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Dick Peterson The "Nightmare" I must be growing up. I watched the "Wizard of Oz" the other night for the first time in 20 years and I didn't have Hie Nightmare. If I'm not growing up, at least I am less impressionable. The networks have been showing the "Wizard of Oz" every year since the year of my birth. I'm of the Oz generation, the generation that has been tormented with the travails of Dorothy as she travels the Yellow Brick Road. The Oz kids don't sleep very well. If they do, they've never watched the movie. My parents' generation didn't see the movie but once, and that was in 1939 when it first appeared in the show house. By thai, they were old enough not to be scared witless by the god-awful flying monkeys. When it came.to television in the late 1960s, my parents probably thought the kids would like to watch a idee children's movie, just like they did when i they were kids. A kids' movie? When I was 4 or 5,1 may have watched the "Wizard of Oz" but didn't understand it, which lends credence to bliss ignorance. I may have even liked it. But when I was 6 or 7,1 think I began to understand what wickedness was. I caught on to the apparent hopelessness of Dorothy's plight. And why would those flying monkeys, or whatever they were, want to tear up the Scarecrow? Why would the Wicked Witch want to torch him? Ttoey call that senseless violence now and precede it with a disclaimer warning parents not to let their children watch it. I have a feeling that people who research the effects of cinematic violence on children probably were young viewers of the "Wizard of Oz" who lapse into nightmares when they hear "Over the Rainbow." Television was tame in those days. Eddie, as mean as he was, never tried to ignite Theodore Cleaver on "Leave it to Beaver." Mr. French didn't even think of doing it when Buffy and Jody clipped his beard. I was 6 years old when the "Wizard of Oz" had its in­ tended effect on me. I had The Nightmare. In the dream, I was in a deep hole with things flying around me-probably winged monkeys-and I had to stack about a billion bricks, so many I couldn't count them and couldn't possibly stack them. It was a hopeless situation. And there wasn't even a good witch tell me how to get back to Kansas. To this day, that dream haunts me. I've been scarred for life by a kid's movie. I woke up crying that night; and my dad checked to see what was wrong. I'm sure he said something to the effect: "It's only a dream. Go back to sleep." Sure. And take a chance on going back into the hole? He'd never convince me of that. So, he told me he would leave a light on and sleep in the hall. The last thing I remember is falling asleep, won­ dering if he really was out there. Fool that I was for self-induced fear, I watched the "Wizard of Oz" the next year. It was just like the year before. I had gru$$,^hy dad .came in, he told me it was onfy a dream, ttenhies&d m would sleep in the hall. One other movie with a child star affected me like Dorothy and Oz. That was Linda Blair and "The Exorsist." like Oz, I saw "The Exorsist" twice. While I didn't have The Nightmare, I was hesitant to go into my bedroom for about two weeks after each viewing for fear I would find Satan himself sitting on my pillow. If Judy Garland had been born 20 years later, I'm sure she would have played Linda Blair's role. It is hard to imagine Dorothy's head doing a 360 or her vomitting green stuff in the face of Glenda, the Good Witch. But she would have been effective. I never watched the "Wizard of Oz" in its entirety after that second nightmare. The tornado and Munchkinland were OK, but as soon as those flying monkeys made their dreaded appearance, I'd find something else to do. I slept soundly after watching it this year, which leads me to believe I'm growing up. 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