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...start, Tracy (Marissa Jaret Winokur) is trapped at home, watching "The Corky Collins Show" with her friend Penny Pingleton (Kerry Butler). Fat Mama Edna (Fierstein) wants to be alone in her misery; she growls to Penny, "Go tell your mother she wants you." Edna is married to medium-size Wilbur (Dick Latessa), who runs the local joke shop; his ambition is to "keep the air from leaking out of my sofa-size Whoopee Cushion." The goal Edna mentions has the same working-class practicality about it: she wants to "find a way to get blood out of car upholstery...
...Soon Tracy is the most popular gal on the dance floor. Wait a minute, Amber thinks, that's my job, and squalls, with a lovely petulance, "Everybody, stop liking her!" But everybody can't stop. Link, the divoonest guy in town, feels a strange urge to be with the fat girl. Even Edna is impressed by Tracy's new radiance: "If I'd known you were gonna get on the show, I never woulda said don't do it." Tracy also gets endorsements. At Mr. Pinky's Hefty Hideaway, Mr. P. wants Tracy to be the shop's "exclusive spokesperson...
...typing these now-familiar snatches of dialogue. It also tucks a moral inside: not the 60s dream of racial justice but the very-now notion that the You inside you is faaaabulous. For Penny and Seaweed: black and white is better than gray. For Tracy and Edna: Fat is Phat, baby...
...lucrative initial public offerings (IPOs) of stock have been showered on CEOs who sent investment-banking business to Citi. Spitzer is still digging for dirt, so any deal may be several weeks away. But the whole episode signaled a thaw in Weill's ice-age thinking. Playing to fat cats at the expense of retail investors was no longer defensible. Almost overnight, what had been de rigueur was deplored, and Weill's giant firm had been singled out as the poster child for big bad banks...
...service work is very relevant. And it argues that its tame entertainment programming is valuable because it's free and uncommercial. But tax money aside, nothing is free here--just look at the pledge drives, the corporate crypto ads, and the costume dramas aimed at aging, risk-averse members' fat wallets. PBS has taken a few chances, like the fine edu-reality series Frontier House and the well-meaning if melodramatic Hispanic drama American Family. But you can't remake Forsyte without inviting the question: Thirty-three years later, is PBS still worth...