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Theodore Ross Roberts (June 30, 1934 – September 3, 2002) was an American actor best known for his role as the Lion in The Wiz, an all-African American reinterpretation of The Wizard of Oz. He won a Tony Award for the original 1975 Broadway production and recreated the role in the 1978 film version which also starred Diana Ross (no relation ...
Ross went around Gordy and convinced executive producer Rob Cohen at Universal Pictures to arrange a deal in which he would produce the film if Ross was cast as Dorothy. Gordy and Cohen agreed to the deal. Additionally, the casting of Dorothy as Diana Ross was due to the fact that she was a well-known star, which guaranteed more funds. [14]
A big-budget film adaptation of the same name was released in 1978, with Ted Ross and Mabel King reprising their roles. A live television production of the stage version, The Wiz Live! , was broadcast on NBC on December 3, 2015, with an encore presentation on December 19 of the same year.
Julius "Nipsey" Russell (September 15, 1918 – October 2, 2005) [1] [2] was an American entertainer best known for his appearances as a panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, including Match Game, Password, Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth, and Pyramid.
The film has been nominated for best picture and for adapted screenplay. It's an adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead. It's set in Florida in the early 1960s at a ...
1948. Three of the Kennedy brothers, John, Robert, and Edward (Ted), at the Kennedy Family Compound.
The Wiz is the original motion picture soundtrack album for the 1978 film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Wiz.Although the film was produced for Universal Pictures by Motown Records' film division, the soundtrack album was issued on MCA Records as a two-LP collection (Universal was owned by MCA Inc. at the time).
The tweet read, "A picture is worth a thousand words," and featured a photo of Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi, next to a picture of Trump's wife, Melania. "@Don_Vito_08: ...