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Published: 10/30/2006 3:45 PM
Last Modified: 10/30/2006 3:45 PM

Television-wise, sporting events will have to take a backseat to something else tonight because this is Wolf Man Day.
I love AMC's annual "Monsterfest." The cable channel shows wall-to-wall scary movies for about 10 days prior to Halloween.
I really like the old Universal monster movies that I watched when I was a kid and thank you KTUL for showing "Plenty Scary Movie" back in the day. Every weekend, KTUL showed a monster flick, but you had to stay awake until the wee hours of the night, consuming many peanut butter sandwiches and bowls of popcorn, in order to see it. There were no such things as VHS or DVD, so you had to pay the price if you wanted to see a movie that you liked.
Because "Plenty Scary Movie" aired so late, I can't tell you how many times I fell asleep during "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" before I finally got to see who won the fight. Actually, a broken dam won the fight, so the fix was in. A boxing promoter must have been involved. (I had to work in the boxing angle since this is supposed to be a sports blog.)
My only complaint with "Plenty Scary Movie" was that "Gargoyles" showed up in the rotation way too often. If I heard a gargoyle say "Diana, don't touch the eggs" one more time, I was going to petition for a gargoyle omelet.
Anyhow, I promised my 4-year-old girl that we would watch the old Lon Chaney movie "The Wolf Man" tonight. I taped it this morning so we could watch it later. Should a 4-year-old be watching that kind of movie? Probably not, if she has nightmares or won't sleep in her own bed for the next two months.
But if she gets scared and views her dad as a protector, that's not a bad precedent to set for when she starts thinking about boys. She just told me that she has broken up with Robin (Batman's sidekick) because she has a boyfriend at school.
When she was smaller, I told her she was the only North American Baby Werewolf in captivity. And she would howl like a wolf. They grow up fast. Hair today, gone tomorrow.







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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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