Where is everyone? It's been so slow here lately. Are you out there?!!! :)

What a great movie! I've watched it at least once a year since I was a young child, and

I never tire of it. Your DS must have been entranced. It's absolute genius.

 
Michael, it's good to know I'm not the only one. I tend to move in a different direction than the

majority in many regards, and it can feel quite isolating!

 
Me too, Meryl! Sometimes you have to realign your life to the things that are truely important....

like oil, kinky shoes and knowing the thermonuclear level necessary to melt evil witches.

 
I do enjoy a good movie, but the yearly ritual of the Oscars never...

...did much for me.

I did deduce that Hollywood is extremely lavish in its self-congratulation.

A friend who watched called me this morning and told me I didn't miss a whole lot. Ratings were down 10% over previous years, and he got tired of the preaching.

The food at the after-parties would interest me a lot more!

Michael

 
Meryl, I used to watch it each year on television, but haven't seen it in about 20 years -

it is still as good as ever! It was like sitting down with an old friend, and my husband and I had fun explaining things to our son (he is 6).

Even though the special effects technology in movies has come so far since this movie was made - it still holds up. Nothing is scarier than a bonafide Wicked Witch and flying monkeys!

I had forgotten about alot of things, such as the apple trees that don't want their fruit picked, and the "horse of a different color" that pulls the carriage when Dorothy & friends first arrive in the Emerald City.

What started the whole thing was my husband's recent trip to Kansas. He brought DS a T-shirt that reads:

From the Desk of Toto
Dear Dorothy,
Hate Oz.
Took the Shoes
Find your own way home.

Toto


Since DS had no idea what any of this was all about, it was the perfect time to watch it.

 
I dunno... I don't consider myself a "mainstream">>>>

personality, but I LOVE the Academy Awards!! They definitely represent a part of the American culture, which is so very small, as it is. I must admit, that I never can keep my eyes open, past 10, or so, but I love to see the costumes, the makeup, hear the comments, and just experience the total thing. Each to his own, I guess!! Just finished watching the Oprah After Show.... can't miss that either. Oh well.

 
IT is much more entertaining when you've seen a lot of the nominated films -

which I have not done in a very long time.

The most fun things about the Oscars to me was going to our friends home every year for a party. We always did food themed from the films, and it was a lot of fun.

One year, we went to a party where everyone dressed as though they were attending the Oscars. The hosts turned the front sidewalk of their home into a Hollywood Walk of Fame, with all of the guests names in stars written with sidewalk chalk. And somehow, they had managed to find a real Oscar statue at a Thrift store somewhere in Hollywood. It was one from some very obscure category, I've forgotten which one. So everyone took turns holding the Oscar and getting their picture taken with it. Lots of fun, though I don't have the faintest clue of who or what movie won that year. smileys/wink.gif

 
Lisa, I also LOVE the Wizard of OZ.... altho, I remember seeing it for the first time>>>

at a very young age, and having terrible nightmares about that wicked witch.... Of course, LOL, in those days, there weren't all the terrible nighmarish things present in
the world, that there are today!!! How times change!!

 
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