PAGE b8 THE STATE JOURNAL Ap RiL 4, 2012 Wednesday ALMANAC 50 YEARS AGO Angela Colleen Stucker was one of 93 Georgetown College Ending on its own terms students named to the honor roll for the first semester. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Haskell Stucker and a graduate of Frankfort High School. 25 YEARS AGO Emotional ‘One Tree Hill’ connected with fans The Bendix Heavy Vehicle Systems plant planned to lay off approximately 250 employees. The announcement came at By ChuCk Barney the beginning of contract negotiations that the plant’s union cnso TrA co TA Times president described as bleak. Meanwhile, there was news of a sharp rise in Franklin County’s unemployment rate. When “One Tree Hill” premiered on the WB in HAPPY BIRTHDAY September 2003, ratings Becca Blackwell for the show were so low April 4, 1991 that creator Mark Schwahn Becca enjoys nature and crafts. She is a ju- once joked, “Even my nior at Eastern Kentucky University. Becca mother didn’t know we is the daughter of Kenny and Angie Black- were on.” well. But over subsequent weeks, the numbers grew, and though the soapy dra- ma never became a Nielsen juggernaut or critical dar- today In history ling, it managed to connect By The AssociATed Press with a fiercely loyal core audience. And, somehow, Today is Wednesday, April 4, the 95th day of 2012. There someway, it survived. are 271 days left in the year. It survived cast defec- On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. tions and a network merg- was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. er. It survived low-bud- get marketing campaigns, several close brushes with cancellation, two bouts bCw A k Ard GLANCes of time-traveling, count- less angst-filled songs and more than a few eye-roll- ing plot lines. But this week, after nine courtesy the WB seasons and 187 episodes, Austin Nichols, left, sophia Bush, shantel Vansanten and robert Buckley on “one tree hill.” “One Tree Hill” finally bids farewell. And this time, it’s school in the fictional North acters, and everyone was That’s a really cool payoff for for real. Carolina town of Tree Hill, a little older. It was kind of us.” “I guess we were the lit- and compete both on and off a relief. We would be play- A nd accord i ng to tle underdog that could,” the basketball court. ing closer to our ages. Also Schwahn, those fans did James Lafferty, one of the But even though Laffer- knowing that we were do- much more than keep a show drama’s mainstay actors, ty’s character, Nathan Scott, ing something that hadn’t alive. said at the winter televi- eventually made it to the been tried before was really “So many of us were just sion critics press tour. “We NBA, the show became less exciting. We had a chance to starting out in the business thought we were done sev- focused on basketball and make some history.” and, as they stayed with us, eral times through the expanded into a multigen- Schwahn took anoth- they were instilling in us a years. And every time we erational ensemble drama er leap – of 14 months – be- quiet confidence that took thought we were done, so teeming with beautiful peo- tween the sixth and seventh away our insecurity and self- did a lot of people in Amer- ple and heart-tugging ten- seasons, although Murray doubt,” he said. “That’s some- ica. But they always found courtesy PAul Weddle and rodgers studio dencies. and Hilarie Burton, who had thing the fans never real- their way back to us. I think For Season 5, Schwahn provided “One Tree Hill” ized. They were just support- The 1963 Frankfort High School Panthers linemen that actually provided an and his collaborators took a with one of its central love ing a show that they liked. take a stance while the quarterback and running element of surprise and big risk on an unprecedented stories, didn’t hang around But along the way, they were made it a bit of a roller- plot twist: Instead of send- to experience it. They bolted, helping us as artists and as backs show off their elevation skills. coaster ride for everyone.” ing his characters to college but the show’s steadfastly people. “To say, ‘Thank you,’ Over the years, that ride as most teen dramas would, loyal devotees did not. seems so underwhelming.” covered a lot of ground. A he had them do a time warp “The bizarre thing is that The ardent fans who did HIS IMA FRA stick it out to the end have Now television newbie back in right into adulthood. I’ll have fans come up and TOR GES NKF Available 2003, Schwahn original- “I think everyone was re- tell me how they grew up witnessed the return of sev- ly envisioned an intimate ally happy (with that move),” with our show,” Lafferty eral familiar faces – includ- IC OF ORT family series about two recalled Lafferty, who was 17 said. “They started watch- ing Murray for one episode – half-brothers – played by when he shot the pilot. “We ing when they were 12 or 13, and a season that has a been RODGERS STUDIO • 223-3123 Lafferty and Chad Michael had just done four years of and now they’re in college a bit darker in tone than usu- Visit Us At Murray – who attend high playing high school char- or adults out in the world. al. There have been shattered relationships, intense family dysfunction, violent crime and gunfights, and the stun- www.fpb.cc 352-4372 ning death of a major char- ON TV TONIGHT Brought To You By acter. Through it all, though, WEDNESDAY EVENING APRIL 4, 2012 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 “One Tree Hill” retained the Wave 3 News at NBC Nightly News WAVE 3 News at WAVE 3 News Betty White’s Off Best Friends Bent “Mom” (N) ’ Bent “Tile Date” Rock Center With Brian Williams (N) WAVE 3 News at The Tonight Show emotional oomph that its # # 6 (N) (N) ’ Å 7 (N) Å at 7:30 Their Rockers ’ Forever “Pilot” ’ (N) ’ ’ Å 11 (N) With Jay Leno (N) WHAS-11 Live at ABC World News Entertainment Inside Edition (N) The Middle “The Suburgatory “Fire Modern Family (9:31) Happy End- Missing “Ice Queen” Becca receives a WHAS11 News 11 (11:35) Nightline fans craved. + + 6PM (N) Å Tonight (N) ’ Å ’ Å Concert” ’ Å With Fire” Å “Little Bo Bleep” ings ’ Å surprise visitor. ’ Å at 11 (N) Å (N) Å “They say that everyone LEX 18 News at 6 NBC Nightly News LEX 18 NEWS Access Hollywood Betty White’s Off Best Friends Bent “Mom” (N) ’ Bent “Tile Date” Rock Center With Brian Williams (N) LEX 18 News at 11 The Tonight Show _ 2 (N) Å (N) ’ Å Late Edition (N) (N) ’ Å Their Rockers ’ Forever “Pilot” ’ (N) ’ ’ Å (N) Å With Jay Leno (N) wants sex. 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