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To mark the release of Elio, these are the 15 best movies that Pixar has produced – and they’re some of the greatest animated ...
Randy Newman is a national treasure. The musician has been nominated for 22 Academy Awards (winning twice) for composing such absolute classics as Toy Story’s “You Got a Friend in Me.” But ...
Newman’s acidic and satirical “Short People” was a #2 hit in 1977. Naturally, Newman did not perform “Short People.” That would’ve been the obvious thing, which is probably why he didn ...
Randy Newman on why he sold his publishing and what he learned from his biography. ... “Short People,” which somehow reached No. 2 in 1978, ...
That Newman can sell a tune as warmhearted as Toy Story’s You’ve Got a Friend in Me is largely because of a long and distinguished career as an equal-opportunities offender: of short people ...
Randy Newman’s scathing satire of America is his life’s work – and never more relevant than now. ... declares that “Short people have no reason to live” – over and over again.
On Sept. 2, 2005, just days after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, killing 1,800 people and displacing tens of thousands more, the great American icon Aaron Neville and the R&B star India ...
Randy Newman was able to achieve just that kind of transformation, writing the song “I Love L.A.” based on a suggestion from his fellow Southern Californian rock legend Don Henley. The ...