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...ready for my interview, I worried that my face had broken out, that I was five pounds overweight, that I was dressed wrong--sweater, jeans, boots--was I trying too hard? I took my measurements for the first time, and had to wonder, Do you breathe in or out? Do half-inches round up or down? I found myself thinking, What should my measurements be, and then how do I get them close to that standard...
...Berke, give me a lightbulb joke anytime, I'll laugh along with the rest of them. But spare me your gross prejudices, please. Save them for your beer buddies. Go ahead and give them all the best lines--about how women who call themselves feminists are really sexually frustrated, overweight, undesirables who speak about hating men because they can't get near them. About how Gloria Steinem would look a lot better if she smiled a little more, and maybe wore a little make-up. How the problem with women today is that they're all too bitchy--they...
...Tubby isn't an overweight reserve flanker. He's not a member of one of Princeton's eating clubs. He doesn't know Brooke Shields...
Sears is especially funny as the Bumiller siblings, a trio of screwed up adolescents whose main problem is boredom; there's Stanley, the reform school dropout, Jody, patron of the stray-puppy population, and their overweight sister Charlene, who's life is ruined because she'll never make cheerleader. The two-man show offers up some great lines, like when Mrs. Bumiller tries to offer the usual motherly consolation "wait until next year" to her depressed daughter, and Charlene points out that she's already a senior. The duo earned their three ovations opening night with their flawless...