Good as ever …

… TO IRONY AND BEYOND | More Intelligent Life. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Plenty of people look blank when you say Randy Newman’s name, or confuse him with Randy Crawford, who is a woman. But they too know his work, from when he puts his other hat on, as a prolific composer of music for films. Twenty years ago this November, Pixar Animation Studios released its first full-length movie—“Toy Story”. It rapidly became a classic, a fixture in the faithful world of family entertainment. It opened with Newman yelping his way through “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”, which became a classic too, returning in each of the sequels. If you live in the Western world, and have either been a child or had one in the past 20 years, you know that tune.