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Credit the Cannes moguls for one thing. They know when to drop a cold potato. Except for The Apple, an Israeli version of The Wiz, and a pathetic promotion for Can't Stop the Music, there was no mention of disco...
...When The Wiz was previewing in Detroit five years ago, it looked as if the Yellow Brick Road might lead back to Kansas, not Broadway. Applause was limper than the Scarecrow's limbs. Then Geoffrey Holder, who had designed the costumes, was asked to doctor the production. Holder brought the part of the Wiz into sharp focus, wowed the audience with a black tornado stirred up with 100 yds. of silk streamers, and exhorted the frazzled cast members to believe in themselves. It all worked: The Wiz won the 1975 Tony Award for best musical...
...displaced due to the election of Peter Moss of Brown in one of the guard positions, despite being listed as a forward throughout the season. The Crimson's freshman scorer. Don Fleming gained an honorable mention although Yale's Tim Daaleman copped Rookie of the Year laurels. Winnemuca Wiz" Bob Hooft also earned honorable mention...
...movie, starring Brad Davis (Midnight Express), and directed by Rob Cohen (The Wiz), concerns life in the '60s. Shooting at Harvard will begin March 26, Alexandra said...
...visions of sugar plums dance in their heads but Darth Vader's star fighters. "It was cool," says a nine-year-old Chinese girl, adding: "They said it was all a scientific thing." A small black boy asks, "Hey man, who do you think runs this place, the Wiz...