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...Wizard of Oz (1939): Now, isn't it about time that some good, clean, family entertainment appeared on television? Actually, this is the Wizard's 16th incarnation. Some trivia: When editing the film in 1939, MGM executives decided to drop the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" number. Too sentimental, they said; slows down the film. Lyricist E.Y. Harburg talked them out of it. Aren't you glad? Ch. 4, 6:30 p.m. Color (except for the scenes in Kansas), 2 hours...
...contestants, Zed and Boorman are not bashful about flaunting their education. Bolstered by his psychic seminar. Zed drops quotes from Ecdesiastes, T.S. Eliot and Nietzsche, whose idea of a superman he now suggests. For himself, Boorman borrows -and cunningly acknowledges-a crucial image from L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. The trouble is that none of these sources is assimilated; they are like footnotes without a source. Fortunately there are some bright intervals of self-deprecatory humor that lighten the occasional pomposity of the material...
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...else: a middle aged professional crook holing up in Cannes to rob a fancy (Van Cleef's) jewelry store, is smitten by the antique dealer who runs the shop adjacent. He pursues her by as labyrinthine a design as the one he lays for the robbery. He's no wizard at mind-reading, however, and both plans backfire. The police nab him (for some mysterious reason he dawdles at the scene of the crime--goofy, considering all of his other precautions), and while he does win his way into Francoise's bed, it seems to happen more through a combination...
...waiting for. It's not safe to underestimate this song's power as performed. With all the arrogance, frustration and simple sneering punk hostility The Who bring to the stage, coupled with the substantial amounts of same written into the song...well, there was an obvious emotional peak. "Pinball Wizard" initiated hysteria--as much because it's from the by now deified Tommy as for any musical worth. It was well done, and faithful, with Daltry finally in good voice and Townshend alternating subtleties and musical invective. "See Me, Feel Me" is the closing number. It is Tommy's strongest...