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All Things Considered film critic Bob Mondello examines Sputnik's impact on the silver screen.

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With a special birthday hello for Charlton Heston, Luke Burbank's Hollywood hero.

Kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen makes marvelous wind-powered art — dinosaur-like Strandbeests that wander the beaches of his native Netherlands.

The launch of Sputnik, the premieres of Leave It to Beaver and West Side Story, the integration of Little Rock Central High School, and the birth of On The Road — journalist Ken Walsh talks about an amazing year.

Actor/director Peter Berg's most recent project is The Kingdom, a police procedural set in Saudi Arabia. Berg talks about the film, which stars Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper.

Margaret Cho is wll-known for her bawdy stand-up comedy that takes no prisoners on the topics of sexuality and race. But with her new burlesque show, The Sensuous Woman, Cho takes on body image as well. Cho talks with Andrea Seabrook about baring it all onstage.

Three brothers, privileged but bereft, go looking for themselves on a trek through rural India. Fresh Air's film critic says Anderson manages to sustain a sense of lyric melancholy — though he could use more perspective on his characters' over-entitlement.

A new documentary takes a look inside the Arkansas school at the center of a key Civil Rights moment 50 years ago. Farai Chideya talks with Craig and Brent Renaud who directed the HBO documentary "Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later," and Minnijean Brown-Trickey, one of the original Little Rock Nine.

Most often associated with his role in "Cheech and Chong" — the irreverent comedy duo of the 70s and early 80s — today, Richard "Cheech" Marin is one of the world's foremost collectors of Mexican-American artwork.