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Liz: Off to See the Wizard?
Um, you're lying down, right?
Not to freak you out or anything, but there's a little matter in the papers down here today about a sequel to The Wizard of Oz.
Now assuming you have good cable, you've no doubt seen the definitive screen version of your children's classic--the 1939 musical starring Judy Garland as Kansas farm girl Dorothy Gale.
"Over the Rainbow." Dancing Munchkins. Toto, too. Good stuff, agreed? Agreed.
Now, as to the matter of a sequel...Um, you ever hear of Rod Steiger?
Actor. Oscar-winner. Tough guy. Maybe you caught him in Carpool, perhaps?
Anyway, Mr. Steiger, as we said, is an actor--except what he apparently really wants to do is write and so, at age 73, he's written--a screenplay sequel to The Wizard of Oz.
Oh, he's not the first to try this--grim stuff like Return to Oz is proof enough of that. And we know that you cranked out more than a few follow-ups in novel-form yourself.
But Steiger...well, he might have come up with a first for the series.
He tells columnist Marilyn Beck that his script features an AARP-eligible Dorothy returning to the living-color world of talking trees and flying monkeys.
To play the 60-year-old recovering tornado victim, Steiger says he's lobbying for...Elizabeth Taylor.
Don't know if your tabloid subscriptions are current, but--how to describe Ms. Taylor? She's kind of like the anti-Cal Ripkin. A package stamped: "Fragile Cargo."
(On the plus side, Liz does come with her own Toto--a little Matisse named Sugar.)
Anyway, Steiger says Taylor is interested.
"She has written me a note saying how much she wants to do it--and she would be perfect for it," Steiger tells Beck.
Taylor's reps couldn't be reached for comment.
That's all we know for now, Mr. Baum. We just thought we'd let you know.
In case you want to start spinning or anything.
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