Word: overweightness
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Sometimes weight is imposed by a role. When the late Vivian Vance played Ethel Mertz in I Love Lucy, according to Bart Andrews' The Story of I Love Lucy, she was obliged by contract to stay 20 Ibs. overweight so that she would look older and frumpier than Star Lucille Ball...
...Bronson or Lee Remick. Well, I didn't see any movie stars, but I did see a hell of a lot of people who thought they were. The dress code in California is Show-What-You-Got, even if you don't got it. You see a lot of overweight, middle-aged women spilling out of scanty fashion wear designed for Farrah Fawcett...
...overweight jogger clutches his chest and sinks painfully to the sand, his ticker in mortal distress. He will lie there-at first in pain, later in death-for most of S. O. B. That is because it is his misfortune to have been taking his exercise in the world capital of self-absorption, the beach at Malibu, where movie people tend their tans, mend their deals and bend their minds with all sorts of curious additives. Dying is something that happens to your friend's act in Vegas or your rival's picture in Gotham. It is acceptable...
...Harvard alumni, age 35 to 74, by Stanford Epidemiologist Ralph Paffenbarger. He found that men who made a lifetime habit of regular exercise (say, strenuous swimming or jogging three times a week) had about half as many heart attacks as those who were sedentary. Even smokers, overweight men and those with high blood pressure or family histories of heart disease benefited from exercise. Despite the Harvard study, however, the value of exercise in preventing coronary disease has not been conclusively shown...
...most honest and political film about Vietnam to date." The movie glorified the common man, it told you it was okay to love your country right or wrong. It copped five major Academy Awards. It made money--and, in Hollywood, profits are the measure of genius. Cimino, the overweight preppy from Long Island, thought he was John Ford. He posed for photos in a cowboy hat. He announced his next project: Heaven's Gate, an epic of the American West...