In The Fighter, Christian Bale played a hyperactive, wire-thin boxer-turned-trainer. Here, he has morphed into the wondrously sleazy and overweight con-artist "hero" Irving Rosenfeld.
If you are thin then boxers for girls and a tank would be cute and comfortable.
Red Cross!" The man doing the shouting was broad and dark, with a boxer's broken nose, thin, silky black hair cut in a Caesar style, and a chin with a huge, inelegant cleft.
"I lived like a rat," says Andriy, a keen boxer, whose bandaged legs are now rake-thin.
The thin air is a draw for elite athletes like the boxers Fernando Vargas and Oscar De La Hoya.
I shake his hand, a square and solid hand, more in keeping with the mobster and bare-knuckle boxer image he's cultivated of late than the stick-thin, knock-me-over-with-a-feather campness of yesteryear.
These thin-skinned primadonnas are the real candidates, sitting at their desks in their boxer shorts and waiting for the moment of inspiration where they can frame the dialogue for the next 10 segments.
Later, he endured 'BI (basic item) loss', when his thin mattress, trousers, shirts, towel, blankets, and flipflops were also taken away, leaving him naked except for boxer shorts in an empty metal box.
This time he's taken the tale of an all-but-forgotten boxer and used it as his jumping-off point to worry questions of identity and the thin, often nonexistent lines between flimflamming and lying and storytelling itself.
In an early scene of The Inbetweeners Movie, released in August, audiences met a central character wearing boxer shorts and scuba-diving equipment, noisily pleasuring himself into an open packet of wafer-thin ham.
