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The younger of the filmmaking Coen brothers is the author of two recently published books. Almost An Evening consists of three short plays that were staged off-Broadway last year, while The Drunken Driver Has The Right Of Way is a slim volume of clever, light verse.

Up until last year Amy Poehler was a member of the cast on Saturday Night Live, famous for her impersonation of Hillary Clinton. She now stars in the NBC sitcom, Parks and Recreation.

The new NBC series Kings is a modern-day retelling of the biblical King David story, but it also offers pointed parallels to more recent events.

A family spokesman said the tall, deep-voiced star of TV's Maude and The Golden Girls died at home early Saturday. He said Arthur had cancer, but he declined to give further details.

Broadway producer Rocco Landesman has been nominated to head the National Endowment for the Arts. Landesman's Jujamcyn company owns five Broadway theaters and his production credits include Angels in America and The Producers.

What do reviewers say about three new films? Out this week: Race to Witch Mountain, a remake of the 1970s children's film; the indie comedy Sunshine Cleaning; and the horror flick Last House on the Left.

The DVB is an organization of Burmese underground videographers and reporters who try to document repression in their country, and smuggle it out of the country to put the news of their homeland before the world. Some of what they shot in 2007 is the subject of a new documentary.

Television season finales get dangerous this year: Seven characters from major shows will bite the dust, four will get married, and two will be institutionalized — plus, we'll have a new "Idol," and Tyra will tell us who America's next top model is. What makes a good season finale? TV critics weigh in.

Filmmaker Pete Docter's new movie is Pixar Studio's animated film Up. Docter discusses how his team of writers and animators struck a balance between the very adult themes in the film and the colorful and buoyant adventure story for kids.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with humor writer Joe Queenan about "Closing Time," Queenan's memoir of growing up in a Philadelphia housing project with an abusive father and indifferent mother.