He was a prankster who was also a disarmingly sincere outsider artist of crackpot passion. And that face had a skewed glamour: He looked like Lord Byron crossed with Nosferatu, with the hair of Jimmy Page and the eyes of Lillian Gish. He could truly sing, sometimes in a lower register in the film, we hear his cover version of “People Are Strange,” and it’s oddly delectable. But the most arresting of them was that his entire act flirted with looking and sounding ugly, yet the more you looked and listened to him the more you realized he was beautiful. His image, and soprano flutter, called up a lot of paradoxes he was angel and creep, male and female, innocent and libertine. In 1959, he joined a Times Square flea circus, where he was billed as Larry Love, the Human Canary, and even there, in the snake-pit dregs of showbiz, he had the surreal magnetism of self-creation. He was a visibly fractured human being, yet one of the strange things the documentary captures is that Tiny Tim, who started off in the ’50s playing amateur singing contests and dive bars, was one of those people who always knew he was going to be a star. Watching him now, 50 years later, you can scarcely take your eyes off him. As the documentary captures (and as I never quite understood back in grade school when I would see Tiny Tim on TV), he was the freak of all freaks, but only because he possessed a singular charisma.
The enticing documentary “ Tiny Tim: King for a Day” captures the delightful insanity of how Tiny Tim, the kind of elfin novelty act you could imagine getting booed off the stage at an open-mic night, became, for a while, the biggest star on the planet. Tiny Tim is remembered fondly by his family for his good qualities.
we recollect how patient and how mild he was. In the scene that the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows of the Cratchits, Bob remembers his son as a patient child. This highlights how ungenerous Scrooge, an adult, can be. He hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.ĭickens suggests that the child is exceptionally thoughtful for his age. Tiny Tim rises above his own suffering and hopes that people who see him will think of Jesus. We learn that Tiny Tim is kind and able to offer an equal love to all mankind. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows a possible future in which Scrooge's fears are realised and Tiny Tim has died.Īt the end of the novella, after Scrooge changes his character, we learn that he becomes like a second father to Tiny Tim.Īfter Bob Cratchit raises a toast at the Christmas dinner table, Tiny Tim echoes the toast and includes everyone. Scrooge is affected by the child and when he is shown the Cratchit family Christmas by the Ghost of Christmas Present, he worries whether Tiny Tim will live. He thinks of others and is well-loved by his family. Despite his physical difficulties, he is a positive and generous child. He walks with a crutch and has 'his limbs supported by an iron frame'.
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