"Diana Ross' shy is like Sergeant Bilko's modest.... The big production numbers are free-form traffic jams"--Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
To escape the noise from the salsa street festival I eased on down the road to the Revue and saw Sidney Lumet's The Wiz (for the second time). Of course, Diana Ross is a badly miscast Dorothy. (The role needed someone 20 years younger, but the studio bean-counters wanted a "star.") Yet it's far from all bad, what with some good songs, imaginative design by Tony Walton, and a pretty good supporting cast--though Richard Pryor is wasted in the title role. I'll bet it could make a good animated movie.
Dinner was roast pork.
An ice creat truck outside our house has been playing "Turkey in the Straw" over and over all day!
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