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| michael brockman, jon de vries, laura dern, rich dworsky, blonde jokes, feature film drama, digital library, over eating, russian writers, man, new mexico, din, walking, artillery, health/well being, fat man music song lyrics, gtd, fatmanclothing.com, discussion, fatman & little boy, | The studio era director of American film was over. Fat men might find a single comic character role to repeat weekly on television, but the system that allowed Greenstreet, Pallette, and others to explore a variety of challenging roles no longer existed. Fat men had to be funny director or—except for Raymond Burr—find another career. We lost Charles Laughton and got Drew Carrey. Funny is okay, but what does it say about our culture that at a time when the average American has never been heavier the only part an overweight actor can play is a clown? John Goodman is the only serious actor who has escaped this stereotyping, and for all we know he is probably on a diet. © 1999 Dana Gioia First published in O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors (Pantheon Books 1999). |
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| In battle his sword-wielding Friar Tuck is a glory to behold. Pallette may have gained weight, but he fatman & little boy never lost his underlying virility. Pallette and Greenstreet both died in 1954. fatman & little boy Each had retired a fatman & little boy few years earlier due to age and ill health. Pallette made his last two films, Suspense and In Old Sacramento in 1946—the first for Monogram, and the second for Republic, two of the worst studios in Hollywood. Plagued by diabetes and Bright's disease, Greenstreet ended his brief cinematic career in 1949 with the marvelously awful Flamingo Road for Warners and the well-cast but forgettable Malaya for MGM. A year earlier the Supreme Court had ordered the major motion picture companies to divest themselves of their theater chains. Television had already started to drain away the audience and change the economics of the entertainment industry. |
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