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Happy 70th birthday to the wizard of oz........

I love this movie its still classic and beautiful at 70,this movie is just full of inspiration,colour,rainbows,ruby slippers,toto,wonderful characters.....

We have been lucky enough to see Wicked and we loved it if you get the chance put on your red sparkly shoes and go see it,I love it because you just have so much more understanding of the characters and the storys so much deeper and heartfelt -WONDERFUL!!!!!

ALWAYS BE A FIRST RATE VERSION OF YOURSELF,INSTEAD OF A SECOND RATE VERSION OF SOMEBODY ELSE-judy garland

luv n fur xo

 

Wow. It's been awhile since my ass, has been around this neck of the woods. Been lots of news. So excuse me if I do this in dot point.

• I got engaged, yes you read that right. Miss Cynical I'm never getting married, is engaged. I met him last year, he was a support act for an artist I was merching for. And sang one of my all time favourite songs. And slowly after a lot of persistance from him, I agreed to go out with him, and we were lucky enough that he'd just finished up touring, so we were lucky enough to be together pretty much 24/7. Followed by our engagement in April this year. Followed by his label dropping the bomb on us that they were sending him to London for six months to start recording his third album, I made the decision to stay in Australia, and over the past few weeks, have relocated from Melbourne to Adelaide, until he gets back in November, because it's bloody hard to find somewhere on a three month lease. So for now I'm located and working out of Adelaide. Until we decide what we're doing when he gets back. Chances are when January/February rolls around we'll be up and away from here. Either London, NY, LA, or back to Melbourne.
  
  
• I was hosting a weekly Punk & Metal show titled Youth Riot on SYN FM in Melbourne, for the last six months. In that time I got to work and meet some awesome people, conduct some amazing interviews. But due to my relocation to Adelaide, I've had to leave the show behind, and hand over the reigns to some highly qualified ladies. Hopefully, I'll find another awesome radio gig soon, and be back assulting everyones ears on the radio, because by god it's an awesome, fun job.
  
  
• I haven't been merching for a couple of months now, and I'm missing it. I'm hoping a tour I like will come along soon that I can get on. I decided I'd take a break because within the first 5 months of the year I worked with over 30  seperate artists and bands (last year when I started merching I only worked with 13 artists). This year I have worked  with everyone from Nightwish, to Cyndi Lauper, Incubus, Magaret Cho, Toto, Ray Davies, Sinead O'Connor, Harry Connick Jnr, Patty Griffin, The Black Crowes, Duran Duran, Jose Feliciano, Eels, I even did a short stint for the Kiev Ballet.

So thats about all the major gossip. For the regular day-to-day stuff. You can check it all out over at my site. www.Toni-Marie.net.
    xxx -Toni-Marie
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Most times I do not like how a remake of the great classic movies are done. All most every time ether it is butchered, badly done, or done very poorly. Not many time does a remake come along that not only honors the original but adds to it and makes something just as good or better.

I am happy to say that the SciFi mini movie 'Tin Man' not only is an awesome new version of the classic movie 'The Wizard of Oz'. It is also a very well written remake that adds to and tells the story in a whole new light.



In this version Dororthy

is now called DG

She is a little older, bolder, and wants to leave her home in Kansas. She lives with just her Mother and Father. It is when the newer version of the wicket witch, The Sorceress

the new version of the original wicket witch

sends her Longcoats through a travel storm to kill DG The parents toss DG in the storm. Sending her to the O.Z. (O.Z. stands for the Outer Zone now.)
When DG awakes she is alone and in the middle of the woods with some scaps of wood from her house. She first meets an interesting version of the munchkins. They are now a tree dwelling tribe.
Like the original she meets her friends in the same order, but all are different now.
First is Glitch a man with a zipper on his head whose brain was taken by the sorceress because of something he knew, earning him the name of Glitch (because sometimes his "synapses don't fire right"). He was once named Ambrose, a brilliant inventor.

The Sci Fi version of the Scarecrow

Then they find the Tin Man, Detective Wyatt Cain,

A former police man, a.k.a. "Tin Man", of the Mystic Man's protection detail. He joined a resistance movement against Azkadellia's rule, incurring her wrath. After his family was captured by Azkadellia's Longcoat soldiers, Cain was locked for years in a tin suit resembling an iron maiden, while the scene of his family's torture was played repeatedly. Despite his seemingly cold nature, he agrees to lead DG and Glitch to Central City and acts as their guardian.
Like the original Tin Man

he also is looking for his heart.
Last they save Raw, a man DG rescues from being the Papé's dinner. Though somewhat human in appearance he has an animal-like nature. Raw is a "viewer" with empathic and healing abilities who ran away from his people out of fear.

Like the original Cowardly Lion

he also lacks courage or so he thinks.
Toto is also in here

but this time Dorothy finds in in O.Z. and he is now a shape shifter called Tutor who was once the teacher of magic to DG. As a child, DG mispronounced his name/title and called him Toto.

Emerald City is now called Central City and this is where they meet The Mystic Man a former leader of Central City.

Like the Wizard before he is not as powerful as he appears and smarter than he lets on to be.

In this version. You will not believe what they do with him in this new version. It is wild, amazing, and in part two shocking.
The Tin Man has already aired on the Sci Fi channel, but I am sher that with its high ratings it will be aired again. Also the DVD will be out March 11, 2008.
If you can ether buy or rent. I thought is was done very good. If you see or do see it let me know your thoughts on it.

So there you have the new

that does honor the classic

To me the best way to do a remake.