It's like seeing The Wizard of Oz for the first time!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:05pm

I'm watching it with my kids. My son has never seen it. It's so great!

He's just learning to read and when he saw "Surrender, Dorothy!" he thought it said, "Sucker!"

[DBillyP]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:08pm

My favorite post in a LONG time ... thanks for the smiles Miss P.!

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:09pm

God, I'd love to be there with you!



EDIT: I still remember MY first time.

Updated On: 9/27/08 at 09:09 PM

[Bickle]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:10pm

Watching Obama/Biden is like watching the Wizard of Oz for the first time!

He's hiding behind the current just like the Wizard.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:11pm

Oh, God. Miss Gulch just showed up in this thread.

"Pay no attention to that troll behind the curtain!"


EDIT: "current???" Maybe YOU think it says "sucker" in the sky too. At least Miss Penny's son is a little KID.

But I should have guessed about this illiteracy issue.

Updated On: 9/27/08 at 09:11 PM

[BroomstickBoy]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:24pm

This is still my all time favorite movie. Even as a kid it was my favorite and I still get that feeling every time I watch it.

Glad you're enjoying it with your kids! :)

[Bickle]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:28pm

I like skipping down the Yellow Brick Road with Olby and Madcow.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:31pm

...singing "If I Only Had a Brain," no doubt.

[Bickle]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:32pm

Absolutely, Madcow leads the refrain loudly with Olby singing off-key on the verses.

[BroomstickBoy]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:33pm

Ho ho ho ho RUBBISH! You have no power here! BE GONE! Before somebody drops their house on you, too!

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:36pm

Miss Penny---Is the witch scaring the crap out of them?

[Bickle]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:38pm

Liberals always "wish" the opposition away. (Click your ruby slippers together three times and repeat: They can’t be that stupid, they can’t be that stupid, they can’t be that stupid…)


It doesn't work. Ask Presidents Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry.

We are here to stay, and we're gonna elect ourselves a real Reagan Republican...Sarah Palin!
Updated On: 9/27/08 at 09:38 PM

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:43pm

"Bickle,"

I started this thread because I'm watching a beloved film with my CHILDREN. It's an innocent, NON-POLITICAL thread.

You and your conservative FAMILY VALUES be gone before someone drops a house on you!

[Bickle]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:44pm

You might be Golda Meir at home, but you don't rule the roost here.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:47pm

There are witches everywhere, Miss Penny. I'm dying to hear what your kids thought of the movie.

[Bickle]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:48pm

And I'm Defying Gravity.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:53pm

They LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it! LS has been afraid to watch it, but I told him to "trust" me. His dad and I also told him OZ was our absolute favorite movie when we were kids...and that we had to wait a whole year to see it because it was only shown on TV, no DVDs back then!

We're now watching all the "special features"!

[kec]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:58pm

That Witch scared the daylights out of me when I was a kid! I can remember running to sit in the chair next to my grandmother.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 10:03pm

Besty, I told them several times before the movie started about you and your relationship with Miss Hamilton, emphasizing what a sweet woman she was and how much she loved children. I think it helped a lot!

I also said, "Maybe when we visit Uncle Besty next year we can watch it with him on his giant TV!" And they said, in unison, "YEAH!!!"

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 10:04pm

I can still remember how excited I was each year to find out that The Wizard of Oz was going to be on TV.

As I look back now, I think it even exceeded my excitement over Christmas. That movie was magic. It was dreams. It was make believe. It was adventure.

I probably haven't been as excited about a movie since. And I love movies.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 10:05pm

I remember the first time I watched THE WIZARD OF OZ. [I don't know if I've told this story before, so forgive me if I have.] It was the last day of school, June 1989. My older brother and I spent the night at the home of our English tutor, Mrs. Robles. She had been assigned to us the previous year, shortly after our arrival in America, and we had befriended her children.

Anyway, we were deciding what to watch. I wanted one of the SUPERMAN movies, but no one else was interested. It eventually turned into a commotion. Finally, Mrs. Robles stepped up and said, "We're gonna watch this."

"What is it?" I asked grumpily.

"It's called THE WIZARD OF OZ. You'll like it. It's a lot like MARY POPPINS."

I'd been obsessed with MARY POPPINS during the school year, so I grudgingly decided to give it a try. At first, I was disappointed 'cause it was in black-and-white. To me, at the time, b&w = boring. But soon she started singing, then the tornado, then the bright colors, and I was transfixed. I loved it so much that I asked to watch it again, but it was bedtime so I had to wait until the morning. The next day when I returned home, I told my little brother all about it, every detail. Naturally, he wanted to watch it, too. It became our favorite movie. For the time being.

Incidentally, 1989 also marked the 50th anniversary of the original release of the movie (though at the time I did not know this). That summer, WIZARD OF OZ excitement reached a fever pitch. It seemed the rest of the world was mirroring my enthusiasm. I remember there were toys/action figures, lunchboxes, boardgames, big cardboard cutouts in stores, etc. Everywhere. It was definitely a great time to be a kid -- and a WIZARD OF OZ nut.

Updated On: 9/27/08 at 10:05 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 10:08pm

Miss Penny, you and your family are welcome any time. And by next year, I will have a Blu-ray disc of "Oz." It's due to be released sometime in 2009.

And I will gladly show them my autographed photos, letters and post cards that "Maggie the witch" sent me over the years.

My second-grade pen pal was the best!

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 10:11pm

Stagey--You never mentioned that to me either. And it's a wonderful story!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 10:22pm

Miss P, thanks so much for sharing this with us! I'm so happy to hear it "still works."

I was telling some younger friends how the four compass points of my childhood were: birthday, Halloween, Christmas, and the annual broadcast of "The Wizard os Oz."

Glad you had such a wonderful time with your family.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 10:23pm

Besty, I don't know about your relationship with Margaret Hamilton. I'd love to hear about it.

I've always heard that she was just about the nicest woman on earth.