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Stan Lee reflects on a lifetime of creating comics, including some imperfect superheroes. Spiderman, one of Lee's best known characters, was human first and super second. Lee tells Renee Montagne how he brought realism to a fantasy world.

U.S. luge racer Emily Sweeney walked away from a crash on a day when numerous athletes lost control on the newly built sled track in Yanqing.

Film producer Christine Vachon's new book is A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond. She has produced more than 30 feature films, including Infamous, Far From Heaven, One Hour Photo and Boys Don't Cry. This book is a follow-up to Vachon's best-selling first book, Shooting to Kill.

Award-winning gospel composer Margaret Douroux plans to build a concert hall in Los Angeles for the preservation of gospel music culture.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead recommends four box sets for gifts that won't break the bank. They are: Fats Waller/If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It; How Low Can You Go?; Sonny Stitt/Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952; and Andrew Hill - Solo.

In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion chronicled her grief following the sudden death of her husband and the illness of their daughter. Vanessa Redgrave will star in a one-woman play based on the book.

Films from Mexico have been finding viewers in the United States and around the world. This year, directors of three films with Oscar buzz are Mexican: Children of Men, Pan's Labrynth and Babel.

Washington Post reporter Thomas Ricks discusses his book, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, and he is joined by singer-songwriter Josh Ritter who performs "Girl in the War."

Writer Mark Jordan Legan offers a round-up of reviews for the week's new movies. In this edition of "Summary Judgment" from online magazine Slate, we'll hear about Home of the Brave, Freedom Writers and Happily N'ever After.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews The Painted Veil, from a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, and Miss Potter, about the life of the author and illustrator of Peter Rabbit.