5/24/08: Added 5/11/1968 TV schedule from
the Tulsa Tribune. New on the webmaster reviews page:
The Joe Pyne Show, expanded from the sidebar formerly
on the Fantastic Theater page. Added
Space-age Consumer's Service Station
graphic from the Beryl Ford Collection added to GB 241 text about the
Consumer's and the never-finished Automat on the SW corner of 11th and Sheridan.
Link to a photo from the Beryl Ford Collection of the
Ricsha restaurant on Brookside (33rd and
Peoria) added to the Tulsa Tiki page.
5/21/2008: Three new YouTube videos and the 5/19/08 Michael Parks interview
downloadable on MP3 at the top of the Bronson
page.
5/18/08: Larry Ward at WKBN in Youngstown, Ohio will interview Michael Parks
("Then Came Bronson") on the "2 Wheel Power Hour"
motorcycle show, Monday, May 19 at 5 pm Tulsa time. Listen online at
570WKBN.com.
5/13/08: Added an at least tangentially TTM-relevant bit to my page about
"Fiddler's Green", a
memorable 1960 science fiction story by Richard McKenna. Archived
GroupBlog 266, a train-themed GroupBlog with
Lowell Burch's home movie of the Skyline Park train at the top.
5/11/08: Photo of Rocky and Robin Stegman and Clayton Vaughn at the top of
the Rocky Stegman eulogy/Booker T. Washington video
class photo. It was taken by Lee Woodward at the 1997 KOTV reunion. Midge
Caruthers' new page of 5/2 links to the Stegman page.
5/10/08: Stacy Richardson told us in the current (#266) GroupBlog that
our good friend Don Cook, who was Program Director at underground FM station
KTBA in the early 70s, has passed away. Five years ago, Don wrote a great
account of the station's beginnings: Reflections on
KTBA.
4/20/08: Video of U.N.C.L.E.'s Mr. Waverly on the 1968 inaugural Rowan and
Martin's "Laugh-In" added to the T-Town Affair
page. Photos from Lowell's and Edwin's services yesterday in the current
(#265) GroupBlog. An anecdote about Edwin
Fincher and Willie Nelson added to the
MAINTAIN page.
4/18/08: More shock and sadness today: our good friend and contributor Lowell
Burch passed away yesterday. The Tulsa World notice and more in the current
(#265) GroupBlog.
4/17/08: Chew reviews a new movie, 88 Minutes,
starring Al Pacino, starting tomorrow.
4/10/08: To my great sorrow, I learned today that Edwin Fincher, friend,
and prime creator of the MAINTAIN program, has passed away. Read what folks
have to say about him in GroupBlog 264
and on the MAINTAIN page. Gary Chew reviews
Smart People, in general release tomorrow.
4/6/08: Lee Woodward's photos of the 1997 KOTV reunion on his Flickr page,
now in the Photo/video briefcase.
4/4/08: Shine a Light (reviewed here by Gary Chew)
is a Scorcese documentary on the Rolling Stones. It opens in Tulsa today
at the Cinemark IMAX. See
Yahoo
Movies-Tulsa for showtimes.
4/3/08: Archived GroupBlog 263. It contains
comments from friends and family of Wayne
Johnson (Tuffy the Tiger), who passed away on 3/20. Also added to it
close-ups of a weight and fortune telling machine seen in a Beryl Ford pic
of the Brookside T.G.&Y. Also see a pic
of the Humpty Dumpty on east Admiral. Returned to a previous GroupBlog host
which seems to be working better than before. Moved Bulletin Board items
Recipes That Time Forgot! cookbook by TTM contributor Johnny Young,
"Tulsa's Buried 1957 Belvedere" DVD, and "Cowboys in Tall Grass DVDs" by
Ken Greenwood to the top of original Gift Shop page
2.
3/30/08: New categories added to the aStore TTM Gift
Shop: The Tiki Hut, Drive-In Theatre, The Coffeehouse, U.N.C.L.E.
Headquarters, The World of Radio. (The original Gift
Shop still has unique content.)
3/27/08: Opening in Tulsa tomorrow: Stop-Loss,
a movie from MTV Films, reviewed by Gary Chew.
3/22/08: The secret of happiness according
to Jack LaLanne. Right under Jack: The Debbie Drake Show (both on YouTube).
Gary Chew reviews a Martin Scorcese documentary about the Rolling Stones:
Shine a Light.
3/19/08: Former Tulsa TV/radio newsman Mike Miller was interviewed for this
in-depth article about the career of Sen. James M. Inhofe,
"The Making of a Mountain", by Grant Slater.
Copyrighted by Gazette Media, Inc. Republished with permission from
The Oklahoma Gazette. Mike worked
as Sen. Inhofe's press secretary in the early 90s, and was extremely candid
in his comments. Excerpts from Mike's book, How
High Can a Guy Stoop?, are included.
3/16/08: Tulsa TV of another feather: for a week or so, a female cardinal
in our backyard has been going beak to beak with another cardinal. She has
not been able to run this pesky bird off because it never emerges from the
reflection in our sliding glass door. This seems to enrage her. Here is one
of her many daily assaults on the hated rival before a hopping-mad exit,
stage left. The 2nd video is closer up. I think she's got an anger monkey
on her back.
3/11/08: Archived GroupBlog 262, and switched
back to a more reliable GB.
2/26/08: Archived GroupBlog 261, retaining the
Gary Shore entries in the new current GB 262.
2/25/08: We were shocked and saddened today: former Channel 2 weatherman,
Gary Shore, passed away. People are writing in about him in the current
GroupBlog.
2/23/08: New Beryl Ford pics of the Ma-Hu Mansion,
courtesy of Heath Young. Also converted the 1970s Channel 8 Ken Reed news
piece about the Ma-Hu to a YouTube-type video, viewable on the same page.
2/18/08: The $16,000 check cleared (not mine, the contestant's); here is
the 2-minute Google Video of my phone-a-friend
appearance on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"
2/17/08: Gary Chew reviews a new movie, Vantage
Point with Dennis Quaid, Forrest Whitaker, and Sigourney Weaver.
2/14/2008: Gary Chew reviews a new documentary,
"UnCounted". FREE showing at the Hardesty Library
in Tulsa, 2/25/2008.
2/12/08: New CD: "Rock of All Ages"
from Daddy A Go Go, with cover painted by Gailard Sartain. Read more about
Daddy A Go Go (aka former KTUL and CNN producer John Boydston) in the
TTM Gift Shop. Also new:
Recipes That Time Forgot!
by TTM contributor Johnny Young.
2/7/08: Today in TVparty's
blog (about 3/4 down the page): excerpts from TTM about Spanky
McFarland, Lee and Morgan Woodward, and Romper Room in Tulsa.
2/3/08: Switched GroupBlog hosts again (all entries were saved). The previous
one was crippling my ability to embed links and images, though it looked
slicker. The quest for the ideal GB continues...
1/25/08: Added to the Bulletin Board:
"Cowboys in Tall Grass" DVDs
by Ken Greenwood, and "Tulsa's Buried
Belvedere" DVD. We learned to our sorrow from Dick Garcia that long-time
and key contributor Don Norton passed away last year.
1/23/08: Gary will be online about Oscar on
KVMR Evening News with Mike Thornton tonight
between 8:30 and 9pm CT. Listen to Gary's Oscar picks last night picks via
podcast: the last 3 minutes of
hour
3 of the 1/22 broadcast of The Peter B. Collins Show.
1/16/08: Gary Chew reviews a new movie with Frank Langella,
Starting Out In The Evening. You will hear it
on KWGS plus many other stations in the West.
1/12/08: I met Josef Hardt in person last week. He gave me a copy of the
KVOO-TV Marketer newsletter for November 1965 that included a profile of
him, plus the original press release for "Fantastic
Theatre". Wow!
1/11/08: Where did the expression, "More cowbell!" come from? Could it have
been WBAP-AM-Ft. Worth in the mid-1950s
where announcer Lee Woodward was constantly exhorted to ring it? Lee has
provided photographic evidence.
1/10/08: Chew reviews a movie coming soon to Tulsa:
There Will Be Blood with Daniel Day-Lewis.
1/6/08: Archived this page, the What's New page. See the link at the bottom
for previous What's New items; here's What WAS New at the
beginning of the site in 1998.
1/5/08: Frank Zappa/Joe Pyne anecdote: an urban legend? My correspondence
with Billy Ingram of TVparty! and humorist Roy Blount, Jr. is recounted on
TVparty's blog, topic: "ZAPPA MYSTERY?", dated 12/31/07. Linked from a
sidebar on the Fantastic
Theater page.
1/4/08: From the current GroupBlog (#259), added Chuck Adams' and
Lee and Lionel's remembrances of Tulsa World entertainment columnist
Chuck Wheat to their pages: Chuck /
Lee. Chuck Wheat passed away in Vermont
this week.
1/1/08: New photo of veteran character actor
Morgan Woodward at age 6, courtesy of
Lee Woodward.
