Well, my painter is a
very interesting man. I’m delighted to say that he looks like he is on a course
of success. I hope he is getting his life together, he says he is. I really
hope so. We do chat about everything. Well. Almost. I gave him his coffee.
First time I have been to the sugar jar in a while. And saw that there is
hardly any left. Because I don’t use it
neither does Hub or Teen in general, I always get a shock when I see how little
there is, then I remember it has been six or so weeks since I remembered to put
it in my shopping basket. Good job he is only here today or, tomorrow’s coffee?
I guess I could take
a walk early in the morning to buy some.
So what were he and I talking about, well, after his troubles
bless him and again thankfully he seems to be on top of those right now, other
than that,
The wizard of Oz.
A tale which we all find innocent I’m sure. According to my
painter, far from it. So just with a few words from him, I decided to do some
research.
The tale of a girl and her dog travelling the yellow brick
road, with characters such as the scarecrow and the tin man? Well, the actress
Judy Garland was christened Frances Gum.
She at the age of sixteen was given cocaine to keep her
awake and sleeping pills to make her sleep.
She was made a stole from fir and the designer made it so it
could hold a flask and it was full of vodka.
The first tin man as there were two, his costume was made
from paint and he had a reaction to it ended up not being able to play the part
but on breathing machines for the rest of his life. The second tinman his costume
was still made from aluminium, but rather than paint, they used paste so was
better for him.
The scarecrow had scars for a year after the movie with the glue
they used and the snow in the film was asbestos.
The set temperatures oftern exceeded more than 100 degrees.
In L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, “The wonderful wizard of Oz.
Dorothy’s slippers was silver but in the movie they were ruby to take advantage
of the technical wow colour.
Multi pairs of slippers were made and one pair were stolen
in 2005
Judy Garland couldn’t stop laughing in the scene when she
had to slap the cowardly lion, so the director came and slapped her.
The lions costume was auctioned for 3 million dollars.
Liza Minnelli daughter of Judy in real life married the real
Son of the tin man.
The poor dog in the movie got stood on by one of the
munchkins perhaps deliberately? They were paid $100 per week whereas the dog
was paid $150
Over the rainbow the famous song almost didn’t make the
movie.
The wicked witch was burned badly during making the film.
Gosh, wow. Suddenly it all seems to be wrong, one of the first
productions Hub and I did at school was the Wizard of Oz. He oddly was the
lion. I was Aunt Em. Haha. I have said before another production we did he was
a vicar and I was his house keeper. As I have also said before, nothing has
changed there, right?
It was that play when I know now what I know about why Hub
and I should have been together from the day we parted at 12. Not noon, but
twelve years old.
OK, more drama with my painter. I think he is using the
hairdryer on my paint to hurry it up. Oh good grief. Odd expression I have just
used. Good grief? Is there such a thing and where does good grief expression
come from? Its origin? Well all I know is seems to be in place of Good
God. That is all I know that it sounds
like it the G word. If you know better, educate a Fifi. OK going to get teen
out of bed whilst the coast is clear. Yet another English phrase. My English
students can tick with a red pen to use in their next essays. Smile. PS painter
gone for long lunch. He wanted to come back tomorrow its one in the afternoon
for goodness sake. No, you can finish it today. So the hairdryer didn’t work….
Laters
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