'Little People' Star Matt Roloff -- I'm Not Dead!
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OK so reading TS latest post; he mentions TMZ and Connecting the Dots: <!-- l -->viewtopic.php?f=72&t=11061&start=0<!-- l --> -
i was searching TMZ.com's website and came across this article: <!-- m -->http://www.tmz.com/2010/06/16/matt-rolo ... t-vertigo/<!-- m -->
i was searching TMZ.com's website and came across this article: <!-- m -->http://www.tmz.com/2010/06/16/matt-rolo ... t-vertigo/<!-- m -->
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Murder in Black and White
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"Little People, Big World"
We the everyday Joe & Jane are considered the "Little People" in politics.
Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Political sources
Many of the events and characters of the book resemble the actual political personalities, events and ideas of the 1890s. The 1902 stage adaptation mentioned, by name, President Theodore Roosevelt, oil magnat John D. Rockefeller, and other political celebrities. Even the title has been interpreted as alluding to a political reality: "oz." is an abbreviation for ounce, a unit familiar to those who fought for a 16 ounce to 1 ounce ratio of silver to gold in the name of bimetallism. In the play and in later books Baum mentions contemporary figures by name and takes blatantly political stances without the benefit of allegory including a condemnation in no uncertain terms of Standard Oil.
The book opens not in an imaginary place but in real life Kansas, which, in the 1890s as well as today, was well known for the hardships of rural life, and for destructive tornadoes. The Panic of 1893 caused widespread distress in the rural United States. Dorothy is swept away to a colorful land of unlimited resources that nevertheless has serious political problems. This utopia is ruled in part by wicked witches. Dorothy and her house are swept up by the tornado and upon landing in Oz, the house falls on the Wicked Witch of the East, destroying the tyrant and freeing the ordinary people—little people or Munchkins. The Witch had previously controlled the all-powerful silver slippers (which were changed to ruby in the 1939 film). The slippers will in the end liberate Dorothy but first she must walk in them down the golden yellow brick road, i.e. she must take silver down the path of gold, the path of free coinage (free silver). Following the road of gold leads eventually only to the Emerald City, which may symbolize the fraudulent world of greenback paper money that only pretends to have value, or may symbolize the greenback value that is placed on gold (and for silver, possibly).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz
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