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Pastor William Rennick VI Mavis Hallandale-Leonard, Charitable Gifts Coordinator  Shalom, What's up?, Aloha!, Bon jour. I'm Andrew, Webmaster of MTMShow.com. That's me off to the left, there, with Ted Knight's star on the Hollywood Walk. Let's establish something right off the bat: I and the colleagues who work with me on this site are little more than presenters. The material displayed in the presentation (this website) was conceived, constructed, and achieved by a group of people who deserve our deepest respect and gratitude....and whose genius far surpasses anything I could ever scrape up. I do hope that I have done these folks, and you, justice in displaying the fruits of their herculean labors. Around May of 1995, I caught an episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" on Nick at Nite. I watched the show semi-regularly for several years after. One rainy Saturday in November 1996, I went to my local college bookstore looking for something good to read. I found a little book called After All: The Searing Truth Behind the Dazzling Smile by Mary Tyler Moore. I found it an amazingly frank autobiography, that really and truly revealed what the cover said it did, 'the searing truth behind the dazzling smile.' Thus began an interest in the career of the well-known actress and the show that bears her name. In December of 1998, I considered the possibility of hosting a website on the much-loved TV series. Knowing virtually nothing about HTML (tech jargon for Hypertext Markup Language, for those of you not familiar with 'code') or, for that matter, anything about sitebuilding, I spent the next few months brainstorming as to how I could put together such a site. March 23rd, 1999: I bought a Hewlett-Packard PC and started work on this website. I acquired from a colleague a fairly useful (but overly thick!) book on web publishing, started reading, tried out a few things, and haven't stopped work since. My first three months were spent in Area 51, the 'television show site' section of Geocities. I relocated to Simplenet Web Hosting in June, 1999. Shortly after, I obtained a freeze-frame device called Win-TV™. All the stills from the episodes you see on this site were taken using this device. Progress has been steady, and on June 13, 2000, I decided to move the site to a virtual domain hosted by Super-Nova. While Simplenet was an excellent hosting service, I was getting tired of the long-handled URL (http://www.marytylermooreshow.simplenet.com) and the fact that I did not have my own server. By that time, Simplenet had merged with Yahoo! and the hosting service changed for the worse. In mid-August, 2000, the original format of the site (black and white) was updated to what you currently see. A significant site re-vamp was done in September 2001 and again in February and March, 2002 to the format and design you currently see. In October 2002, we secured the domain name MaryTylerMooreShow.tv as well as MaryTylerMooreShow.net and MaryTylerMooreOnline.com. You can use any of these names; type them into your browser and you will be taken to the main page of the site. Usually my TV watching is limited to popping in a DVD of "Twilight Zone", "I Love Lucy", "Three's Company", or any number of old TV shows. I often listen to the radio. The Phil Hendrie Show is a work of genius and I highly recommend it. Phil Hendrie does the voices of tons of wacko characters (mostly brain-injured or sex-crazed potheads, elderly black ladies, Skoal-chewing rednecks, and brainless Lexus-driving soccer moms with tons of money), and then unknowing callers call in and proceed to give these 'real people' a piece of their mind. For an example of Phil's genius, Of late, my activities have consisted of work on projects related to two important TV shows: "Mary Tyler Moore Show" activities: Contributor to "Inside TV Land: The Making of The Mary Tyler Moore Show" special (4/01) ; interviewee on station WCCO, Minneapolis (3/01 and 5/02) ; contributor to Vince Waldron's "Classic Sitcoms: A Celebration of the Best in Prime Time Comedy" (Silman James Press) and "The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book" (Applause Books) ; contributor to A&E Biography special on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and E! Entertainment Network's TV Tales special on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". I have also contributed to several books on "The Twilight Zone", including "The Twilight Zone Scripts of Earl Hamner" (yes, this is the Hamner who created "The Waltons" and "Falcon Crest") and also two other soon-to-be-released books. "The Twilight Zone" activities: April, 2005 saw the release of my first book, "Forgotten Gems from The Twilight Zone, Volume 1." This is a two-volume collection of 12 scripts from the original TV series written by such writers as Reginald Rose, E. Jack Neuman, William Idelson, John Furia, Martin M. Goldsmith and others. Co-producer of a series of interviews/mini-documentary appearing on "The Twilight Zone: The Definitive Edition" DVDs (seasons 4 and 5). In 2002 and 2004, I coordinated and hosted two "Twilight Zone" conventions in Hollywood. I'm sometimes asked if I've ever met any of the writers, producers, or cast from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". Yes, people from all three categories in fact. I have met/gotten to know Cloris Leachman, Shelley Berman, Edward Asner, Arlene Golonka, and Beverly Garland. I am friends with Karyl Geld-Miller, who wrote two episodes of the show. All are wonderful people. I hope to meet others from the cast before too long. I'm *always* open to new ideas for additions to this site, and I enjoy hearing from visitors. Please feel free to contact me at tzmtmshow@hotmail.com. But please do not ever ask me to put a sound file of the Joan Jett and the Blackhearts version of "Love is All Around" online, because we won't ever do that. Shame on you, Joan. Shame, shame. I'm also not really in favor of graphics-intensive presentation or animated images (save for the brilliantly-designed TV set on the main page, the work of friend Stewart Stanyard), or changing the color schemes, the music you hear in the background, or the way the frames are done, although some have said I should change them. No can do. My motto is simple...K.I.S.S. Keep it simple and stupid. If you have questions about this website or its content, please read the Disclaimer. Donations to MTMShow.com are appreciated! The ever-increasing costs of domain name registration and site hosting run us over $300 annually. We don't mind paying it, but it's always nice when others who love the show just as much as we do show their support with a small donation. If you'd like to donate a few bucks, please let us know by email at tzmtmshow@hotmail.com and you'll be given instructions on where to send the funds. Every little bit helps the cause and keeps the Mary Tyler Moore flame lit. We also don't do online advertising on MTMShow.com, and the reason we don't is because we don't want YOU to be annoyed with pop-up ads. Donations only go toward this website. No funds go to any of Mary Tyler Moore's activities or charities. Thank you for visiting the site and have a nice....day, life, or whatever you prefer. For more info, read this 2004 INTERVIEW that Nahan Chandrashekar did with me recently. And in the words of William Shatner, "Be Happy." 
written and performed by Alanis Morissette heard in closing credits of "Dogma", © 1999 View Askew Productions I am the harm which you inflict I am your brilliance and frustration I am the nuclear bombs if they're to hit I am your immaturity and your indignance I am your misfits and your praises I am your doubt and your conviction I am your charity and your rape I am your grasping and expectation I see you averting your glances I see you cheering on the war I see you ignoring your children And I love you still And I love you still I am your joy and your regret I am your fury and your elation I am your yearning and your sweat I am your faithless and your religion I see you altering history I see you abusing the land I see you and your selective amnesia And I love you still And I love you still I am your tragedy and your fortune I am your crisis and delight I am your profits and your prophets I am your art, I am your bytes I am your death and your decisions I am your passion and your plights I am your sickness and convalescence I am your weapons and your light I see you holding your grudges I see you gunning them down I see you silencing your sisters And I love you still And I love you still I see you lie to your country I see you forcing them out I see you blaming each other And I love you still And I love you still  Candy Clark, aka Debbie, the "Peel Out" girl on American Graffiti  Bobbie Dooley of Western Estates - encouraging me to pull out. 
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