Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Celebrity Short Guys & a CSI Summary
Last week I watched Woody Allen on the Dick Cavett Show from October 1971. That was his "Bananas" period. It was also the brief golden age of celebrity short guys from New York. Woody (5'5"), Cavett (5'6"), Paul Simon (5'3"). Dustin Hoffman (5'6 3/4"). Abe Beame (5'2") was elected Mayor of New York City in 1973. Of course, Phil "The Scooter" Rizzuto (5'6") was a fixture in the Yankees broadcast booth.
My cousin (5'5" & a Ph.D in something to do with the Renaissance) was married to a woman (also Ph.D) at least 5 inches taller, it was surely a meeting of the minds, but when she got pregnant we started calling him "Tiger."
I didn't feel short in 1971; I was dating a 5'2" nursing student who had to come up a few inches to nibble my ear. Strangely, women below that height would only be with men at least 5'10".
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On CSI: Miami season premiere, Caine & Delko were in Brazil to revenge murder a guy who ordered the hit on Delko's sister & Caine's new wife, who had inoperable cancer, & it was just a matter of which of them would do the killing. But first Caine's sleazy cop brother, who was believed dead & then turned up alive, had to be whacked for certain in a particularly gruesome way by the drug dealers with whom he associated, which renewed the subplot concerning the erotic & incestuously-toned attraction between Caine & his anorexic sister-in-law. So it came down to a knife fight on a helicopter pad overlooking Rio de Janeiro, & Delko got in his licks, but top-billed David Caruso got to fatally stick the personification of evil who had vowed to Caine he would "take away everything you love." Standing over the dead body, Caine gazed upward at the gigantic Cristo Redentor statue on Corcovado mountain. Then our two crime scene investigators flew back to Miami & quickly busted up a Brazil-to-Florida smuggling operation that used boys, including Caine's nephew, as drug mules. Given that much of the episode was filmed using actual Brazil locations, the only real surprise was that it wasn't stretched out as a two-parter.
My cousin (5'5" & a Ph.D in something to do with the Renaissance) was married to a woman (also Ph.D) at least 5 inches taller, it was surely a meeting of the minds, but when she got pregnant we started calling him "Tiger."
I didn't feel short in 1971; I was dating a 5'2" nursing student who had to come up a few inches to nibble my ear. Strangely, women below that height would only be with men at least 5'10".
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On CSI: Miami season premiere, Caine & Delko were in Brazil to revenge murder a guy who ordered the hit on Delko's sister & Caine's new wife, who had inoperable cancer, & it was just a matter of which of them would do the killing. But first Caine's sleazy cop brother, who was believed dead & then turned up alive, had to be whacked for certain in a particularly gruesome way by the drug dealers with whom he associated, which renewed the subplot concerning the erotic & incestuously-toned attraction between Caine & his anorexic sister-in-law. So it came down to a knife fight on a helicopter pad overlooking Rio de Janeiro, & Delko got in his licks, but top-billed David Caruso got to fatally stick the personification of evil who had vowed to Caine he would "take away everything you love." Standing over the dead body, Caine gazed upward at the gigantic Cristo Redentor statue on Corcovado mountain. Then our two crime scene investigators flew back to Miami & quickly busted up a Brazil-to-Florida smuggling operation that used boys, including Caine's nephew, as drug mules. Given that much of the episode was filmed using actual Brazil locations, the only real surprise was that it wasn't stretched out as a two-parter.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
"Strangely, women below that height would only be with men at least 5'10"."
As a 4'10" woman married to a six-footer, I can tell you why that is. There are a few reasons. One reason is that we do not want to be "Oh, look at the wee little toy couple -- aren't they cute?" Another is that we get tired of being treated as if we don't exist. Whether it's picking up a pizza, standing in line at the deli, or trying to get on the subway, when you're as short as I am, you get pushed around. But when you have a six-footer next to you, no one messes with you.
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As a 4'10" woman married to a six-footer, I can tell you why that is. There are a few reasons. One reason is that we do not want to be "Oh, look at the wee little toy couple -- aren't they cute?" Another is that we get tired of being treated as if we don't exist. Whether it's picking up a pizza, standing in line at the deli, or trying to get on the subway, when you're as short as I am, you get pushed around. But when you have a six-footer next to you, no one messes with you.
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