<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, wizard of oz]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, wizard of oz]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/wizardofoz http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/wizardofoz <![CDATA[Finally, The Munchkins Get Their Star]]> How in the great and powerful Oz's name it took this long to get the Munchkins a star on the Walk of Fame is beyond us, but today, that wrong was reversed, as seven of the nine surviving diminutive residents of Munchkinland were finally granted their rightful plot on Hollywood's legendary urine-stained road. (They've been especially busy around town lately, with three of them—Jerry Maren, Mickey Carroll and Karl Slover—handing out Dunkin' Donut Munchkin hole treats along with their support to WGA picketers outside NBC.)

"It feels great to be here," said former Lollipop Guild member Maren, taking in the scene outside the Chinese Theater below an arc of rainbow balloons—a far more fitting tribute than 1981's Under the Rainbow, the crappy Chevy Chase movie that depicted them as a pack of horny, drunken savages swinging from the fixtures of the Culver Hotel.

[Photo: Getty Images]

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We knew that it wouldn't take long for somebody with a scanner to release The Sun's pics of a young Tom Cruise dressed up as Dorothy (remember—he WAS Dorothy, not a "friend of," that's an important distinction) and a flapper into the wilds of the internets. The mind boggles at how many tense sessions grabbing the e-meter it took to chase off whatever troublesome body thetans were responsible for this potentially embarrassing chapter in his life.

UPDATE: Tom Cruise's lawyer would like us to clarify some things about his sister and his onetime use of the above Dorothy costume.

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