Jan 21st, 2005 · Cheadle stars in the new film Hotel Rwanda playing a hotel manager who shelters over a 1,000 refugees from genocide. It's based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina. Cheadle's other films include Devil in a Blue Dress, Boogie Nights, Ocean's Eleven, and Traffic. This interview was originally broadcast on April 6, 2004.
Jan 6th, 2005 · NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday, about how the recent tsunami severely damaged sea life in the Indian Ocean.
Dec 27th, 2004 · Only four other earthquakes on record were as large as the one that hit the Indian Ocean Sunday. A rupture along an undersea fault line that runs north-south off the coast of Sumatra created the quake. NPR's Christopher Joyce explains what happened in the ocean and how it spread disaster so far.
Dec 20th, 2004 · President Bush has created a cabinet-level committee to advise him on ocean policy. Environmentalists who criticized the administration's record have long sought more attention to the oceans, which in U.S. territorial waters and elsewhere suffer from pollution and over-fishing. Hear NPR's Alex Chadwick and Dr. Ellen Pikitch of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science.
Dec 11th, 2004 · A slew of new movies star some of Hollywood's most handsome male leads, from Ocean's 12 to Alfie. But the actors' movie-star looks are often failing to translate into success with film audiences. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell.
Dec 10th, 2004 · Slate contributor and writer Mark Jordan Legan presents a round-up of what film critics are saying about this weekend's new film premieres, including Blade: Trinity, Ocean's Twelve and the documentary Born into Brothels.
Dec 10th, 2004 · What can you say about a sequel to a movie remake? Sequels sometimes miss the mark. Movie critic Kenneth Turan says Ocean's Twelve lacks key elements that made its predecessor, Ocean's Eleven, memorable.
Sep 29th, 2004 · The earth hums, emitting a tone too low for human ears to detect. Geophysicists have finally located the source of the noise. As they report in this week's issue of the journal Nature, it comes from the globe's largest oceans during winter, apparently the result of powerful winter storms. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.