TV columnist Rick Polito has made a living out of penning joke blurbs for TV shows and movies — first for the Marin Independent Journal and now for PacificSun — but it's one one-liner in particular that will undoubtedly be his legacy: A 1998 synopsis for The Wizard of Oz.
Starring James Franco as a circus magician named Oscar Diggs who is transported by way of a twister to the merry old land of Oz, Evil Dead director Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful is a prequel of sorts to the iconic 1939 big-screen adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of…
"We represent...the family of the late Mickey Carroll, star of The Wizard of Oz, whose estate you've bilked for $500,000." Hm. Not quite as catchy as "The Lollipop Guild." But that's exactly what new court documents claim in a legal battle currently underway in Carroll's hometown of St. Louis.
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" is a film line so iconic that it's been repeated, referenced and tweaked many times. How many and in which films or TV shows? Now there's an answer.
Last month the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall on supposedly lead-laced superhero and Wizard of Oz drinking glasses because they're made for children. Well, the CPSC has changed course, saying they're for adults, and therefore just fine! (Updated)
The new movie has a director, a good director, so maybe Downey'll finally sign on. Also today: Some TV casting both interesting and depressing, another internet thing gets made into a TV show, and the return of an old crush.
John Dennis is the Republican who'll lose to Nancy Pelosi this year. Here's his new Wizard of Oz-themed web video, which is just insane enough to merit our free advertising. Keep pourin' that Freedom Water on the Pelosi Witch, guy!
A Harlem man who dresses up in Times Square as the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz yesterday stabbed a tour bus ticket seller with a screwdriver in what police described to the Daily News as "a turf beef."
[Was the Wicked Witch of the East crushed in Times Square earlier? No, it was Madame Tussauds that unveiled the six-foot tall ruby red slippers on West 42nd Street today. Image via AP]
Or he could be! In a movie. Also today: You Lauren Graham fans will have reason to celebrate, another British TV show gets dragged over to the States, a new food channel, and Curb Your Enthusiasm enthusiasm.
How in the great and powerful Oz's name it took this long to get the Munchkins a star on the Walk of Fame is beyond us, but today, that wrong was reversed, as seven of the nine surviving diminutive residents of Munchkinland were finally granted their rightful plot on Hollywood's legendary urine-stained road.…
All is not well in the land of Oz. Since mid-2005, a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland has been missing from a museum in Minnesota, and despite the fact that police are finally closing in on the thief, some in the community warn of an ominous cover-up. ABC News reports:
We knew that it wouldn't take long for somebody with a scanner to release The Sun's pics of a young Tom Cruise dressed up as Dorothy (remember—he WAS Dorothy, not a "friend of," that's an important distinction) and a flapper into the wilds of the internets. The mind boggles at how many tense sessions grabbing the…
