Word: overweighting
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...Wife, The Well-Digger's Daughter) first told his sentimental fable of the Marseilles waterfront as a trio of plays, then as a charming film trilogy in the early 19305. Theatergoers will remember with no leap of the heart that by 1954 Fanny had become an overweight Broadway musical. Inexplicably encouraged, Director Josh Logan set about making a new screen version, having prudently purchased the assurance that Pagnol's trilogy would not be shown concurrently...
...this: his verse is not suited to speaking under theatrical conditions), one, at least, did not know his lines. I have no objection to letting the audience know what is happening by means of large signs, but they need not have been carried on and off by an overweight female in slacks. Finally, Deborah Steinberg (the dryad) deserves some praise for her voice, but an attractive young girl cannot become a tree witch simply by taking off her shoes and putting on a green dress...
...WILLIAMS was upset last weekend when only 2500 of an expected 20,000 turned out at Boston U. Field to see him perform on Ted Kennedy's so-called Physical Fitness program. He shouldn't have been. What is to be gained by watching an average, overweight retired outfielder hit a couple off retired pitcher Joe Coleman? Is that conducive to robust health...
...cinematography in a Prell shampoo blurb was visual poetry as it showed, with crystalline acuity, each gob of goo sinking into each coil of hair. There was the pathos of Willy Loman in a Metrecal pitch called the Lonely Man (commercials have titles these days), which showed a forlorn, overweight figure trudging through Central Park on a cheerless winter day while a narrator spoke of blubber in tones of quiet reasonableness...
...shrewd Texas blonde named Debbie Drake has fashioned a never-fail device to pare tallow off overweight Americans, using three proven methods: 1) exercise, 2) diet, and 3) matrimonial strife. The device is leggy, busty, 30-year-old Debbie Drake (38½-22½-36) herself. She does calisthenics. Loyal women viewers of 58 TV stations drag themselves out of bed early enough (7:30 a.m., E.D.T.) to puff along with Debbie as she does 15 minutes of sinuous stretches and stupefying deep breathing. While the women writhe, their husbands too are profiting by the sitting-up exercises (they...