No twilight zone

At a time when literary giants like Philip Roth, 81, and Alice Munro, 83, have quit their craft, many of cinema's auteurs have stubbornly persisted in a youth-driven industry. The Associated Press reports.

Visiting a retired Frank Capra at his Sierra Nevada hideaway, Clint Eastwood was baffled.

"I always thought: 'He could be making a film right now. He's as lucid as could be. Here's the great Frank Capra not doing it,'" Eastwood recalls of the famed director, who died in 1991 at 94, three decades after his last film. "I always thought, 'I wonder why that is?'"