<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, obesity]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, obesity]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/obesity http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/obesity <![CDATA[Meg Ryan Becomes Latest Member Of Reviled 'Fat Suit' Club]]> To say that Meg Ryan's career is in a free-fall would be to imply that her career hasn't already hit rock bottom. While it's true that she's poised for a potential comeback in this fall's remake of The Women, anyone with half a brain realizes that her star died the day the news broke that she was schtupping Russell Crowe on the set of Proof Of Life back in 2000. Making matters even worse for America's Former Sweetheart™, in Meg's newest (straight-to-DVD) movie called My Mom's Hot Boyfriend, she becomes the latest in a long string of actresses to strap herself into a fat suit only to magically "slim down" to win the heart of a handsome man — a trick which stopped being funny the second time that the Friends gang went to that well. While we're not about to get up on a pedestal and start going off about the offensiveness of fat suits, this news did prompt us to go back and take a look at some of the stars who have donned prosthetics to plump up on-screen in the past (rarely, if ever, to humorous effect). Play along with our latest round of Defamer Bingo after the jump.

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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5029314&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Skinny On Entertainment Tonight's Hunger For Eating Disorders]]> I'm obsessed with "the entertainment news hour" of The Insider and Entertainment Tonight. I just feel like I'm in a Paul Verhoeven-like society whenever I watch the show, with all its sparkly graphics and ridiculous commentary. It's like a giant hand that reaches into people's skulls to pet their brains, and wipe away any excess brain cells. Recently, it occured to me that the ratio of time spent actually reporting on stories and time spent teasing the stories might be dangerously close... and I was right! After the jump, an analysis of yesterday's episodes, with a pie chart! And speaking of pie, did you ever notice TI and ET's obsession with obesity and anorexia? Either people are eating too much or too little. Above is a clip of the shows' coverage of Temptresse—the new William Hung of American Idol— and "the anorexic twins."

Last night The Insider devoted 3 minutes and 25 seconds to the anorexic twins, while Entertainment Tonight devoted 3 minutes and 9 seconds to Temptresse's and her mother's obesity. Overall, The Insider spent 12.76 minutes reporting actual news, while 7.85 minutes were spent teasing what would be reported. The other 9 minutes were devoted to commercials.

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Entertainment Tonight spent 13 minutes reporting, 6 minutes teasing, and 11 minutes on commercials.

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