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In 1960, Bob Newhart stood before one of the first live nightclub audiences he'd ever faced. That performance resulted in the beloved comedy album, "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart," which the Library of Congress selected for its National Recording Registry.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York is trying to decide whether to adopt an outer coat of off-gray, or one of very pale yellow. The debate over the color differences is subtle, but the debate over the two colors is very robust.

Stephen Colbert's late-night comedy news show, The Colbert Report, tackles prominent issues with a decidedly irreverent spin. This interview originally aired Oct. 9, 2007.

With perhaps only months to live, professor Randy Pausch, 46, gave one last lecture — on fulfilling your childhood dreams. The video has become an online hit.

Gavin Hood's film turns on "extraordinary rendition" — the practice of handing terrorism suspects over to governments not bound by pesky restraints like, say, the Bill of Rights. It's a tale of torture and twisty morality — all of which sounds more intriguing than the movie is.

Golden State Mutual, a black-owned insurance company, auctioned off their entire collection earlier this month. Some pieces sold for three times their appraised value. Why is some African-American fine art increasing in worth? Nigel Freeman of Swann Galleries and Bill Hodges of Bill Hodges Galleries explain.

Anton Corbijn's music biopic investigates why the young lead singer of a British post-punk rock band hanged himself — just as fame was finally coming his way. Ecstatically reviewed in Britain, the film loyally duplicates the band's throbbing, anarchic sound.

Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa is creator of The 99, an Islamic-themed superhero comic about 99 teenagers. Each of the youngsters has their own blessed stone providing him or her with a super-power. Al-Mutawa talks about the comics, based on one of the 99 traits of Allah.

Artist Chuck Close is the subject of a new book and a portrait in dance. He has been called "the most methodical artist that has ever lived in America" and the "reigning portraitist of the Information Age."

In today's Unger Report, humorist Brian Unger concludes that the entertainment business, long derided for poisoning society, can no longer compete with reality's prescription-strength toxins. Is Washington, D.C. beating Hollywood at its own game?