A RELUCTANT SATIRIST IN HISTORY: THE RANDY NEWMAN INTERVIEW
As a songwriter and a satirist, one of the best America has produced in either category with brutally funny, eminently hummable demolitions of racists, sexists, size-ists and fascists in his catalogue, Randy Newman knows that an excess of opportunity isn’t always desirable. Buffoons in the White House, Aldi bags in the state house, ultra-conservatives labelled spies for the Left, teenage girls labelled threats by the Right, morality lessons from jailed child abusers and a dis