The story of how filmmaker Jeffery Haas brought the new Leon Russell DVD to life is as remarkable as the footage itself, which captures Leon at the height of his musical powers even as it shows the influence of TV and radio preachers on his stage patter. I’ve written about it in my latest OKLAHOMA… Read More »Out of a Mercedes Trunk and Deep Freeze
Most of us know Bartlesville’s Becky Hobbs as a country-music recording artist, songwriter, and playwright. In my OKLAHOMA Magazine column this month, Becky tells us about a not-as-well-known facet of her early show-biz, career, when she organized the first all-girl rock ’n’ roll group in Oklahoma — which later figured into her friendship with one… Read More »LIFE AFTER GIRL BANDS
My OKLAHOMA MAGAZINE column for August 2017 tells the story of actor Gar Moore, a guy from Chelsea, Oklahoma who became a matinee idol in Italy following World War II and, unfortunately, found himself unable to duplicate that success in his home country. You can read it here Again, big thanks to Sandi Bible, Kristi… Read More »A Shooting Star
Back in 1989, I wrote the teleplay for a made-for-TV movie called DAN TURNER, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE, which ultimately played in prime time over some 200 stations via the old LBS network. You may have seen it. In 1990, it was released on VHS by Fries Entertainment (as, unfortunately, THE RAVEN RED KISS-OFF), and while it… Read More »HOMICIDE HIGHBALL
On behalf of co-host Michael H. Price and producer Joey Hambrick, I’m proud to say that we will be presenting a new Forgotten Horrors Podcast on the 13th of every month. As is the case with the acclaimed Forgotten Horrors series of books, originated by Michael and George Turner back in the ‘70s, our podcasts… Read More »FORGOTTEN HORRORS PODCAST UPDATE
As Wes Craven’s most recent biographer, I was taken not only by his creative skill in coming up with new ways to scare us, but also by the spiritual qualities and conflicts that were often in play during many of his films. With all of that in mind, here’s something I wrote for the Tulsa… Read More »THOUGHTS ON WES CRAVEN
Please join Public Radio Tulsa’s Scott Gregory and me at 8 p.m. this Friday, Sept. 4, for the broadcast of our latest HIDDEN SIXTIES SUMMER SPECIAL. This is the one that computer problems sabotaged a couple of months ago when it was initially supposed to air; we are now assured those have all been fixed… Read More »HIDDEN SIXTIES SUMMER SPECIAL
My sincere apologies to all who tuned in to our HIDDEN SIXTIES SUMMER SPECIAL Friday night at 8 p.m. on Public Radio Tulsa, 89.5 FM, and publicradiotulsa.org. No one was more flabbergasted than me — like you, I was listening at home — unless it was my co-host, Scott Gregory. I have heard from a… Read More »HIDDEN SIXTIES TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
Except for a couple of stories I sold to Warren’s fabled Eerie magazine in the very early ‘70s (just before Uncle Sam came along to whisk me away from my writing pursuits and drop me onto a helicopter carrier ferrying Marines to Viet Nam), The Twilight Avenger was the first comic book I ever scripted.… Read More »THE TWILIGHT AVENGER