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Elizabeth Gibson found a painting sitting between trash bags, waiting for the garbage truck in front of a Manhattan apartment. Turns out, it's an art piece stolen 20 years ago — that's now worth $1 million. Gibson talks about her find.

Jerry Seinfeld last sat down with Fresh Air in September 1987, before his TV series made him an international celebrity. Now he's back, and in a big way: Bee Movie, the animated comedy he's written and produced for DreamWorks, opens this Friday. He talks to Fresh Air guest host Dave Davies about the project.

Gone Baby Gone, a new film based on the Dennis Lehane novel, stars actor Casey Affleck as a blue-collar private investigator drawn into a child-abduction case. The film is directed by Affleck's movie-star brother, Ben Affleck.

Novelist Geraldine Brooks, poet Robert Hass, Western essayist William Kittredge: from critic Alan Cheuse, an array of books to keep winter's chill and the ever-earlier dark at bay — at least in the circle of light by the reader's chair.

Keva Rosenfeld attends the National Championship of Public Speaking, where he meets an array of contestants who share his fear of performing in front of an audience.

A drug deal gone bad, a traffic stop gone wrong, carnage so far gone it's off the charts — Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel has been turned into the sharpest Coen Bros. film in years. (Recommended)

Farai Chideya dishes the latest show business gossip with Newsweek national correspondent Allison Samuels. They talk about TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman's racist rant, Halle Berry's latest box office flop, and behind-the-scenes drama of American Gangster.

Prolific diarist Robert Shields died on Oct. 15 at his home in Dayton, Wash., at 89. His journal is estimated to contain more than 37 million words.

Sidney Lumet's latest film tracks a pair of brothers as a supposedly foolproof (but definitely illegal) moneymaking scheme comes fatally apart. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Rosemary Harris, Albert Finney and Marisa Tomei star.

There's a new drama on the fall TV schedule about a casino in which the characters break into song. After the 1990 musical series Cop Rock became the most notorious flop in TV history, CBS won't dare call "Viva Laughlin" a musical.