Posts with tag "wizard of oz"

'Wizard of Oz' Munchkin Meinhardt Raabe Dead at 94

Posted Apr 10th 2010 at 08:00 AM by PopEater Staff

'Wizard of Oz' actor Meinhardt Raabe died Friday morning in Orange Park, Florida of a presumed heart attack, the NY Times has confirmed. He was 94. According to his caregiver, Cindy Bosnyak, Raabe was taken to a nearby hospital after he collapsed and went into cardiac arrest at the Penney Retirement Community in Penney Farms, Florida, where he had lived since 1986. Prior to collapsing, Raabe ...

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Silly Parents, These Movies Aren't for Kids

Posted Nov 30th 2009 at 01:00 PM by Brenna Ehrlich

'Where the Wild Things Are' is scary. Surprise. What did you expect, given the title of the movie and macabre nature of the majority of director Spike Jonze's films--not to mention the dark quality inherent in every single one of 'Wild Things' author Maurice Sendak's books? Even before Jonze's film came out, everyone was buzzing about how Warner Brothers balked at the dark touches the 'Being John ...