Not-So-Heavy D
Last week it was reported that rapper and budding actor Heavy D lost 135 pounds, after the prompting of a director motivated him.
He's still going to use the name Heavy D, although he's more like Lightweight D now.
He's still going to use the name Heavy D, although he's more like Lightweight D now.
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Posted by paul on August 4, 2003| Adrienne |
August 5th, 2003 | Link |
Doesn't say how he lost it.
Doesn't say how he lost it. I'm betting it's WLS. Again.
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| Charlotte |
August 8th, 2003 | Link |
'Heavy' doesn't mean fat,
'Heavy' doesn't mean fat, does it?
Any idea with merit is often referred to as having weight or being heavy. Maybe Heavy D's music fits that bill. His name was originally intended to have a double entedre, now it just refers to his music.
(I'm not familiar with his work or how 'heavy' it might be... I do know that Ozzy Osbourne is the godfather of Heavy Metal, and he's a pretty trim guy these days)
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| Jennifer Portnick |
August 10th, 2003 | Link |
A director was "kind enough"
A director was "kind enough" to tell him he wouldn't get a part because he's too fat? I don't need anyone being that nice to me.
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| Alex |
August 10th, 2003 | Link |
Yeah, imagine someone being
Yeah, imagine someone being "kind enough" to tell you that you're not getting a job because you're black or gay or jewish. What the...?
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| Andee Joyce |
August 10th, 2003 | Link |
Dude, that's show business.
Dude, that's show business. Things are, er, different there. When you see just about any fat celebrity lose weight, you can bet your last bag of caramels that someone -- an agent, producer, or whoever -- told them they'd get more parts, more magazine write-ups, more whatever, if they dropped some pounds. Either that, or they inferred same. Even Oprah Winfrey, who could tell the rest of the media to go get stuffed if she wanted to, buckled under when Anna Wintour of Vogue told her she'd have to knock off another 20 to get her photo spread. I mean...it's Voooogue, man.
People usually attain celebrity status because they want...attention. Lots of it. You can become famous by accident, but you can only stay famous if you work at it. If it means growing a second head, or losing your first stomach, so be it. If you don't have that desperate hunger for publicity, there's no way in the world to understand the motives of those who do.
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