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Newsweek national correspondent Allison Samuels talks about the week in entertainment, including the comeback of The CW's The Game and Cartoon Network's Boondocks, and she explains why actor/director Tyler Perry has a film formula Hollywood can't copy.

Artist & Activist Rhodessa Jones talks about The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. The Project has earned attention and praise for helping to lift imprisoned women's lives and voices. The actress, teacher and a playwright discusses her portrayals of women as they persevere through major life changes have won acclaim.

Watch our blog for video of President Carter, babysitter, and for a Ron Paul video festival.

Ray Romano of Everybody Loves Raymond offers bagels to striking Hollywood writers. Others find ways to show their support.

University officials say there are serious flaws in Gehry's $300 million Stata Center located on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus. Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the New Yorker, discusses accusations of leaks, drainage problems and mold.

Goran Dukic's supremely dusty, gently offbeat, beguiling little road comedy centers on a guy who decides he can't go on — then discovers that in the suicide's purgatory, going on (and on, and on) is all there is.

Ben Affleck's directing debut, Casey Affleck's second knockout performance in a month, source material by the author of Mystic River — all fine reasons for catching this child-kidnapping mystery.

Mark Jordan Legan, who writes for the online magazine Slate, offers his summary of what the critics are saying about Lars and the Real Girl, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Michael Clayton.

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.

Editors from three ethnic magazines — Latina, Essence and Audrey — discuss topics highlighted in their October and November issues. How to stay healthy, the key to true beauty and the good and bad sides of love are on their lists of hot topics.