Lately, we’re awash in Tiny Sandford Syndrome.
Wha’? Tiny who?
Tiny Sandford was a very big guy (6’5”, around 300 pounds) who played small parts in 1920s and '30s comedies—Laurel and Hardy’s in particular. Perhaps his best known role is that of the cop in the Laurel and Hardy classic Big Business, a brilliant comedy supervised by Leo McCarey, who was later to direct the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup and other notable films.
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Articles Prospect.org Tiny Sandford Syndrome
In September, 2009 Atlantic Monthly named 
