Comments on: You Like Me! You Really Like Me! http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/ 2007-2010 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Level Best http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-20695 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:21:31 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-20695 Oh, I’m afraid I’m going to get really upset at how this subject and how Ms. Blonsky are handled in this. And is she going to be the only “go-to” fat actress for the foreseeable future? You see more large actors and actresses in 60 year old movies on TCM than you see in contemporary TV. But what do we expect from an industry so insulated from reality that the writers’ and casting directors’ idea of an ordinary person is, for example, a rail-thin psychologist in a three storey Cape Cod? Feh.

]]> By: wellroundedtype2 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19893 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:17:34 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19893 I have some plot suggestions here:
Suggestions for a better fat girl TV movie

]]> By: A Better Plotline « Wellroundedtype2’s Weblog http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19886 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:48:52 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19886 [...] Filed under: Uncategorized — by wellroundedtype2 @ 5:48 am Inspired by a challenge (I’m a sucker that way) here are a few attempts at a better “fat girl unwittingly [...]

]]> By: Di http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19715 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:06:48 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19715 What’s particularly depressing is that this is the stuff that gets cranked out before the writer’s guild strike. Anyone want to plot a series with a better storyline for youtube?

]]> By: Aebhel http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19626 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:49:35 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19626 You know, it would be really nice to live in a world where fat girls could afford to be shocked by nastiness and mockery. Unfortunately, we don’t.

]]> By: Nancy Lebovitz http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19606 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:47:44 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19606 In Hairspray, the opening song is Tracy being delighted with life, even though everything she’s delighted about is stuff most people would hate.

She auditions for the dance show, and seems genuinely shocked when she’s turned down and mocked for being fat.

This new movie may well be as bad as you all expect, but apparently the “fat person scarcely notices prejudice against her in high school” cliche can be handled in a way that makes it not offensive.

]]> By: kateharding http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19482 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:42:12 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19482 I must say, I watched Carrie last night, in celebration of both Halloween and this post, and that is a pretty sweet ending.

Mot that anyone at Shapely Prose condones burning down the school with your telekinetic powers.

]]> By: sumac http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19480 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:39:18 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19480 maybe she will kill them all and burn down the school with her telekenetic powers in the end. a girl can hope.

]]> By: Divajean http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19442 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:29:30 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19442 Babycakes is my favorite TV movie evah! It was originally a CBS movie though- not a Lifetime.

]]> By: Kathy A http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19358 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:35:18 +0000 http://kateharding.net/2007/10/31/you-like-me-you-really-like-me/#comment-19358 First post here, although I’ve been lurking for a while (love the site, Kate!).

It’s too bad this actress couldn’t find a role like Ricki Lake did after the first “Hairspray,” in a TV movie called “Babycakes,” in which she played a retiring mortician’s makeup person who takes great pride in making the corpses look good for the wakes. She gets a crush on a guy she sees skating at Rockefeller Center, and gets the nerve to approach him. He blows her off at first because she’s fat (and he’s engaged, anyway), but they develop a relationship and he falls in love with her. She also gets a confidence boost and begins to dress and look great without losing any weight. But, he wusses out of the affair when the fiance catches them and mocks him for seeing a fattie. However, she stays looking fabulous and continues on her life without his sorry ass dragging her down, and it’s only after he sees her still rockin’ that he realizes he has to suck it up and match her strength, and he finally leaves the girlfriend. It was after that film that Ricki lost the weight, and my sister and I felt that we lost a role model.

As for being convinced no one will pay attention to you, do I know that. In college, a friend of mine (gorgeous California blonde) and I would go dancing every Thursday at the local nightclub, and I never once had someone ask me to dance with him. The one time we went on a weekend to celebrate my birthday was the one time a guy asked me to dance. I’m still convinced to this day that my friend set it up as a birthday present, but she always denied it.

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