-page 'Citizen Kane'' script, replete with blue markings, fetched $97,000. We talk to director Peter Bogdanovich, a close friend of Welles.