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Ah! Then you must do a critique of the final product. I've read the reviews but I would prefer to hear what you think.

Nice feel to this. You should superimpose a bicycle too! (If this is supposed to be Miss Gulch.)

I like it, too! Great background.

Given the Sci-Fi Channel's track record (Battlestar Galactica is the exception) I would not hold out much hope.

Sigh, I don't have two hours today (that darn US Congress doing daylight savings weeks before the rest of the world) and this is JL Bell's territory really, but...

the thing is, while people do connect Alice to the Disney movie, there are plenty who still connect to the original book. With Oz, that MGM movie (due to all us boomers having seen it yearly on television) is IT way, way more than the book.

I'm NOT going to check out youtube, but there are really many movie versions of OZ. In fact, Baum himself (John Bell, pardon me) went to Hollywood to do movies of his books and kinda blew it, I believe.

I do a unit on Oz where the kids read the book (always love it), I show the MGM movie and they decide if it is a good adaptation or a bad one. (I did an article called "We're Off to See the Wizard" for the sadly defunkt Riverbank Review and have a chapter in one of my teacher books on the unit. I also have a ton of stuff about OZ (you've met the knowitallerofall -- Michael Patrick Hearn who did the annotated Oz) including several movies. I quite like Disney's live action Return to Oz which they worked to make look like the post-Denslow illustrator (and combined the second and third book for the script).

Okay, where's John when you need him?

At one point I owned every copy of The Riverbank Review (the advantages of being a Serials Manager). They may still be kicking around here somehwere.

It's funny the degree to which the MGM film has completely taken over any other interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Even books like "Wicked" have a hard time straddling the two. Are the slippers ruby or silver? Is the witch green or of another color?

I'm waiting for the day when someone decides to refilm The Wonderful Wizard of Oz using all the cool CGI now at their disposal. You could now have an actual Tin Man or an Aslan-like Cowardly Lion. I wonder why it's never been attempted.

Because all us irritating boomers are holding the torch for the MGM film. Just a week or so ago there was a piece in the New York Times about The Coroner --- you know, the Munchkin that declare the wicked old witch dead. John Bell did a post about it. Ah, here it is: http://ozandends.blogspot.com/2007/02/not-crushed-by-farmhouse-after-all.html

You've got to have all The Riverbank Reviews at your library, don't you? Hopefully! I've got most of them here. What a beautiful magazine that was.

Must. Go. Boil. Eyes...

I couldn't watch anymore. Imagine running into that hideous band traipsing through the woods....((shudder))