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Picasso's painting "The Dream" took a poke in the eye recently. The masterpiece was "elbowed" by its owner, casino mogul Steve Wynn. Wynn planned to sell the painting for a record $139 million. But when he was showing it off, apparently waving his arm, he crashed into the canvas. Wynn suffers from an eye condition that affects his peripheral vision. He plans to mend the silver dollar sized hole and keep the picture.

French President Macron is engaged in an intense round of shuttle diplomacy aimed at warding off a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, holding separate meeting with the leaders of both countries.

Actor, writer and director Christopher Guest's mockumentary For Your Consideration takes a look at some of Tinsel Town's darker elements, all in the name of comedy.

Greg Daniels and Mindy Kaling work on the hit NBC series The Office, starring Steve Carrell. Kaling also plays Kelly on the show. Daniels has a history of TV comedy writing. He has worked on Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld and The Simpsons. Kaling had a role in Carrell's The 40-Year-Old Virgin and appeared on an episode of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Film critic John Powers reviews Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, starring Sacha Baron Cohen.

Catch a Fire sounds like an awfully familiar story. And, in some ways, it is. Movies on how South Africa suffered under apartheid, and the heroic efforts made to resist that repressive system, are hardly new. So it's tempting to write off this newest look at that era as too familiar and too late. That would be a mistake.

Alan Cheuse reviews Half of a Yellow Sun, by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The novel takes place during the Biafran War of the 1960s and follows characters through the turbulent times.

In American fiction, TV and film, suburbia has long stood as shorthand for repression. It's a place of "wide lawns and narrow minds," as Earnest Hemingway put it. But representations of the suburbs have taken on a different shape of late.

Few writers have permeated the culture as much as William Shakespeare. His work has spawned more than 600 film or television adaptations, including animated versions. If he were alive today, Shakespeare would probably be at the center of a multimedia empire. What would "Shakespeare Incorporated" look like?

Charles Addams was the creator of the Addams Family — the warped and gruesome stars of magazine cartoons, a TV show and two movies. According to those who knew him, Addams was as strange as some of his characters.