LAT: Little Actors Just As Crazy As Full-Sized Ones
Today's LAT article on the struggles of little people in Hollywood to change the public's image and gain mainstream acting roles effectively (and probably inadvertantly) advances their cause—by illustrating that actors of small stature can act just as crazy in the pursuit of a part as your run-of-the-mill, full-size Cheesecake Factory waiter with a 1982 Datsun full of headshots. Little person actor Eugene Pidgeon has tried to write himself into Gilmore Girls and is finally receiving the "equal treatment" he craves.
Ever since the actor saw the WB's "Gilmore Girls" and its mix of eclectic characters, he has labored to get a little person on the show. He's offered himself for the role and even written a treatment to show how he would fit. His yearlong campaign has only resulted in frustration and anger — emotions he says typify the experiences of the little people when dealing with Hollywood. Pidgeon barraged the show's representatives with letters[...] In response to his aggressive campaign, which included sending three dozen roses to Rudofsky and her partner, the television station drew a line. WB's chief legal counsel Jody Zucker wrote Pidgeon, asking that all communications go through him.
