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Andrea Seabrook offers a montage of some of the work of this year's 30th Annual Kennedy Center honorees, who receive their awards Sunday in Washington. They include Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, singer Diana Ross, pianist Leon Fleisher, comedian Steve Martin and film director Martin Scorsese.

The Hollywood writers strike is shutting down productions in Los Angeles — and New Orleans too. K-Ville, a drama new this season on Fox, is set in New Orleans and has been shooting there for months. Now producers are out of fresh scripts and will stop shooting.

In actor Richard Gere's latest film, The Hoax, he plays a scam artist who gets a major book publisher to pay him a seven-figure publishing deal. It's based on the true story of Clifford Irving, who claimed to be a Howard Hughes biographer. It's now out on DVD.

Tucked back in the woods of East Hampton, Long Island is a house that some believe may prolong life. It's modeled on residences in Japan called "reversible destiny lofts." These places have bold colors, concave floors, doors too short to walk through and columns to hold on to when you lose your balance.

Christopher Plummer — Baron von Trapp in the film of The Sound of Music — was a regular on many of TV's earliest shows. Now, in the new independent film Man in the Chair, he's playing an old-school curmudgeon who worked on a legendary film.

In Tamara Jenkins' new film, two 40-something siblings learn to deal with their elderly father's dementia. The film — it's a comedy — stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney. Jenkins' previous film work includes The Slums of Beverly Hills.

In five decades of filmmaking, director Sidney Lumet has shepherded some of Hollywood's biggest stars to Oscar nominations. His latest film, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, also has a pretty stellar cast, and Oscar may just come calling again.

The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City opens a new building Saturday. Before the opening, the art has to get inside. One of the features of the new building is a loading dock in the front, where passers-by can watch the paintings and sculptures get transferred from trucks to the building.

The film, about an animated princess thrust unprepared into the gritty reality of New York City, is what happens when wised-up meets happily-ever-after. Amy Adams is the indispensable star.

Director Jake Kasdan woke up one night knowing suddenly that his next film would be a fake music biopic called Walk Hard. He cast John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox, the putative legend who has trouble with women and drugs — and who tries on a multitude of musical personalities.