Speaking of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I found out that the Blob is being played by Kevin Durand. You probably remember Durand as the bad-ass mercenary from the fourth season of Lost. What you probably don't remember is Durand being enormously fat. (He's apparently really tall, though.)

This bothers me. Couldn't the producers find an authentically fat actor to play the Blob? I can't believe no one was available. Having a mesomorph play one of the few superpowered ectomorphs is insulting to fat people everywhere; they might as well get Sylvester Stallone to play Luke Cage in blackface.

It's the sad fate of fat actors in Hollywood: Sure, they're fine to play the bodies of fat characters in movies like Shallow Hal and Norbit, but as soon as we need a face, we're getting a real thin actor in there, like Gwyneth Paltrow or Eddie Murphy. How crappy must that be, to have your body used as the cellulite-ridden jiggly butt of a movie full of jokes with someone else's head stuck on it? Your thighs and gut put on a great performance, but keep your fatty face to yourself, meatball! Then there's Simon Pegg starring in a movie called Run Fatboy Run. Simon Pegg is not a fat boy. How did he sit next to Nick Frost for at least two movies and still think he qualified for the fat guy role?

And does anyone besides me remember Dom DeLuise in Fatso? I saw a few minutes of that movie on some obscure satellite channel a few months ago and was horrified to discover that I'm at least twice the size DeLuise was then, and that I'd kill to be as small as he was. He'd probably kill, too, considering he's about nine hundred pounds these days. Did DeLuise retire or did his craft services costs get too high?

Is that why they didn't get him to play the Blob?