It has models with either 22 or 24 frets that are housed in slightly larger necks, known as the Wizard III, compared to the thinner Wizard necks that the RG has.

It has been said ( citation: following Blanche's request, " tell me you married me for my bod and not for my money ", the Wizard puts on a lightning conductor hat, grounds it thoroughly, and swears, " may lightning strike me dead ... it was not for your money ( strip of 4 / 30 / 1976, also published in " My Kingdom For A Horsie!

The Wizard of Id has enjoyed a successful life to date.

* In Italy, The Wizard of Id is known as Mago Wiz ( Wiz The Sorcerer ) and has been published with great success in the comics magazines Il Mago and Linus, and in the science fiction magazine Urania, plus several hardcover editions also by Mondadori.

The Wizard of New Zealand, QSM ( born Ian Brackenbury Channell ; 4 December 1932 ) is an English-born New Zealand educator, comedian, magician and politician, who has become something of a national icon of New Zealand.

After the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake the Wizard has planned to retire and leave Christchurch for good saying the town he loved had gone and that it was the end of an era.

Wizard Books has since released several new titles including Blood of the Zombies by Ian Livingstone to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary in 2012.

The Wizard of Oz has been adapted to other media numerous times, most famously in the MGM's 1939 film starring Judy Garland.

His real name has been revealed in The Wizard to be Daniel Deathshead Morgan.

The Wizard of Oz parallels continue inside, where the Wizard is revealed to be Marten Broadcloak, also known as Randall Flagg, who flees when Roland attempts to kill him with Jake's Ruger and narrowly misses ( Flagg has bewitched Roland's own guns, saying, " Only misfires against me, Roland, old fellow ").

One has been pursuing the Wizard because of this.

He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, whose tombstone carried his real name on the front, while noting his appearance as the Wizard on the back, and has 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for motion pictures at 1708 Vine Street and for radio at 6700 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Although the track " No Hard Feelings " recently broke into the Modern Rock Top 50, their second single " Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss " ( which is featured in a Blaupunkt, a BGL Grand Wizard ad ) has started radio circulation with a music video airing limitedly on a few music channels.

He has also used Guild, Takamine and Gibson J-200 acoustic models, with the J-200 providing his signature recorded acoustic sound in such songs as " Pinball Wizard ".

" The Rule of Names " has some plot links to A Wizard of Earthsea, while " Darkrose and Diamond " is an entirely independent story.

Each novel in the series has received a literary award, including the 1969 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction & the 1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for A Wizard of Earthsea, the 1972 Newbery Honor for The Tombs of Atuan, the 1973 National Book Award for Children's Books for The Farthest Shore, the 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novel for Tehanu, and the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for The Other Wind.

Usagi has appeared in stories published by Cartoon Books, Oni Press, Sky Dog Press, Wizard Press, and most recently in the benefit book Drawing the Line, the proceeds of which went to Princess Margaret Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children, both in Toronto, for cancer research.

Nearly a week after the show debuted, Leo Guild ( who has created numerous radio and television shows, books, and newspaper columns ) filed a $ 2 million lawsuit against NBC for stealing his Wizard title, which had been used as a newspaper column during the late 1940s.

She has had even more musical roles in Annie Get Your Gun, Grease, The Wizard of Oz, Cats and Nils Karlsson Pyssling.

It has to be said, though, that he's only known as " The Hobgoblin " in the English translation — in the Swedish edition of the book, The Hobgoblin is simply referred to as " Trollkarlen " (" The Wizard ") and his species is not mentioned.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the only element of romance lay in the backstory of the Tin Woodman and his love Nimmie Amee, which explains his condition and does not otherwise affect the tale, and that of Gayelette and the enchantment of the Winged Monkeys ; the only other stories with such elements were The Scarecrow of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz, both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them.

It is the second most shown film in U. S. television history, behind only The Wizard of Oz.

* December 13 – Three years after its first telecast, MGM's The Wizard of Oz is shown on television for only the second time, but it gains an even larger viewing audience than its first television outing, spurring CBS to make it an annual tradition.

* December 11 – MGM's The Wizard of Oz is rerun on CBS only a year after its previous telecast, thus beginning the tradition of annual telecasts of the film.

In 2002, Wizard Books acquired the rights to the Fighting Fantasy series and reprinted many of the original titles in a revised order to fit the reduced number of books ( initially only the gamebooks by Jackson and Livingstone were published ) and to incorporate the Sorcery!

The only instrumental on the album, " The Wizard Turns On ...

His main pedagogical texts have been translated into English, but of his fiction, only two of his novels have been translated into English: King Matt the First and Kaytek the Wizard.

In fact, Baum accelerated this schedule, producing Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz only a year after the previous book.

In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz however, not only does the Wizard not know who Ozma is, but he has to be told the entire story as if he wasn't involved and is never questioned about his actions.

Their second game, Wizard and the Princess made them even more money and that was only the beginning of a new genre of commercial software, games.

Ozma decrees that, besides herself, only The Wizard and Glinda are allowed to use magic.

" In the film, the Wizard is seen only as a floating head and as a human, not in any of the other shapes that he appears in the book.

Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity — and even a bit of wizardry — Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.

The customer who tries to rent Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, George of the Jungle, The Nutty Professor, The Wizard of Oz, Austin Powers, Scream, Star Trek, The Brady Bunch, Titanic, Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, X-Men, Stuart Little, South Park, Snow Day, Jurassic Park, Tom Sawyer, or an exercise video only to find out that he or she actually rented Face Ventura: Pet Detective, George from the Jungle, The Nubby Professor, The Wizard of Voz, Austin Powders, Screaming, Star Drek, The Brady Brunch, Tidanic, Star Wars: The Vantom Menace, F-Men, Stuart Lipple, South Pork, Snowy Day, Jurassic Pack, Tom Zawyer, or the Blokey family's version of an exercise video.

Glinda performs the functions of not only the novel's Good Witch of the North and Good Witch of the South, but also the novel's Queen of Field Mice, by being the one who welcomes Dorothy to Oz, sends her " off to see the Wizard ," and orchestrates her rescue from the deadly poppy field in addition to revealing the secret to going back home.

From the 7th book, The Patchwork Girl of Oz onwards, Baum goes so far as to say that " Glinda and the Wizard " are the " only " ones authorized to practice magic in Oz by Queen Ozma ; it is not clear whether he forgot about the Good Witch of the North, or had written her character out of the series.

In the original novel, of course, the unnamed Good Witch of the North genuinely believed that the Wizard of Oz was the only entity powerful enough to send Dorothy back home to Kansas, while Glinda the Good Witch ( later " Sorceress ") of the South does not claim to be similarly powerful until the sixth book, The Emerald City of Oz, by which point in time she creates " The Great Book of Records ," which chronicles everything that takes place inside as well as outside Oz.

The Cowardly Lion is also the only character in the movie who has two solo song numbers -" If I Only Had the Nerve ," performed after his initial meeting with Dorothy, The Scarecrow, and The Tin Man in the forest, and " If I Were King of the Forest ," performed while he and the others are awaiting their audience with the Wizard.

Dorothy, distressed and confused, wants only to return to Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and Toto in Kansas, and Addaperle decides her best bet is to go and see the great and powerful Wizard of Oz (" He's the Wizard ").

Beginning with the success of the stage version, most subsequent versions of the story, including newer editions of the novel, have been titled " The Wizard of Oz ", rather than using the full, original title.

Two notable pre-emptions occurred in 1976 and 1977, to make room for the annual telecast of The Wizard of Oz, which had recently returned to CBS after having been shown on NBC for eight years.

At the time he became Archchancellor, he had not been seen at the University for forty years, having become a Seventh Level Wizard at the exceptionally young age of twenty-seven, before leaving the university to look after his family's land.

" The Rule of Names " apparently takes place some time in ( about ) the century before A Wizard of Earthsea ; Le Guin writes that the main character " must have been on Sattins Island some decades or centuries before Ged found him .... on the Isle of Pendor ".

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o's literary works include Caitani Mutharabaini ( 1981 ), Matigari ( 1986 ) and Murogi wa Kagogo ( Wizard of the Crow ( 2006 )) which is the largest known Kikuyu language novel having been translated into more than thirty languages

Richard Corliss noted that the film appeared to have been influenced by The Wizard of Oz and the works of Maurice Sendak, writing that " Labyrinth lures a modern Dorothy Gale out of the drab Kansas of real life into a land where the wild things are.

While it is likely that Western would have been contracted to make some of The Wizard of Ozs many costumes, no records of the original slippers exist to either validate or disprove their claim.

There are political interpretations of his book, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which have often been related to Coxey's Army.

In addition to theater, opera, TV, and film adaptations of his works, such as King Matt the First and Kaytek the Wizard, there have been a number of works about Korczak, inspired by him, or featuring him as a character.

Instead of blackening Howl's name like he asked Sophie to do, she gets him appointed the new Royal Wizard, the post he has been trying to avoid for years.

Hart also co-created and wrote the comic strip The Wizard of Id, drawn by Brant Parker, which has been distributed since November 9, 1964.

At the end of the season, the Dark Chi Wizard Daolon Wong was introduced, who after having been foiled in his long-term plan to engulf the world in dark chi, pursued the Talisman powers, paving the way for the events of Season Three.

Additionally, in 1975, when CBS regained the broadcast rights to MGM's film The Wizard of Oz, it was scheduled opposite Disney as it had been between 1960 and 1968.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been transformed into a stage play, and in this work, several elements were clearly incorporated with an eye to that adaptation and to the possible adaptations of this work.

" Since the stage adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been a huge hit, with two companies still touring the country as the second book was published, the reviewer's suspicion was both natural and accurate: Baum wrote a stage adaptation called The Woggle-Bug that was produced in Chicago the summer of 1905.

He is also referred to as " the wizard " and styles himself similarly to the Wizard of Oz, but has been relegated to the main performer of a Central City magic show rather than the " humbug " overlord of the Emerald City.