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'Professional Leprechauns' Rejoice, but St. Patrick's Day Inspires Mixed Emotions Among Little People
By David Moye - AOL NewsFor many people, St. Patrick's Day is a big day to go out and let off some steam, but it's a day of mixed emotions for people of short stature. Leprechauns are a part of Irish folklore, but their association with the holiday can cause undue misery for some little people, according to Gary Arnold, spokesman for Little People of America, a support group for Americans of short stature due to dwarfism. "Some little people still cringe when they go to a bar on St. Patrick's Day," Arnold confessed. "It reinforces the traditional stereotype that we're nonhuman." But this feeling is by no means ...
Cop Stripped of Badge for Watching 'Bridget the Midget' Striptease
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(July 21) -- A Stoughton, Mass., police officer didn't think it would be a big thing when he bailed on his patrol to watch a 3-foot, 9-inch porn actress perform a striptease. But it turned out to be no small issue. According to the Boston Herald, officer Richard Bennett, 28, was forced to turn in his badge after skipping his beat to catch a strip club act by adult film star Bridget Powers -- also known as "Bridget the Midget." Bridgetthemidget.com Police officer Richard Bennett was forced to resign after he bailed on his beat to watch a diminutive porn actress named "Bridget the Midget" ...
Little People Grapple With 'M Word' on Wrestling Show
By David Moye - AOL News(June 3) -- Spike TV's newest reality show, "Half Pint Brawlers," is causing a big debate among America's little people. The show follows a Chicago-based wrestling troupe called the Half Pint Brawlers through their on- and offstage antics. The hook is that all six members are under 4 feet tall. Spike TV Spike TV's "Half Pint Brawlers" chronicles the often absurd, astonishing and wild adventures of one of the most extraordinary performance groups in the country. The show, which debuted June 2 and airs at 11 p.m., follows a recent trend of reality shows focused on little people -- the term ...
Dwarf Theme Park a Giant Problem for Little People
By David Moye - AOL News(March 9) -- Members of a support group for little people have a giant problem with a theme park in China that puts dwarfs on public display. The park, which is called Kingdom of the Little People, is a $115 million enterprise in southern China's Yunnan Province that features as its top attraction a troupe of dwarfs who perform various skits including a slapstick version of "Swan Lake." The Kingdom is the brainchild of entrepreneur Chen Mingjing, who told The New York Times that he sees the park as a way to help the less fortunate, in this case, the more than 100 dwarfs who he says might ...
Dwarf Basketball Team Aims High
By Buck Wolf - AOL News(Jan. 25) – When you play for the New York Towers – New York's all-dwarf basketball team – you hear this question a lot: Do you play on a regular-size court? It's a question that irks some little people. Dwarfs don't drive miniature cars. They don't live in dollhouses. Why wouldn't they play basketball like everybody else? "The concept itself is hard for some average-size people to think about – small people playing a big man's game," says Clinton Brown III, the team's 3-foot, 3-inch general manager. PRODUCTION PLAYER! DO NOT DELETE. ...
Top 10 Best and Worst Reality TV Shows
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe flurry of posts by my female colleagues on movies and TV shows has gone Right. Over. My. Head. I have never heard of this Julie-whatever movie they are debating. What's the big whoop? And although I've seen a couple episodes of "Mad Men," I think the show is boring and unwatchable. I'm way out of my league trying to debate these TV shows that -- let's be frank -- don't have a chance in heck of being on the cover of Us Weekly. So really, why watch? Go ahead and call me superficial, low-brow, cheesy, trashy, shallow and unsophisticated; I accept all those descriptions. So I'm ...
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