The wicked witch of the west in wizard of oz use to be a kindergarten teacher - can you imagine? Glad I was not in that kindergarten - wow.
After nearly dying while filming “The Wizard of Oz,” Margaret Hamilton spent the rest of her career trying to escape her evil character’s long shadow.
narratively.com
Unfortunate for her. But the really strange thing for me are the claims of my strange friend, Dr. Beard, who was featured in, Weird New Jersey magazine, years ago. In his mid 70s now, he says he met her. But his strangest claim is that The Wizard of Oz story is based on reality.
He claims that one of his grandmothers, both of whom lived to be 106, was taken up in a tornado and deposited through a polar opening, within the North Pole, into the Hollow Earth. When she was eventually returned home, her story became the basis for The Wizard of Oz.
Supposedly, the Tin Man was some kind of biological robot. And I remind Dr. Beard of Ray Bolger, the scarecrow. Well, I am tall and thin like him. It's always an interesting conversation, talking to him about these things, but how much can I take seriously?
Some would consider my friend to be delusional, but I won't be the judge. Meanwhile, he always dresses in black and it seems like he hasn't left his house in years. He lives with my friend Ralph, a fellow tennis player, a hermaphrodite, who was married to a woman, who became homeless.
He became homeless several years ago, after his wife died. Then I introduced him to Dr. Beard and he's been living in Dr. Beard's basement ever since. If they're the Odd Couple, the three of us must seem really weird. I remember, how people noticed us, when we visited Costco together.
To top it off, Dr. Beard, who is very well schooled and very intelligent, claims his father, who was an Admiral in the US Navy, was extremely evil and high up in the Illuminati, meeting his deserved fate decades ago in an oil rig disaster, which burned up and sank, with him in it.
