Lainey Wilson frames her new song about romance, small towns, and rodeos around a beloved classic: The Wizard of Oz’s centerpiece song, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” performed by Judy Garland. “Somewhere Over Laredo,” Wilson’s latest, interpolates the melody of Garland’s hopeful ballad into its chorus, with nostalgic results. “Caught me …
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There’s no place like home, and Judy Garland‘s daughter Lorna Luft couldn’t have felt more comfortable at a recent screening of the Wizard of Oz prequel musical Wicked. “The movie is astounding,” Luft wrote on Instagram. “It’s epic, brilliant, touching and honest.” Her mother played Dorothy Gale in the 1939 …
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Barbra Streisand’s memoir My Name is Barbra released Tuesday, and among the stories shared throughout the book’s 992 pages are details of her friendship with fellow legend Judy Garland. From 1963 to 1964, Garland had her own musical variety show that aired on CBS, and on one episode sang a …
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Almost two decades after the fact, a Minnesota man has been indicted on charges of stealing the famed ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. On Tuesday, Terry Martin was indicted by a grand jury with one count of theft of a major artwork, according tofederal …
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