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The Wizard of Oz is an icon of American movie making. Even people who refer to movies as “film” or “cinema” will acknowledge the greatness and cultural impact of Dorothy Gale and her three companions as they followed the yellow brick road. This is a trusts and estates story about her blue gingham dress.
The poet tells us that April is the cruelest month because it mixes “memory and desire.” The reference is not at all enigmatic if one substitutes “past and future” for “memory and desire.” Young Dorothy was a lonely orphan taken in by her Auntie Em to live on a Kansas farm. Before her arrival in Oz (and her “inheritance” of the ruby slippers), Judy Garland sang a classic song by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg. Perhaps there are people unmoved by Judy singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” but if such chill
But enough of the past and the pull of memory – on to the present. Judy Garland’s blue gingham dress from the movie is in the news, this time as the subject of a court battle over its ownership.
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