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Jodie Foster as a vigilante public-radio personality; director Neil Jordan flirts with turning her character into a latter-day Travis Bickle, but doesn't take the flirtation quite far enough.

A new TV drama starting next month follows a Florida sugar-cane dynasty of Cuban-Americans. The cast of Cane went through extensive coaching to make sure their accents sounded Cuban, not Puerto Rican or Colombian — because audiences increasingly know the difference.

The King Tut exhibition has drawn millions. But some African-American scholars believe the exhibition makes King Tut look too white. The debate over King Tut's race led the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, where the show is currently on display, to sponsor a conference on the subject.

Actor, comedian, composer and musician Michael McKean is best known for co-starring in the spoofs This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind. He got his start playing Lenny in the 1970s sitcom Laverne and Shirley.

Showtime's highest rated series, Weeds, features actress Mary-Louise Parker as a marijuana dealer in a California suburb, who gets her supply of pot from an offbeat black family living on the other side of the tracks. The actress Indigo and executive producer Roberto Benabib talk about the show's evolution.

Fresh Air's film critic doesn't much like the new film, based on the best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Laura Linney and Scarlet Johanssen.

Paul Poiret, the self-described "King of Fashion," is largely credited for freeing women from corsets and introducing them to pantaloons. A major retrospective of the French designer's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates his eclectic designs.

Filmmaker Greg Whiteley's new documentary, Resolved, enters the world of high-school debate teams. Whiteley and one of the debaters featured in the documentary, Louis Blackwell, discuss the film.

Complex is among a new, urbanized brand of men's magazines. Editor-in-Chief Noah Callahan-Bever talks about the hip hop-influenced glossy and an upcoming issue guest edited by Kanye West.

Steve Buscemi pays homage to Theo van Gogh, remaking his Dutch-language drama about a journalist and the sex-kitten starlet (Sienna Miller) he's assigned to interview. Drugs, booze and surprise revelations ensue.