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"The Wizard of Oz" was a sensation on Broadway as a musical extravaganza in 1903, to Baum's delight, even though the vaudeville-style show bore little resemblance to his book.

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The movie was much-maligned when it opened in 1980, partly because Popeye's guttural mutterings were hard to understand (as they were meant to be), but mainly because the screwy characters and their antic behavior bore no resemblance to such comic-book competition as "Superman II, " which opened the same year.

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