![]() Like the International Wizard of Oz Club and like Cairn Terrier Clubs across the country, Michalowski began following Toto’s latest adventure on Myers’ Facebook page. “A lot of our requests are for Toto displays and gifts.” “Toto is truly one of the favorite stars of the film,” says Mercedes Michalowski, director of the Oz Museum in Wamego, Kansas. She broke her leg during filming, when a Winkie guard stepped on her. Toto trivia: He really was a female Cairn Terrier named Terry. Pet Memorial Park in Calabasas voted on whether to accept the Toto memorial marker. The project was cruising: $1,000 in donations 750 friends mention in the International Wizard of Oz Club’s “Baum Bugle.” Then L.A. And Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal the wizard for who he really is. “The ‘Wizard of Oz’ was a touchstone of our generation,” Goldstein says. In fact, he’s the man who told Huell Howser about Toto’s desecrated grave in the first place. If you want to know where a celebrity is buried – from Arnold the Pig to Frank Zappa – Goldstein is your man. Myers created a new Facebook page: And he asked Steve Goldstein, the author of “LA Gravesite Companion,” for help. “This might be another monument project,” he thought. Until a few months later – when he heard about Toto. Myers, too, was grateful to be part of something bigger than himself. “I went back other day and I still get tears in my eyes.” “It’s a wonderful feeling when you can affect history,” says Epting. Hall of Fame pitcher Rollie Fingers appeared at the July 11, 2010, dedication. Someone built and donated a 2,000-pound granite monument to Norworth. “It was like this movement,” recalls author Epting, who teamed up on the project. And maybe he’d find like-minded people who wanted to build a proper memorial for the forgotten songwriter buried at Melrose Abbey Cemetery, in Anaheim. Myers left outraged by this story, but what could a simple deliveryman do?Ī few days later, Myers created the “Jack Norworth Memorial Marker” Facebook page. Without even a footnote that he’d written “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” one of the seminal songs in American history. Epting told of a Laguna Beach man buried 1/8th mile from Angel Stadium without fanfare. ![]() One is pop-culture author Chris Epting, whom Myers first met on Facebook and then at a book signing in March, 2010. “I’ve probably met 150 people that way and 99 percent have been great people – lawyers, judges, pilots. “I hate it when people say, ‘Oh, you’re on Facebook, that’s not living real life,'” he says. He met Facebook friends at radio listener parties. In 2008, Myers discovered Facebook and it became more than just a social network. “Brian Whitman actually came to my birthday party,” Myers says. Later, he put up some Web pages for Brian Whitman, co-host of The Conway and Whitman Show on KLSX and then … “I was just a fan,” Myers says, but it felt good to hear his name mentioned on air as webmaster. You’d be too if you drove 8 hours a day for 14 years.Ī decade ago, he built a fan page for Red Eye Radio host Doug McIntyre. He opened his laptop and started pecking away … And on the way, all of them will learn that what they think they are missing might have been there, all along.So he did what any loner, or any nerd, would do. But Toto and Dorothy are desperate to return home – after all, home is home, and home is best! So they set off with their new friends on a journey down the yellow brick road to find the only person who might be able to help them: the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. When a twister descends on their Kansas farm, Toto and his owner Dorothy hide in the house – only to be plucked into the air and whisked away! Coming down with a crash in the mysterious land of Oz, the pair meet a series of extraordinary characters: a scarecrow who believes he has no brains, a tin man without a heart, and a cowardly lion who may not be as cowardly as he thinks he is. "Dorothy and me were both there."We were all silent, snuggled up together, waiting, waiting.Then Papa Toto began. ![]() "I was there," Papa Toto said, and those magic words sent shivers down my spine. A perfect, collectible gift for all children (and children at heart). From master storyteller MICHAEL MORPURGO, and illustrated in stunning colour by the award-winning EMMA CHICHESTER CLARK, comes a surprising, charming and uplifting twist on The Wizard of Oz, told by a very special and unforgettable character: Dorothy's pet dog, Toto.
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