I think that overweight people receive a special opprobrium, because we regard their obesity as a moral failing. We're a culture that doesn't like any visible sign of appetite.
By Stephen Viscusi Recently the headlines were filled with the story about movie director, Kevin Smith, who directed "Cop Out". He was asked to l...
Cop Out affects such a generic, mid-80s feel that you keep waiting for the wink. You keep watching, expecting that, at any moment, director Kevin Smith is going to tip his hand.
It might be too late, but it's certainly not too little: ten days after the Kevin Smith/Southwest Airlines kerfuffle, the Chicago Sun-Times's "Fat Nag...
Kevin Smith knew he'd get hammered when he went public with this. He went ahead and did it anyway. God bless him for it.
Instead of complaining about his treatment, Kevin Smith should be thanking those flight attendants and that pilot for a moment of honesty that he was probably sorely in need of.
First, they kicked Courtney Love off a plane, and I did not complain because I was not a smoker. Then they kicked Ivana Trump off a plane, and I did ...
The other day actor-director Kevin Smith was removed from his seat on a plane and forced to leave. The reason: he was too fat, or as the airlines say, "He was a person of size."
Caroline McCarthy writes that Kevin Smith's response to being kicked off of a Southwest flight because he was "foo fat," "may be the best example we'v...
No matter your weight, mental capacity or even air-sickness propensity -- as long as you keep your hands to yourself, you can sit next to me.
Kevin Smith continues to insist he is NOT too fat to fly Southwest Air. The airline removed him from a flight Saturday after deeming him a safety risk...
It's a symptom of the complete absurdity of political correctness to send out a message that to be grossly obese is OK. It's not. It's not OK to be anorexic, and it's not OK to be enormously obese.
My hat goes off to the captain of the flight who asked Kevin to get off the aircraft. Instead of a $100 flight voucher, perhaps Southwest should have given Kevin a $100 membership to the gym.
The question that seems unanswered by the news releases and blogs is whether this is a case of a real security risk, disrupting passenger comfort or a case of weightism?
Kevin Smith was delayed getting from Oakland to Burbank Saturday night because he was "too wide for the sky." According to the 'Clerks' and 'Jay & Sil...
"It's sad when you realize you can't be the angry young man anymore. The angry young man is barely ever interesting, and tolerable in his 20s. But his late 20s? Early 30s? God forbid late 30s? You can't anymore."
The new trailer for the upcoming buddy cop comedy Cop Out just hit the internet, but anyone who had been following the project knows the film, out Feb...
Give Kevin Smith a microphone and he'll talk. Give him an audience, and he'll talk for hours. Here, Smith wins over an audience of rowdy comic book fa...
The public option may be dead. But is it merely a sacrificial lamb for Obama's broader health care goals?
Original Caption From Gizmodo: Apparently this was taken during the shooting of Kevin Smith movie A Couple of Dicks, but I prefer to think that this i...
On Monday we launched the Second Annual Adrienne Shelly Foundation eBay auction in honor of my late wife, Adrienne Shelly, writer, director, and star of the film Waitress.
I'm upstairs at Kevin Smith's house, putting a fresh videotape into my camcorder. We've already shot an hour of interview footage and Smith is attempting to hold a thought in his head while I'm doing the tape swap.
After his new movie "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" reaches theaters Friday, Kevin Smith plans to start counting his calories. Since his doctor called hi...
AS production began early this year on his new comedy, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," Kevin Smith was still seeking an actor for a supporting part. So ...
LOS ANGELES — Kevin Smith made a movie with such a bothersome title he cannot even place ads for it in some places. Some newspaper, TV and outd...
