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Film critic David Edelstein reviews Infamous, a new film about Truman Capote based on the book by George Plimpton. Toby Jones and Sigourney Weaver star in the film, which covers the same ground as last year's Oscar-winning film Capote.

The last time director Ridley Scott and star Russell Crowe got together, the Oscar-winning action epic Gladiator was the result. This time it's a romantic comedy, and the results are not nearly so successful.

Set after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Steven Spielberg's film, Munich, follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected of having planned the attack. Critic Kenneth Turan says Spielberg's film is about the "murkiest, most divisive of real world issues."

Sunday night, Carol Burnett returns to the national television in a version of Once Upon a Mattress. She plays Queen Aggravian. The role comes some 40 years after Burnett launched her career with her Tony-winning portrayal of Princess in the Broadway version of Mattress.

Literary historian Paul Collins found an odd ad in a rare first edition of Moby Dick author Herman Melville's 1849 novel Redburn. The ad was for another novel -- The Whale and His Captors -- by Rev. Henry Cheever. Collins and Scott Simon discuss the once-common practice of "improving upon" another author's work.

Television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews VH1's So Jewtastic, a new documentary about the hipness of Judaism in popular culture.

Actor, musician and vocalist Jamie Foxx discusses his activism in the Stanley Tookie Williams case, and his new album Unpredictable.

Love stories come and go, but few have the durablity of Tristan & Isolde. People have been fascinated by this Dark Ages tale of star-crossed passion and devotion that would not die. Director Kevin Reynolds has turned out a satisfactory version of this story of manly men and fervent women.

Relationship contracts might not sound romantic, but all relationships are contractual. Writer Mandy Len Catron says this is a tool for couples to express their needs and work together.

French musician Benjamin Biolay has been a hit-maker in his home country for years, praised for his songs and his innovative collaborations with other performers. But he's not well known in the United States. Music critic Chris Douridas of member station KCRW talks about Biolay's work with Madeleine Brand.