MUTANT BUTTON

RIP to NFL great & Police Academy star Bubba Smith, passed on at 66, of whom Ogden Nash wrote: “When hearing tales of Bubba Smith/You wonder, is he man or myth?”

Opening tomorrow is Rise of the Planet of the Apes, so…

Monster-of-the-Week: …this week let’s acknowledge this guy…

…one of the implacable “Fellowship of the Holy Fallout,” nuclear-bomb-worshipping mutants with terrifying telepathic abilities who dwell in the ruins of New York City in 1970’s Beneath the Planet of the Apes, maybe of the creepiest of the original sequels.