<Are they really ready for prime time? In terms of stagecraft, they aren’t there yet. Dean is self-conscious about his stature. He claims to be five-eight and three-quarters. I’ve spent a fair amount of time in his company and, while he is an energetic presence, he isn’t a tall one. If he’s nearly five-nine, I’m Larry Bird.
But Dean’s problem isn’t his height, it’s his humorlessness. He isn’t a guy to make fun of himself (the way his own dad did, calling himself “Short Me” as he strode energetically through life). In any case, his staff opened him to ridicule by the way they staged the endorsement from former NBA star Bradley. If Dean is going to stand on a soapbox, which, in effect is what he was doing, you don’t allow the TV cameras to film the whole thing from behind. It was a silly, amateurish effort at stage-managing a fact that couldn’t really be hidden in the first place.
That is really funny.
What is it with people lying about their height?
I've experienced that lie more than once in my life.
I used to think I was 5'4" tall until I kept encountering
women who were at least 2 -3 inches shorter than me
who would say they were 5'4" tall. Made me laugh every time.
I finally asked my husband to measure me.
I found out that I was, in fact, more like 5'4 and a half inches tall.....LOL
Pat Sajek on Wheel of Fortune did something similar
to Dean's soapbox gambit. There was an occasion when
he stood next to a very tall contestant and he looked
like a midget. After that, he insisted on a box
to stand on when he conducted the interviews. LOL!
on another note, the most pesky male opponents
or judges I've ever encountered suffered from some
variation of SMS--Short Man Syndrome.
Maybe that's Dean's real problem.
For my part, I think it's much more worthwhile
to lie about one's age...:-) |
