Burbank Senior Artists Colony is the first apartment community in the U.S. for creative older people, says Patricia Leigh Brown in the N.Y.Times (9/10/06). The southern California colony offers, free, a digital film editing laboratory, a theater, drama classes and art studios open 24 hours a day. And this is Hollywood! Residents are making movies: “Bandida,” a new comedy about an old woman who robs a convenience store, stars first-time actress Helen Miller, 81 (Apt. 125), and was written by first-timer Suzanne Knode, 63 (Apt. 406). And they're on the radio: Residents appear regularly on “Experience Talks,” a weekly KPFK program reaching 250,000 listeners and produced by More Than Shelter for Seniors, the nonprofit organization that conceptualized the colony. Seventy percent of the 141 apartments rent at market rate, with 30 percent reserved for low-income residents. [LINK]