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  • Kitchen Stories, a new film opening in New York and Los Angeles, is based on a 50-year Swedish study on efficiency in the kitchen. The dry subject matter is atypical for a comedy, but the film's serious spin on silly details is receiving rave reviews. Beth Accomando reports.
  • The Trilogy, the latest project from French actor-director Lucas Belvaux, consists of three films with distinct plots populated by the same cast of characters. The project has already won France's top critics prize. Each film -- a crime drama, a romantic farce and a forlorn love story -- will open sequentially in U.S. theaters over the course of three weeks. Pat Dowell reports.
  • A display of Tibetan art at Southern California's Bowers Museum is creating a political furor. Critics say the exhibit gives the false impression that Tibetan culture is flourishing under Chinese rule. Rob Schmitz of member station KPCC has the story.
  • NPR's Robert Siegel talks with members of the classical vocal group Trio Medieval, and they perform selections from their latest CD in NPR's Studio 4A. The group specializes in authentic Gregorian chants with a modern twist.
  • Boston art collector David Genser donated a print by artist James Rosenquist to Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum. Amid a budget crisis, the university has announced it will close the museum and sell off its collection. Other donors and art enthusiasts are not happy about this decision. Genser shares his views.
  • David Potter's gripping, enigmatic writing for TV made him one of British culture's defining figures from the 1960s through the 1980s. Critic-at-large John Powers reviews the new DVD collection Dennis Potter: 3 to Remember.
  • Our humorist Brian Unger attended the awards ceremony, and despite some questionable behavior, he managed to avoid getting throw out.
  • Some say the art market is even riskier for potential investors than the stock market. A panel of experts takes on the topic in the latest Intelligence Squared U.S. debate.
  • Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer are writers and producers for Big Love, the HBO series that follows the complicated family dynamics of a man and his three wives.
  • Joan Rivers' plastic-surgery adventures are as well-known as her penchant for joking about them. And her new book, Men Are Stupid... And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery, doesn't hold back any details.
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