Nelson Mandela, with his wife, Winnie, walks to freedom after 27 years in prison on Feb. 11, 1990, in Cape Town. AP hide caption
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There's a workshop, too, complete with some work on a chalkboard and a robot. Lego hide caption
Carl Brisson stars as sideshow boxer "One Round Jack" in Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 film The Ring. That and eight more of the master's early silent features have restored by the British Film Institute. Rialto Pictures/BFI hide caption
Jim Nayder, host of the The Annoying Music Show and Magnificent Obession, died this week. Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon, left, remembers his good friend. Courtesy Scott Simon hide caption
A Syrian woman is evacuated after being wounded in shelling by regime forces in the Shaar neighborhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on Oct. 13, 2012. Fabio Bucciarelli/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Carlos Santiago and his daughter, Jasmine, play Plinko as show host Drew Carey and model Manuela Arbelaez on a special Father's Day episode of The Price Is Right. (Plinko is terrible.) Greg Gayne/CBS hide caption
Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock in The Heat. Gemma La Mana/Twentieth Century Fox hide caption
After Samuel Taylor came out to his mother, Connie Casey, the pair had several very difficult years. But in time, Connie realized she had to re-examine her feelings about homosexuality. StoryCorps hide caption
Thursday
Bobby Sommer is Johann, an "invisible" Vienna museum guard who becomes profoundly connected to a frequent visitor after she starts to take notice of him. Cinema Guild hide caption
In this shot from the game Saints Row IV, it sure looks like somebody is warding off an attack with a guitar. Deep Silver hide caption
Director Pedro Almodovar. Jerod Harris/Getty hide caption