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Megan Holley was working with crack-addicted rats when she heard a piece on NPR about women who cleaned up crime scenes. So she wrote a movie script that became the new release Sunshine Cleaning. Holley talks about her strange journey.

In 2006, Grammy-winning rock singer Rick Springfield returned to the ABC soap opera General Hospital, reprising the role of Dr. Noah Drake, which he played in the early 1980s. Madeleine Brand talked with Springfield, co-star Jacklyn Zeman and others about Springfield's return.

Tony Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson died this week at the age of 45 after an accident at a Canadian ski resort. Another actress died this week — a woman whose career was also cut short.

IBM has unveiled a computer that will match its wits against human contestants on the TV quiz show Jeopardy. David Ferrucci, an artificial intelligence researcher for IBM and project director of "Watson," the system that will compete on the popular game show, says "Watson" is "pretty close" to being competitive with Jeopardy's grand champions.

Actor Oliver Platt takes the stage in the latest revival of the legendary musical Guys and Dolls. Platt tells NPR that modern audiences can still relate to his classic character: Good Old Reliable Nathan Detroit.

The Hollywood Reporter says that a remake of the Three Stooges is on the way. The surprising thing is the casting: The stooges will be played by Jim Carrey, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro.

Filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck talk about Sugar, their new drama about a Dominican baseball player who follows his major-league dreams to the United States.

The 2009 Pritzker Prize for architecture — one of the highest honors in the field — has been awarded to 65-year-old Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

Television season finales get dangerous this year: Seven characters from major shows will bite the dust, four will get married, and two will be institutionalized — plus, we'll have a new "Idol," and Tyra will tell us who America's next top model is. What makes a good season finale? TV critics weigh in.

The DVB is an organization of Burmese underground videographers and reporters who try to document repression in their country, and smuggle it out of the country to put the news of their homeland before the world. Some of what they shot in 2007 is the subject of a new documentary.