RIP EMC

RIP to Donna Douglas, passed on at 82. It’s hard to get my head around the idea that the sweet, gorgeous, guileless, critter-loving Elly May Clampett from perhaps the funniest American TV comedy of all time, The Beverly Hillbillies, is departed. It’s harder, almost, to get my head around the idea that she was 82 years old.

In her honor, this week’s monster is…

Monster-of-the-Week: …Donna Douglas, in probably her second-best-known TV role, in the classic Twilight Zone episode “Eye of the Beholder.” She’s monstrous, in her own eyes, because after reconstructive surgery she emerges from her bandages looking like this…

…but in the strange alternative reality world where she lives, people are supposed to look like this…

Here’s a picture of a doll—sorry, I mean an action figure—of this guy, given to me by a kind friend a few years back...