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I get questions all the time about what kind of car-related gifts I can suggest for car aficionados.

Blu-ray, the high-definition DVD format, continues to grow in popularity. Industry experts predict Blu-ray players and discs will be more affordable than ever this holiday season.

Randy Newman could talk to you for a half-hour about the Academy. But he won't. Photograph by: Kevin Winter, Getty Images, Canwest News Service People are telling Randy Newman he may well have composed the best film score of his career for Disney's new animated musical, The Princess and the Frog.

Chat at 11 a.m. with Courtney Hollands on upcoming events in Boston. Chat at 2 p.m. with Peter Hotton on home repair.

So I'm back from our 24 Hours of Lemons race at Thunderhill, and the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid turned out to be an impressive tow vehicle.

Been a wild Rover for many a year in his 1969 TC 2000 Contributed by AL BOASBERG Al Boasberg, 73, is an attorney in private practice in San Francisco.

The actor formerly known as Batman is sporting trainers, a track suit and shades a ' "Just in case I want to lie to you," jokes Michael Keaton, before obligingly removing them.

Soul mate found through personal ad ended up being a 1951 Dodge Coronet Contributed by JOEL KOOSED Joel Koosed is founder of the San Francisco Roommate Referral Service and the Avenue Ballroom.

Kevin Cedeno of Ultimate Disney writes a thorough review of "Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack," which contains a Blu-ray disc, a DVD and two die-cast models from the film.

Two Walt Disney animated jewels, "Up" and "Monsters, Inc." head this week's list of the Blu-ray releases.

Email Click & Clack by visiting the Car Talk section of cartalk.com DEAR TOM AND RAY: My husband actually said this: a oeIf you ask Click and Clack, and they say I did something wrong, Ia ll stop doing it.a So here we go: When my husband backs my new Toyota minivan out of our driveway , he doesna t use the brakes.

Bob's depiction of his VW van, a prototype in the film "Cars" ROCHESTER, ILL.--- Somewhere along the way in the mid-1990s I detoured from a Spring Training trip to visit deep gypsy Bob Waldmire at his Old Route 66 Visitor Center & Preservation Foundation in Hackberry, Az, just west of Flagstaff.

No rose-colored glasses required driving a classic '49 Cadillac convertible Contributed by CHARLES THOMPSON Charles Thompson works for the San Francisco Department of Technology and has been married to his wife Diane for 41 years.

Animation pioneer and "Toy Story" creator John Lasseter is getting a career honor from the Producers Guild of America.

Animation pioneer and "Toy Story" creator John Lasseter is getting a career honor from the Producers Guild of America.

Share on Facebook Pixar Animation Studios just released this brand new movie poster featuring Buzz Lightyear from the upcoming animated film "Toy Story 3" by director Lee Unkrich and starring Tom Hanks , Michael Keaton , Joan Cusack, Tim Allen, Timothy Dalton, John Ratzenberger and Wallace Shawn.

Finding a lifelong friend in the 1953 Nash Healey roadster Contributed by JIM WALTON Jim Walton, 69, worked in the auto industry for most of his career.

Larry the Cable Guy is at Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial, One War Memorial, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday to promote his Tailgate Party CD, which was released Sept.

By anyone's definition, I don't fit the profile of a vintage car buyer: I am a... Don't use fuel system as waste-disposal system TOM & RAY MAGLIOZZI Dear Tom and Ray: When I was in college during the late 1980s, I remember one of my chemistry professors telling me that he disposed of organic chemical waste by just pouring it in his gas tank and ...

Our generation is about to take a trip down memory lane - " "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" will be re-released in 3-D on Oct.