purplethunder3121 said:

Diana had the legs though...

and did that in heels

I loved that film as a kid. Mainly because of seeing Michael, of course. But the entire film was fun. Every time I saw Diana in it, it seemed like she would have Mahogany/Lady Sings flashbacks. I didn't know Stephanie Mills was the original voice behind Home until years later though. I think the reason the film wasn't a bigger hit in the box office was mainly the casting and probably the production. That said, Richard Pryor was great as an announcer. It's wild how this film became something of a cult classic anyway.

I LOVE this movie and thought everyone was great in it.

Whoever those dancers were did it for me, they were some dancing fools. My favorite two scenes is the Fashion Color Walk and Evilenes Sweat Shop.

Diana was dead ass wrong to snatch the role they way she did, I remember my father being put off by that move quite a bit...

HOWEVER

That chic did the damn thing in the movie, those little skinny legs surprised the hell out of me!

Lena Horne....well that performance is just pure CLASS. It's my Favorite SONG of the movie.

the part Richard played as the Wiz, I can't put into words, what sadness he was able to

portray... fear loneliness someone with Social anxiety disorder there are a few other terms

His character vs the Wizard of Oz was sad, helpless, as he watches the others gain the things

they wished for...

the Poppy Girls segment was shot in the porno district on 8th Avenue in Manhattan.

The Caprice and Eros I theaters,

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

October, 1978-- Celebrating The Wiz Premiere

Was that at studio54? I saw a book a long time ago dedicated to the Studio 54 days. Mj & Diana frequent it a lot they was all over it.....Janet to...

The Wiz" had its NYC premiere at the Loews Astor Plaza and the after party was held at the Windows On The World restaurant at the World Trade Center.

LaToya stayed with Michael in NYC while he filmed "The Wiz." They frequented Studio 54 quite often during this period.

Michael & Latoya @ Studio 54

Diana Ross @ Studio 54

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1978 The Wiz Premiere After Party (New York)

Premiere of "The Wiz" (1978)

OldFriends4Sale said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Was that at studio54? I saw a book a long time ago dedicated to the Studio 54 days. Mj & Diana frequent it a lot they was all over it.....Janet to...

The Wiz" had its NYC premiere at the Loews Astor Plaza and the after party was held at the Windows On The World restaurant at the World Trade Center.

LaToya stayed with Michael in NYC while he filmed "The Wiz." They frequented Studio 54 quite often during this period.

Michael & Latoya @ Studio 54

Diana Ross @ Studio 54

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Yea! I remember Janet saying she stayed with MJ during that period on her hiatus from Good Times. She went to Studio 54 with him. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in there.The 70's was the in time to party in clubs,it was way before the aids epidemic hit & it was anything goes. Especially in Studio 54.. I bet MJ turned it out on the dance floor & Diana was high as a kite..

the World Trade Center featured in the movie

A classic WTC Stargate sync can be found in "The Wiz". The yellow brick road ends right at the Kaaba representing sculpture "The Sphere" which stood between the towers until 911. The word OZ has been fashioned over the giant bronze sphere for the film. OZ resonates 77 and the Goat god Pan through Gematria, which is really just O.G. synchromysticism.

The Twin Towers are seen connected by an arch, becoming the H, with rotating loudspeaker. The voice of Richard Pryor booms over the plaza as he continually changes his mind as to what color is to be dominant here.

Norma Kamali designed the costumes for the hyper-colored Emerald City sequences in The Wiz (1978) with Michael Jackson and Diana Ross.

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Quincy Jones playing the piano during the Emerald City "gold" sequence.

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25. Home (Finale) - Dorothy

Home is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical, The Wiz. The song was performed by Stephanie Mills in the stage production and by Diana Ross in the 1978 film adaptation and released on the soundtrack album in 1978.

Whitney Houston made her world debut on "The Merv Griffin Show" on April 29, 1983 performing this song. The song was rerecorded in 1989 for the Stephanie Mills album of the same name, and she took to number one on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart. The single would be the last of five number ones for Mills on the R&B chart.^[

Think of home
Home
When I think of home
I think of a place where there's love overflowing
I wish I was home
I wish I was back there with the things I been knowing
Wind that makes the tall trees bend into leaning
Suddenly the snowflakes that fall have a meaning
Sprinklin' the scene, makes it all clean
Maybe there's a chance for me to go back there
Now that I have some direction
It would sure be nice to be back home
Where there's love and affection
And just maybe I can convince time to slow up
Giving me enough time in my life to grow up
Time be my friend, let me start again
Suddenly my world has changed it's face
But I still know where I'm going
I have had my mind spun around in space
And yet I've watched it growing
If you're list'ning God
Please don't make it hard to know
If we should believe in the things that we see
Tell us, should we run away
Should we try and stay
Or would it be better just to let things be?
Living here, in this brand new world
Might be a fantasy
But it taught me to love
So it's real, real to me
And I've learned
That we must look inside our hearts
To find a world full of love
Like yours
Like me
Like home...

Diana with her kids on the set

Our entire family went and saw "The Wiz" at the theater when it came out...one of my earliest movie memories (I was 4 years old). I dont know why but that movie scared the shit out of me and i have never watched it again.