It is November first 1940; in the famous sound stage of THE WIZARD OF OZ on
the MGM lot, a little man is lying face-up on the yellow brick road. His
wide eyes stare upward into the blinding stage lights. He is wearing a
kind of comic soldier's uniform with a yellow coat and puffy sleeves and
big fez-like blue and yellow hat with a feather on top. His yellow hair
and beard are the phony straw color of Hollywood. He could pass for some
kind of cute in the typical tinsel-town way if it wasn't for the knife
sticking out of his chest. *Someone had murdered a Munchkin.*
-- Stuart Kaminsky, "Murder on the Yellow Brick Road"
