Gene Evans, the pyrotechnic designer whose fireworks displays lighted up the night sky at the Hollywood Bowl for the last 39 years, has died. He was 70. Evans, who had not been ill, died in his sleep ...

From asbestos snow to rowdy Munchkins to makeup that made actors ill, The Wizard of Oz was plagued with peril during its year-and-a-half production process. Margaret Hamilton, who portrayed the Wicked ...