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...Gerard Depardieu, as landlord and peasant, are bound together, unable to abandon either their friendship or their class positions. The two were boys together: DeNiro always following and admiring the peasant Depardieu; but their friendship was always flawed because, as Depardieu says, "I caught the frogs your family ate...
...same night that I met Larry I was introduced to Dave. Dave was also a sophomore. By coincidence they had the same birthday and consequently the same lottery number. But while Larry escaped by fasting, Dave literally ate his way out of the draft...
Larry usually weighed 145, but two weeks before the physical he began fasting. During that time he ate nothing but one or two large cans of V-8 juice. As if starving himself wasn't enough, he also ran several miles a day. "I needed the exercise. I had to lose those calories, man." The thought of varying his diet of water and fruit juice did occur to him, but calories scared him off. "Maybe I could have eaten soybeans, they're practically all protein. But even protein has calories." While other dieters counted 2000 calories a day, he counted...
...month before his physical, Dave started to stuff himself. He ate constantly, with a preference for greasy, fatty food. "It's not hard to get a lot of grease if you eat at the school cafeteria," he said. He also drank large quantities of beer...
Overindulgence on this scale proved unpleasant. "Actually, greasy food gives me indigestion. But which is worse, a little gas or two years in the army?" Dave said to me. In one month of gluttony--during which Dave commonly ate four and five meals a day--he added 25 pounds of fat. He took on the appearance of an overfed courtier, a modern-day George III, with his long curly black hair hanging on each side of a puffy, red-cheeked face. The real change, however, was going on inside...