The play was not officially endorsed by the Magliozzis, but they participated in the production, lending their voices to a central puppet character named " The Wizard of Cahs ".

Starting in the early 1980s, Mills, using the name " The Wizard ", was a recurring guest DJ on " The Electrifying Mojo " radio show on WJLB.

Lyman Frank Baum ( May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919 ) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Baum and Tietjens had worked on a musical of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1901 and based closely upon the book, but it was rejected.

The Wicked Witch of the West was eliminated entirely in the script, and the plot became about how the four friends, being allied with the usurping Wizard, were hunted as traitors to Pastoria II, the rightful King of Oz.

Although numerous political references to the " Wizard " appeared early in the 20th century, it was in a scholarly article by Henry Littlefield, an upstate New York high school history teacher, published in 1964 that there appeared the first full-fledged interpretation of the novel as an extended political allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.

The character was ranked as the 8th Greatest Villain by Wizard on its 100 Greatest Villains of All Time list.

While " The Wizard of Oz " nickname was an allusion to the 1939 motion picture of the same name, Smith also came to be known as simply " The Wizard " during his playing career, as Smith's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque would later attest.

This was fine for pre-1953 films such as The Wizard of Oz or Casablanca.

Children's author and playwright L. Frank Baum referred to a seat in this passage of his novel Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ; “ At once a little girl rose from her seat and walked to the door of the car, carrying a wicker suit-case in one hand and a round bird-cage covered up with newspapers in the other, while a parasol was tucked under her arm .”

Dubbed " The Wizard of Menlo Park " ( now Edison, New Jersey ) by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

It was first released on videotape and CED in the 1980s by Wizard Video and Vestron Video.

The Wizard of Id was first syndicated on November 9, 1964, drawn by Parker and co-written by Parker and Hart.

For instance, in 1967 there was a six-week story with the Wizard taking over the throne.

For example, the old style of the King's head was more rectangular, had a crown with identifiable card suits on it ( club, diamond, heart ), his mustache and beard always hid his mouth, and his beard frequently extended to a curved point when the King was shown in profile ( see The Wondrous Wizard of Id, 1970, Fawcett Publications ).

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!

It was developed from Metagaming's Melee and Wizard MicroGames, also designed by Steve Jackson, which provided the basic combat and magic rules.

Perhaps the most novel feature was the use of a point-based skill system, an extension and generalization of the magic system inherited from Wizard.

The EP was engineered by Davy Shannon at Wizard Sound Studios, Belfast – and was released on Belfast's Good Vibrations record label.

The Vice Chancellor offered to do all he could and in 1969 Channell, who wanted to stay on campus and continue his social experiments, was able to persuade the VC to appoint him official University Wizard with a small honorarium paid jointly by the University Administration and the Student Union.

In 1982 the New Zealand Art Gallery Directors Association issued a statement that in their opinion the Wizard was an authentic living work of art and the City Council appointed him Wizard of Christchurch.

This stage version, the first to use the shortened title " The Wizard of Oz ", opened in Chicago in 1902, then ran on Broadway for 293 stage nights from January to October 1903.

The Wizard of New Zealand QSM, Directed by Grant John Neville and Director of Photography Karlos Filipov is an award winning documentary that follows the life of the first ever man in the world to be appointed by a government as an Official Wizard.

* For the first time in four consecutive years, the film The Wizard of Oz is not telecast.

* 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.

The first volumes in the series were published by Puffin in 1982, with the rights to the franchise eventually being purchased by Wizard Books in 2002.

He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret vigilante organization which launched a reign of terrorism against African-Americans, Northerners that had moved to the postwar South, Southerners who supported the Union, and Republicans during the Reconstruction era in the Southern United States.

Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera ( 1912 ) features a portable movie camera, not invented until 1923, and Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive ( 1922 ) was published two years before the Central Railroad of New Jersey placed the first diesel electric locomotive into service.

This story is the first one since the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to send its hero on a quest through the land of Oz, a technique that allowed Baum to showcase the marvels of the land.

* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( comics ), the first of a series of comic book adaptations published by Marvel Comics

In the first 50 years after The Wizard of Ozs publication in 1900, it received little critical analysis from scholars of children's literature.

Despite this, Lynde's amazing popularity led to his being signed by ABC to host a series of specials from 1975 to 1979, including: The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( November 6, 1975 ) with Jack Albertson, Nancy Walker and the Osmond Brothers ; The Paul Lynde Halloween Special ( October 29, 1976 ) featuring the first prime-time network appearance of KISS, along with Margaret Hamilton recreating her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz.

The first was Victor Fleming for his 1939 films Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.

* Stardust the Super Wizard, a Fox Comics superhero first appearing in 1939

Hosting sequences on videotape, nearly always featuring celebrities, were sometimes made for telecasts of family films, notably for the first nine telecasts of MGM's The Wizard of Oz.

It is named in honor of Nathan B. Forrest, a Confederate general in the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

* February 1, 1982 – Dave's first show with guests Bill Murray and Don Herbert aka " Mr. Wizard.

In fact, one of Filmation's first projects was Journey Back to Oz, an animated sequel to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

In 1940, American Decca released the first album of songs from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

His voice over acting talents can be heard on animated shows like Ren and Stimpy, Scooby Doo, Batman: The Animated Series, Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs, Little Wizard Adventures, The Oz Kids and Disney's Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.

The Wizard of Oz, in particular, is considered to be an allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.

Often, if a television special such as Peter Pan or a network TV showing of a classic film like The Wizard of Oz is especially well-received, it will be rerun from time to time.

Raimi is set to direct Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, which will be released in 2013 by Walt Disney Pictures.

Travis confides in fellow taxi driver Wizard ( Peter Boyle ) about his thoughts, which are beginning to turn violent, but Wizard assures he will be fine.

However, after it was announced by CERA and the Anglican Bishop that the remains of Christchurch Cathedral would be demolished, the Wizard returned to Christchurch to oppose the demolition.

The documentary includes interviews with The Wizard, Mike Moore and many others who narrate a portrait of a man held by many New Zealanders to be a national Icon.

Beginning in 1999, The Wizard of Oz will be shown on cable, and in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 it will be telecast by the WB Television Network in addition to its cable showings.

Before the definition of the genre of fantasy, many works that would now be classified as fantasy were termed " fairy tales ", including Tolkien's The Hobbit, George Orwell's Animal Farm, and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

In September 2008, it was announced on Wizard of the Coast's ' Digital Insider # 6 ' that Ravenloft would be reintroduced to 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons in the October issue of the ' Dragon ' online magazine.

In that book, the Wizard puts on a grand appearance but is later revealed to be merely a man hiding behind a curtain.

A notable recording of a popular song, such as Judy Garland singing Over the Rainbow ( from The Wizard of Oz ), Mary Martin singing Never Never Land ( from Peter Pan ), Allan Jones singing The Donkey Serenade ( from The Firefly ), or Danny Kaye singing Inchworm ( from Hans Christian Andersen ) would be heard while the cutouts played on the screen, animated by a concealed puppeteer.

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

A notable flop at the box office, the film cast doubt on whether or not a live-action fantasy peopled by strange-looking characters could be successfully presented on the screen, until MGM's The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) erased such doubts, at least in the minds of some critics.

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 ").

Universal Plug and Play and NAT traversal APIs can also be installed on Windows 98 by installing the Windows XP Network Setup Wizard.

Besides the UU, Wizard magic is known to be taught at Bugarup University in Fourecks ( Archchancellor, Bill Rincewind ) and Krull University in the secretive nation of Krull, as well as the recently-established Braseneck College in Pseudopolis.

" Although later, at Wizard World Philadelphia 2009 she said she didn't realize it was going to be abrupt and without fanfare, and would have appreciated a little something more.