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...Wizard of Oz: Everybody's seen this one on T.V., but there's no way it can compare to seeing it on the screen and letting jack Haley, Burt Lahr, and Ray Bolger dance you off to the Emerald City in the sweetest fashion this side of a tornado. This movie just doesn't seem to fade--and how could it, with classic songs, great cameos, and munchkins to boot. Cynics in the crowd may yell "Cora!" when the wicked witch appears on the screen, but those are the kind of people who liked Animal House...
...Emerald City it wasn't, but the chandeliered ballroom of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills held treasures of its own last week. Up for auction were 423 possessions of the late Judy Garland. Among the items on the block: Garland's copy of the musical arrangement of Over the Rainbow, a pair of loaded dice given to her by Humphrey Bogart (purchased by Actress Lily Tomlin for $1,200), Judy's The Wizard of Oz scrapbook, and the beaded silk jacket she wore at Carnegie Hall. The highest sum -$60,000-was shelled...
...interstate transportation of obscene material. He was held without bail; police also arrested a companion, Anna Jeanette Evans, 40, who was waiting for him outside the bank, and charged her with aiding a known fugitive. In Thevis' car, police found seven guns, $1 million in diamond and emerald jewelry and $450,000 in cash...
...certainly found this to be true. That book, also published by Abrams, immediately hopped to the bestseller list, where it has shown remarkable staying power. This lively sequel obviously hopes to re-Ipeat the gnomic phenomenon. g Froud and Lee concentrate mainly on the folklore of the British land Emerald isles, though they note that nearly every culture has its appropriate Third World of mischievous wee folk. A Celtic bumpkin can be enticed by his loccal wood spirits into a jigathon that makes years seem like minutes. In America, a Catskill rube glike Rip Van Winkle loses himself...
...empty helicopter pad is a forlorn reminder of power brutally rescinded. The scraggly-haired surfers shoulder their boards in the morning sun and scuff down the nearby path to their emerald waves, unmindful of Richard Nixon, who stirs beyond the fence in the skeletal complex that used to be the Western White House...