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...picture gets in trouble very early. The opening scenes, meant to establish the title characters, are much too sketchy. Susan Weinblatt (Melanie Mayron) comes across as little more than a standard Upper West Side ugly duckling, like TV's Brenda Morgenstern: she is a sassy, overweight Jewish woman who is luckless with men and still struggling in her career as a photographer. Her roommate Anne Munroe (Anita Skinner) is an even more familiar type-a svelte, high-strung Wasp with ambitions to write poetry. When Anne leaves the nest to get married, her relationship with Susan starts to deteriorate...
DIED. Totie Fields, 48, talk-show comedian who staged a comeback to the nightclub circuit following the amputation of her left leg in 1976; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas. She used to joke about her 4-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. figure: "Obese, hefty, overweight, rotund. I never knew there were so many ways to say fatty...
...according to research by Epidemiologist Lisa Berkman of the University of California at Berkeley. Studying the lives of 7,000 people between the ages of 30 and 69 over a nine-year period, she found that extraverts are more likely to live longer than introverts, who tend to be overweight, smoke, shun exercise and drink too much. While outgoing types are inclined to stay in better physical shape, Berkman concluded that their gregariousness, for unknown reasons, has much to do with the fact that they are more resistant to heart and circulatory diseases, cancer and strokes and less inclined...
...movie is even farther removed from its realistic sources. It amounts to a lot of stupid dirty jokes among a group of men who demonstrate not a single redeeming, or even contrasting characteristic. An exception might be Charles Durning playing a weary, overweight cop fighting to keep a rebellious tongue in check until he can collect his pension...
Aman has a tip for Americans wishing to improve their verbal-abuse techniques: "Look for a distinguishing characteristic. Each of us is deviant in some way. For instance, I wear glasses, I'm five-foot-seven, 20 pounds overweight, have short hair and a Kissinger accent. So you could start off calling me a fat, four-eyed, runty, reactionary, sewer-mouth Kraut." Still, he considers it unsporting, and sometimes destructive, for cursers to pick on physical characteristics. Says he: "Insults should be aimed at behavior, something a person can change...