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  • ‘Fat lesbian’ quip about Ross lands WRKO jock in hot water

    11/02/2006 11:29:28 PM PST · by raccoonradio · 58 replies · 1,718+ views
    Boston Herald ^ | 11/3/06 | Jessica Heslam
    WRKO talk jock John DePetro is back in the hot seat and fighting for his job after calling gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross a “fat lesbian” on his radio show yesterday. Sources say Julie Kahn, vice president and New England market manager for Entercom, owner of WRKO-AM (680) and WEEI-AM (850), is “furious.” “This corporation has zero tolerance for this type of nonsense. We have a high standard,” said George Regan of Regan Communications, which represents WRKO. DePetro was pulled off the air today and has been ordered to a meeting at the station. The latest on-air insult comes nearly four...
  • Big is beautiful on the Milan catwalk

    09/24/2006 7:10:09 AM PDT · by MadIvan · 46 replies · 2,707+ views
    The Observer ^ | September 24, 2006 | Barbara McMahon
    Milan Fashion week kicked off with another band of glamorous models sashaying down the runway, yet there was one notable difference: they had flesh on their bones.With the row over too-thin models rumbling on, it was ironic that the opening show in the famously chic Italian fashion capital featured clothes for the fuller-figured. Size 14 and 16 models strutted their stuff at the Elena Miro fashion show, displaying busts, hips and bottoms with abandon. Curves were confidently on show and body mass indices, the measure of body fat based on height and weight and the rating that has caused so...