Top 10 Classic Movie Transformations

After a long journey over the rainbow, down the yellow-brick road, and through a poppy field, Dorothy and her friends deserve a little TLC.  Enter the Wash and Brush Up Co. in the heart of Emerald City.

Dorothy ditches the prairie-land braids and emerges with flowing curls while The Cowardly Lion embraces his feminine side bedecked with fresh ringlets and red bows.  The Scarecrow is stuffed to the seams, and The Tin Man is buffed and oiled.  Even Toto is looking refreshed.

That’s how they laugh the day away in the Merry Old Land of Oz

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Great Classic Rock Bands

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The Beatles
Band Members: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Widely regarded as the most popular band in rock music history, The Beatles earned universally consistent critical acclaim and commercial success, and have influenced entire generations of musicians with their innovative and imaginative musical styles.

Led Zeppelin
Band Members: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones
Technically considered a hard rock band, many Led Zeppelin songs bridge numerous genres ranging from blues to folk, rockabilly to jazz. The sum of all four members created such classics as "Stairway to Heaven", considered to be one of the best rock singles of all-time.

Rolling Stones
Band Members: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Ron Wood
Giants of the rock and roll scene for over forty years, it is amazing that even to this day the Rolling Stones still pack the house, as such was the case in Rio de Janeiro in 2006. The Stones have produced such classic albums as "Tattoo You" and "Some Girls".

Pink Floyd
Band Members: Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Nick Mason, David Gilmour
From the initial poetic and psychedelic lyrics spawned by Syd Barrett, to the philosophical conceptual albums that followed in the mid seventies, no-one can dispute the unique and incredible sound of Pink Floyd. "The Dark Side of the Moon" is their definitive album.

Eagles
Band Members: Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, Don Felder, Randy Meisner
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, the Eagles have had huge success with albums such as "Hotel California" as well as greatest hits compilations. After a 'fourteen year vacation' that started in 1980, the band re-united to release the live "Hell Freezes Over".

AC/DC
Band Members: Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Brian Johnson, Cliff Williams, Phil Rudd
Australia's AC/DC is synonymous with rock 'n' roll, with various songs responsible for more than a few speakers blown from being cranked to the limit. Driven by the gutsy vocals of Brian Johnson, AC/DC would go on to survive the death of the irreplaceable Bon Scott.

U2
Band Members: Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.
Formed when the members were teenagers, Ireland's U2 has gone on to win close to two dozen Grammy's and sold hundreds of millions of records worldwide. Their music is powerful and political, and the group actively participates in humanitarian causes worldwide.

Fleetwood Mac
Band Members: Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham, John McVie, Christine McVie
Fleetwood Mac's forty years making music looks like a rollercoaster of commercial successes, constantly changing line-ups, and numerous bouts of excess. Regardless of the ride, none produced a more fluid sound than the emotional masterpiece that is the "Rumours" album.

The Who
Band Members: Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Kenney Jones
Considered rock pioneers that have influenced countless bands after them, The Who have been around for over forty years. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, their artistic rock operas and power chord anthems were only upstaged by even better live performances.

Queen
Band Members: Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon
Internationally popular for their music, as well as for their live performances, Queen is regularly cited as being a major influence by many of today's mainstream artists. Their most successful singles include "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Will Rock You - We Are The Champions".
 

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All-Time Classic Board Games

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Backgammon
Players: 2
Type: Race
The first of two players to remove their pieces after moving them around the board wins the game of Backgammon. Rolls of the dice enable movement in opposite directions to either avoid or hit an opponent piece back to Start.

Chess
Players: 2
Type: Strategy
Chess is a fiercely competitive and complicated strategy-based game where intellect and tactical memory play a large role in the effort to Checkmate an opponents King, or leave it without an opportunity to evade capture.

Checkers
Players: 2
Type: Strategy
Checkers is a classic strategy-based board game. On diagonal movement of pieces within designated color, the game is won by capturing all opponent pieces, jumping over them until none remain.

Clue
Players: 3-6
Type: Mystery
Players are considered the suspects of a murder on a board divided into four rooms in a mansion. Clues to the mystery are revealed by suggestion until an accusation is made to determine who the criminal is.

Go
Players: 2
Type: Strategy
Also known as Weiqi, Igo, or Baduk, Go is played on a grid with black and white pieces with the goal to increase your own territory, while decreasing your opponents, by removing opponent pieces as they are surrounded on the board.

Monopoly
Players: 2-8
Type: Real Estate
Controlling real estate is the goal in a game of Monopoly. Turns around the board allow a player the opportunity to acquire property or be forced to pay a fee when landing on property owned by an opponent.

Risk
Players: 2-6
Type: War
World domination determines the winner in the classic game of Risk. Player strategy, and luck based on the roll of the dice, dictates battles within wars declared between opposing nations on the board.

Scrabble
Players: 2-4
Type: Word
Scrabble is a game that awards points for forming words from letter tiles given to a player on each turn. Each letter is assigned a point value, and words must be created on the board adjoined to words that already exist on the board.

Sorry!
Players: 2-4
Type: Race
By sliding around the board in pursuit of opponents, a player wins the game of Sorry by attempting to get all of his or her pieces, or pawns, from Start, into the safety zone, and then into Home.

Trivial Pursuit
Players: 2-24
Type: Trivia
In the effort to correctly answer questions in six categories, such as Science, Sports, and Entertainment, a Trivial Pursuit player wins the game by acquiring Pie pieces for each category.
 

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