America Decides It's Okay With Its Mammoth Buttocks

Hot for summer: gigantic asses! Or so claims the Daily News, which pays tribute to a bevvy of amply backsided celebrities and provides historical context by offering a perhaps inevitable nod to our culture’s greatest proponent of the colossal derriere (“Not since Sir Mix-a-Lot’s 1992 hit ‘Baby Got Back’ has so much praise been paid to the posterior”). Also making news on the expanding rump front: American hindquarters have become so engorged over the last half century that theaters across the country are undergoing renovations to cope with the burgeoning spread. “Americans have gotten taller and heavier, and as expectations for accessibility, comfort, and amenities have changed, seat spacing and auditorium size has increased,” reports a theater-development firm, which is a nice way of saying that when we sit around on our mammoth bottoms we want those bottoms to have plenty of cushion to accommodate our extra, uh, cushion. Asses! They are everywhere.