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Mar.08.2013
OZ The Great and Powerful
Starring: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Zach Braff, Bill Cobbs, Joey King, Tony Cox, Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, Stephen R Hart, and many more.
Directed by: Sam Raimi Screenplay by: Mitchell...
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Feb.21.2013
On Thursdays Phil Naessens Show The Sports Kings Jameyan Smith joins Phil to discuss the latest in the Oscar Pistorious murder case, Lil Wayne's statements about the NBA, Miami Heat and Chris Bosh's wife Adrienne, Wale, Facebook Fugazi's, Danica Patrick taking the pole at the...
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Dec.29.2012
So, first -
Rotten Tomato lists forty-eight movies due out in January.
Thirty-two movies are due to be released in February.
March is offering forty-two movie openings, twenty-two in April. Don't feel too sorry for April; it's early.
I saw trailers for nine movies while attending two movies,...
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Jul.25.2012
My guest post today at Eve Gaal’s blog is all about Oz – the books, not the movie:
http://networkedblogs.com/AhyY0
My original piece was way too long, so for those of you who are interested, I put the rest of it up on my website: my slightly off (because that’s what I do) description...
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Jun.21.2012
http://www.markrhunter.com/2012/06/21/writing-weather-and-l-frank-baum/
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK
My birthday gift from last year made me ruminate. But I took some antacid, and I’m feeling better now.
The rumination, which improves with ibuprofen and ice packs, started with The Annotated Wizard of Oz....
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Jan.27.2012
When I was a child Lewis Carroll ‘s Alice in Wonderland (1865) and L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz (1908) enthralled. These classics told stories of two girls’ travel outside of earthly time, into worlds of myth and allegory. Dorothy’s Oz and Alice’s realm beyond the rabbit hole, were populated by...
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Mar.23.2010
Debatable Statement: Writers should write about what they know best.
I disagree, but I understand the premise. If we wrote only what we know, where would Oz be now? Frank L. Baum might surprise us with his answer if he were alive today. I'm guessing he and other fantasy writers would say that...
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Oct.15.2009
THE WIZARD OF Oz...
I saw this groundbreaking stunner of a film Live, in a theater when it first came out. This was before Star Wars, digital special effects, general use of color film, street argot as art, swearing as culture, tits and ass as stunt stand-ins for ideas, and the use "...
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Oct.14.2009
I thought Stephen King had slipped a cog when he had Roland, The Gunslinger, and his motley crew of travelers, come upon the Emerald City. As it turns out, he's the King for more reasons than one, because he realized what I still had to learn...that there are a lot of levels to iconic stories and...
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Oct.14.2009
My email told me this week was "Wizard of Oz" week at redroom.com. While I'm technically staying offline this month to get back on deadlines and to reclaim my life from internet-addictions, Baum's book was too important to me not to blog here.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Baum's 13...
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