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You Bet Your Life was a quiz show that was more about the host than the quiz. First on radio and then on TV, Groucho Marx was the ringleader and chief quipster for an on-air circus of celebrity guests and ordinary folks. See clips from the best episodes, plus a "stag reel" of material left in the editing room.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with critic Elvis Mitchell at the Toronto Film Festival about the new movie Sideways.

Photographer Eddie Adams dies at age 71. The Pulitzer-winning Adams, who took the photograph of an execution on the streets of Vietnam that became an indelible image of the war, had ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and Parade magazine chairman Walter Anderson, a longtime friend of Adams.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews the movie The Stepford Wives, which opens Friday. The film, starring Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick, is a dark comedy re-make of a 1970s horror film.

American music legend Ray Charles died Thursday of complications from liver disease. He was 73. Blind since age 7, the man known as "The Genius" built a career that defied genre, lending his soulful, bluesy stylings to jazz, pop, country and R&B. Ashley Kahn has a remembrance.

Singer Ray Charles has passed away. The 12-time Grammy-winning artist produced many soulful classics, including "I Got a Woman," "Unchain My Heart," "Georgia on My Mind" and "Ruby." Charles was was born in Albany, Ga. He was 73.

Slate contributor Ben Williams reports on what film critics are saying about this weekend's major new movie releases: The Chronicles of Riddick, Garfield: The Movie and The Stepford Wives.

The Onion writer Nathan Rabin reviews a new DVD box set of the Canadian comedy show SCTV -- a collection he says is thoroughly enjoyable.

We continue our tribute to the legendary Ray Charles with a re-broadcast of the second part of a September 2002 conversation with the "Genius of Soul," who passed away last week at the age of 73.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth about the new film he made with Lars Von Trier, The Five Obstructions. Von Trier challenged Leth to remake Leth's short film The Perfect Human with five different sets of "obstructions," or limitations. Leth explains how he undertook the challenge.