The Fat Bastard is at it Again
The Fat Bastard is at it Again by Roxanne McDonald
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Denny Crane offends yet another offends yet another person, this time an associate who is racking up the dollars every time he speaks. |
What is it about a fat ass who calls another person fat when he is fat (if not fatter) himself?
Not much, usually. But Denny Crane is so indefinably endearing that it somehow works for him to be bigoted, misogynistic, self-involved and self-aggrandizing.
Well, it works for him as a character (on Boston Legal), though I doubt he would last long as a socially appropriate, socially accepted human in this pc world of ours.Crane typically offends by hitting on women with sexual entendres…, no, straight-up sexual suggestions and comments. If the recipient of his brash and crass come-on is in any way afflicted, Crane has no problem tossing some pointed slurs in the same direction and at the same time.
Last night, however, the beast wanting to make two backs with an associate—and being spurned—and wanting to start something to bring attention to himself (because the partners have taken him out of the courtroom for the very reasons listed above) called Nancy Wilding into his office or to some conference room and told her, straight-out, she was fired. Why? Because, he said, she was fat.
Bloated, overweight, ruddy-faced, heavy-breathing Denny breaking laws, hurting feelings, and giving the courts more business (that they don’t need).But because the character is obnoxious, disgusting, offensive, ad nauseum does not mean the writing of David E. Kelly is bad. Quite the contrary. As the rotund Rudolph-nosed Denny tells the new transplant (John LaRoquette’s character—can’t recall his name at the moment), “It doesn’t matter what people say about you, just as long as they are talking about you.” [And we who do anything that needs advertisement grok that.]
Like Crane, all the major characters are round, multi-dimensional, engaging as hell.
Bastards, but engaging as all hell.
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