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Critic's Notebook: TV's focus on childhood obesity hits home
Take it from someone who knows: The struggle with childhood obesity, illustrated vividly on television, is a battle of both the mind and the mouth for an overweight kid. I was a pioneer of childhood obesity.
Friday's SIFF highlights: 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' 'Polisse,' 'Trishna'
Films playing at the Seattle International Film Festival on Friday, May 18, include the coming-of-age tale "Fat Kid Rules the World," filmed in the Northwest; "Polisse," which focuses on France's Child Protective Unit; and "Trishna," which relocates Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," to modern India and stars Freida Pinto.
Cannes 2012: Outsider Pictures picks up rights to “Fat Kid Rules the World”
The film centers around an overweight and suicidal seventeen-year-old, who’s saved by a high school dropout and street musician.
Fat of the Lands
The Revis Family, of Raleigh, North Carolina. Expenditure for one week: $341.98 When I was a kid, my grandpa insisted on chewing each bite nine times. He told my sisters and me to do it, too, claiming the practice aids digestion.
Cannes 2012: Outsider Pictures to Handle International Sales on Matthew Lillard's 'Fat Kid Rules the World'
Gregg Kilday The film, based on K. L. Going's young adult novel, will have a late summer theatrical release in the U.S. read more
'SLC Punk' Star Matthew Lillard, Pearl Jam Guitarist Ensure 'Fat Kid Rules the World'
Despite playing such a convincing -- and beloved -- punk in the '90s cult classic film SLC Punk , actor and fledgling director Matthew Lillard insists that he was never into the scene himself. "I liked punk rock music, but I didn't love it," Lillard tells Spinner. "It was just kind of always something in the background." Lillard was a teenaged misfit who found some salvation through art, though ...
John Dabkovich: Why the fat kid with glasses should be your idol
Everyday, millions of teenagers look in the mirror and see someone who is too fat, too ugly or too pimply to ever be cool. There are also probably a few who are quite impressed with how cool they are and think they'll never be asked to get off the bullet train to Awesomeville. News flash, kids: Things change.
'Mad Men' Recap: Fat Betty's Thanksgiving Spectacular
The largest woman on prime time heads to Weight Watchers.
What Makes Cells Fat Cells; The Stomach Organism That Makes Us Fat
Discovered: What makes a cell turn fat, the stomach organism that makes us fat, cocaine is bad for the brain, and debunking anti-vaccination myths.
Kid's Book Touts Veganism, Stirs Up Concerns
A new children’s book – “Vegan is Love” – is stirring up controversy among many parents, some of whom argue that the way the topic of veganism is presented in this book is just too complicated for kids...
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