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walking. With every Paula Zahn voiceover comes the inevitable booty shot of a fat person going about their daily business, painfully ignorant of the camera lens trained firmly on their ass. The heads and faces are never shown — after all, that might actually require asking the poor voyeurism victim for permission to beam their rear ends into televisions all across America. Pound: Imaginary Fat People I went to see America’s Sweethearts last week. I’d heard the movie kind of stunk, and I could have seen reproductive rights John Cusack’s reproductive rights big, adorable head spout much better dialogue in reproductive rights other movies, but I went anyway. I went to see Julia Roberts in the fat suit. I needed to see what the film industry’s idea of a 180-pound woman looked like.
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