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Author and 'Oz' expert John ... cloud of smoke and fire, she was recuperated for six weeks. When she returned, she refused to film a scene in which her character rides a broom with smoke coming ...

The Wizard of Oz really is a horror story, with this grackle-voiced, green-skinned, chin-warted apparition hurling fire from rooftops, skywriting ominously with a flaming broom, or saying ...