We saw The Devil Wears Prada today. Lots of fun, and Meryl Streep was great. However, the weight thing was disturbing, if not surprising. Anne Hathaway is a 4 in real life (according to an interview I saw with her) and she played a 6 in the movie and was called fat through much of it.

sj, I think it was supposed to be disturbing. AH is so obviously NOT fat. It felt like a commentary on the fashion industry rather than saying she's really overweight.

ChiKat, I got that it was meant to be that way, but knowing that it is likely the reality of that industry made it more disturbing for me.

If Anne Hathaway is fat, I am enormous. And I can't buy shirts at casual stores (which only have small/medium/large) because my body is a medium (and sometimes a small), but my longs are an extra-long.

But, yeah, I definitely think it's a fair read of the fashion industry. Which is, indeed, the point, and is also, yes, rather scary.

To say something that hasn't already been said in this conversation: I want all (well, most - i still don't get those golf hat things, and why models in them are supposed to be fashionable rather than strange) of the clothes in that movie, even though, being male, I'd look rather off in most of them. Maybe I really just want Anne, IN the clothes, also in my house. Or couch. Or... bunk.

Okay, I'm digressing.

I want the clothes too, but in my size.

I want to be the size I used to be, so I can fit in the clothes.

If Anne Hathaway is fat, I am a giant troll woman.

ChiKat, I got that it was meant to be that way, but knowing that it is likely the reality of that industry made it more disturbing for me.

Unfortunately, it seems to be the reality of most college girl's lives, as my size 6 dress dummy (which I got to be small) is considered fat by the college actresses I work with. Which they say right in front of me, even though I am obviously more than twice the size of the dummy. I think they make an exception for mom-ish aged women (although I am really just about 12 years older than they). The weirdest thing to me is that small waist no longer equals slender. Their flat, toned abdomens are, like 6 inches bigger than mine at their age, when I was wearing a size ten then considered medium and respectable)

Movies: I just watched The Hours, and liked it. although Claire Danes looked freakishly skinny to me, used to her from My so called life. And Ed Harris's chest/stomach were so hairy that he looked to me like he had sme werewolf disease. Which is probably a tribute to the new male standard of hairless beauty. I was watching Party of Five, Season 1 as well, and although Matthew Fox looks much the same, he has much less chest hair in Lost.

I think possibly Alec Baldwin has all of the body hair in Hollywood. Oh, and Robin Williams. There's none left for anyone else!

Deadwood: Fantastic, all the way through. I especially love the NG's kindness to Steve. I used to feel less love for the character, but the NG's sense of responsibility to the loathsome man who drove his friend to suicide is just fuckin' awesome to behold. Everything about how the townspeople have come together and become better people than they used to be is pure hard-earned truth. I'm going to go out on a limb and say here in the open that Deadwood is the most realistically optimistic show that tv has ever given us, a blessing. To paraphrase James Wright, the show makes us realize that if we were to step out of our bodies, we would break into blossom.

Nicholas Cage. IJS.