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pendence, cave in to the rah-rah mentality so dear to reformers everywhere. Your humble critic confesses
that he has been wrestling with “weight issues” since leaving col- lege lo these, uh, several years ago, so it’s hard to be receptive to the moralistic scolding and pa- tronizing encouragement offered endlessly by the allegedly well- meaning. Yet for all that a fat or thin person might find objection- able about the show, the individ- ual and collective portrayals have a nice veracity to them, and there’s a freshness of approach even to age-old conundrums. In addition, some of the rituals
of fat farming are fairly funny: the collection of all food, includ- ing chewing gum, on opening day (counselor to camper: “Is that
toothpick flavored, girl?”), the torture that is exercise for those who quite reasonably abhor it, and Will’s attempts to corrupt the system (among them, selling can- dies, cakes and cookies that she smuggles into camp). With a greater proportion of comedy to drama, this could have been the “Hogan’s Heroes” of chubbies and tubbies; we can be grateful it comes down instead on the side of drama. The series has a more colorful pedigree than most; it is based on a book by Sasha Paley and was developed for television by veteran TV dra- matist Winnie Holzman (“My So- Called Life”) and her daughter, Savannah Dooley. It will also be a cute twist if, as one suspects, the scripted series gets a small infusion of reality-TV docudrama by having Blonsky the actor lose weight along with
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ABC’s ‘Huge’: Vastly stereotyped, but slightly entertaining
the character she plays as the weeks go by. Gina Torres gives an admirable
dignity to the character of Dr. Rand, who runs the fat camp and may have a corpulent skeleton in the closet herself. Other roles are cast smartly and include a cameo by the great character actor Paul Dooley (Dad in “Breaking Away”) as the camp cook. If you can tol- erate one more word on the beat- en-senseless subject of weight loss, then, and you don’t mind hearing generic cliches yet again, you could conceivably become a “Huge” fan before the summer is over.
shalest@washpost.com Huge ADAM ROSE/ABC FAMILY DOWN ON THE FARM:Raven Goodwin and Harvey Guillen are two of the teens in “Huge.”
(one hour) premieres Monday night at 9 on ABC Family.
HIGHLIGHTS “Huge” (ABC Family at 8), a
drama series that chronicles teens and staff at a weight-loss camp, is previewed by Tom Shales on Page C1.
One of the group members is
finally set free from captivity on “Persons Unknown” (NBC at 8), but Tori decides that she’s the most desperate to leave, and takes drastic measures. Dan gets in big trouble on “The Good Guys” (Fox at 8) after his interrogation methods are deemed too unorthodox by a judge, so he tries to make up for it by taking down a gang of criminals. Ali is sad when she learns
unfortunate news about one of her final seven suitors on “The Bachelorette” (ABC at 8) but will definitely be cheered up when she learns the bachelors must undergo a hilarious oil wrestling challenge in order to earn some alone time. Coming after HBO’s movie this spring about the controversial doctor who’s long been an advocate for the right to die, the documentary “Kevorkian” (HBO at 9) follows Jack Kevorkian from his release from prison through his run for Congress. Buddy is tasked to make a
pirate-themed cake on “Cake Boss” (TLC at 9), and another client arrives from St. Louis to order a special cake for a casino
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“American Idol” finalist Jennifer Hudson is profiled on “Behind the Music” (VH1 at 10), and “Idol” judge Randy Jackson tries to explain Hudson’s seventh-place finish on the show: “We were all shocked,” he says. “Vocally, talent-wise, I mean, she was one of the best in the whole season. Sometimes the public doesn’t get it right away, you know what I mean?” “Make It or Break It” (ABC
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director Barry Sonnenfeld are guests on “Late Show With David Letterman” (CBS at 11:35). “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC at 12:05) hosts actor Jeremy Piven and actress Elizabeth Reaser. — Emily Yahr
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Fiancee’s distrust may trump bachelor party misbehavior
Adapted from a recent online discussion:
Dear Carolyn:
My fiance and his buddies are planning his bachelor party in Atlantic City and I hope will spend their time playing poker and hanging out. I know it’s common for guys to hire strippers, but I am absolutely disgusted by the thought of him watching/ touching/getting lap-danced by some naked girl. I have told him this and I think he gets it, but he won’t really be planning it himself.
This is making me crazy. To the point that when he left his e-mail open the other day I actually searched for the word “stripper.” And you know what came up? An e-mail he sent back to his best man about planning the party (+/- stripper). I think he sent the e-mail before I spoke up, but still. I am violating his privacy and driving myself nuts. Please help.
Washington
You know what? Your snooping is worse than having some nudenick shake herself in your fiance’s face for money. That’s because his icky behavior says very little about him except
CAROLYN HAX
maybe that he buys a little too mindlessly into Guy Tradition. Your icky behavior says you’re okay with controlling his behavior when you won’t even control your own. Please figure out who you are, and then start living as that person. Are you honorable? Are you strong? Are you thick- skinned (which is very different from strong)? Are you trusting? Are you trustworthy? Are you principled? Once you have a fix on your
identity, use it to form a consistent philosophy on the stripper thing, be it: 1. If he gets a lap dance at his bachelor party, so be it, it’s just a stupid rite of passage (or a rite of stupid passage); or, 2. He said he understands how I feel, and I trust him not to sneak around and get a lap dance anyway, or I wouldn’t be marrying him; or, 3. I voiced my objections, and I
party? Maybe the problem isn’t the strippers, it’s that I’m marrying someone with all the maturity of a frat pledge. Whatever it is, you need to own it — and by that I mean your behavior as well as your stance on his.
Re: Bachelor Party: How about: 6. I tell him that I snooped through his e-mail to try to dig up dirt on his plans, and I will let him also have the same question as to whether I’m the right person for him to marry.
Anonymous NICK GALIFIANAKIS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
know he’ll probably go anyway, but at least I said my piece — and besides, it’s more his buddies’ thing than his, and he might as well have this stupid fun; or, 4. When I voiced my objections, I think he just “yes-deared” me and plans to go anyway, which suggests he’s too weak to own what he’s doing, which I find abhorrent, so the wedding is off; or, 5. Am I seriously marrying a guy who feels the need for a bachelor
She owes him no less. Owning her behavior means opening herself up to any consequences. That includes accepting uncomfortable truths about herself, from her own perspective and from his. Thanks.
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MUSIC REVIEW
Enchanting early music ends festival
Even if Pepco must share cred- it with Mediterranean stonework for the welcome cool that greeted the audience at Friday’s perform- ance by the Armonia Nova en- semble at St. Mark’s Church, Capitol Hill, it was the chill beau- ty of the medieval French (and French-influenced) love songs that provided the greatest respite from the broiling heat outside. The performance was part of the closing weekend for the 2010 Washington Early Music Festi- val, which has presented 20 events throughout June at nine area churches and La Maison Francaise.
An ample audience turnout
Friday might have been due to the guest artist — the pearl- toned soprano Jacqueline Hor- ner-Kwiatek, a member of the popular early-music quartet Anonymous 4. The vocalists of the D.C.-based Armonia Nova, however, sounded fully up to Horner-Kwiatek’s level. Allison Mondel’s ethereal soprano, Mar- jorie Bunday’s warm and pure- toned mezzo, and Jay White’s al- ternation of supple tenor and fo-
cused countertenor (shifting reg- isters as individual pieces required), blended beautifully in a recital of songs from roughly 1200 through the late 1400s. The program — which inter- spersed works by well-known composers like the 14th-century Guillaume de Machaut and the 15th-century Guillaume Dufay with music by their contempo- raries and chivalric songs by their 13th-century forebears — found a welcome variety of tone and texture. In an anonymous duet, “Dites, seignor,” White and Horner-Kwiatek created an oper- atic level of engagement (in a piece written 300 years before opera was invented), as did Mon- del in a rendition of another score of unknown origin, “S’on me regarde,” that exuded erotic longing and fear of discovery. A few moments of faulty tun- ing and uneven articulation aside (not to be confused with the pungent harmonies and pi- quant effects written into this music), the ensemble’s two in- strumentalists — medieval-harp- ist Constance Whiteside (the group’s artistic director) and vio- linist Craig Resta, who played here on the arrestingly throaty precursor to the violin, the medi- eval vielle — both did sterling and vividly atmospheric work.
—Joe Banno
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