The pearl is in the river...

FTFA "We watch it almost every other day," the Livingston resident said while clutching onto a red bag adorned with the phrase "Click your heels" and a pair of ruby slippers.

And I thought Trekkies were without a life...these people have, shall we say, "issues". I don't have a problem with watching a movie once or twice a year, but every other day?

As William Shatner once said in a SNL skit of a Trek convention: "Get a life, people!"

That isn't even a series, it is a single movie, one that has no relevancy and nothing to explore, it is all there, it is a childish movie. That is like being wrapped up in the strategy of candy land.

A fan of "The Wizard of Oz" since she was a little girl, 35-year-old Denise Rubinetti said there's no chance her toddler sons won't become fans themselves.

"We watch it almost every other day," the Livingston resident said while clutching onto a red bag adorned with the phrase "Click your heels" and a pair of ruby slippers.

I wonder if she'll have a nervous breakdown when she discovers that her teenaged children hate the Wizard of Oz with a firey passion after being forced to watch it "almost every other day" for most of their lives.

From the headline I thought this was the new Tucker Max story in another location.

Just another chance for a bunch of stoners to get out of the basement.

carrot From the headline I thought this was the new Tucker Max story in another location.

I thought the same thing. But obviously the LPs don't want to have anything to do with The Wizard of Oz.

When they lured Whorfin out of Yoyodyne, they left something behind. I'd look there first, and see who now has the overthruster.

The pearl is in the liver.

It sounds like these people are focued on the movie, but the book was quite good. Baum was a journalist who wrote an allegorical tale of the US. There's lots of symbolism in the book that Hollywood glossed over, changed, or left out of the movie. And there were a bunch of books, as opposed to just one movie.

Everyone has their hobbies and interests, but watching this movie every other day is a bit extreme. My 4 year old second cousin watches Nemo sometimes 3-4 times every day, because she likes the fish and likes to sing along. However, she's 4. Decorating your bathroom green, tiling your floors gold and owning a pair of ruby slippers is fine, but Rubinetti's kids are going to hate bringing anyone home when they're old enough to realize mom's a little loopy.

why in jersey, of all places???????

This movie Jin Verde

The submitter, he is clever.

AfroX

Oops. Thanks for the heads up, now I get the joke.

Under the Rainbow seemingly was on HBO 8 times a day during one summer break.

Hey, I was 12. Carrie Fischer half naked? C'mon. It doesn't get any better than Under the Rainbow and Cannonball Run back-to-back.

Bill Cosby is not impressed.

Aw man, I thought it was real midgets.

"I've had it with these motherfarking midgets on this motherfarking plane!"

fred_chan: I wonder if she'll have a nervous breakdown when she discovers that her teenaged children hate the Wizard of Oz with a firey passion after being forced to watch it "almost every other day" for most of their lives.

That's what I tell my Star Wars fan friends who are raising thier kids or pland to raise their future kids on it. Kids aren't interested in their parents' obsessions and will downright rebel against them.

I would really like to see a sequel to that old film, done in film-noir style, along these lines: Dorothy finally hits puberty and decides to run away for good this time, leaving that stinking little farm as far away behind her as possible. After spending about six months in Kansas City with the most decadant lowlifes she can find, it's time to return to Oz to see how the place has changed/to check out how her new perspective as a teen sees it. OH-- by this time she has adopted a combination of punk/Goth: she's shaved one side of her head and dyed the rest of her hair (ALL of her hair) emerald green and ruby red. She kept those ruby slippers, so puts them on and clicks her heels three times with the wish to return, chanting, "Retro, retro!". Only a handful of the Munchkins recognize her, and she's nothing special since Oz opened an office of tourism. She encounters Glinda the "good witch", a recovering alcoholic, who disgusts Dorothy with brown-nosing flattery for half an hour before telling her where to find the Wicked Witch of the West who feigned her death as a ploy to find a new identity as an attorney in a place far outside of the Emerald City, a mysterious local known as Joplin. Dorothy then hops the next Greyhound to Joplin, and is surprised to see a sign right across the street from the Greyhound depot: "W.W.West, Attorney At Law". Putting all trepidation aside, she musters all of her courage: after all, she's all grown-up now, the Witch is a responsible professional, and didn't she already kick her ass?. They have a stimulating conversation about the intervening years, the various personages in Oz (yes, and how the scarecrow committed suicide, so sad, so sad), Glinda expressing just why she kept wanting to "get Dorothy and her little dog, too", when the subject came up about the Wizard, that slimy con artist! He had deceived that whole Emerald City for years, profiting thereby, including Dorothy and her pals. It was time for the two of them, Dorothy and Ms. West, to set things right and return to Oz. The witch didn't ride brooms anymore, and since the Yellow Brick Road was now a super highway, they flew the witches private Leer jet (with big black letters emblazoned on each side of the fusilage "MY STICK")to Emerald City airport where they were greeted by Cowardly Lion and Tinman who related how the wizard fared since that fateful day when his baloon crashed only half a mile from takeoff, how the people put him back in power despite everything, and how he became a greater tyrant than before. After many adventures too numerous to recount here, they all went skipping over to Munchkinland's Court of Justice, singing "We're off to sue the wizard, tra la la, tra la la..."

I wonder why nobody has tried to adapt the other books in the series?

L. Frank Baum wrote 14 Oz books...

jordan_lund: I wonder why nobody has tried to adapt the other books in the series?

L. Frank Baum wrote 14 Oz books..


There have been multiple sequels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_oz(pops)

spectrek

Hope you have a copyright on that, it's pretty good

How can there be a Wizard of Oz related thread without mentionint Dark Side of the Rainbow? (Google it)

And how could this affect the TSA?

That's nothing, this weekend there was a bondage convention in Tampa. Damn, that was fun.

Powergamers get their own convention?

/nerd

How can there be a Wizard of Oz related thread without mentionint Dark Side of the Rainbow? (Google it)

And what did you think my post was about?

Hate to repeat myself, stuff about disgruntled motherfarking midgets. Read everything.

Munchkin?

Dear spectrek: I'd like you to meet my friend, Mr. Paragraph.

tedZilla, What I wrote is more of a casual rundown in long-winded-sentence format (longer sentences than most murderers get), as opposed to actually composed prose; it's an off-the-cuff style meant for message boards such as this comment page. Just the bare bones, eh? If I took about three weeks to do it, I'd formulate a finely composed little novel for you, but have other fish to fry.