Here are some facts: 1. Songwriters make some of their income from mechanical royalties. In the US, the royalty used to be 8.5 cents per song per unit (CD) sold. On January 1st, 2006 it became 9.10 cents. An album that sells 500,000 copies in 2006, would give the songwriter $45,500 per song.
Dorothyâs Ruby Slippers, 1938. Sixteen-year-old Judy Garland wore these sequined shoes as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. In the original book by L. Frank Baum, Dorothyâs magic slippers are silver; for the Technicolor movie, they were changed to ruby red to show up more vividly against the yellow-brick road.
unfortunately white is the lone survivor of the cast rip bea arthur who played sensible dorothy zbornak estelle getty who portrayed dorothy s mother sophia petrillo and rue mcclanahan who played the sultry blanche devereauxorothy zbornak once asked on the golden girls no tv characters loved their cheesecake as much as the girls the characters indulged in more than 100 cheesecakes over the series 7 year run we re guessing bea arthur who played dorothy on the show wasn t too happy the actress reportedly hated cheesecake