JANUARY , GoldenTHE PRTIES, Globes GONS & HO ILL CONTROL RICKY GER IS THE THE SCRIBE AGITATOR THE CLOWN THE STRAIGHT MAN THE NEW MONEY HOTSPOTS INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE WHAT MAKES PREVIEW H’WOOD’S MAN DIET ARE THE FUNNY CLIPPERS THE NEW LAKERS? ORWORK DIE DIGITAL * *ND YES, THEY MKE MONEY TOO THE POWER WALK ON LIST FoD’s AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTO From le: Dick Glover, Chris Henchy, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay with Cody FITNESS seeds and nuts — forbidding dairy, grains (even quinoa), potatoes, processed sugar and beans. You have to admit, our forefathers didn’t su§er from THE INCREDIBLE hypertension, diabetes and arthritis very much — and they certainly were macho. Experts caution against fad diets and that overall calorie count is what matters. A new study, SHRINKING MAN out Jan. 3 from the Journal of the American Medical It’s more than a New Year’s resolution: Guys finally are getting with Association, shows that a high-protein diet isn’t the program that women have been following forever By Merle Ginsberg more likely to lead to weight loss than any other diet. “So many fad diets claim that if you eat more HE SCENE: E. BALDI RESTAURANT Council benet at the Malibu beach house of Ron protein, you will lose weight faster because protein in Beverly Hills. Overheard during and Kelly Meyer, where 48-year-old record producer doesn’t turn to fat very easily,” says NBC4 L.A. the course of a meal: “I’ll have the and Columbia Records co-chairman Rick Rubin chief medical editor Bruce Hensel. “That’s not the sole, no meuniere sauce, no butter, queried waiters about the ingredients in every whole story. The truth is that a gram of fat has nine very little salt please; steamed veg- sauce. He’d lost more than 130 pounds in less than calories, while a gram of protein has four calories. gies on the side; just a green salad, a year and a half on a sh-, egg white- and protein So if you eat a lot of protein, you may think that it’s Tno dressing, just lemon. And a Pellegrino with shake-heavy diet. the protein that’s doing that to your metabolism. lime. … Can you take the breadbasket and butter Men in the industry are boarding the body-con- It’s really that you are just eating fewer calories.” away, please? … I’ll have a very skinny latte. … I’ve scious bandwagon, perhaps a gut reaction to all of is a grilled chicken breast, steamed broccoli and heavier food, “L.A. men have always been the most Rogen has claimed he dropped 30 pounds by “just With expense accounts shrinking these days, gotta drop at least 20 by the end of the month. I the actors — Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen and Jerry Ferrara brown rice. “I made sure never to allow myself to self-critical in the world. They would sell their soul eating cheeseburgers. I have no regimen. I did it is easier for men in the industry to forgo big need to get down two waist sizes by the Oscars.” most prominent among them — who seem to have get hungry,” he explains. “Eating throughout the to get back down to birth weight. Most straight have a trainer [Harley Pasternak], but I’ve since lunches and dinners. “In restaurants, men need A toothpick-sized Hollywood wife in leggings? lost half their body weight. Obsessive conversa- day keeps your metabolism high. I lost my love men will still get laid even if they look like Shrek, set him free. I don’t know if I can keep the weight to stay away from the bread bowl,” advises Wiatt. A would-be actress itching to borrow size-4 Dolce? tions about diets are no longer strictly the domain handles, gut — I feel more comfortable walking but no Hollywood dude wants to end up on the o§. I want my food, and I have a lot of tantrums. “Fill up on a salad or a non-cream-based soup A female movie producer detoxing from too much of the best actress in a mini category. into pitch meetings with folks I don’t know.” ‘Worst Beach Bodies’ list. No actor wants to have Yet so far, so good.” We have to believe Rogen before the main meal. Choose a dish of six ounces cra services? The 5-foot-10 Seth MacFarlane wasn’t fat — but he Dieting has become a manly pursuit. Hence that conversation with his agent.” had his cheeseburgers without the bread. As for of lean protein and lots of vegetables. And most Guess again. It’s a male executive in a suit, at a did weigh 205 pounds, says his trainer Bobby Strom. Weight Watchers’ new ad campaign: “Lose Like a How did these male stars do it so fast? Hill, who Pasternak, he proudly proclaims of Rogen, “I importantly, men need to be portion-savvy. business meeting with an agent who’s also watch- “A year and a half ago,” says Strom, “Ryan Reynolds, Man.” To kick it o§, who manlier than NBA Hall has said that when he eats something unhealthy took him from a doughy stoner to a handsome, t Restaurant portions are huge! Women know this ing his post-holiday waist. A similar scene played who I’ve worked with for nine years, did an episode of Famer Charles Barkley? He joined because, as now, “I kind of feel a little weird, and my body superhero.” Pasternak advises his clients to eat and usually order appetizers and no entrees.” out last year at the Natural Resources Defense of Family Guy. When Seth saw him, he said, ‘Hey, he says, “I don’t want to be a fat old man taking hurts,” worked with a nutritionist and trainer. three light meals and two snacks a day of low-fat Of course, there are downsides to downsizing. man, who’s your trainer?’ Now Seth weighs 170, lots of pills. Men don’t like to diet — they like to protein and whole-grain rice. The already-svelte Michael Fassbender went on a BEFORE AFTER works out seven days a week and eats things like egg eat. But I’ve already lost almost 50 pounds.” He BEFORE AFTER Seems these versatile funnymen don’t want to 600-calorie-a-day diet during a 10-week period to whites and Greek yogurt; but then, Seth had Vikki also might lose the nickname he earned in college: be pushed into a comedy fat-man corner like pre- play IRA member Bobby Sands, who went on a Krasinsky, a healthy chef who’s cooked for many “The Round Mound of Rebound.” decessors Chris Farley and John Candy, who never hunger strike, in 2008’s Hunger. “People thought celebs. Mostly, I make my male clients get home Dropping 30 pounds allowed blowsy sidekick slimmed down (and died young). Farley feared he I had cancer,” Fassbender has admitted. “And food delivery so they have some discipline. Not just Rogen to go leading man in The Green Hornet and wouldn’t be funny if he lost weight. my libido disappeared for about six weeks. It felt actors come to me: I have entertainment attorneys, Entourage’s Ferrara to get cast in the upcoming When The Zone Diet took center stage around very liberating. You don’t realize how distracting concert promoters, executives at Interscope.” Screen Gems sex comedy Think Like a Man. 1995, guys who needed to drop pounds fast con- all that stu§ can be. Your body streamlines and Brett Davidson, a 40-year-old executive producer “Dieting in general is always important in the sumed quantities of steaks, cheese and eggs. That focuses on what’s important. I suppose that’s why of Truth About Kerry (out in March) and a key-art Hollywood scene,” says nutritionist Carrie Latt seemed a more masculine way to shed pounds — monks and religious people do it.” graphic designer, lost 40 pounds in four months Wiatt of Diet Designs, who works with James Franco but utterly unhealthy and possibly dangerous to Seems a lot of men are starting to realize what recently aer getting to 195 on his 5-foot-8 frame. and Christian Bale. “But new pressure is coming one’s heart. Diets such as Atkins, Ornish and South women learned long ago: Compliments are more He did it with fat-burning drinks in the morning from the abundance of tabloids and TMZ-type Beach followed. These days, all the rage is what’s fullling than food. The Kate Moss adage “Nothing (with appetite-suppressing cactus-¤ower extract), media.” But then, says Simon Doonan, author of known as the Paleo or Hunter-Gatherer Diet, tastes as good as skinny feels” seems to have Fans of Moneyball and Superbad might be startled followed by egg whites, then a lunch of lettuce with Gay Men Don’t Get Fat, a new tome that promotes Rubin, who slimmed down by more than pounds in less than which restricts food to what early man ate thou- crossed the sex barrier. Finally, Mick Jagger and by Hill’s dramatic transformation. tuna and tomato with balsamic vinegar. Dinner a “gay diet” of lighter food as opposed to “straight” a year, would be unrecognizable if not for his trademark beard. sands of years ago: meat, seafood, vegetables, fruit, Steven Tyler have some company. the Santa Monica Farmers Market and A few miles away in Vista, CAL-A-VIE rooms and suites and the addition yoga and more. 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