Nov 19th, 2004 · 'My Beautiful Laundrette' November 19, 2004 · NPR's Neda Ulaby reviews the DVD re-release of the low-budget Stephen Frears masterpiece My Beautiful Laundrette, which made a star out of Daniel Day-Lewis. The film has lasting power, but unfortunately the DVD has few extras for serious cinemaphiles.
Aug 23rd, 2004 · Norwegian police continue to track clues as to the whereabouts of "The Scream" and another Edvard Munch masterpiece taken by armed robbers from an Oslo museum Sunday. With the picture missing, we ask people near the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to give voice to "The Scream" itself and tell us why the subject was screaming.
Jun 2nd, 2004 · Historian Mark Perry's new book, Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America, details a 15-month period in the mid-1880s when President Ulysses S. Grant and novelist Mark Twain were writing two American masterpieces. Perry believes Grant's Personal Memoirs and Twain's Huckleberry Finn reveal a fixation the two men shared: the legacy of the Civil War and slavery. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Perry.
May 25th, 2004 · Antonin Careme's designed culinary masterpieces for many of Europe's most rich and powerful: King George IV, Napoleon, the Romanovs. A new book by actor Ian Kelly recreates the life of the 19th century chef. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Kelly.