Will Howard address actress Melissa McCarthy being called Tractor Sized?

[Bye You!]

...which is just as 1950s as Artie's "broad" term for women.

he's an old lady now.

[joyceface]

I saw Identity Thief this weekend. I really liked it! Jason and Melissa were really good. The skinny wife who Howard thinks so hot?? Looks like Maria Shriver's sister whoopdee fucking do. Yah she's thin. Goo fa her.

[Bye You!]

I saw Identity Thief this weekend. I really liked it! Jason and Melissa were really good. The skinny wife who Howard thinks so hot?? Looks like Maria Shriver's sister whoopdee fucking do. Yah she's thin. Goo fa her.

HOWARD HATES HER! SHE STOLE BETH'S BOYFRIEND!

[ClownPocket]

I bet she gives a nice blow job

Don't fool yourself, Lardy would just be hungry

[The Cocksman]

Critic slammed for calling Melissa McCarthy ‘tractor-sized’

With all the heat he received regarding Lena Dunham recently, Will Howard address this?



By Meriah Doty | Movie Talk – 11 hours ago

McCarthy at the premiere for 'Identity Thief' on Feb. 4 in Los Angeles (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)There are two sacred rules when it comes to commenting on a woman's looks: Never comment on a lady's pregnant belly before verifying that she
is, in fact, with child; and never never -- under any circumstances -- call out a woman for being overweight.
New York Observer critic Rex Reed broke the second of those rules this week when he called "Identity Thief" star Melissa McCarthy "tractor-sized" and her character a "humongous creep" in his pan of the comedy that lands in theaters this weekend.
As if that wasn't enough, Reed's review is riddled with even more weight-related insults, calling the Academy Award-nominated, 42-year-old mother of two a "hippo" and "a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success."
Oh no he didn't!
Not only did readers come to McCarthy's defense in the comments section of Reed's online article, but people took to Twitter to air their grievances against the seasoned, 74-year-old film critic:

She's a big girl.That blouse won't cover her huge folds.

[Rodney21a]

This is such Fucking Bullshit. America sucks in so many ways now....

OVIE REVIEWBlack Sheep (1996)

FILM REVIEW;Candidate's Brother's Keeper

By JANET MASLIN
Published: February 2, 1996

In "Black Sheep," Chris Farley plays the slobby, embarrassing brother of a gubernatorial candidate (Tim Matheson) in the state of Washington. It takes exactly one sentence for the candidate's adviser to sum up the film's plot: "We have got to keep this bozo under wraps until the election is over."
Speaking of time, the two-minute trailer for "Black Sheep" is so crammed with pratfalls that it appears funny. But a full hour and a half leaves this comedy looking one-note and virtually laugh-free.
Only those who can't get enough of the "Saturday Night Live" crew will have the patience for a feature film inflated from a skit's worth of material. And Mr. Farley, who can be nicely raucous in small doses, can't piece together a real character from the film's string of demolition-happy gags. This may sound like a John Belushi role, but Mr. Farley has little of Mr. Belushi's gift for sneaky, subversive mischief. He spends his time here just getting his thumbs caught in a car's hood, being dragged on his stomach until sparks fly, etc. Almost all the film's jokes involve physical pain.
Reunited with Mr. Farley after "Tommy Boy" is David Spade, playing his usual slick, cynical misanthrope. Mr. Spade is cast as the political operative assigned to babysit Mr. Farley, and once it gets those elements in place, Fred Wolf's screenplay hasn't a thing to do. The film just runs out the clock with irrelevant subplots about Mr. Farley as a football coach, Gary Busey as a crazed Vietnam veteran, Christine Ebersole as the scheming incumbent governor, and so on. When Mr. Spade and Mr. Farley are dispatched to a cabin in the woods, there are antics involving bats. When all else fails -- and it does -- the film resorts to drugginess as no-brain humor.
"Black Sheep" was directed by Penelope Spheeris ("The Decline of Western Civilization") with a nod to her rock-and-roll roots (a cameo by Mudhoney) but only the weariest stabs at comic ingenuity. Somewhere between "Wayne's World" and "The Little Rascals," Ms. Spheeris crossed the line between smart-stupid and stupid-stupid, but her past cleverness still inspires hope. Maybe she'll come back.
"Black Sheep" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes profanity and bathroom humor.
BLACK SHEEP
Directed by Penelope Spheeris; written by Fred Wolf; director of photography, Daryn Okada; edited by Ross Albert; music by William Ross; production designer, Peter Jamison; produced by Lorne Michaels; released by Paramount Pictures. Running time: 91 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.
WITH: Chris Farley (Mike Donnelly), David Spade (Steve Dodds), Tim Matheson (Al Donnelly), Christine Ebersole (Governor Tracy) and Gary Busey (Drake Sabitch).

Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)

Review Summary

Chris Farley stars as an unusual ninja fighter in this over-the-top comedy. An elite society of Japanese warriors have prophesied that one day a blonde-haired, fair-skinned child will come to their village and lead them as a fighter of remarkable skill and bravery. So when an American child who fell overboard on an ocean liner washes up on their shores, they adopt him as one of their own and patiently instruct him in the ways of a ninja. Trouble is, the child, whom they name Haru (Chris Farley), grows up to be fat, clumsy, not especially bright, and startlingly inept as a warrior. Undaunted, Haru struggles on with his ninja training, and when Alison (Nicolette Sheridan), a beautiful woman from America, requests a ninja fighter to return with her to the States and protect her from her criminal-minded boyfriend and his Yakuza associates, Haru eagerly accepts the assignment. Haru's minders see trouble brewing, so they secretly send along a fellow ninja, Gobei (Robin Shou), to watch his back, although this hardly prevents Haru from posing a deadly menace to inanimate objects everywhere. Jackie Chan was at one time announced to co-star in this film, which would prove to be the last Chris Farley vehicle released before his death in late 1997, though two other films he completed before his passing were released in 1998. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Dirty Work (1998)FILM REVIEW; Lurching Into Comedy With a Heart Attack

By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Published: June 13, 1998

If you thought the Asian economy was bad, try assessing the state of film comedy on the basis of ''Dirty Work.'' Phrases like terminally stupid and brain dead leap readily to mind.
About an hour into this leaden, taste-deprived attempted comedy about a couple of losers whose contribution to American capitalism is a revenge-for-hire business, a surprise arrives in the form of a funny joke about the circumstances surrounding a photograph in an old man's locket. The joke is crude, but almost everything is in this lifeless comedy. Still, it is a joke.
About the only thing roused by ''Dirty Work,'' directed by Bob Saget, a host of ''America's Funniest Home Videos,'' is the suspicion that sleeping pills have been administered to most of the cast, which includes Chevy Chase as a doctor in thrall to gamblers and Don Rickles as a nasty theater manager.
Others responsible for the low comic wattage of ''Dirty Work'' include Norm Macdonald, a ''Saturday Night Live'' alumnus who was a co-writer of the script and shares with Artie Lange the onerous burden of having to act in it.
Mr. Macdonald and Mr. Lange star as Mitch and Sam. Mitch is the good-looking one. Sam is the fat clown. Friends since childhood, they have reached their 30's without distinction. Mitch has lost 14 jobs in three months; Sam lives with his father, Pops (Jack Warden), a belligerent, impotent old man who spends most of his time shouting for whores.
After a tiresomely long buildup, the plot finally lurches into motion when Pops has a heart attack. Dr. Farthing (Mr. Chase) says that he needs a heart transplant but is too old to qualify as a priority case. But Dr. Farthing is a compulsive gambler whose creditors are in the process of breaking his arms and shooting off his toes.
So he suggests to Mitch and Sam that $50,000 might help matters, which prompts them to resurrect one of their childhood successes: creative revenge in the form of a business called Dirty Work, which consists of projects like removing the beard from an abusive bearded lady in a circus, planting dead fish in a lavish but loud home and loosing skunks into the audience at a performance of ''Don Giovanni.'' For parched wanderers in the desert of comedy that is ''Dirty Work,'' this scene makes memories of the Marx Brothers at work on ''Il Trovatore'' in ''A Night at the Opera'' seem like the happiest of hallucinations.
Far too often in ''Dirty Work,'' the supposedly funny business happens offscreen, and the idea of putting popcorn in an automobile engine is considered so hilarious that it gets a reprise.
But Dirty Work brings about a romance for Mitch and a conflict with Travis Cole (Christopher McDonald), the community's devious and very wealthy real estate developer. So in the end, of course, all ends well.
P.S. Don't bother to hang around for the outtakes. They're not funny either.

''Dirty Work'' is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes crude language, beatings and simulation of sex between a skunk and a chihuahua.

DIRTY WORK

Directed by Bob Saget; written by Frank Sebastiano, Norm Macdonald and Fred Wolf; director of photography, Arthur Albert; edited by George Folsey Jr.; music by Richard Gibbs; production designer, Gregory Keen; produced by Robert Simonds; released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Running time: 81 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.

WITH: Norm Macdonald (Mitch), Jack Warden (Pops), Artie Lange (Sam), Traylor Howard (Kathy), Don Rickles (Hamilton), Christopher McDonald (Travis Cole) and Chevy Chase (Dr. Farthing)

So you can't call fat people fat anymore....

FUCK THE WORLD

[AuntDolly]

Howchie will be kissing this woman's ass inside of a week.

[Chimney Portions]

[tfresca]

She's young enough she can loose the weight naturally and she was chubby, not huge. Yeah her sister married a fucking scumbag and suffered the consequences.

[Mlaw]

She's fat. You can't ride her to cut your lawn. She's a funny nice woman. She's not trying to be sexy, she is what she is. But please. If she is tractor size then Beth is balance beam size. Lets use her for the next Olympics.

[Mlaw]

Hudson is not gigantic. She is heavy and was a bit more heavy when on American Idol but not tractor size.

Are you high?

[K9feces]

She claims not to eat much and doesn't know why she is fat

[FlaFlaFlunkie]

You fucker.

[hbosch]

you know, we would have a lot less of this PC bullshit if, when celebrities are called out for being insensitive, they'd just stick to their original statements. Kramer and Tracy Morgan truly fucked up and got a lot of this started.
the bitch is FAT. if she doesn't want to be reminded of it she should either lose weight or quit making movies. I imagine that she knows what she is and isn't that bothered by Rex reeds' comments, but if she is WHO CARES.
I don't even think people are really offended by celebrity statements. I think it's just a way to get attention. a way to lash out by nobodies at their supposed betters. the lobbying organizations that crawl out from whichever rock they were hiding under whenever something like this happens are only interested in attaching themselves to some celebrity controversy in order to drum up sympathy and money. the whole process is sickening. I just wish that Rex Reed would say "yeah, she's roughly tractor sized, get over it".

[922Wine]

Reed once referred to the love scene in Titanic as looking like a chihuahua mounting a golden retriever. He's always been a bitchy, old queen - and funny.

[Rodney21a]

you know, we would have a lot less of this PC bullshit if, when celebrities are called out for being insensitive, they'd just stick to their original statements. Kramer and Tracy Morgan truly fucked up and got a lot of this started.
the bitch is FAT. if she doesn't want to be reminded of it she should either lose weight or quit making movies. I imagine that she knows what she is and isn't that bothered by Rex reeds' comments, but if she is WHO CARES.
I don't even think people are really offended by celebrity statements. I think it's just a way to get attention. a way to lash out by nobodies at their supposed betters. the lobbying organizations that crawl out from whichever rock they were hiding under whenever something like this happens are only interested in attaching themselves to some celebrity controversy in order to drum up sympathy and money. the whole process is sickening. I just wish that Rex Reed would say "yeah, she's roughly tractor sized, get over it".

What is so fucked up is that she is playing the "female Bilushi/Farley/Costello/you name fat comic" persona. Its part of the Jokes in the movie and part the marketing of the movie. We're becoming a nation of twats.

[FlaFlaFlunkie]

you know, we would have a lot less of this PC bullshit if, when celebrities are called out for being insensitive, they'd just stick to their original statements. Kramer and Tracy Morgan truly fucked up and got a lot of this started.

Apparently, according to Tina Fey, there were enough people employed at 30 Rock where it caused some problems.

You can't insult gay people and the next day, sit in your hair & make-up chair and not get a little nervous when those scissors come toward you.

[ApeFace]

Irrelevant old fag insults a flash in the pan fat fuck. How meaningless.

[knu3421]

This idenity thief movie was number #1 and MADE 36.6 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!! WOW!!!! really???????

[FlaFlaFlunkie]

Irrelevant old fag insults a flash in the pan fat fuck. How meaningless.

I wouldn't exactly call her a flash in the pan. She has an emmy award and was nominated for an academy award.

She's not that talentless loudmouth, Leah Remini (who's even more annoying to me after I just read her wiki page and found out she's a scientologist).