For years Ezzy Dame has been living a lie. Thirty four years ago he padded his resume with the claim that he had played an Oompa Loompa in the 1971 version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. With the release of the recent version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, reporters sought him out for his opinion, as an ex-Oompa Loompa, about the film. This caught the attention of a real ex-Oompa Looma, Rusty Goff, who outed him. Goff claims that he's aware of other "Oomposters." 
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Would any of them still be alive ?
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Well, I know a couple of people who were around in 1971. It's a long time ago, admittedly, and I don't generally associate with people who are old enough to remember Gerald Ford, but they...
Oh, hang on, you're talking about the little people from the Wizard of Oz, ah, I get you. There was a book about them in 1989:
http://www.chiprowe.com/bookrev/oz.html
At least 28 of the 122 people hired to play munchkins in 1938 were still alive in 1989; that's how many the author could track down. Assuming they were in their twenties or early thirties at the time it's a fair bet that a couple are still around, albeit that I don't know what long-term health problems little people suffer from, if any.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/070201/Floridian/After_the_rainbow.shtml
"In the movie, Slover played a trumpeter, a soldier, one of the babies who popped out of the eggs -- even a female Munchkin because of a shortage of midget women.
Slover is what's known as a pituitary dwarf, and he still doesn't understand why he is one. His father stood 6-foot-6 and was vice mayor of a small town in what is now the Czech Republic. His mother was just a few inches shorter, and his four sisters were all normal height.
But by the time Slover was 8, he was still barely 2 feet tall. (He is 4-foot-4 now.) His father sent him to work in a traveling midget show; after coming to the United States, Slover worked in Hollywood and with a family-owned carnival. He changed his last name from Kosiczky to Slover, the name of the family that owned the carnival, when he became an American citizen in 1943. He moved to Hyde Park in 1962, and has lived there ever since."
speculate speculate.
My idolization of you has been shattered.
And if you think Gene Wilder was pedophilic, you really don't want to watch the new one.
In the book, the Oompa Loompas were tree-dwelling African pygmies. Willie imported them to work in his factory as scabs, because they were from so far back in the boondocks they didn't know what money was, so it never occurred to them to ask for wages. Thus he avoided labor troubles.
Capitalism never changes, does it?
When the 1971 movie was made, the producers changed the O.L.s to munchkin-like orange people with blue hair because they were afraid civil rights groups would protest the movie (really!) if they showed the little chocolatiers as black people, as they were in the book. Rumor has it that's also why the first movie was titled "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" instead of the book's title, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (as in Mister Charlie).
At least, that's what my management tells me when I complain about a 40 hour wage for a 60 hour week.
If you have read the original book and other books by the same author, he does have this fantastically wierd and sometimes sick sense of humor. I think the movie did a really good job portraying the original story.
go the ozfest in central new york to meet them