Posted on 03/08/2005 3:52:55 PM PST by EveningStar
Comedy heavyweight Kirstie Alley is capitalizing on her super-sized self -- and the sensitive subject of obesity -- in her new sitcom, "Fat Actress."
The Early Show correspondent Kelly Cobiella says it's an-over-the-top show in which Alley plays herself, a woman at war with food, her weight, and Hollywood.
With self-deprecating humor, she makes jokes about being fat and unemployable in show business.
"She's the fat girl on the outside trying to get back in," notes TV Guide critic Rochelle Thomas, "and that's why people will watch. People identify with her, at least, I identified with her (struggles)."
But, observes Cobiella, Alley is also hitting a nerve.
While plus-size actresses such as Camryn Manheim and Queen Latifah have helped break the Hollywood cookie-cutter ideal, this show, women's groups charge, is a giant step backward.
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John Goodman has hit the skids, career-wise. I never did understand the appeal of Brando, regardless of weight.
No woman will ever be the equal of a man until she can catch her reflection in a plate glass window and, seeing a paunchy, balding, wrinkled reflection of herself, think
Damn, I'm lookin' good.
"A show that seems to be set up to make fun of fat people or to describe how miserable their lives are, is not sending a good message, and it's not the right message," laments National Organization for Women president Kim Gandy.
"If the idea is that fat equals desperate," says Gandy, "then that's not going to be good for any of us, and certainly not for people who are overweight, healthy or not."
Gandy, as usual, soooo doesn'y get it. If the NAGs are against it, I'm FOR it. They never have and never will speak for me.
I can take Kirstie in small doses; like a Pier One commercial or something, LOL! I wouldn't pay to watch the show, so thanks for the link to view it on Yahoo. :)
The whole time Kirstie trounced around in her negligees, with ample view of her now ample bust. I believe she was only dressed in two scenes.
Without the foul words, and off-color (or should I say on-color) remarks it could have been funny. She is a gutsy woman; that is certain. But, she obviously has an addictive personality first drugs, now food, and cannot control her mouth when it comes to language either. What a waste of talent. Seeescch!
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