The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for September 24, 2013

I can see why it was a flop with preview audiences.

Blam! (roll credits)

Who’s gonna get the slippers now?

talk about raising the roof….

Karma, Dorothy…

There were thirteen other Oz books by Baum, all of which might make a good movie.

They could have ended it with a Sharknado….

But an ending much loved by wicked witches everywhere.

The Fall of the House of Gale, by L. Frank Bomb

This ending works! After all it was established early on in the film, that wearing those slippers was dangerous for that very reason.

The house landed on Dorothy?

We’re not in Kansas any more—-

In the 1939 movie, we do see the house come crashing down right before she wakes up.

for the tin man home is where your heart isfor the scar crow, home is in the mind of the beholderfor the cowerdly lion HOME IS COMING RUN!

Not really clear what’s going on here. Is the idea that, instead of the slippers taking Dorothy home, they brought her house to her? Or is it that wearing ruby slippers statistically increases the odds of a tornado-borne house landing on you?

As for movie versus book, both are wonderful, but there are a ton of differences between the two, not the least of which is that the events of the book were not a dream. For a different take on the whole Oz business, see Philip Jose Farmer’s novel, A Barnstormer in Oz.

’The Day of the Jackal" seemed pretty true to the book.

Pretty disgusting ending to a nice story, glad it is not used!

I wonder what realtor will handle this deal?

My head can come up with more weird situations than that of “The Wizard fo Oz”…….so tame.