Earlier this month the Matrix Reloaded made the biggest debut ever for an R-rated film, and it’s still gathering steam. Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen couldn’t help but notice how it resembles another hugely profitable sci-fi movie series.

Kurt Andersen and singer Tony Bennett talk about the power of influence and its effect on creativity.

Tony Bennett is one of the most revered jazz and pop singers of all time. He made standards out of "Blue Velvet," "I Left My Heart In San Francisco," and dozens more. His ...

Sometimes an artist's inspiration can come from miles — and centuries — away. The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit, “Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting” shows how some great painters looked for ideas from artists who lived 100 years before them. Produced by Sarah Lilley.

There is scarcely a female in America under the age of thirty-five who didn’t have a section of her bedroom bookshelf devoted to the work of Judy Blume. Her books, like Are You There God It's Me Margaret and Then Again Maybe I Won’t, dealt frankly with things like puberty ...

In 1966 — at the height of the Beach Boys' popularity — the band released a record called Pet Sounds. But their record label, Capitol, buried it because nobody knew what to do with its strange arrangements and harmonies. Then, in the 1990s Pet Sounds began building a new following ...