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CARNIE (FORMERLY FAT) WILSON AGE: 33 OCCUPATION: Poor man's Ricki Lake BEST PUNCH: Angry at the fat jokes in Shallow Hal, she said, "I had tears running down my face in the theater...It made me feel like I was a big joke...
PETER (FORMERLY FUNNY) FARRELLY AGE: 44 OCCUPATION: Co-director of Shallow Hal BEST PUNCH: "She's dead wrong...it must have hit things for her that we couldn't have foreseen." Plus, Wilson, like the Hal lead character, once busted a chair...
Thousands of restaurants, online merchants and major companies, such as General Motors and ExxonMobil, have teamed up with Upromise to offer rebates on purchases. In return, these corporations hope to improve customer loyalty. Hal Cramer, president of ExxonMobil, says his firm uses its marketing budget to pay the rebates and a membership fee to Upromise...
...Hal (Jack Black), a cheerful boor in denial about the foxy women who deny him, meets a heavenly being (motivational flack Tony Robbins!) who lets Hal see the beauty of homely women--to him, the hippopotamic Rosemary looks like Gwyneth Paltrow. This fable, with its Shrek-like conceit, could be the Farrellys' mission statement about their fascination with human eccentricities: retardation in There's Something About Mary, albinism in Me, Myself & Irene, obesity, spinal bifida and vestigial tails here. We mock, they say, because we care. But that doesn't make the film elevating or amusing. Torpor sticks...
...much the better. The success of a movie like Shallow Hal would inevitably spawn more of its kind. And that would be an indignity—to the overweight, to the actors and to the movie-going public...