From the Culture Desk, up-to-the-minute reports from arts and entertainment.

Robin Pogrebin, a reporter on the Culture Desk of The New York Times, answered questions from readers Oct. 5-9, 2009.

Read more from The New Yorker's 2011: The Year in Review, at News Desk and at Culture Desk.

See our arts and entertainment lists at Culture Desk.

Winter is married to Monica Drake, an editor on the Culture Desk of the Times.

It's on my list of the year's twenty-six best films, which has gone up at Culture Desk.