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...Wizard of Oz lives 110 stories above the ground, on a bridge connecting the twin towers of Manhattan's World Trade Center. The Beatles-or pretty good substitutes-are alive, well and together in a corn-belt Shangri-la called Heartland, U.S.A. The Age of Aquarius has dawned again in Central Park, and the hippies are back selling their gospel of love and kindness. And down at the high school they are wearing pegged pants and leather jackets, as John Travolta, the heartthrob of the '70s, gives a belated tour...
...dollar terms, the greatest risk rides on The Wiz, which is costing $20 million. The producers, basing the film on the Broadway show, made the characters black. Dorothy sets off for Oz not from the plains of Kansas, but from Harlem. When Diana Ross, who is in her 30s, decided she wanted to play Dorothy, who was a young girl in the original, there was another transmogrification. "Since we decided she's a black adult," says Writer Joel Schumacher, "we couldn't just make her a little jerk...
...these new music makers like to think they are keeping the spirit of the old MGM musicals like The Wizard of Oz. "One of the things that made an MGM musical work," says Edwards, "was that they created towns filled with happy people who happened to possess musical skills. That fantasy still endures...
...seem to get it right. Nearly 18 hours into New Year's Day 1977 they produced their first child, Stephanie Jean, in the Penobscot Valley Hospital in Lincoln, Me. Having taken up residence in Brattleboro, Vt., the couple staged a repeat performance last week: 7-lb. 11-oz. Shaun came into the world at 1:43 a.m. on Jan. 1, Vermont's first baby of '78. This unlikely event gave Stephanie an unusual birthday present and her parents some local celebrity...
...billed as "a light program in which the guests play themselves," so Denis Healey, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, accepted the BBC's invitation to appear in a TV parody of The Wizard of Oz. Decked out in a red cape and his own extravagant eyebrows, Healey plunks Over the Rainbow on a piano and hams it up with the denizens of Emerald City. At the end of his appearance, he called for contributions to the IMF-the International Magicians' Fund, that is-and beamed: "You just wave a wand and suddenly find your pockets stuffed...