AP - Dr. Frankenstein himself could not revive "Igor," an animated comedy about a hunchbacked lab assistant playing at mad scientist.

AP - Taproot, "Our Long Road Home" (Velvet Hammer Music)

AP - "Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory" (Harper. 432 pages. $35), by Lisa Jardine: In November 1688, Prince William of Orange, the elected leader of the Dutch republic, set sail from the port of Hellevoetsluis in command of a 450-ship invasion fleet bound for England.

Reuters - Playing like "Juno" junior, the engagingly irreverent "Lymelife" is a period suburban rites-of-passage story with a pitch-perfect cast headed by Alec Baldwin, Timothy Hutton and not one, but two Culkin brothers -- neither of them Macaulay.

AP - "Rough Justice" (G.P. Putnam's Sons. 326. $25.95), by Jack Higgins: To call suspense writer Jack Higgins' latest effort two-dimensional probably does a disservice to the flat surfaces of the world.

AP - "Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business" (Gotham Books, 320 pages, $26), by Danny Goldberg: Danny Goldberg might not be a household name, but many of the rock stars with whom he's worked are. His tale is the true Cinderella story of a kid who was in the right place at the right time, starting at the bottom of the rock business and eventually conquering it as the leader of several of the industry's biggest labels.

Reuters - The very high concept of "$5 a Day" -- good-for-nothing hustler Dad writes to estranged son to tell him he's dying of brain cancer -- immediately gives rise to fears of utter predictability and thus utter boredom.

Reuters - The current election season has brought with it many different, sometimes incompatible versions of the American dream.

Reuters - Hollywood can breathe a collective sigh of relief.