Are Old and Obese Hollywoods Newest Hotties?
a cult heroine, spawning her own Facebook fan page and enough Tweets to supply KFC with birds for a month. Heller’s Blankenship character epitomized one of the key advantages of being old: the license to blurt out anything you want to with no consequences. Before dying at her desk, Mrs. Blankenship was the only woman at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce who could ask Don Draper if he was going to the toilet, scream aloud “Your daughter’s psychiatrist is on the phone,” or call Don out for napping in his office. Hollywood Hotties: Fat Makes a Comeback Heavyweight actresses such as Roseanne Barr and Delta Burke were once popular visitors to America’s living rooms, but since the late 1990’s, fat women on TV have been treated more like Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman at the door — not welcome. By the 21st Century, fat had become a four-letter word in Hollywood, unless, for some reason, you were a fat man married to a pretty, petite woman. As with its new acceptance of older female actresses, Holly
