Word: midgeter
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...Weeks at Don Rickles' Summer Camp. In Gimme a Break (NBC, Thursdays at 9:30 p.m.), Lara Jill Miller, 14, proclaims, to laughter and applause from the studio audience: "I hate dresses. They show off your boobs." Lara, a midget Sophie Tucker in corduroys, seems destined to head her own Vegas lounge act. So surrender: send her to Rickles' camp and leave her there...
...like the effects, the message occasionally seems phony. Gilliam wants his images to have meaning; yet by investing midgets with heroics, he calls for a tolerance difficult to sustain. Granted that if the six were played by "normal-sized" actors, the film would lose all of its staying power; yet depending on these men of limited height, experience, and acting ability becomes a drag. Cinematographer Peter Bizou probably has chronic back pains from keeping the camera down on a level to make them look correct, but all the efforts in the world cannot negate the fact that these are tiny...
Galloping galaxies! Here come that midget robot and the tin man with the English accent again, along with Luke, Han Solo and the rebellious rose of Alderaan, Princess Leia. Star Wars is back, but with a difference. This time it is on National Public Radio, and instead of being presented within the confines of a two-hour movie, it has been expanded into a serial: 13 half-hour cliffhangers...
Smith is now in the process of collecting data for his next novel, set in the Sunbelt. It is, once again, a thriller. "The format," he feels, "is inexhaustible. We don't need farfetched plots: 'What if the President were a midget and his wife were a man?' All we have to do is ask, 'What if the President were Ronald Reagan? What if the leadership of Russia were over 80?' The drama is there. All we have to do is get it down on paper...
...bidding on one goes to $21,000, but there is no sale, because the owner values them at $40,000 apiece). There are four giraffes, axis deer, oryxes, African crowned cranes and elands that were hand-raised and are, says Hale, "as gentle as a sick pig." Lynxes, cougars, midget horses are on the block too, as well as a fraternity of elk, including one handsome fellow named Fred, who, according to Hale, has attended two national Elks conventions...