The Wizard of Oz Blu-Ray – 70th Anniversary

CAROLINE: In honor of its 70th anniversary, “The Wizard of Oz” is being released for the first time on blu-ray DVD tomorrow, and I don’t know how you’ve managed to hold yourself together.

RYAN: Seriously, it’s all I’ve ever wanted. I’ve been dying for the movie on iTunes forever and it’s finally all coming out. Tomorrow we get that, the blu-ray, the newly restored version on DVD – it’s dream come true material.

CAROLINE: Well for little girls and boys like you.

RYAN: Please. Oz fans come in every age.

CAROLINE: So what’s in this new version?

RYAN: Well the film has been repackaged 18 times on home video, VHS, Beta, laser disc, DVD, etc. But this time out it really looks and sounds better than ever. I attended a screening of it at the New York Film festival this weekend and it was truly like seeing it for the first time.

CAROLINE: You’re beginning to sound like a commercial.

RYAN: Well it is my favorite movie.

CAROLINE: I’ve read some cool things about the blu-ray, like, there are many new hours of extras, a collectors watch, book, etc…

RYAN: It’s limited to less than 250,000 copies. And I’m psyched about the inclusion of a TV movie called “The Dreamer of Oz” about L. Frank Baum, which I haven’t seen since it aired in 1990!

CAROLINE: OK, simmer down. How was the Oz party you attended in celebration of the film’s 70th?

RYAN: It was beyond. The party was fab and the yellow brick-red carpet was excellent.

CAROLINE: I know you talked to Judy Garland’s daughter, Lorna Luft.

RYAN: She’s very cool. And Ashanti was there to perform her new version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

CAROLINE: Didn’t she just play Dorothy in the Broadway revival of “The Wiz”?

RYAN: Yes. And she also played her in “The Muppet’s Wizard of Oz.” But I almost lost it, meeting one of only six remaining munchkins from the movie – Jerry Maren, who was actually one of the Lollipop Guild munchkins.

CAROLINE: [laughs’ Did he sing it for you?

RYAN: Yes!

CAROLINE: [laughs’ Really?

RYAN: You can hear it under the ‘celeb interviews’ section at MoxieQ!

CAROLINE: No more Red Bull for you.