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This star-studded, big-budget, musicalized Hollywood take on Hairspray retains the original's funky sweetness, ramps up the subversive social-consciousness stuff — and it pretty much dares you not to love it.

Fresh Air's critic says the fifth Harry Potter film trades the last glimmers of childish wonder for a brooding, paranoid darkness, a grainy palette and a series of horrific montages — and it's the best Potter film yet.

Fresh Air's TV critic looks at three lavish DVD box sets: David Lynch's deliciously eccentric Twin Peaks, the legendary '90s comedy Seinfeld, and the cult-classic teen drama My So-Called Life.

More than two dozen shows on Broadway went dark Saturday, as stagehands — who have been engaged in a bitter contract dispute with producers — went on strike. No new negotiations have been scheduled.

Ben Karlin, former executive producer of both The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is also an alumnus of the satirical newsweekly The Onion. He left the Comedy Central shows in December 2006 to focus on his family. This interview originally aired on April 4, 2006.

As host of the NPR news quiz Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, Peter Sagal spends a lot of time reading the newspaper. Lately, he's also spent many an hour going to strip joints, a swingers club, a porn-movie set and casinos. All research, of course, for his new project, The Book of Vice.

Larry Wilmore, The Daily Show's "Senior Black Correspondent," is a writer, television producer, and stand-up comic. He worked on In Living Color and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and was a consulting producer on NBC's The Office. This interview originally aired June 5, 2007.

Alice Sebold has produced difficult books before: The Lovely Bones centers on a 14-year-old looking down from heaven after her own rape and murder. Her latest, The Almost Moon, features a middle-aged woman who murders her ailing elderly mother.

Tucked back in the woods of East Hampton, Long Island is a house that some believe may prolong life. It's modeled on residences in Japan called "reversible destiny lofts." These places have bold colors, concave floors, doors too short to walk through and columns to hold on to when you lose your balance.

My Kid Could Paint That follows the painting and controversy over four-year-old Marla Olmstead's abstract works. Some critics believe her parents encouraged, if not altered, her work.