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Celebrity Fat Suit Epidemic

It seems that every show these days has at least one episode where one of their slim stars dawns a fat suit. There was Tyra and her retarded fat "experiment" where she put on a fat suit and glasses and was horrified to learn that her bitchy diva behavior was rarely tolerated. There was Vanessa Minnillo's fat suit episode, that I've never seen but heard all about. Now I just heard that another famous person is going to put on the fat suit and talk about how hard it is to be fat. Doesn't this seem totally fucked up? I thought I'd put some pics of famous people in fat suits here so we can see this epidemic spread.


First up we have Tyra Banks in her infamous fat suit experiment. While I never watch her show because I find her soul-destroying, I saw a lot of clips from this episode and it was completely priceless. It was basically Tyra in costume being a huge bitchy diva and then saying "people were treating me so badly!"


Vanessa Minnillo also dawned a fat suit for some social experiment or something, or maybe just to make fat people feel bad about themselves. I think it was her doing some kind of parody of Ugly Betty.


Ryan Reynolds also put on the infamous fat suit for a movie he did called Just Friends. The movie was a flop, but it still represents another time a famous person put on a fat suit to make the statement that fat people suck.


Even classy ladies like Paltrow are not above making fun of women who are fatter than them. Paltrow put on the fat suit for her role in the Jack Black comedy Shallow Hal, a film about a guy who only dates really hot chicks until getting hypnotized by Tony Robbins and sees the "real beauty" in women. Of course, the real point of the film was to see how many fat jokes could fit into 113 min.


Of course, the fat suit craze has been going on for years. On Friends, Courtney Cox rocked the suit when she was fat Monica...


And Eddie Murphy also made the fat suit famous in The Nutty Professor and all the sequels.


The best fat suit joke I've ever seen was by Rachel Dratch on SNL a few seasons back. She did a whole segment on Weekend Update about how celebrities had been putting on fat suits for their little "social experiments" and how that was total crap. The best part of the whole segment was her last line. She said, "So the next time you're rude to a fat person, think twice about it because it could be a celebrity in a fat suit."

Denver Film Festival Reviews Up Now on Trashwire.com

I just added two more reviews from the Denver Film Festival. You can see them on the main page here or you can read each one by clicking the links below.

Who Loves the Sun
Will Morrison and Daniel Bloom were the best of friends. They grew up together. Went to the same schools. Liked the same records. Loved the same girls. Daniel was Will's best man at his wedding to Maggie Claire. Then one day Will disappeared without a word. Half a decade later he re-surfaces and sets off a tsunami of unforeseeable events.

Vanaja
Vanaja, the 15 year old daughter of a financially troubled fisherman goes to work in the local landlady's house in hopes of learning Kuchipudi dance. She does well, but when the Landlady's son returns from the US, what begins as innocent sexual chemistry turns ugly, ending in a rape - a rape of a minor. Set in rural South India, a place where social barriers are built stronger than ancient fort walls, the film explores the chasm that divides classes as a young girl struggles to come of age.

Trashwire Updates!

I know it's been a long time, but Trashwire.com was just updated with a brand new review of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. I got to see the film at the Denver Film Festival and wrote up a quick review here.

Watch K.Fed Get Dumped Via Text Message

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkq0w6ua_Sg

It may be wrong that I find this clip hilarious, but I do. Kevin Federline was filming a reality show where they followed him around everywhere and they just so happened to catch him getting a text message telling him about the divorce. The look on his face when he realizes that the gravy train is over is completely priceless. Wow, first they can't GIVE away tickets to his shows and now this.

Why Kanye West Makes Me Puke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74YTisfHOJE

Kanye West was up for Best Video at the recent MTV Europe music awards, but he lost. Rather than letting it go, he decided to crash the acceptance speech of the group that won and claim that the whole show lost all it's credibility because they didn't give it to him.

I've seen a lot of people in my life that have their heads up their own asses, but this is a classic.

The 'M' in MTV

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't MTV supposed to mean MUSIC television? I know MTV has cut back on playing videos over the years, but now they don't play them at all. Even at 2AM, there's always some crap original programming or teen reality show, no videos.

Look at TRL, a show that is supposed to count down the most requested videos.... they play 20-30 seconds of the video and then it's back to all the kids in the studio yelling "WOOOOO!" for a few minutes until the commercial break. (By the way, for anyone over 20, try watching an episode of TRL and see if you aren't pro-choice by the end of it.)

It's sad because some music videos ("Welcome to the Black Parade") are awesome and I wish MTV would play them from start to finish and without all the banners and ads in the corners. Videos are an art form all their own and it's a shame that now they're cut down to ring-tone size clips and played while some VJ talks over the whole thing.

That's why I watch Fuse now. They seem to be the only music network around right now that actually plays music videos still. MTV and it's bastard childern MTV2, MTV2, and all the others only play clips, but Fuse plays the whole video without tons of crap floating around the screen. I fell in love with Fuse a few weekends ago when they did and all My Chemical Romance block and played their videos and making-of stuff. Now, Fuse has gone from the bottom of my music TV list to the top because they seem to be the only music network that actually plays music.

Just a quick rant.