And a new generation of Baby Boomers, seeing the "Wizard of Oz" movie year after year on TV, took the Wicked Witch to heart. Among them was novelist Gregory Maguire, born 1954, who began to wonder ...

The Wicked Witch of the West also possesses the power of pyrokinesis, which is the ability to manipulate fire.In The Wizard of Oz, it is shown that the Wicked Witch can create fireballs in her ...

Those Wicked Witches of the West have little in common with the one that L. Frank Baum created in his 1900 children's classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Baum's witch wasn't green, for starters.

Glinda and Elphaba are the stars of Mattel's new dolls—but the new toys also tease just how 'For Good' will adapt the musical ...

It wasn’t always easy being green for Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. And Hamilton — who died at age 82 in 1985 — went through a ...

Maguire's novel reframes the popular plot of the original book and 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz" around the book's main villain, the Wicked Witch of the West. Elphaba, as she's christened by ...

However, Baum’s racism has led some readers to reconsider whether or not the Wicked Witch was a proxy for his views on Native Americans and re-evaluate how they understand Dorothy’s killing of ...

The film has created magic at the box office, pulling in $114 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters, plus $50.2 million in international markets, for a global total of $164.2 million, marking the ...

Those Wicked Witches of the West have little in common with the one that L. Frank Baum created in his 1900 children's classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Baum's witch wasn't green, for starters.