I think the housing market certainly fired up real quick, maybe too quickly, and now it's probably just dying down to an ember.

Yes, it was a good year. It could have been a lot better.

I think now that the city population has exceeded 65,000, the commercial-retail growth is beginning to become a little bit hotter.

Ambitious of vision and swooping of camera, 'I, Frankenstein' is no 'I, Robot,' let alone 'I, Claudius,' but it's definitely watchable on a cold Jan. evening or, a few months from now, on your I, Pad.

Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!

In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.