Hey, hey, isn't that a Monkee?

The biggest shock in Rob Zombie's otherwise disappointing "Halloween" was a bit of stunt casting toward the film's end.

Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell, wishing he was back in Stanley Kubrick's directorial grip) visits a gun shop to arm himself against Michael Myers. And who do you think plays the gun store owner? Yes, it's Micky Dolenz of The Monkees. The scene doesn't last long, but as good as it was to see ol' Mick again it took me right out of the moment.

According to Dolenz's Web site, he just played the Tennessee Soybean Festival. Chuckle if you want, but Dolenz and his fellow Monkees made some of the best pop music of the late 1960s. In their prime, The Monkees outsold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones combined. Now that's scary.