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“I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin — I’ll never be thin,” director Kevin Smith told the Joy Bahar on her show after she asked if he was on amphetamines.  “Let’s be honest, I’ve lost 65 pounds, but nobody’s going ‘I wanna sleep with you!’ They’re just like, ‘Keep going, you look better.’”

The immense Mr. Smith has been steadily losing the weight for exactly one year since he was famously ejected from a plane flight for being “too fat.”

Smith has been hawking his new movie, Red State with creative publicity, marketing and distribution with the support of indies everywhere.

The old alternative to independent film release was to carry 12 film cans around town until you talked a desperate exhibitor into four-walling your project.