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  • Actor Benicio Del Toro has wanted to play the role of Che Guevara for years. Now, he has his chance in a sprawling biopic by Steven Soderbergh. He discusses the role and what it was like performing, for the first time, in Spanish.
  • Art Basel Miami is sister of the large annual show in Switzerland. The Miami show has been growing in both size and prominence as an international market for art, but will be put to the test in this year's economic slide.
  • The seventh season of 24 premieres this Sunday. Critic David Bianculli assesses the four-hour, two-night return of counterterrorist Jack Bauer — who's got some new allies, and some new enemies.
  • Starting in fall 2009, NBC is going to program its 10-11 p.m. hour with Jay Leno five nights a week. NBC wanted to keep Leno though it is committed to giving the 11:30 p.m. slot to Conan O'Brien in 2009, and it is cheaper to produce five hours of Leno than scripted dramas.
  • Actor and comedian Anthony Anderson has played characters on both sides of the law. He's gone from a ruthless gangbanger on The Shield to a traumatized cop on K-Ville. Now he stars as a detective on Law & Order.
  • Octavia Butler's 1979 novel Kindred is being made into a TV series. So we asked authors and critics what other not-yet-filmed books by Black authors they'd most like to see adapted for screen.
  • Stephen Colbert, the host of Comedy Central's Colbert Report, got his start as a correspondent on The Daily Show. He discusses the his recent holiday special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
  • More black faces are showing up in fashion magazines these days, and some are calling it the "Michelle Obama Effect." For the latest entertainment news, NPR's Tony Cox speaks with Allison Samuels, national correspondent for Newsweek magazine.
  • They look just like telephone booths, but they are decorated with hands folded in prayer, and there's a place to kneel. The prayer booths are an art installation designed to spark dialogue on prayer in the public sphere. There are prayer booths in Jackson, Tennessee, in Ceder Rapids Iowa — and now on a bustling Manhattan street in New York City.
  • Rainn Wilson plays beet-farming, archery-loving middle-management kook Dwight Shrute on NBC's The Office.
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