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It's Oz, but not as we know it! the sunday interview Scottish actor Alan Cumming tells JON HARRY why he was so keen to play a revamped version of the Scarecro win a re-telling of a classic story... and what fun it was.(Features)

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From: Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales)
Date: 20080511
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Byline: JON HARRY

WHEN L Frank Baum wrote his classic novel The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz in 1900, the first in a series of 14 books about the fictional land, it's highly unlikely he imagined it ever making its way to the big screen as a musical.

He died some years before the iconic 1939 film was made, starring Judy Garland as the ruby slipper-wearing heroine Dorothy, but it's very probable the author would have been pleased by what he saw.

But if an all-singing, all-dancing Technicolor version may have been beyond Baum's vivid imagination, there's absolutely no way he ...

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