Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz ''was my very first literary influence,'' writes Salman Rushdie in his account of the great MGM children''s classic. At the age of ten he had written a story, ''Over the Rainbow'', about a colourful fantasy world. But for Rushdie The Wizard of Oz is more than a children''s film, and more than a fantasy. It''s a story whose driving force is the inadequacy of adults, in which ''t...