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Why Liza Minnelli can’t watch “The Wizard of Oz”
If your mom was the star of one of the most beloved movies of all time, you’d probably want to watch that film from time to time.Not Liza Minnelli.
Her mother, Judy Garland, is the star of The Wizard of Oz which is celebrating its 7oth anniversary this year and continues to enchant generation after generation of kids.
But Garland’s character of Dorothy and her friends Scarecrow, Tun Man and the Cowardly Lion have to fight off the Wicked Witch of the West and other horrors as they make the journey to Emerald City to seek the help of The Wizard of Oz.
“I just loved her so and for some reason ‘The Wizard of Oz’ bothers me when I see it,” Liza tells the Associated Press. “They do terrible things to her. … That’s ’cause it’s my mom.”
As long as we’re talking about this, I admit that to this day, the flying monkeys still creep me out – a lot!
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Paul says:
It’s the movie’s 70th anniversary. It was released in 1939.
Greg Hernandez says:
Fixed it! Thanks Paul.