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A 1950s novella gets its fourth big-screen adaptation this winter. Neda Ulaby talks to the story's fans and the film's creators to find out why the apocalypse just keeps on coming.

The Broadway stagehands strike is over. Meanwhile, the Hollywood writers strike continues, and strike by news writers looms.

The star of the new comedy Juno is an indie phenom, and the characters she plays can be strikingly different. To the Canadian-born, Buddhist-schooled actress, the difference is that they're simply real.

You know too well where Hollywood would take a story about a stutterer who joins the debate team to get a girl. But writer-director Jeffrey Blitz is a Hollywood outsider, and he's going someplace else — into quirky, indie-flick social satire.

Sweetly smutty Superbad is all about raunch; Brit-farce Death at a Funeral is all about stiff-upper-lip reserve. Both push the envelope, and even the English one has little to do with propriety.

Many of the 350,000 Latina girls turning 15 this year will celebrate with a bash called the "quinceanera." It's a rite of passage, and a growing industry in the U.S. Julia Alvarez, author of Once Upon a Quinceanera, shares aspects of the ceremonies with Renee Montagne.

For a prolific singer-songwriter like Ryan Adams, this has been a relatively quiet year. The four-time Grammy nominee's new CD, Easy Tiger, is his first release of 2007.

A proposed Senate bill would extend copyright protection to fashion designs. However, a fashion consultant says he thinks the law is unncessary and would be difficult to enforce.

Two kids' TV shows shine the lights of Broadway into the eyes of tiny tots. Both Johnny and the Sprites and Wonder Pets feature jaunty songs and wholesome stories written by some of Broadway's top talent.

Director Frank Oz started his career as the voice of Miss Piggy, the Cookie Monster and other Muppets. As a director, he had made star-powered movies such as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. His latest film, Death at a Funeral, is a dark comedy with a cast not well known outside the U.K.