"Psycho IV" Is the Best Sequel Yet

Detective writer Mickey Spillane is one of the world's most popular writers of the hard-boiled private investigator genre. He says his most famous character, Mike Hammer, is a kind of everyman; Spillane has carefully avoided any physical description of the detective.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz discusses the history of musicians adapting Bach's music for their own instruments -- regardless of what the piece was originally composed for. He says Sharon Isbin's new album of Bach's Four Lute Suites is in an excellent example -- it has a depth of emotion he doesn't normally associated with the guitar.

Parks directed the early black action film, Shaft. His son, who died in 1979, was also a director. The elder Parks began his career as a photographer for Vogue and Life, and documented difficult aspects of the African American experience. He's just written his memoir, "Voices in the Mirror."