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Article: "OZ" RE-RELEASE RECALLS WRITER'S "ESCAPE" TO HOME IN VIRGINIA BEACH.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 12, 1998
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Byline: MAL VINCENT, ENTERTAINMENT WRITER
IF NOEL LANGLEY were still living in Virginia Beach, he might, just might, show up at a local theater for the current re-release of ``The Wizard of Oz.''
There are things he probably still wouldn't like.
Langley, you see, was the screenwriter for the MGM classic, which is having a major theatrical release for the first time in 25 years - complete with a digitally restored picture and a soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital Stereo Sound.
The screenwriter, who died at age 68 in 1980, moved in 1963 to Sandbridge, where he said he was hiding from the ``mediocrity'' of Hollywood. His attraction to ...