THIRTY-FIVE YEARS LATER: REMEMBERING “THE WIZARD OF OZ” ON ITS 50th ANNIVERSARY IN 1989 by John Fricke I want to begin this month with a quick, genuine apology. When assembling the blog for last August, I planned a “look back,” some 35 years, to the 50th anniversary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s film triumph, THE WIZARD OF OZ. …