Lowry: Pictures not getting smaller, the journalism is

Variety columnist Brian Lowry has a bad reaction to Sunday's Calendar story in the L.A. Times about the current cycle of action heroes in films being more impressively muscled than in previous rounds. "There's a lot of questionable entertainment journalism out there these days, but I'm not sure I've seen a piece more filled with ridiculous statements," he writes.

Normally, I wouldn't waste the time to dissect such a thing, but occasionally pointing out the tricks of the trade can be instructive.....

Let's give the Times the benefit of the doubt and say they did it for the artwork, not the copy. Although in this case, to paraphrase "Sunset Blvd.," the pictures are big; it's just the journalism that got smaller.