The Wiz

[ceebeegee]

So I Netflixed The Wiz and watched it this week for the first time since I was a kid. WHOAH. Very, very strange movie--I've never seen the original stage version but Duncan said it was very different...and I guess it's set in Kansas? Which is sort of weird as well--Kansas is pretty white, isn't it? I will say, I like that they reset it in NYC,

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what was in the LA water in the late '70s,...?

[neoscribe]

Methaqualone, y' dig? 714s? Lemmons? Disco Biscuits?
PS: You should see the show's composer Charlie Smalls explain the differences bewtween white and black music to Davy Jones in a Monkees second season outing. After viewing this, all your questions from above would be appeased.

Re: what was in the LA water in the late '70s,...?

[ceebeegee]

Do you have a link to the Charlie Smalls clip?

BTW, look at what I found!

Watch The Greatest American Hero online!

Re: what was in the LA water in the late '70s,...?

[neoscribe]

Youtube is blocked here at work, nut here is a TRANSCRIPT: http://monkeestv3.tripod.com/MonkeesInterviews/David_Micky_Michael_Guests/lukewarm_CS-DJ.html

[king_duncan]

I've heard that the producers wanted Stephanie Mills, but Ross told them she could get them Michael Jackson if they hired her instead.

[ceebeegee]

I think I've read that as well. Well, MJ was almost worth it, 'cause he's so good in this, but Diana--oy. She's just so miscast.

[neoscribe]

TOO OLD