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She's been acting for nearly 40 years; now she's taking a stab at directing, producing and writing. And she's doing all that — as well as acting — in one film: Then She Found Me. She tells NPR why.

The creator of the television series The Twilight Zone often battled with the networks over the content of his scripts. Noon on Doomsday inspired by Emmett Till's story, was considered too hot for TV in the 50's. It was peformed for the first time Saturday night.

The curators of the Whitney Biennial have helped set up a temporary radio station two doors down from the Whitney Museum's building in New York City. Neighborhood Public Radio producers and hosts see their station as a way to give everyday people access to the airwaves.

Sleepwalking through his days, a widowed New York economics professor finds an unlikely friendship — and a way back toward happiness — with an immigrant who teaches him how to play the djembe drum.

Patricia Clarkson didn't start getting substantial parts in films until about a decade ago, and now she has more work than she's ever had. Scott Simon talks to Clarkson about her latest movie, Married Life. She says playing a "sexual, sensual" character is a rare opportunity for a woman in her 40s.

With the Oscars days away, Melissa Block chats with writer Bruce Vilanch, who has been on the Academy Awards staff for 20 years. The host, Jon Stewart, has his own writers from Comedy Central furiously working on his material. But other writers are coming up with copy for the presenters — and will be rewriting as the show goes along.

The combined airline would offer 1,000 daily flights to more than 145 destinations in 19 countries and directly add 10,000 jobs by 2026. But consumer advocates have their doubts.

Commentator David Kuo reviews the second in the series of Christ the Lord books written by Anne Rice. In The Road to Cana, Rice revels in the artistic and spiritual challenge of contextualizing a fully human Jesus. In narrative pacing and character development, Rice's Jesus is a reading revelation.

Writer-director Roland Emmerich, who is responsible for Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, has taken audiences to a lot of strange places. Not one of them was as strange as his 10,000 B.C.

Several zoos across the country now sell paintings done by animals. The Houston Zoo, for example, offers a $500 experience, in which you can sit and watch an orangutan make a painting just for you. Gigi Allianic, spokeswoman for Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, talks about animal art.