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Who You Calling Fat, Dick Wolf? Chicagoans Take Issue With 'Law & Order' Creator's Burn
Doesn't the TV producer know that Chicago isn't fat, it just has broad shoulders?
CHICAGO — "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf demonstrated Wednesday why he has a reputation as a master of TV crime. The producer — in town to mark the beginning of filming for "Chicago Justice," the newest series in his Windy City-based, murder-and-mayhem TV franchise — blasted Chicagoans with a polite-but-lethal drive-by backhanded compliment.
"I said to the mayor I tell people that Chicago, compared to New York — where I grew up and I still love — this is a cleaner, politer New York with slightly heavier people," Wolf said during an appearance Wednesday, Aug. 31, at Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, where his Chicago-based shows are filmed, according to the Chicago Tribune.
That's right, Dick Wolf — the man who proved with "Law & Order SVU" that he's never met a human orifice he couldn't match with an inappropriate bodily fluid — essentially told the people of Chicago, "Wow, you gained a lot of weight. But you carry it well. It works on you."
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Naturally, residents didn't appreciate Wolf's candor. Even if they didn't think he was wrong:
dick wolf called chicagoans fat? THE OUTRAGE oh wait... pic.twitter.com/w4t8HkWRrm
— tnaz (@t_naz) September 1, 2016
How dare Dick Wolf fat shame Chicagoans! The city just has more "body positivity" than New York. That and better pizza, hot dogs, beer...
— Steven Kluber (@StevenKluber) August 31, 2016
WE ARE NOT FAT, DICK WOLF, WE ARE JUST BIG BONED OKAY? https://t.co/nUWSHuPqum
— Matt Lindner (@mattlindner) August 31, 2016
So dick wolf way to live up to his name called us fat yikes
— ManicPixie Woke Girl (@angelsscream) August 31, 2016
While Wolf's remarks were tactless, they at least didn't disparage one of Chicago's sacred institutions, as a couple people pointed out:
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Anyone got a Venn diagram of people claiming deep dish pizza is the best pizza and offended that Dick Wolf called them fat?
— poemless (@poemless) August 31, 2016
The sad thing is, Dick Wolf made a lot fewer people mad by calling Chicagoans fat than he would have by saying New York has better pizza
— Matt Lindner (@mattlindner) August 31, 2016
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PHOTO: Dick Wolf in 2010 (Image via Angela George | Wikimedia Commons)
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