From “Mirror Reflections on Time’s Dualities” by By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: December 31, 2008
“It’s always best to start at the beginning,” Glinda the good witch tells Dorothy as she waves her wand at the Yellow Brick Road, which of course really starts back in Kansas with three farmhands, a witchy neighbor and a song about somewhere over the rainbow.
“He had a secret formula, kind of like no one could look. Like the man behind the curtain.”
ABC news, 11:00pm
Pillsbury Crescent commercial: everybody clicks their heels 3 times …
NYT, This Economy does not compute, By MARK BUCHANAN, October 1, 2008
“Something of the attitude of economic traditionalists spilled out a number of years ago at a conference where economists and physicists met to discuss new approaches to economics. As one physicist who was there tells me, a prominent economist objected that the use of computational models amounted to “cheating” or “peeping behind the curtain,” and that respectable economics, by contrast, had to be pursued through the proof of infallible mathematical theorems.”
“There’s no place like home. We’re going to drop a house on some really bad politicians.” Description of Mardi Gras Float, American Experience: New Orleans.
Rothenberg, Ryman, and Johns? Oh my!
from: http://anaba.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_archive.html
It’s a very windy day at the golf course. “Murph, we are not in Kansas anymore.”“Well, thank you, Dottie.”
...for no particular reason…
Jason Castro sings a VERY nice version of Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s “Somewhere over the Rainbow”.
.... Hillary sunnily riposted that she likes long movies. Her favorite as a girl was “The Wizard of Oz,” so surely she spots the “Surrender Dorothy” sign in the sky and the bad portent of the ladies of “The View” burbling to Obama about how sexy he is …..
...tonight on Oprah, “with their own bodyguard, in a box backstage”.
..... just heard an ad on NPR for a show about the Wizard of Oz (“a source of metaphors for everything”) ... Sunday, 12/9/07, 3pm
Hanna Rosin, “How Hollywood Saved God”, The Atlantic, December 2007: “The series builds up to a cataclysmic war between Heaven and Earth, on the model of Paradise Lost (the source of the phrase his dark materials). But in Pullman’s version, God is revealed to be a Charlatan more pitiable even than OZ. His death scene is memorable only for its lack of drama and dignity: ...”
NYT. From: Your Gamete, Myself, by Peggy Orenstein: Becky, who asked me to use a nickname, sat down and began scrolling through pictures on the Web site of Ova the Rainbow, one of the (regrettably named) agency sites she browsed last fall during her search for an egg donor. “When I first started doing this it was really emotional for me,” she said. “I kept thinking about that kids’ book, ‘Are You My Mother?’ I’m looking through these pictures of young women and feeling like: ‘Oh, my God! Is this the mother of my future child? Is this the mother of my future child?’ ”...
WTTW11, Chicago Tonight; Phil Ponce responds to Bill Geist, who mentioned that his father had warned him that there were democrats in Chicago :”Lions and tigers and democrats, oh my!”
Sarah Dreher, “Other World”, 1993, p. 174; “The air suddenly turned cooler. A breeze came up. In the distance they could hear a rumbling sound, like boxcars rolling slowly along a track. Stoner shivered. “I know it’s irrelevant, but I really wish I knew where we were. I thought we’d just kind of hover around inside the tunnel or something. Outside, at the very least. I feel like a character in The Wizard of Oz.” “Oh, I’m so sorry”, Aunt Hermione said. “I know you hated that movie.”
New York Times. Editorial. The Fantasy Behind the Scandal. ...”The only solution is to get these issues out into the open. It is good that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will finally testify in the Senate this week. But Mr. Rove, who seems to be at the heart of this affair, should also be required to testify under oath — and in public. Even the Wizard of Oz eventually came out from behind the curtain.”
SNL.
Kristen: “Look how excited I am. I get to play my dream role, Glenda the Good Witch”
Lorne: “Hi, the Wizard of Oz thing was cut.”
Software for People. Smith Publications. 1984
Divisions Underground. page 99. “The Patchwork Girl of Oz was made with golden ears. The Crooked Magician brought her to life with magic powder. He provided march music via phonograph so that her first sensation would be of music. .... The Patchwork Girl had other ideas” “Scraps”, (as she was called by her friends) first action was to accidentally knock the vial of Powder of Life out of the Crooked Magician’s hand. All of the rest of the powder spilled over the phonograph, thus bringing it to life as well. “You were bad enough before,” said the magician, resentfully, “but a live phonograph is enough to drive every sane person in the land of Oz stark crazy.” “No insults, please,” answered the phonograph in a surly tone. “You did it, my boy; don’t blame me.” ...”
Rags and Patches. page 112: ” Said the March Hare to Alice, “Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.” That infernal machine is still chasing me all over and out of the Land of Oz. ...”
page 113: “I adore stuffing,” said the Patchwork Girl. “Well, as for that, my head is stuffed with pumpkin seeds,” declared Jack. I use them for brains, and when they are fresh, I am intellectual. ...”
page 117: ” Because! Alice! Where are you? Well – Alice is still among the missing but I did find Charlotte Moorman at Mills College in Oakland, grandly doing her grand thing. Lewis Carroll would have loved her! and Frank Baum would surely have found Charlotte in Oz fingering her chameleon cello.”
WTTW, Chicago Tonight: Phil Ponce talks to several food critics about becoming a food critic by slowly being exposed to more dishes and restaurants: “...like the Wizard of Oz, going from black and white to color.”
At last, the yellow brick road becomes accessible; milwaukee journal sentinel; by Laurel Walker: You know the story, but here it is – “The Wizard of Oz Unplugged” – with a powerful new twist and an intriguing cast of characters.
There’s Tariq, the tin man, who sits in the wheelchair and wants to walk again. There’s Lionel, the blind man, who wants to see. And there’s Scarecrow, the brain-injured, who wants his foggy memory repaired. The actors who take these characters along the Waukesha Civic Theatre’s version of a yellow brick road over the next week are new to the stage. ... read more