Music Picks for the Millennium:
Unforgettable by the real "King"; LeAnn Rimes, Blue; Dick Hyman, Minotaur; The Beatles, When I'm 64; Led Zeppelin, Ramble On; Linda Ronstadt, Starlight; The Beach Boys, Melekalikimaka; Steely Dan, FM (of course); Willie Nelson, Stardust; Moonlight in Vermont by all of them.

Movie Picks:
Anatomy of a Murder, Contact, Day the Earth Stood Still, Back to the Future, Star Wars, 12 Angry Men.

Book Picks:
The Rabbit Series by John Updike, Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, Man of High Fidelity by Lawrence Lessing, Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card, Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, Third Wave by Alvin and Heidi Toffler, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein, The Freedom Charter by the ANC, 1955.

What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the century?
The loss of John F. Kennedy; Kristallnacht -- the prelude to WWII; "The Eagle Has Landed".

What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the millennium?
"Watson, I need you" (harnessing of electricity); Magna Carta -- the first constraint of ruling power; the Gutenberg press -- the rise of literacy.

Where would you like to be when the ball drops?
Seeing my reflection in the twinkle of my wife's eyes.

Thought or idea you would like to see brought into the new millennium:
That violence, inequality and injustice may seem everlasting, but must be everlastingly fought and some day conquered.