A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman by Robert Hilburn
Randy Newman is, in no particular order, a crank, an Oscar-winning film-score composer—if you, like me, were bawling through Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, you might have missed the orchestration—and the singer of a No. 2 hit about someone’s random antipathy for short people.
Why, you might wonder, would someone arbitrarily hate short people? Why would someone arbitrarily hate anybody? If you got it, you got Randy Newman. And if you thought it was funny, you were his ideal listener.
