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**FILE** Kaye Stevens (left) performs Jan. 6, 1967, with Sammy Davis Jr., on a TV show. Stevens, a singer, actress and longtime South Florida resident who was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show," has died at a central Florida hospital. She was 79. (Associated Press)
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Exhibit: Manifold Greatness The best-selling book of all time is said to be the Bible. The Folger Museum´s exhibit on The King James Bible seeks to put that claim in context with a history of the how the King James Bible in particular came to exist, and its cultural penetration. The astronauts on Apollo 8, for instance, read King James on Christmas Eve in 1968, while orbiting the moon, while Gonzo comic R. Crumb copied its verse word-for-word for his illustration of Genesis. To Jan. 16 at the Folger Museum, 201 East Capitol St. SE. Phone: 202/544-4600. Web: http://www.folger.edu/
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Theater: Dr. Dolittle When Hugh Lofting was fighting for the Irish Guard in World War I, he could not bring himself to write to his children about the horrors of war. Instead, he told them about a doctor who treated only animals. These letters became the basis for the Doctor Dolittle series and the inspiration for Janet Stanford´s production of Dr. Dolittle, which tells the classic tale through a Lewis Carroll-like double-world in which Lofting´s letters are acted out by soldiers with animallike qualities.
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Concert: Drive-By Truckers Thanks largely to musical carpetbaggers, the genre known as "alt. countryÓ is seldom either of those things. There is not enough grit in the music, and the artists have had too few skirmishes with involuntary poverty and/or rickets. The Drive-By Truckers have been keeping it real since 1996, when sons of Alabama Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley reunited in Athens, Georgia, and put together the best southern rock band since Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the best alt. country act since Lucinda Williams. Having nearly made it big once before, in the late 80s, Hood and Cooley toiled in relative obscurity until 2001, when the independently released "Southern Rock OperaÓ received such critical acclaim that the band signed with a major label to re-release the hell out of it. The rest, they say, is history. DBT is now a big enough deal to play three back-to-back nights of shows at the 9:30 Club, all of which but NYE are sold out, so move quickly if you want to ring in the new year with songs about roadside crosses, George Wallace´s trip to hell, and other southern mythologies. Dec. 31 at the 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. Phone: 202/265.0930. Web: http://www.930.com
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Tom Brady and the New England Patriots can clinch home-field advantage with a win against Buffalo on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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Chris Lilley is playing six characters in the new HBO series "Angry Boys," including identical twins Nathan and Daniel Sims. (HBO via Associated Press)
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A clip from the movie 'Green Lantern' is seen on the video screen of a movie tour van in New Orleans. New Orleans Movie Tours takes passengers aboard a van equipped with movie screens and a sound system to locations where famous movie scenes were filmed. Tours last approximately two hours and include video clips from roughly 30 movies. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Adam Gertner, foreground, and Carly Myers laugh as they watch a movie clip during a movie tour in New Orleans. The tour, launched by New Orleans Movie Tours this summer, takes passengers to locations where famous movie scenes were filmed. The tour also includes peeks at the New Orleans homes of Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and John Goodman. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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A no parking sign for an upcoming movie shoot is seen during a movie tour in New Orleans. New Orleans Movie Tours, which launched this summer, takes passengers aboard a van equipped with movie screens and a sound system to locations where famous movie scenes were filmed. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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The 2012 Charger SRT8 Super Bee features the SRT exclusive three-spoke contoured performance steering wheel.
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From left, Kunal Nayyar, Simon Helberg and Jim Parsons star in "The Big Bang Theory" on CBS. The 100th episode airs on Jan. 19. (Associated Press)
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AMC's "Hell on Wheels," a Western starring Anson Mount and Common, has been renewed for another season. (Courtesy AMC)
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Canadian rapper Baba Brinkman is currently rapping his version of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" at the SoHo Playhouse with music from his frequent DJ collaborator Jamie Simmonds. (Ben Hider via Associated Press)
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** FILE ** This undated handout photo provided by MGM Home Entertainment and the Library of Congress shows Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter in the 1991 film “Silence of the Lambs,” which was chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. (AP Photo/MGM Home Entertainment, Library of Congress)
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Former Speaker of the House and current Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich signs copies of his book. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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The Museum of Clean in Pocatello, Idaho, which cost about $6 million, features a horse-drawn vacuum dating back to 1902, a 1,600-year-old bronze pick that was used to clean teeth, and an antique Amish foot bath. (Associated Press)
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Matt Hammitt, lead singer for the Christian rock band Sanctus Real, reads a book to his 1-year-old son, Bowen, at their home. (Associated Press)
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The premiere of the Showtime series "House of Lies," starring (from left) Josh Lawson, Don Cheadle, Ben Schwartz and Kristen Bell, will be available online before airing. (Showtime)
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Siblings Gustavo (left), Angie and Abelardo Vazquez of the Vazquez Sounds posted a cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" on YouTube drawing more than 20 million views. (Associated Press)
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Jessica Lange won a Golden Globe nomination for her role on "American Horror Story." A TV critic says Ms. Lange's performance channels the Southern Gothic sensibility of Bette Davis' terrifying turn in 1965's "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte." (FX via Associated Press)
