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Watch some of the year's greatest Tiny Desk performances, featuring a small sample of the talented artists who delivered intimate sets from their homes around the world.

Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner co-wrote the screenplay for the new Stephen Spielberg film Munich. Kushner won a Pulitzer for his 1993-1994 play Angels in America, which was performed in two parts and set in New York in the mid-1980s in the midst of the AIDS epidemic.

Record executive Simon Cowell is a judge on the talent show American Idol, which begins a new season this month. The hour-long show is a spin-off of one Cowell helped create in Britain, Pop Idol.

A new film production of the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House will make its debut on PBS Sunday night. Gillian Anderson, of X-Files fame, plays Lady Honoria Dedlock. She tells Scott Simon about her role.

Chocolate and weddings dominate this week's movie releases -- Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan reviews what film critics are saying about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wedding Crashers and Happy Ending.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson examines a new series of ads from the gin maker Tanqueray that are generating a lot of buzz. The campaign hopes to appeal to a younger demographic by introducing a foppish, engagingly odd fellow in tailored suits named Tony Sinclair, with the catch phrase "Ready to Tanqueray?"

Nelson George, a prolific writer and critic of black America, has made a documentary based on his best-selling book Post-Soul Nation. The new film, Smart Black People, profiles African-American personalities who left their stamp on America in the 1980s.

Steven Spielberg directs Tom Cruise in an adaptation of the 1898 H.G. Wells novel War of the Worlds. The movie has all the qualities of a summer thrill-ride, with a rush of surprises and special effects.

The Dukes of Hazzard is a film so meaningless that it is almost impossible to review, according to critic Kenneth Turan. He says the movie is, "not empty calories, which implies pleasure, but simply empty. It's a cosmic void where a movie ought to be."

Our Day to Day television critic reviews Kathy Hilton's new reality show, I Want to Be a Hilton, which premieres tomorrow on NBC. On the show, the hotel heiress teaches a motley group how to act like blue-blood members of the jet set.