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HBO ran over the competition at last night's Emmy Awards, taking 16 awards. The cable channel's Angels in America, a mini-series about the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, took seven honors. The Sopranos won for best drama. Sarah Jessica Parker and Kelsey Grammer took top comedy acting honors.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale by Gillian Gill.

Those old sayings we love to quote often lose precision -- and attribution -- as they enter into common use. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and Jesse Sheidlower, editor of the North American Editorial Unit of the Oxford English Dictionary.

World chess champion Gary Kasparov is writing a six-volume series on fellow masters of the game. He's also a columnist with The Wall Street Journal. He speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about Bobby Fischer and other greats of the game.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with critic Elvis Mitchell at the Toronto Film Festival about the new movie Sideways.

NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on the makers of one of the finest DVD collections in the country. Criterion has a reputation for elaborate appreciations of exemplary films.

American music legend Ray Charles died Thursday of complications from liver disease. He was 73. Blind since age 7, the man known as "The Genius" built a career that defied genre, lending his soulful, bluesy stylings to jazz, pop, country and R&B. Ashley Kahn has a remembrance.

Stop-motion animation master Ray Harryhausen, the man responsible for such cinematic gems as the skeleton fight in Jason and the Argonauts and the big ape in Mighty Joe Young, has a new book, Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life (Billboard Books, ISBN 0823084027). NPR's David Kestenbaum speaks with the special effects whiz.

We continue our tribute to the legendary Ray Charles with a re-broadcast of the second part of a September 2002 conversation with the "Genius of Soul," who passed away last week at the age of 73.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell about two new compilations that have just been released on DVD: the TV series In Living Color and the comedy sketch series SCTV.