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Despite penguins, lions and gorillas battling for Hollywood supremacy, 2005 will go down as a box office disappointment. But NPR critic Bob Mondello says the year's films were high on quality.

Tuesday night's drawing was the 30th straight without a winner. The lottery drought is due to poor luck and terrible odds: the chance of winning the Mega Millions jackpot is 1 in 302.6 million.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE RE-RELEASE OF LUIS BUNUEL'S (BOO-nyoo-elz) "BELLE DU JOUR" THAT PREMIERED IN 1968, STARRING STARRED CATHERINE DENEUVE.

Anne-Elise Henzl (ann-aleez HEN-zull) of Milwaukee member tation W-U-W-M visited the Circus World Museum in Baraboro (BARE-uh-boo), isconsin, where visitors can experience the musical history of the travelling ircus.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the expected return of President obutu Sese Seko (moh-BOO-too SEY-sey SEH-koh) to Zaire. He has been in France or the past four months undergoing treatment for cancer while his country truggled with civil war.

NPR's Michael Skoler reports from Rwanda on the exhumation of a mass grave site requested by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal. The site is in a town called Kibuye (kih-BOO-yay), not far from the refugee camps in Zaire.

As part of our continuing series of encore episodes celebrating The Journal at 21, we encore a 2014 episode with the late novelist Pat Conroy, author of The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, and The Death of Santini. Conroy joins Walter Edgar for an event celebrating the author’s life; his work; and One Book, One Columbia’s 2014 selection, My Reading Life (Nan A. Talese, 2010). The conversation was recorded before an audience of over 2000, at Columbia’s Township Auditorium, on the evening of February 27.

Host Amanda McNulty explores the significance of literary character Atticus Finch saying, 'It's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'

The fans can't come back because of the coronavirus pandemic, so Major League Baseball will pump crowd sounds into the empty ballparks when its season begins on July 23.

When film companies report their opening weekend box office figures, they often include what are called "previews." 'T'wasn't always thus.