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Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the new DVD of The Threepenny Opera. G.W. Pabst's 1931 film version of the Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill musical, with Weill's wife Lotte Lenya as Jenny, is newly out from the Criterion Collection.

Fresh Air's arbiter of things filmic offers his annual year-end movies wrap-up. This time, his Top 10 list has 11 entries, as the number-nine slot features a tie. At the top: Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

From Darth Vader to Scarlett O'Hara, the best fictional characters reflect something about who we are and how we got here. In Character, a six-month series from NPR, explores indelible American characters from fiction, folklore and pop culture.

Rehearsals are under way for a version of Shakespeare's Macbeth that will use magic tricks, fright and humor on stage. Co-directors Teller (of Penn & Teller ) and Aaron Posner talk to Robert Siegel about the production.

Three big auction houses — Christie's, Sotheby's and Philips de Pury — are selling works whose value they estimate at more than $900 million. Lindsay Pollock, a journalist specializing in the art market, considers whether the contemporary art bubble could burst.

Photographer Allan Tannenbaum was given rare access to John Lennon just 10 days before the artist was killed. He discusses his decision to wait 27 years to publish the intimate photos he shot of Lennon and Yoko Ono.

A big-screen adaptation of the blood-soaked Cormac McCarthy novel is the latest from the creators of Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and Barton Fink.

Chazz Palminteri returns to the stage with the semi-autobiographical tale of his youth titled A Bronx Tale. Palminteri was unemployed when he wrote the one-man show, which debuted in Los Angeles in 1989. Almost 20 years later he brings his show to Broadway.

Margaret Cho is wll-known for her bawdy stand-up comedy that takes no prisoners on the topics of sexuality and race. But with her new burlesque show, The Sensuous Woman, Cho takes on body image as well. Cho talks with Andrea Seabrook about baring it all onstage.

Actor/director Peter Berg's most recent project is The Kingdom, a police procedural set in Saudi Arabia. Berg talks about the film, which stars Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper.

All Things Considered film critic Bob Mondello examines Sputnik's impact on the silver screen.

The launch of Sputnik, the premieres of Leave It to Beaver and West Side Story, the integration of Little Rock Central High School, and the birth of On The Road — journalist Ken Walsh talks about an amazing year.