Larger Than Life

Nick Gillespie | January 5, 1998

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box-office performances of its

alumni). Both were

crying-on-the-inside kind of

clowns. Both had film careers

that, despite some success, were

best described as degrading to

actor and audience alike. The

main point of comparison, of

course, was that both were

Weight Watchers washouts (as one

paper euphemized, "both had a

hearty appetite for food, drink

and drugs....").

But such facile comparisons