I mentioned the series "Fat Actress" here yesterday. I want to say something else about it now. I won't say anything of substance, but my excuse is that today is my birthday (61), so I'm being frivolous in the spirit thereof. Consider my party hat on. Mayim Bialik does some very good work playing, like Kirstie, a fictionalized version of herself. Bialik is best known nowadays for the part of Amy, in The Big Bang Theory. But that show didn't get its start until 2007, and the character of Amy makes her first appearance only in the third season (it may have been later -- I'm too lazy to look that up). In 2005, when "Fat Actress" appeared, Mayim Bialik was best known as the former child star who had done "Blossom" from 1990 to 1995. Ten years is a long time since one's last Big Thing, so Bialik had a reputation somewhat like Alley's, as someone who "used to be famous." I know nothing about Blossom , but I'm very...
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I recently watched, via Showtime, a seven-episode series by Kristie Allie called FAT ACTRESS, which aired in 2005. Allie plays a fictionalized version of herself. An actress struggling both to get her weight down and to get jobs consistent with her former fame as a star in CHEERS, and as the co-star (with John Travolta no less) in the LOOK WHO'S TALKING movies. One of the aspects of the character that I presume is fictionalized is that she is thoroughly and consistently self-delusional. She has two aides constantly around her who seek to protect her from the consequences of her delusions. In one episode, our protagonist stumbles into a raid on a homosexual men's hang out. It is a parking lot to a small park near her home (and near a "bat cave") where men meet up and engage in what the cops who raid them classify as public lewdness. She meets her ex-husband there, and he spends some time in a prison cell with her. He tries to break it to her that she was his bea...