Jeanine Basinger
Growing up in South Dakota, film scholar Jeanine Basinger wasn’t too far from where L. Frank Baum lived. She was taken with how Baum captured the sense of isolation on the prairie. Actor Peter Gerety reads L. Frank Baum’s description of that landscape.
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