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Three big auction houses — Christie's, Sotheby's and Philips de Pury — are selling works whose value they estimate at more than $900 million. Lindsay Pollock, a journalist specializing in the art market, considers whether the contemporary art bubble could burst.

A troupe of American comedians with Mideast roots will be taking their act to Dubai, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan. Comic Ahmed Ahmed discusses the tour and his quest to recruit another comic.

Josh Brolin, who plays laconic Llewelyn Moss in the much-praised new Coen Brothers thriller No Country for Old Men, talks about his appetite for surprising characters and working with the filmmaking brothers.

The Writers Guild of America strike is heading into day four, with chants and signs that leave a little something to be desired. These are the folks who right sitcoms and movies, and the best they've got is "No Money, No Funny." Dimassimo Goldstein copywriter Annie O'Rourke debuts some new possibilities.

A new series called Quarterlife is debuting on MySpace this Sunday. Its producers, Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, hope the Internet may be able to support the kind of quality programming that TV has failed to sustain.

Actor Hugh Grant auctioned the painting for $21 million.

A big-screen adaptation of the blood-soaked Cormac McCarthy novel is the latest from the creators of Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and Barton Fink.

In five decades of filmmaking, director Sidney Lumet has shepherded some of Hollywood's biggest stars to Oscar nominations. His latest film, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, also has a pretty stellar cast, and Oscar may just come calling again.

Chazz Palminteri returns to the stage with the semi-autobiographical tale of his youth titled A Bronx Tale. Palminteri was unemployed when he wrote the one-man show, which debuted in Los Angeles in 1989. Almost 20 years later he brings his show to Broadway.

James C. Strouse's bittersweet drama observes a few crucial days in the life of a grief-stricken father who can't bring himself to tell his preteen daughters that their mother has been killed while stationed in Iraq.