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Last November, Horsley, who had known Chesselet for a number of years, invited her ten days ahead of time to see The Wiz and she agreed to meet him at a San Francisco bar before the show. After a 50-mile drive to the city, Horsley arrived to find Chesselet there with another man. She explained that an old flame had turned up and that she had tried unsuccessfully to call Horsley to cancel their date. According to Horsley, she also offered to reimburse...
...Diane Keaton. Wasn't she just...gee, wow, I mean...this is...I don't what...gee-wiz...wonderful...
Holder throws bolts and bolts of gaudy cloth over a production, possibly to hide its flaws. With The Wiz it worked, since the show had a story line that could be playfully transposed to a jazzy urban-ghetto setting. But Kismet was a fable, and fables are too fragile for Holder's broad, jumping, visceral style...
...engine, it might have been as big as a football field, would have been powered by steam, and would have sounded as noisy as a boiler factory. Yet the same principles underlying the clangorous computations it would have made can be found in today's silent electronic wiz ards, all of which contain five basic sections...
...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...