Music Picks for the Millennium:
Anything by Jelly Roll Morton, 1940s music radio (during which the pop song format was perfected), Bartok's Dance Suite, and anything by Yes.

Movie Picks:
Casablanca, The Manchurian Candidate, Schindler's List (pretentious or what: you'd think I'd pick at least one thing in color).

Book Picks:
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, 1984 by George Orwell

What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the century?
Probably Henry Ford's perfection of the auto assembly line. It totally reshaped manufacturing and the economy. It created a middle class. And it made for cheap automobiles which was a social and economic epiphany more responsible for the current blueprint of America than any other single invention. (Without cheap cars we would all live within a few blocks of our co-workers. Think about it....)

Also important but in a different category: World War II (won, in part, by the American and its nuclear end. Its legacy was the Cold War. (BTW, WWII was won with U.S. industrial might, brought about by Ford's vision in the early part of the century).

What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the millennium?
Easy. Galileo dropping fruit from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Honorable mention to the works of Martin Luther and Copernicus.

Where would you like to be when the ball drops?
In the newsroom, of course (I already know I'm working).

Thought or idea you would like to see brought into the new millennium:
Tolerance.