Showing posts with label Ozma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ozma. Show all posts
18 June 2024

The Missing Princess of the Marvelous Land

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I’ve been thinking about how The Marvelous Land of Oz could be more of a mystery. As it is, the book is a roller-coaster ride of political ...
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01 December 2015

Oz Art to Wish for from Linda Medley

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This is one of the most potent images from the Oz book mythos: Dorothy is wearing the Magic Belt and making a wish. Something’s gonna happ...
29 September 2015

The Electric “Elements of Oz”

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Elements of Oz is a new stage/video show that seems to combine an homage to the MGM movie with Ozma’s Magic Picture. (Which, as we all kn...
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11 February 2014

Shirley Temple in Oz

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Shirley Temple was known in her childhood as an Oz fan, mentioning the books in interviews and being photographed with them. Her name was ...
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07 January 2014

Ozma with “Tresses of Ruddy Gold”

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This is Brigette Barrager’s portrait of Ozma, created for the Gallery Nucleus exhibit. Barrager’s webpage shows a sketch for this image,...
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28 November 2013

Let Us Be Thankful That This Isn’t Rerun Every Year

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In 1980 the Muller Rosen animation company released a half-hour holiday special for television titled Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz . Tha...
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01 October 2013

Munchkin Economics

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Mari Ness harrumphs over a comment from a Citibank economist: “The world’s largest economy looks like the Land of Oz run by munchkins.” Q...
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03 April 2013

More Revisionist Ozian History from L. Frank Baum

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L. Frank Baum revised the character of the Wizard of Oz back to a capable and even lovable showman in his fourth novel in the series,  Do...
02 April 2013

“He wasn’t so much of a Wizard as he might have been.”

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This is how Tip, the young hero of L. Frank Baum ’s second Oz book , explains the first to his creation Jack Pumpkinhead: “Where are we g...
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20 March 2013

What Oz the Great and Powerful Draws from Baum’s Works

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The credits for Oz the Great and Powerful say the movie is “Based on the Works of L. Frank Baum .” Those works are in the public domain, ...
05 December 2012

Glinda as a "respectable sorceress”

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As I wrote yesterday , in The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) L. Frank Baum started describing Glinda the Good as a “Sorceress” instead of ...
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27 November 2012

Oz, the Small and Meek

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At Slate, Aisha Harris raised some serious questions about Sam Raimi’s upcoming movie Oz, the Great and Powerful , based on the most recent...
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21 August 2012

Ozma, the Birthday Girl

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Though L. Frank Baum probably never intended to convey this information, today is the birthday of Ozma , fairy queen of Oz. Some passages...
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30 May 2012

Reconciling with the Wizard of Oz

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Yesterday I described a review of a latter-day Oz book by Hugh Pendexter III. Among Oz fans he’s best known for his short book Oz and the...
02 February 2012

The Second Oz Series

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When L. Frank Baum returned to the Oz series , he had left Dorothy and Ozma in a good place. Too good a place, in fact. Supposedly he was...
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20 September 2011

Dubious Monarchy in the Work of L. Frank Baum

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Last week I discussed the penchant of children’s fantasy for depicting monarchies instead of other forms of government. Such books show bad...
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20 April 2011

Two Issues of Oziana Back to Back!

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Oziana 2009 (described yesterday) and Oziana 2010 comprise a double issue, bound back to back, each with a full complement of new and orig...
24 February 2011

To Ozopolis and Back

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Ozopolis is a new Oz comic, written and published by Kirk Kushin and illustrated in black and white by Gonzalo Martinez. It’s firmly based ...
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21 February 2011

Fables and Ozian Decadence

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Yesterday I quoted comics scripter Bill Willingham ’s 2009 essay against “Superhero Decadence,” which appears to be a politicized way of ex...
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22 February 2010

Not a Bit of It

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Doing far more than is called for, Mari Ness recently reviewed The Cowardly Lion of Oz , by Ruth Plumly Thompson , at the Tor website. Publi...
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