Ricki Lake, desperate for someone to give a damn about her, is trying the Oprah/Kirstie Alley weight-loss ploy. I think this is a huge mistake though. Before, Ricki was a hero to fat girls - she made obese young women around America think to themselves, "Maybe someday I too can be semi-amusing in one John Waters movie, and parlay this into a whole career being insufferable and lame." But now Ricki is just another thin, fugly bitch in a pair of big dumb sunglasses. And she isn't even trainwreck amusing like Nicole Richie.
