From the folks who brought you “The Monster of Plum Creek” comes a musical about Kit Carson.
Perhaps you were unaware that the frontiersman’s last campfire allegedly was built in what is now Daniels Park, near Castle Pines. There’s a plaque.
Jess Stainbrook, director of television services for Douglas County’s Channel 8 has committed the tale, song and dance and all, to video.
Stainbrook is known for his offbeat histories of the county, including documentaries on UFOs, lost B-17s and one-time Highlands Ranch cattle
baron/cuckold John Springer. “We latch on to what would be minuscule history.”
Last year, Channel 8 won the Heartland Regional Emmy for Station Excellence, beating out bigger, badder commercial stations.
Stainbrook expects the Kit Carson musical – shot in Lakewood City Hall, the mayor’s office and on bales of hay – to begin airing in late summer, just in time for another Emmy.
Spoils system
The talk-show gurus, left and right, lined up pretty much as expected Monday on the Senate filibuster over 10 of President Bush’s judicial nominees.
Surprise, surprise, Mike “Colorado’s Voice of Reason” Rosen on KOA 850-AM had the most realistic take on it: Picking judges is part of the president’s spoils. “(Winning) gives him the power, the authority and justification for putting conservatives on the Supreme Court. That’s the way the game is played.”
He promised to go along when a Democratic president does the same. He even defended Ken Salazar against the God-
is-on-our-side Focus on the Family night riders. Write that down.
Meantime, Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman continue riding the Ward Churchill pony.
Two for TV
Leave it to two TV guys to steal the show from the print media.
Jim Benemann and Mark Koebrich were the hit of the Denver Press Club’s annual Damon Runyon Awards dinner honoring Seymour Hersh on Friday.
Benemann and Koebrich dissed each other, to the delight of the sold-out house. No, I can’t remember what they said. We’re talking TV, not the Algonquin Roundtable.
Around the dial
The Holocaust’s devastating effect on Europe’s musical life is covered in “A Voice for the Silenced,” airing Monday through Friday on KVOD 90.1-FM to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps … Has our talkative mayor heard about this? Fort Collins Mayor Ray Martinez hosting a two-hour talk show at noon Saturdays on KFKA 1310-AM. It premiered last week … Quotable: “History gets thicker as it approaches recent times.” – A.J.P. Taylor.
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-820-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
