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There Gustafson continued to improve his offensive skills, and, in 12th grade, became a member of the school's AAA Midget Team. He became its second-leading scorer...
...Florida lawyer Matthew Hope stumble over while trying to negotiate the sale of a fairgrounds to a local circus that got him shot? A few of Hope's friends try to find out and are soon stumbling clueless through the circus world, wondering whether the death of a gorgeous midget was suicide or murder, why the animal trainer seems himself to be a predator, and whether the dashing young man who hangs by his hair is kept aloft by cocaine...
Yummy liked great big cars, Lincolns and Cadillacs, says Micaiah Peterson, 17. "He could drive real well. It was like a midget driving a luxury car." Sometimes he hung out at the local garage, learning about alternators and fuel injectors. When he wasn't stealing cars, he was throwing things at them or setting them on fire. "What could you do?" asks McClinton. "Tell his grandmother? She'd yell at him, and he'd be right back on the street. If the police picked him up, they'd just bring him back home because he was too young to lock...
...child star named Blue Tyler (born Melba Mae Toolate, or perhaps not, because her birth mother is supposed to have sold her as an infant to a Mrs. Toolate for the price of a bus ticket out of -- maybe -- Yuma, Arizona). Blue isn't cute like Shirley Temple (that "midget in drag," as one of Dunne's wise-guy industry types calls Blue's competition). Rather, she conveys adult sexuality to an unsettling degree, in part because a botched tonsillectomy (by the studio doctor who will one day perform her abortions) gives her Marlene Dietrich's voice...
...woman was the world -- everything in the world that excites and frightens, forbids and enchants. To Marcello in La Dolce Vita, woman is "mother, sister, daughter, lover, angel, home." How small and sad and funny men are in comparison! At one end of the spectrum they are like the midget bluenose in Boccaccio 70 (1962) overwhelmed by Anita Ekberg as a sexual giantess -- it's the attack of the 50-ft. libido. At the other end they are like Guido in 8 1/2 cracking the whip in a vain attempt to tame his harem menagerie...