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Growing up, Lee recognized herself in the "really big, muscular performances" of Kilmer and Nicolas Cage. In Past Lives, she plays an immigrant torn between two men she loves.

Pompeian Inc. says it's seeing demand for its products surge — growth that has prompted it to pursue a lease for a 400,000-square-foot distribution center…

St. John's College in Annapolis is a liberal arts college where students focus on collaborative inquiry and the study of original texts to examine the…

Just weeks after officials in Richmond, Va., took down the nation's largest statue of Robert E. Lee, a new monument is going up — the Emancipation and Freedom Monument to mark the end of slavery.

Greta Lee stars in the new movie Past Lives. She talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about the film and the ways language and identity are intertwined.

Linda talks to Carl Newton, a retired Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear scientist, who is also a friend and neighbor of Wen Ho Lee. Newton helped organize a homecoming party for Lee.

Film director Ang Lee. His film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is up for ten Academy Awards. The film stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeow. Lee is best known for English-language dramas such as Sense and Sensibility, the Chinese-American themed Eat Drink Man Woman and The Wedding Banquet. In Crouching Tiger, Lee brings an art-house sensibility to the Hong Kong martial arts genre.

A deadline set in Wen Ho Lee's plea agreement for the government to question Lee is about to expire. The former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear scientist agreed to be questioned for ten days, for six hours a day. Now the government is asking to extend the deadline. The government has more than 12 hours of testimony still to hear from Lee. Noah talks with Leslie Hoffman, Courts and Legal Affairs Reporter for the Albuquerque Tribune.

Film director Ang Lee. His new movie is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, starring Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. He also co-produced the film. Lee is best known for his English-language dramas such as Sense and Sensibility, the Jane Austen novel adaptation, as well as the Chinese-American themed Eat Drink Man Woman and The Wedding Banquet. In Crouching Tiger, Lee brings an art-house sensibility to the Hong Kong martial arts genre.

Minnesota native Sunisa Lee is the first Hmong American to make a U.S. Olympic team. Back home, her family and friends are celebrating her huge win with glee.

2: Poet LI-YOUNG LEE. He's written two volumes of poetry, Rose, (Boa Editions), and The City in Which I Love You, (Boa Editions). LEE's won many awards for his work, including the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He's just completed a memoir about his family's refugee experience in America, The Winged Seed (Simon & Schuster). LEE was born in Indonesia. His parents were from China, where his father had been private physician to Mao. LEE's father became a political prisoner in Indonesia, and escaped. After traveling through Southeast Asia, the family ended up in a small town in Pennsylvania, where his father headed an all-white Presbyterian church. LEE was six years old then. One reviewer writes of the memoir, "a powerful attempt to conquer the past and--with compassion--to sign a truce with it."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Interesting Women, the new collection of short stories by Andrea Lee.

Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr wonders if American intelligence didn't learn of former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee's suspected espionage for China from the Chinese themselves.

Her credits include Frozen, Wreck-It Ralphand Zootopia. Now, Jennifer Lee is the first female chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios — oh, and she co-directed the Frozensequel.

A 51-year-old motorist in Searsport, Maine, died in the storm Saturday after a large tree limb fell on his vehicle.

On December 2nd, 1859, abolitionist John Brown met his end at the gallows in Charlestown, Virginia.

Film director ANG LEE. He grew up in Taiwan, but studied theater and film production in the United States. His second feature film, "The Wedding Banquet," was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, as was his next film, "Eat Drink Man Woman." LEE's films often portray family relationships with poignancy, respect, and a light comic touch. His latest film is "Sense and Sensibility," the film based on the novel by Jane Austen

John Waters shares his stories of hitch-hiking and WYPR listeners are encouraged to tell theirs when the Baltimore filmmaker joins Dan in Studio A.