Scarecrow

They're going to see the Wizard.

And her three trusty sidekicks, you remember, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and who? And I'm saying it's been 20 years since I watched it.

I said, okay, what did the scarecrow need? Do you remember? He needed a brain.

He needed a brain.

However, it is well documented that asbestos snowflakes were already being manufactured in the 1920s and were widely sold for department store window displays and for decorating home Christmas trees, so they were a natural for filmmakers.

There's no controversy about asbestos being used in the Scarecrow's costume when he's set on fire by the Wicked Witch of the West, who incidentally is not named in the original movie.

Only 56 years later did author Gregory Maguire name her Elphaba, paying homage to the original author, L. Frank Baum.

So L, F, and B, A. L. Frank Baum.

That gives you Elphaba.

That's the name that has rolled off many a tongue after seeing the Broadway and movie version of the musical of, uh, Wicked.

There's no truth to the internet rumor that Ray Bolger, who played the Scarecrow, died of asbestosis caused by exposure during filming of the iconic film.

He actually died of bladder cancer, which is unrelated to asbestos.

Then after a pause, he added, "Did you say a Tin Woodman rules the Winkies?" "Yes, he was one of those who helped Dorothy to destroy the Wicked Witch of the West, and the Winkies were so grateful that they invited him to become their ruler.

Just as the people of the Emerald City invited the Scarecrow to rule them.

"Dear me," said Jack, "I'm getting confused with all this history.

Who is the Scarecrow?" "Another friend of Dorothy's," replied Tip.

"And who is Dorothy?" "She was a girl that came here from Kansas, a place in the big outside world.

She got blown into the Land of Oz by a cyclone, and while she was here, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman accompanied her on her travels." "And where is she now?" inquired the Pumpkinhead.

"Glinda the Good, who rules the Quadlings, sent her home again," said the boy.

"Oh, and what became of the Scarecrow?" "I told you, he rules the Emerald City," answered Tip.

MGM went another way, casting Ray Bolger, though in a passing of the torch moment, Stone later appeared on a radio show with Bolger to publicise the film.

Bolger's Scarecrow was all flailing charm and bouncy empty-headedness.

Freed and LeRoy initially saw Ray Bolger, a Broadway star known for his elastic dance style, as the Tin Man and six-foot-three-inch dancer Buddy Ebsen as the Scarecrow.

Bolger protested he had always wanted to play the Scarecrow, and the roles were switched.

Ebsen became the Tin Man until he was poisoned by his aluminium-based make-up.

His lungs collapsed and he was rushed to hospital.

To Dorothy, the Silver Standard was her means to find the way home.

Along the way, she recruits three companions, who represent affected communities of the 1890s.

It was while the three were talking together one morning in Dorothy's room that Betsy proposed they make a journey into the Munchkin country, which was one of the four great countries of the Land of Oz ruled by Ozma.

"I've never been there yet," said Betsy Bobbin, "but the Scarecrow once told me it is the prettiest country in all Oz." "I'd like to go, too," added Trot.

"All right," said Dorothy.

"I'll go and ask Ozma.

When Dorothy returned to where Betsy and Trot awaited her, the little girl's face was rather solemn and troubled, for never before had Ozma gone away without telling her friends where she was going or without an escort that befitted her royal state.

She was gone, however, and none had seen her go.

Dorothy had met and questioned the Scarecrow, Tik-Tok, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright, Cap'n Bill, and even the wise and powerful Wizard of Oz.

But not one of them had seen Ozma since she parted with her friends the evening before and had gone to her own rooms.

wizard had ruled Oz for years.

At last, desiring to return to America, he had made the Scarecrow Emperor.

This lively man of straw had held the throne until captured by an ambitious girl named Ginger and her army of girls.

But Ginger was only ruler for a few days, and was herself captured by Glinda, the good sorceress of the South, to whom the Scarecrow had gone for help.

glinda looking through her magic record books had discovered that ozma who had been deposed by the wizard was still in the old witch's clutches so glinda had compelled her to restore ozma to the throne The witch had transformed the little princess into a boy named Tip, but was forced by Glinda to disenchant her, and, amid general rejoicing, Ozma was proclaimed Queen of Oz, and had been ruler ever since, while the old witch had been deprived of her magic powers and banished from the Emerald City forever.

the wizard of oz had later returned and become one of ozma's most trusted counselors regretting exceedingly his part in giving her to the witch as snip listened all of these facts went scurrying through his head and while professor wogglebug in his history had neglected to put in the witch's name looking at the dreadful old woman beside him snip realized with a shudder that mombi was that witch had been generally supposed that the king, ozma's father, had been utterly destroyed by mombi's magic.

"'Hush, Scraps,' begged Asma.

"'This is serious.' "'Someone is delirious, or they'd never write such nonsense,' declared Scraps defiantly.

yeah.

And then when she arrives in Oz, she pretty much immediately meets TikTok, who is your Tin Man replacement, essentially, from the original story as well, who is a member of the army in Oz, who was put aside basically by the Scarecrow who now rules Oz, which I do not, that was not in the movie.

I have not read these books.

Is that a thing in the original book? He runs Oz at the end, the Scarecrow?

He is given Oz at the end of book one and book two is all about a revolution by girls.

Oh, these girls revolts.

I thought he was adorable.

He was like a little bit goofy looking.