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The scuzzballs — usually front and center in David Mamet movies — play supporting roles to the principled guy at the core of this quasi-inspirational martial-arts drama. Inspiration? From Mamet? Well, sorta.

Saturday Night Live's DNA is all over this surrogate-pregnancy comedy, in which a sophisticated single businesswoman recruits a South Philly dim-bulb to bear the child she can't carry herself.

Fans of the TV show Project Runway know of the intense competition as aspiring designers try to compete for a shot at making it in the fashion world. But seniors at the Savannah College of Art and Design have more than a reality television show title at stake — their collections have to be finished before they graduate.

An FBI investigation recently resulted in indictments in a scheme to allegedly sell $5 million worth of fake art prints via eBay. The prints were sophisticated fakes of works by Picasso, Warhol, Chagall and other artists. A member of the FBI's art crime team and a victimized art dealer talk about the growing trend of art fraud online.

Last year, actor Casey Affleck starred in two major Hollywood films: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Gone Baby Gone. Affleck discusses his most recent films, his famous older brother, and his early entrance to the world of acting.

This week the health minister of India called on the Bollywood film industry to quit showing stars drinking on screen.

Art writer Lindsay Pollock says giant sales at this week's New York art auctions suggest this is an art market climbing ever higher in price, regardless of that worldwide credit crunch.

A few years ago, director Jake Kasdan awoke in the night with an idea: His next film would be a fake music biopic. The result was Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, about a musician with an identity crisis. Kasdan and star John C. Reilly join Fresh Air to talk about working on the film, now out on DVD.

Fresh Air film critic David Edelstein reviews Iron Man, based on the Marvel comics hero. The film, directed by Jon Favreau, stars Robert Downey Jr. as a billionaire weapons inventor, alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and Terrence Howard.

A bored accountant finds excitement when an acquaintance's cell phone offers entree to an exclusive sex club. A promisingly mysterious beginning gives way to an increasingly preposterous plot.