it's one of the reasons that i think it was mickey rooney actually who after his sixth or seventh divorce and all the al money that he had to pay saw a movie he had been in on tv and said, wait a minute, they're using my work and i'm not getting paid. and he was one of the guys who started the screen actors guild asking for residuals for that stuff. nobody thought that was going to happen. >> the disappearance of blockbuster and the video store generally has not hurt you all. it's come back up in the form of online. >> yeah, you never got that much money from blockbuster anyway. >> anyway. >> yeah, to is possibility of somebody tracking your movie down at some point is greater than it's ever been. the possibility of you making any money back on and off hollywood film is lower than it has been in the last 30 years. >> you told the l.a. times at some point in the runup, there are independent films. there's not an independent film business. what does that mean? that interested me a lot. >> well, business in the sense that there's money there. >> yeah. >> that there's a there there. there are

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with performances by robin williams and mickey rooney, both of whom died earlier this year.ojected by the firm shoppertrak to be the busiest shopping day of the holiday, bumping the friday after thanksgiving down to third place. the day after christmas is predicted to be second busiest shopping day. ♪ ♪ >> osgood: neighborhoods from compost to coast are all aglow in the annual competition to out shine the joneses. but lift your sights just a bit higher and you can witness displays on an entirely different scale. ♪ 103 stories above manhattan the empire state building has been lit like a jukebox the last two holiday seasons. it's the bright idea of anthony malkin head of the empire state realty trust. >> the lighting frankly used to be the best thing about the building and then as the building improved the lighting fell behind and now the whole building is 21st century. >> two years ago malkin had thousands of computer controlled l.e.d. lights installed atop the structure. a great leap forward from the old spotlights whose colored gels had to be painstakingly swapped out by h

mickey rooney tore through life. >> so nice to bring your camera and awfully nice to talk to you all.h 9 years. >> good night and good luck. >> same to you, old boy. >> osgood: good night and good luck mickey roone me. rob thomas loved the glitter of the oscars, he reported on them for 66 years. good night to him. to oscar de la rena who dressed hollywood's glittering stars. and in photographs that live on. lauren bacall who fell in love with you right from the start. >> you know how to whistle don't you? just put your lips together and blow. >> osgood: lauren bacall died this year at 89. her charm and her beauty intact. >> i like it here. good idea, jim. >> osgood: james garner, one smooth operator. he didn't take acting too seriously but were got add it. >> you say that every day. >> osgood: farewell to you james garner and to you james rebhorn and meshach taylor and you maximilian schell. >> no more, no less. >> osgood: eli wallach was an actor's actor. over 60 years on the stage and screen. >> i don't want to be dried. >> osgood: good night, sweet prince. >> there's no business ♪

>> yeah, from the beginning, though, we got a great cast and, you know, just starting out, mickey rooney like that. and i think people love the tone of it. and they know they can come in and have fun. and sean levy, the director, really encourages people to improvise and it's, you know, it's an atmosphere where you can kind of do your thing. >> you mentioned mickey rooney, an icon of the golden era of hollywood. he passed away, not long after working on this. when you look back at when he became popular, is there a part of the hollywood system back there that you wish you could have been a part of? >> i mean, i love all those old movies. and mickey was such a -- he was a multi-talented guy. he could sing, he could dance, he could play the drums. he did drama. you know, that was a time when, you know, movie stars had to do all that stuff. so, you know, to be able to have a chance to work with him a little bit and talk to him about those times, and he had just crazy, amazing stories about showbiz. so, yeah, no, lucky to have had a chance to work with him. >> another iconic actor is robin w