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What are critics saying about the movies hitting theaters this weekend? Among the new releases are a live-action Charlotte's Web, Will Smith in Pursuit of Happyness and the dragon tale Eragon.

The former Food Network host has been lying low since she admitted to using racial slurs, and revealing that she has diabetes. The Paula Deen Network is a digital subscription channel.

Much like the one in 2009, the release seems timed to coincide with the annual United Nations climate summit and is intended to cast doubt on global warming.

The Council of Europe released a report Wednesday charging that the CIA may have colluded with 14 European countries to secretly imprison suspected terrorists. The report calls the network of secret prisons and airports that transfer the suspects across borders a "spider's web" that violates international law. Madeleine Brand speaks with Rob Gifford.

Submissions Only is an online comedy about young actors hoping to make it on Broadway. Star Kate Wetherhead and NPR's Scott Simon talk about the often brutal and funny world of actors, agents and casting directors.

As well-known tech firms face criticism from Congress, Robert Siegel and China correspondent Anthony Kuhn in Beijing compare results from search engines in the United States and China. A search using Google, Google China and Yahoo shows how different the Web search experience is for a user in China.

Chinese novelists were once encouraged to address politics and society through a Communist lens. Now young writers can be as entertaining as they want on the Web.

Silenceofthecity.com is a Web site that accepts rejected submissions to The New Yorker magazine's Talk of the Town section. Mac Montandon is the sites founder. He's also a writer, editor, and longtime Talk of the Town reject himself. Montandon talks to Scott Simon.

There's a new marketing tool for book publishers: Trailers on the Web that promote their books. They're called "VidLits." One example: Yiddish with Dick and Jane.

Executives from four U.S. Internet companies get a chilly reception Wednesday on Capitol Hill as members of Congress accuse them of helping China oppress internal dissent. But the companies say their operations in China would foster freedom there, not squelch it.