International affairs

Lloyd Schwartz reviews the new DVD collection The Best of Abbott and Costello, which collects eight of their films.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the new CD from pianist Bill Charlap Somewhere: Songs of Leonard Bernstein.

Book critic John Leonard reviews "Magic Lantern," journalist Timothy Garton Ash's account of the democracy movement in Eastern Europe.

Television critic David Bianculli reviews "The Noriega Connection." It's the next offering from public television's documentary series, "Frontline."

Book critic John Leonard reviews the novel Children of the Arbat, by the Russian writer Anatoly Rybakov.