Unfortunately, the writers, Kario Salem, Lem Dobbs, and Scott Marshall Smith, and the director, Frank Oz, worked out the plot without working out how the audience should feel about anything that happens.

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The long list includes astronaut Neil Armstrong, dancer Fred Astaire, Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, brewer Adolphus Busch, singer John Denver, entertainment entrepreneur Walt Disney, physicist Albert Einstein, New York Yankee legend Lou Gehrig, condiment king Henry J.

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He moved on to the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, the Tarzan and Martian adventures by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the classic science fiction of Jules Verne and horror of Edgar Allan Poe.

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The MGM movie has been, over the decades, almost too successful: Few producers wanted to return to Oz for fear of competing with Judy Garland, Frank Morgan and company.

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