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...musical, which opened on Broadway in 1948 and ran for an impressive 792 shows. Featuring music and lyrics by Broadway great Frank Loesser, Where's Charley was later turned into a movie in 1952. The movie starred Ray Bolger, better known as the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, who won a Tony for his performance as the original Charley...
Moving from ordinary chat into palacespace is like stepping from grainy Kansas into technicolor Oz. Suddenly you're in a bar, on a beach, in Xena's Warrior Palace. Wandering through these computer-generated spaces are avatars ("avs"), visual markers of a human presence that can be pretty much anything, from a wolfhound to a smiley face, James Dean to your own humble head shot. Click on a spot in the room, and your av reappears there. Type sorry to the guy you landed on, and your contrition appears in a thought balloon above your head...
Maybe you're more of a purist. Maybe the combination Adam Sandler, football, and potty humor just doesn't do anything for you. In that case, you might want to pass on the Waterboy and spend $7.75 on a ticket for the opening of The Wizard of Oz, digitally remastered in all its emerald glory.Check your local listings for theaters and showtimes...
...outline, Pleasantville sounds like the most derivative movie of all time: a bit of Back to the Future (teen time travel), a whit of The Wizard of Oz (the color of dreams), a plot from The Purple Rose of Cairo (with actor Jeff Daniels linking two stories of real and reel life), a lot from The Truman Show (except that here everyone in town believes in the grand fiction of a perfectly ordered society). But Ross, who helped create two other fantasies of displacement, Big and Dave, has more in mind: Follow your heart, not the rules...
Business Week recently likened the business school experience to Dorothy's trip to Oz...