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Perhaps only Hans Zimmer could compose a sweepingly atmospheric score befitting the much anticipated Da Vinci Code movie. The Academy Award-winner has composed some of Hollywood's best-known films including Gladiator and The Thin Red Line.

British actress Helen Mirren, perhaps best known for her long-running role as Det. Supt. Jane Tennison on TV's Prime Suspect, has had two quite closely related roles recently. She plays Elizabeth I in a new HBO four-part miniseries premiering April 22; then she appears as Elizabeth II in The Queen, a film from Stephen Frears.

Water is the third film in a trilogy from Indian director Deepa Mehta. It tells the story of a 7-year-old girl sent to live in a widows' ashram. Like Earth and Fire before it, this film is likely to stir debate among Indian traditionalists.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews United 93, the dramatized version of events on the plane that crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after being hijacked Sept. 11. Learning that other planes had been flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, passengers fought back for control of the plane.

Mike Binder has directed nine feature films. In Reign Over Me, he gives a serious — an extremely serious — part to the comic Adam Sandler, who plays a man whose life is destroyed by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Comedian and actor Andy Richter's new sitcom is Andy Barker, P.I. Richter plays an accountant who is mistaken for the detective who formerly occupied the office he is renting. He reluctantly takes on the role of private investigator and discovers he likes it.

Brothers Rob and Nate Corddry are both former correspondents on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Now Rob has a new Fox sitcom, The Winner, which airs on Sunday nights.

Female rock legends Ronnie Spector and Patti Smith are among this year's inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. From the NPR archives come past interviews with both musicians.

Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact has been made into Shooter, a film starring Mark Wahlberg. Hunter talks about what it's like to endure reviews.

A swanky art gallery opened this year in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington D.C. Some residents were shocked to see a gallery in a neighborhood that's better known for homicides than cheese cubes and champagne. Is an art gallery really what Anacostia needs?