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When I first arrived in Hollywood, I had no friends and no connections. But before I could start making friends and connections, I needed to pay the rent. So I went to a temp agency.
That’s where I met Doug, the manager of the agency. Doug was extremely heavy and very chatty. Before I could hand him my resume, he cut to the chase …
“Writer or actor?” he said.
“Writer,” I told him.
“I’m a comic actor,” he told me. And he went on to explain exactly how he intended to be the next hugely successful overweight movie star.
This was the late 1990s. According to Doug, there was an unbroken chain of funny obese movie stars stretching all the way from Fatty Arbuckle in the 1920s to John Belushi in the 1980s and Chris Farley in the ...
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