Peter Dinklage Is a Baller  Confession: I only recently started
watching Game of Thrones. Despite all the hype from people whose
taste I trust, the swords-and-dragons thing just doesn’t appeal
to me, even as much as horror or sci-fi. I must now admit I was
wrong in my prejudice. The show’s deft characterization and
careful plotting have overcome my native hostility to anything
with a Ren Faire vibe. Of particular interest is the character
of Tyrion Lannister, brother of the deceitful queen and a
Renaissance man stuck in a medieval world. He’s also one of
those rare characters in Hollywood: someone who has a disability
but is not defined by it. Thus is the way of our new Golden Age
of television, that a seemingly old-fashioned fantasy series
would take a progressive approach to portraying disability that
activists have been demanding for decades.  Disabled actors
struggle to find work in an environment that prizes the able-
bodied, the young, the beautiful, and the impossibly thin. There
are disabled characters