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A.S. Hamrah finds that inside every fat suit is a movie star saying "Love Me!"
|3.3.06 @ 10:16PM|#
One fat-suiter not mentioned is the best episode of 'Monk' ever.
'Dale the Whale' starred Adam Arkin as an obscenely obese, immobile
and irascible villain named Dale Beiderbecke.
If you've never seen 'Monk', try to make that the first one you
watch. Just what the Doctor ordered.
Wild Pegasus|3.4.06 @ 12:32AM|#
This article made me crave Ben 'n' Jerry's and a 2-liter of
Coke.
- Josh, training to be fat
|3.4.06 @ 1:06AM|#
No mention of Thinner either. You want to talk about weight loss angst? That movie had it in spades.
|3.4.06 @ 1:21AM|#
The fat suit was born as a sign of the redundancy of
post-scarcity excess; just the addition of a wafer-thin mint
illustrated�in the most disgusting and graphic way�the exact point
where super-tanker gluttons became fabulous foodies, their rib
cages exposed like shipwrecks.
Honestly? This essay could stand to lose a few pounds.
|3.4.06 @ 1:40AM|#
Grrrrrrr... Come on people! Make up your gorram minds! Either
were supposed to heap laud and support for the morbidly obese (i.e.
fat acceptance), or were supposed to shame them into exercise and
diet lest they burden the health care systems of world.
Which is it?
|3.4.06 @ 2:29AM|#
Whatever makes 'em happy.
Ever see the "Two Fat Ladies" cooking show? Utter gustatory
brilliance.
Tim Cavanaugh|3.4.06 @ 4:29PM|#
The Adam Arkin episode of Monk is great not only because Adam Arkin is great (I say anything the Arkin family is involved in is A-OK!), but because it's that rare fat-suit role where the actor doesn't insist that you love him for his inner goodness. Arkin wants you to hate him and his hundreds of pounds of silicone. It stands out because we're in the era of makeup-as-performance-something an older generation of actors would have frowned on. Goddamnit, when James Gregory played General Ursus, he did that role without makeup, just through sheer force of an actor's will!
|3.4.06 @ 4:44PM|#
Once upon a time actors made news by endangering their
health to gain weight for roles, like Robert De Niro did for Raging
Bull. Their willingness to fatten up showed how different they
were, how committed, in a world where everybody else wanted to slim
down. Today we read instead about the weight actors
lose.
This is a bit of a sweeping generalization. What about George
Clooney in Syriana or Benicio Del Toro in Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas?
|3.4.06 @ 6:18PM|#
watch the machinist to see Christian Bale look like he's
straight from Auschwitz
then watch American Psycho to see what he had to lose to prepare
for the Machinist
then watch Batman Begins, where he put the muscle back on
American Psycho is an excellent movie
the others are pretty good too
|3.5.06 @ 4:01AM|#
Douglas: ditto. Clooney is a Golden Age leading man, in that he
doesn't act.
The article title is awesome, BTW.
Rich Ard|3.5.06 @ 4:27AM|#
"Douglas: ditto. Clooney is a Golden Age leading man, in that he
doesn't act.
For reference see "Ocean's Eleven, or: How I dug up the Rat Pack's
corpses and had sex with them".
|3.5.06 @ 7:57AM|#
The flipside of this is when people like Tyra Banks put on fat suits, then go out and do hidden camera stuff wherein they experience how fat people are really treated in the world, then promptly head back to the studio and shed the suit. They then show the footage to the audience, ostensibly in solidarity with fat people, but all the while projecting an aura of, "Glad I'm not really them!"
|3.5.06 @ 9:06AM|#
I dunno, I don't see anything wrong with, "This is awful how fat people are treated - I'm glad I don't get treated like that."
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