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Singer Lorna Luft is the daughter of Judy Garland. The new made-for-TV movie Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows will be broadcast on Sunday, February 25th on ABC. The movie is based on Luft's 1998 memoir Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir (Pocket Books). Judy Garland died in 1969. Lorna Luft is also a half sister to Liza Minnelli. (REBROADCAST from 4

NPR's Guy Raz reports on the unresolved status of the compensation the German government agreed to pay to those who were forced to work in the Nazi war industry. Former laborers have yet to be paid, and the Germans say they won't be until several class-action lawsuits in the U.S. are dropped.

Host Bob Edwards talks about a 130-vehicle pile-up in Northern Virginia yesterday, caused by a snowstorm that blew through the area.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Last Resort. Set in a London apartment building that acts as a holding station for people seeking political asylum, the film offers a gritty, realistic view of life as a refugee.

Film critic Henry Sheehan reviews Monkey Bones the new part animated/part live-action film starring Brendan Fraiser.

New York City taxi drivers are now in the second week of a hunger strike outside City Hall in Manhattan. They're demanding debt relief for thousands of drivers who are facing financial ruin.

Commentator Jill Maxi Schreibman knows firsthand what it's like to be laid off by a dot-com company.. .and she's determined not to go through it again.

Beth Accomando of member station KPBS reports on Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai's new project, In the Mood for Love. Wong has won acclaim for his unorthodox and stylish movies -- he calls them "jam sessions," since the actors are improvising without a script.

Commentator Leis Wiehl says a federal judge in Illinois got it wrong when he gave a longer sentence to one of two people convicted in the burglary and arson of a Jewish community center.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on the month since Bill Clinton left the White House. The former president, his pardons, his gifts, his wife and his relatives have been constantly in the news. Democrats had expected the post-presidency Clinton to be a party leader. Now they're not sure what to make of him or his future.