Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Mickey Carroll. Among the last of the original Munchkins from the Wizards of OZ passed away on Thursday. He was 89.

By the mid-1940s, Carroll was spending much of his time in St. Louis. He settled there and worked in the family business making cemetery monuments. When The Wizard of Oz appeared on television in the 1960s, he found a new career raising money for charity and attending Oz-related events. "When they see me, they think of their childhood, and it makes them smile," Carroll said at a special screening of the film in Los Angeles in 2005.


He makes me think of my childhood. And not of my normal response to the "vertically challenged". He got paid $125 a week to be in The Wizard of Oz. So little for so much...