Independent Minds

David D'Arcy talks to Richard Russo, John Irving ("The Cider House Rules"), Russell Banks ("The Sweet Hereafter"), Rick Moody ("The Ice Storm"), Susan Orlean ("The Orchid Thief/Adaptation") and others who've watched their worlds transformed into celluloid - sometimes collaborating in the process.

Peter Sellers' comic genius is undeniable. His radio, television, and film work has influenced everyone from the Monty Python troupe to Mike Myers. Now, four decades after the height of Peter Sellers' career, David D'Arcy hosts an engaging look at this comic genius, with comments from Sellers' collaborators Blake Edwards, Paul Mazursky and Joe McGrath, as well as Mike Myers, Tracey Ullman, John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, and Sellers biographers Ed Sikov and Roger Lewis.

David D'Arcy hosts a 27:00 interview with first-class curmudgeon and American Splendor subject Harvey Pekar, his wife and collaborator Joyce Brabner and refreshingly ordinary daughter Danielle. Their struggles with life: proliferating books and records, marriage, money and cancer bring a revealing perspective to "everyday."