Saturday, July 01, 2006

C'MON EASE ON DOWN...EASE ON DOWN THE ROAD

I hope I'm not letting go on too much of my niece's privacy but I thought a voice mail she left me the other day was priceless. It is in response to a birthday gift card we got her for her 8th bday:

Hi Uncle Robert (yes, that's my real name), it's Maddie. I just wanted tell you that I used the Amazon card. Thanks for the $40 - it was very fun. I got a 'dance move' thing. ...and I got Harry Potter, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Wiz. It's the The Wizard of Oz, but the black version.

That last line just made me laugh. Stating the obvious - but something I haven't heard anyone express in 25 yrs, if ever.

Oy. The Wiz. I really shouldn't say that. Maddie likes it and that is great. I've never seen it. Diana Ross as a probable menopausal Dorothy. Michael Jackson and a pre-pedophiliac scarecrow and Nipsey Russell as a rhyming concurrent game-show celebrity Lion (?).

I never thought a lot of the original Wizard O' Oz. Margaret Hamilton was brilliant...as were the flying monkeys. But I didn't need to be beat over the head w/the whole 'my own back yard' crap. And the munchkiens - just downright creepy.

But I did like Wicked - the book. Not the musical (not that I ever saw that either). The book was so well done (imo. no 'h'. never an 'h' w/Blobby). My assertion would be that Wicked would make a great movie - in a LOTR way.......not a movie of the musical play, which you know is exactly what will happen.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Maybe the movie version of Wicked can be called "Wizzel"