Now we've got a dwarf shortage

[Pachydermatous]

And not just any dwarfs, mind you, but short actors. Brit TV and movies are gobbling them up:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1242925.html?menu

 

[Queasy1]

Makes you wonder how much a dwarf actor can make if they are in such high demand.

 

[Pachydermatous]

Makes you wonder how much a dwarf actor can make if they are in such high demand.

You don't think they're being short-changed, do you?

 

[Queasy1]

You don't think they're being short-changed, do you?

Nah, I'm sure they're getting a little extra something on the low-low.

Incidently, the greatest dwarf movie quote ever: "From the waist down, you're mine!"

 

[Really Big Bama Fan]

And not just any dwarfs, mind you, but short actors. Brit TV and movies are gobbling them up:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1242925.html?menu

Perhaps it is not too late for them to get Bridget the Midget!

 

[It's On A Slab]

Terry Bowden's available.

And not just any dwarfs, mind you, but short actors. Brit TV and movies are gobbling them up:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1242925.html?menu

Though, he's under contract to play Toto in the upcoming remake of The Wizard of Opelika. :

 

[Pachydermatous]

I started to suggest that Brit producers switch to midgets, but they are a vanishing tribe due to modern growth hormones.

The biggest midget extravaganza was, of course the Wizard of Oz (1938) in which no fewer than 124 of the little people acted. The cast has been dogged for years by rumors that these cute Munchkins were in reality a bunch of hard-drinking, fighting and ribald show biz types who made lecherous remarks to Judy Garland. Judy helped the rumor along in 1967 when she disparaged the Munchkins as "little drunks." The rumor got another boost in 1981 with release of Under the Rainbow, a farcical movie in which dwarfs played midgets who played Munchkins.

Surviving cast members claim that only "four or five" Munchkins misbehaved during shooting. Munchkin Jerry Maren says a couple of Irish midgets named Ike and Mike Kelly "drank a bit during the shoot," and this was the origin of the rumor.

The Munchkin numbers were fleshed out in 1938 with small child actors, and this might be the solution to current Brit production headaches. :biggrin: