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The BBC held its Planet Music Awards last month to honor the best of world music. The winners are now featured on a CD called Awards for World Music 2005.

McDaniel played Lt. James Fancy, Andy Sipowicz' boss, on NYPD Blue. McDaniel has been in many films, including Malcolm X and Sunshine State, and has appeared on a number of TV shows, including Stargate SG-1, All My Children and Hill Street Blues. This interview was originally broadcast on Dec. 10, 1996.

Milch co-created NYPD Blue, for which he won two Emmys. He is the creator, executive producer and head writer of the current HBO series Deadwood, a Western drama set in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Milch left a teaching job at Yale University to go to Hollywood and work on the show Hill Street Blues. This interview was originally broadcast on March 25, 2004.

Gene Wilder made his film debut as a kidnap victim in the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde. He is known for his work with Mel Brooks, in addition to the classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Wilder has written a new memoir, Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art.

Writer Mark Jordan Legan summarizes what movie critics are saying about this weekend's big film releases, including The Pacifier, The Jacket, and Be Cool.

Tim Curry's first movie was the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He turned heads as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite mad scientist. This week, Curry opens on Broadway in Spamalot, the musical version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He plays King Arthur.

Writer Mark Jordan Legan looks at what critics have to say about the weekend's crop of new movies. This edition of Slate's "Summary Judgment" covers the films House of D, Palindromes and The Amityville Horror.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Melinda and Melinda the new Woody Allen film, starring Will Ferrell.

Day to Day book reviewer David Kipen takes a look at The Polysyllabic Spree, the latest work from About a Boy author Nick Hornby.

Rock critic Ed Ward finds a forgotten chapter of American pop history: the 1940s sound of East Los Angeles. Hear original recordings of vintage Latin music collected on the new CD Pachuco Boogie, from Arhoolie Records.