Wizard of Oz on TCM Right now

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 8:25pm

Anyone else watching?

Ray Bolger's about to start singing.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 8:28pm

Thanks for the heads-up. Even with the DVD, it's fun to catch it on TV.

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 8:31pm

TCM is saluting 1939 this month, so there should be a bevy of true classics over the next few weeks.

"Oil can."

"Oil can what?"

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 8:32pm

Do you know, I didn't get that joke for about 30 years.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 8:32pm

Yea, it's a bit early in the year for my tastes, but whatevs, I'll watch...and quote/sing along.

ETA: Don't feel too bad Reg, I just now got it, seeing it written out.

Updated On: 7/2/09 at 08:32 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 8:58pm

I always LOVED "Oil can what?"

But my grandfather had that old Vaudeville sense of humor. I grew up with it, and I "got it" back when I was five.

You know? This is a pretty good movie!

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 9:03pm

I'm kinda digging "you clinking, clanking, clattering collection of collagenous junk!"

Such alteration and well played choice of words.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 9:05pm

I still hate that "witches" is spelled incorrectly on the sign in the Haunted Forest.

It should be "witch's," possessive!

Ugh!

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 9:09pm

Maggie is unstoppable. Unbeatable. And unparalleled in the history of motion pictures.

Dang!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 9:23pm

I have a funny feeling I'm about to cry.

Is there any movie more magical or lovely than this?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 9:29pm

Maggie is amazing. And you have to stop and remember that she's pretty much inventing our modern notion of a witch.

She's absolutely savage. Where, in a career of school marm's and maids, did THAT come from?

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 9:32pm

And to think, Reg, she played Madame Armfeldt in the road company of Night Music.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 9:35pm

Yes, I have a wonderful print of a photo I bought in some long-gone theater bookstore of Glynis Johns, Hermione Gingold, Jean Simmons, and Margaret Hamilton.

I need to dig it out and frame it one of these days.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 9:38pm

That must be awesome.

I just enjoy the picture of her in costume with the caption about Sondheim thinking "That woman can't have had a liaison ever" (or something, I forget the exact quote)

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 9:40pm

If I find it, I'll scan and post it. I think they're cutting a cake or something.

[Byron Abens]

Posted: 7/2/09 at 10:46pm

They showed the special from '89 that Angela Lansbury hosted before the movie. No matter how many times I see it I still laugh when we see a late in life Margaret Hamilton telling the story about her agent calling to let her know they were interested in her for a role in the movie.

And he said, "well, the Witch". And I said "The Witch?!?" And he said, then he said the final thing "Yes, what else?"