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Director Lasse Hallstrom's new movie, The Hoax, chronicles Clifford Irving's attempt to publish the "autobiography" of Howard Hughes.

The gritty cop drama The Shield, starring Michael Chiklis, begins its sixth season tonight on the FX cable network. It's intense from the start — and it keeps building from there.

Guest host Dave Davies talks with Peter Berg, executive producer of NBC's Friday Night Lights, who also directed and co-wrote the 2004 film of the same title. Both are adapted from H.G. Bissinger's book about the high-stakes world of Texas high-school football. The TV series, which won a Peabody Award, ends its first season tonight.

Comedian and actor Will Ferrell stars in the new film Blades of Glory. He plays a former Olympic ice skater who, banned from competition with a rival (Jon Heder of Napoleon Dynamite fame), discovers a loophole: they can compete as a pair.

These days an increasing number of nonprofit groups use auctions to fundraise money. In Seattle, that trend is fueling a growth in what has been a niche segment in auctioneering.

Madeleine Thien, the daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants, lives in Quebec City, Canada. Her first novel, Certainty, has just been published in the United States. The book is ripe with juxtapositions.

Ken Loach's film The Wind That Shakes the Barley examines the early days of the Irish Republican Army and the radical organization's impact on the Irish people. Some British papers have criticized Loach for making the movie.

In the new film Blades of Glory, comic actor Will Ferrell plays a boorish figure skater forced to team up with another man in a pairs skating competition. The role is Ferrell's latest in a series of characters that have parodied macho men.

Trumpeter Enrico Rava is one of Italy's best known and most recorded jazz musicians. In the 1970s, Rava made some memorable records for the ECM label. Now he's back with the company and one happy result is The Words and the Days.

The Lookout, a thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, invests more than the usual amount of effort in developing characters. It marks the directing debut of Scott Frank, known for his writing work.