Totally OT: The Wizard Of Oz

Anyone watching The Wizard Of Oz tonight?

I?ve had the videotape and now have the DVD, but I can never resist
watching a broadcast of it. It?s on TNT right now, at least in my time
zone.

The flying monkeys scared the crap out of me when I was a little kid, but I
still watched every chance I got.

My dad was an avid collector of fine books, and over a period of years
found first editions of all of the Oz books that he gave me as gifts. I
still have the complete collection.

I was lucky enough to meet Margaret Hamilton at The Cleveland Playhouse
when she performed in a production of Night Must Fall in 1978, when she was
76. As members of The Playhouse Club, we attended a late supper at the
club in her honor. She was witty, charming, and gracious?and very tiny.

My first live encounter with Judy Garland was at her Carnegie Hall concert
in 1961 when I was 16. I was fortunate to see her in six other live
performances up until the year before her death in 1969. Garland loved to
invite small groups of fans to her dressing room after performances, and I
made it there twice. She was one of the funniest people I ever met.

Anyway, I still think the ?Wizard? will eternally be one of the most
charming films of its type of all time.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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