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Cable TV channel VH1's Flavor of Love girls are headed for Charm School, a new spin-off reality show that tries to teach manners to an unlikely group of young women. Mikki Taylor, Charm School's dean of students, talks about the show.

Jonathan Kasdan's debut feature brings a refreshing human touch to what could be clichéd material about looking for love and finding a way through life. Maybe that gift runs in the family: His dad wrote and directed The Big Chill.

A new comedy program — The Big Gay Sketch Show — debuts Tuesday night on the gay-themed cable network Logo. The show adds a gay subtext to TV classics such The Honeymooners and The Facts of Life.

A short-lived program in the early 2000s allowed married couples to consolidate their student loans for a lower interest rate. Now, with no legal way to separate the loans, some want changes.

In her new movie, Take, Minnie Driver confronts the man who destroyed her life. Minnie Driver and director Charles Oliver talk about the movie's examination of rage, redemption and forgiveness when crime victims face their attackers.

Jindabyne is a movie in which friends on a fishing trip find a body, but choose not to report it. It's an Australian film based on a short story by Raymond Carver.

French filmmaker Alain Resnais is best known for his nonlinear art films — but 20 years ago he began adapting plays; his latest picture, Private Fears in Public Places, is based on a 2004 dark comedy by the British writer Alan Ayckbourn.

Hisham Nitar's semi-autobiographical debut novel In the Country of Men was short-listed for the 2006 Mann Booker Prize. Matar was born in New York City in 1970 to Libyan parents and spent his childhood in Tripoli, Libya, and later in Cairo, Egypt. He has lived in Great Britain since 1986. Matar's father, a critic of the Libyan regime, was arrested in 1990. Matar has been unable to find out what happened to him.

A new major exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles called "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" includes works from 117 artists from 21 countries. The show explores the years between 1965 and 1980.

The Queen is nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. The director is Stephen Frears, who previously gave us My Beautiful Laundrette, High Fidelity and Dirty, Pretty Things, among other films. (This interview was first broadcast Oct. 16, 2006.)

Terry Gilliam's Tideland was panned by film critics and audiences alike when it was released in 2005. But he hopes the disturbing tale of a girl, whose parents are drug addicts, finds an audience on DVD.

A curiosity museum in Baltimore has closed its doors and auctioned off its quirky holdings. The American Dime Museum was a throwback to an earlier age of entertainment, when displays of oddities like Amazonian mummies and two-headed ducks held audiences spellbound.

Filmmaker Mira Nair has just adapted Jhumpa Lahiri's 2003 novel The Namesake to the big screen. Her previous films include Vanity Fair, Monsoon Wedding and Mississippi Masala.

Based loosely on the career of Diana Ross and the Supremes, Dreamgirls is alive with the sound of music. It's a love song two times over, a tribute to both a vibrant period of American popular music and the big-budget Hollywood musical.

Clint Eastwood continues to astonish. His latest film, Letters from Iwo Jima parallels his recent Flags of Our Fathers, but it takes audiences to a place that would seem unimaginable for an American director.

Health disparities between African-Americans and Caucasians are nothing new. An art exhibit in Winston-Salem, N.C., lets patients demonstrate the disparities themselves through photos and writing. Rose Hoban of member station WUNC reports.

Cat Stevens left the recording industry in 1978, after converting to Islam and changing his name to Yusuf Islam. Since then, he's occasionally found himself in the middle of controversies involving the Muslim world and the West. The former star has a new CD, An Other Cup.

Who knows what violence lurks in the hearts of men? Mel Gibson knows. And like he did in The Passion of the Christ, Gibson just can't resist putting every last ounce of it on screen in Apocalypto.

Stan Lee reflects on a lifetime of creating comics, including some imperfect superheroes. Spiderman, one of Lee's best known characters, was human first and super second. Lee tells Renee Montagne how he brought realism to a fantasy world.

Film producer Christine Vachon's new book is A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond. She has produced more than 30 feature films, including Infamous, Far From Heaven, One Hour Photo and Boys Don't Cry. This book is a follow-up to Vachon's best-selling first book, Shooting to Kill.

It comes amid rising cases of harassment among elected leaders, including one in which a group used foul language and coughed in the face of a Broward County school board member.

Films from Mexico have been finding viewers in the United States and around the world. This year, directors of three films with Oscar buzz are Mexican: Children of Men, Pan's Labrynth and Babel.

TV critic David Bianculli previews three shows with season openers this Sunday: Extras and Rome on HBO, and the popular Fox TV series 24.

Despite the firestorm of hype over the new FX drama Dirt, the show could use some spiffing up. The show, which stars Courteney Cox Arquette and is executive-produced by her husband, David Arquette, demonstrates how the sum of many great parts can still add up to a not-so-great TV show.

A new instance of cultural cross-pollination between Japan and America debuts Thursday night: Afro Samurai. The animated series, which will air on Spike TV, stars Samuel L. Jackson and features music by the RZA.