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THE WIZARD Canvas-acrylic-spraypaint 100/100 cm 2008

Forget Royal Ascot and the Melbourne Cup, the not-to-be-missed event of this year’s racing calendar is taking place in Oamaru.

The opening of the annual Victorian Heritage Celebrations will be a combined celebration with the Oamaru Harness Club to mark its 100th anniversary.

A village green atmosphere will be created at the race course for the twilight race meeting with mini-marquees erected for businesses and the public encouraged to bring a picnic lunch, have a punt, and soak up the atmosphere.

One of the day’s ‘heritage’ features will be an invited drivers race.

In addition to some fine harness racing action, a unique array of events has been planned including the release of 100 homing pigeons to mark the Club’s centennial; a dual Sulky Celebrity Race featuring guests including Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean, Mayor Alex Familton and The Wizard; a penny farthing stunt rider and sprint races; a Saddle Pace and a Horse & Carriage Parade.

Victorian dress is encouraged but not required. Racegoers who do dress in period costume will be able to enter  the Victorian Fashion in the Fields competition with attractive prizes. Away from the track and live entertainment, a village tipster and full dining, bar and tote facilities will form part of a grand day out.

The twilight meeting starts at 2.30pm on Wednesday November 18.

by Jonathan Hickman (writer), Dale Eaglesham (art), Paul Mounts (colors), and Rus Wooton (letters)

The Story: After fighting a gang of robots in typical FF style, Reed enters the Bridge to meet a “council” of very familiar faces.

What’s Good: As a Fantastic Four comic, Hickman’s first go is generally a success for being 22 pages of pure fun that manages to put a smile on your face.  In other words, it’s exactly how an FF comic should be.  The battle with the robots is flashy and fun, the bad guy sounds suitably crazy, providing the necessary darkness in an otherwise bright comic, and the comic ends with some required inter-dimensional wackiness.

A special mention must go to the first scene of the book.  It truly is an iconic way to begin a run, feeling both intimate and grand. It’s touching, yet it also foreshadows an epic lot of stories to come. Let’s hope Hickman can live up to that promise.

It’s always a test for a writer’s first issue on a venerable series; and it’s good to see that Hickman has a solid handle on the various characters’ voices.  Johnny and Ben maintain their humourous banter (or glum moroseness in the case of Ben), but a special mention must go to the way Hickman handles the kids.  The kids are all too often the victims of poor writing, either sounding mentally handicapped, inappropriately mature, or some bizarre hybrid of the two that just sound off. Hickman passes the test with flying colors.  Franklin sounds like the fun, adventurous kid that he is, while Val definitely sounds too old for her age, but it’s appropriate for her character and Hickman makes sure to point out the oddity of it while maintaining Val’s tone of innocence despite the outrageous maturity of her dialogue. She’s still a kid, just an outrageously smart one.

All told, this is a fun comic that takes a little break from the Dark Reign glumness. It’s nice to see Reed venturing out into alternate Earths and in-between spaces once again. The party he finds on the other side of the bridge is a bit of surreal, almost comedic fun, while the last page reveal promises more cosmic mayhem to come.

What’s Not So Good: While Eaglesham’s art is solid by and large, it needs to be asked: what the hell is up with Reed? When did the lanky scientist become a world-class bodybuilder? This may sound like I’m nitpicking, but it’s really distracting. Seriously, Richards looks way, way too buff.

Despite Eaglesham’s calibre as an artist, I did find some of his action scenes in the early parts of the issue a little hard to follow at points as well. I could tell that the Thing was clobbering a robot, but how and what part of the robot remained a bit of a mystery. I’m not sure if the panels were too small, or what it was exactly, but it was a little hard to decipher.

Also, while the comic is far from unreadable, I do feel as though I would have benefited from reading Hickman’s Dark Reign: Fantastic Four miniseries, which is a little irritating.

Conclusion: A solid and promising start to what will hopefully be nice run.

Grade: B+

-Alex Evans

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Ficha Técnica
The Wizard Of Oz (EUA)
O Feiticeiro de Oz (PT)
O Mágico de Oz (BR)

1939 / colorido / 101 min

Direção: Victor Fleming
Roteiro: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf
Elenco: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke e Margaret Hamilton
Género: Musical / Infantil / Fantasia
Idioma: Inglês
Música: Harold Arlen
Distribuição:
MGM (1939-1986)
MGM e Turner Entertainment (1986-1997)
Warner Bros. (1998-atual)

Um pouco sobre…
O roteiro começou a ser escrito e reescrito em 1938 com várias alterações em relação ao livro. Além de a obra escrita ser muito violenta para a época, os produtores optaram por fazer tudo como um sonho, ao invés de um lugar fantasioso que existiria de verdade.
O filme começou a ser dirigido por Norman Taurog, sendo substituído por Richard Thorpe. Este, após o incidente com Ebsen, pulou fora do projeto sendo brevemente substituído por George Cukor e finalmente Victor Fleming assumiu a direção. King Vidor acabou dando uma ajuda ao amigo dirigindo as cenas passadas no Kansas e filmadas em preto e branco e depois convertidas para o tom sépia. As filmagens foram difíceis e caóticas. Os atores eram obrigados a chegar muito cedo ao estúdio para passar horas se maquiando e saiam tarde da noite. Isso, seis vezes por semana. Mesmo para fazer a sequência na terra dos Munchkins, a MGM teve de varrer o país em busca de uma centena de anões.

Premiações

Curiosidades
-Este filme ocupa a 6ª colocação na Lista dos 100 Maiores Filmes Americanos de todos os tempos, divulgada em 1998 pelo American Film Institute (AFI).
-Este filme ocupa a 3ª colocação na Lista dos 25 Maiores Musicais Americanos de todos os tempos, idealizada pelo American Film Institute (AFI) e divulgada em 2006.
- A canção Over the Rainbow é a mais conhecida do filme, e já tocou em uma novela da Globo (Chocolate com Pimenta).
*lembram? toca no ultimo episodio da novela (sim eu assisti a novela ha’)
- Judy Garland se casou com Vincent Minnell e teve sua primeira filha Liza Minelli.
Recomendo
- Ver o filme The Wizard of Oz (O Mágico de Oz) – Vitor Fleming
*não me canso de assistir, ja decorei as musicas e até algumas falas… tambem eu vejo esse fime a pelo menos uns 5 anos ha’

- Ler o livro Wicked (Maligna, Para os que amam ou odeiam o Mágico de Oz) – Gregory Maguire
“Todos conhecem a clássica história da garotinha Dorothy de O mágico de Oz. Mas o que dizer de sua arquiinimiga? Alguém já ouviu a versão dessa história contada pela misteriosa Bruxa do Oeste?”
*É um dos meus livros preferidos. Adoro quando uma historia tem duas versões, agora posso ver a historia por dois angulos.