When I opened Magic Johnson's theater on 125th Street, a lot of people said it wouldn't fly, but we proved them wrong, ... I love New York_ and I like what Mike Bloomberg is about. He gets things done for every neighborhood.

Next season, Ohio State center recruit Greg Oden will be the best player to enter the league since Magic Johnson became a (Michigan State) Spartan in 1977.

We feel that we are going to have a great success here in Brooklyn, a theater that everybody will be proud of and everybody will come and support. We will continue to be a community-based theater. That's what we do different than any other theater chain.

I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

You don't have to be Magic to be special. You're already special, you're you.