Posted on 16/05/08
Short but not exactly sweet
S&M: Short and MaleDirected and writtenby Howard GoldbergClassification: PG**For mirthless men of a certain height (this reviewer included), Randy Newman's 1977 hit Short People struck a particularly sensitive nerve. "Short people got no reason to live," Newman sang, making all-too-plain the discrimination that many shorter-statured fellows felt. The singer's tongue might have been planted firmly in his cheek, but we'd have preferred he just bit it.
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