What is "fat city"

alt. an extremely comfortable situation or condition of life n. an extremely comfortable situation or condition of life

Fat City may refer to:

• Fat City (novel), a 1969 novel by Leonard Gardner
  • Fat City (film), a 1972 film adaptation, directed by John Huston
• Fat City Cycles, an American mountain bike company
• Fat City: How Washington Wastes Your Taxes, a 1980 book by Donald Lambro
• Fat City, a commercial district in Metairie, LA
• "Fat City", an episode of the American TV series The King of Queens

In music:

• Fat City (album), a 1992 album by Shawn Colvin
• Fat City Recordings, a UK independent record label whose releases include Stars on 33
• "Fat City", a song by Airbourne from Runnin' Wild
• "Fat City", a song by DJ Muggs from Dust
• "Fat City", a song by Greg Dulli
• Starland Vocal Band, an American pop band once known as Fat City

Fat City is a 1972 American neo-noir boxing drama film directed by John Huston. The picture stars Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, and Susan Tyrrell.

One of Huston's later films, it is based on the boxing novel Fat City (1969) by Leonard Gardner, who also wrote the screenplay.

Tyrrell received an Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as the alcoholic, world weary Oma.

Fat City is a novel by Leonard Gardner published in 1969. Though the only novel he published, its prestige has grown considerably since its publication to critical acclaim from the likes of Joan Didion and Walker Percy among others. The book is widely considered a classic of boxing fiction.

Fat City, Shawn Colvin's second full-length album, was released in 1992 on Columbia Records.

The album reached 142 on the Billboard 200 and reached #2 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers. "Round of Blues" and "I Don't Know Why" made Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and Adult Contemporary single charts, respectively. "Tenderness on the Block" is a cover version of a song released on Warren Zevon's 1978 album Excitable Boy. Opening track "Polaroids" was performed live by Colvin on the series finale of HBO's The Larry Sanders Show in 1998, and provided the title of her "greatest hits" album, which was released in 2004.

Fat City is the debut album on the Sons of Champlin, formerly known as the Opposite Six released in 1967 on Trident Productions. The Sons of Champlin were a more straight-laced rock band who did many recordings from 1966 to 1967. It is very concise in structure and effort than their later looser psychedelic-based material they released in the late 1960s.