BEING AND MUNCHKIN-NESS

RIP to Jerry Maren, one of the last surviving Munchkins, and a member of the Lollipop Guild, no less, from MGM's 1939 The Wizard of Oz, passed on at 98.

In his honor...

Monster-of-the-Week: ...let's give the nod to one of his later and less-celebrated roles...

...the hazardous-waste-spawned mutant title character in the 1983 horror flick The Being.

When you think about it, that's arguably the most generically-named title character in movies.