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Television critic David Bianculli reviews the final episode of NYPD Blue and previews Deadwood the HBO Western which begins a second season this weekend. Both shows were created by David Milch.

A six-hour Italian epic with subtitles may not sound like everyone's cup of cafe. But critic Bob Mondello says The Best of Youth's sprawling story of two brothers, and the different paths their lives take over the years, is among the most affecting films you'll see this year.

A collection of staged murder scene photos once used in the TV series Law and Order, are being featured in an exhibition at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. Brenda Tremblay of WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., reports.

In the first of an occasional series highlighting a particular poet and a special poem, Nikki Giovanni performs A Poem for Langston Hughes, and explains how she came to write it.

Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews the new HBO film Lackawanna Blues, an adaptation of a popular one-person off-Broadway play.

Actress Carol Channing is back on the road in The First 80 Years Are The Hardest. The octogenarian is touring in a one-woman show.

Downfall, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, is among the Oscar nominees for best foreign film. The German-made effort details the last days of Adolf Hitler, played by Bruno Ganz. Hirschbiegel and Ganz talk about the film in a wide-ranging interview.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that the state of West Virginia has abandoned plans to erect a monument honoring women veterans, because of objections from some female vets that the proposed statue looked too "masculine." Ludden speaks with one of the female vets, former Marine Dottie Alderman, and sculptor P. Joseph Mullins.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan says Lost Embrace, an Argentinean film that is just now debuting in the States, is a charming and original story about ordinary life set in a Jewish neighborhood in Buenos Aires.

In Hollywood's infancy, African-Americans had few roles -- or jobs -- to choose from. The Oscars were out of reach for talents such as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Paul Robeson or Lena Horne. We look behind the scenes in Black Hollywood.