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...laughed when I read your article about the Pilates exercise regimen [HEALTH, April 27]. I have been doing Pilates faithfully for the past 12 years. But despite what exerciser Kym Bassett says, you can't eat chocolate cake and get thin. Wait till Bassett gets to be 25; she'll see. People who lose 10 lbs. and two dress sizes are losing the bulk they put on at the gym. Pilates will give you excellent posture and a midsection like a rock and will lift your butt. It won't make you look like a movie star or a model...
...Bassett considers herself an expert in gym fads. She has taken orders from aerobic Step Nazis; she has pumped iron with the manly men. She ran like a rat on a treadmill and searched for Nirvana in yoga. Very little about her body changed over seven years, mostly because she seesawed from five-day-a-week workouts to none at all. Last November the Manhattan jewelry designer noticed a story about Pilates, a regimen based on stretching exercises. "I had no idea how to even pronounce it," says Bassett of her impulsive call to make an appointment...
...Bassett, 24, is coached twice a week on exotic machines with names like the Reformer--and the benefits she describes sound miraculous. Two hours of work with no sweat has allowed her to drop from a size 10 to a size 8, sometimes 6. Her stomach has been whittled; her hips have slimmed. She has the posture and lanky gait of a dancer. What she doesn't have is a diet, and her workout shoes--Pilates calls for socks only--sit in her closet, dusty. She's lost nearly 10 lbs. "People say to me, 'You look thinner,'" she marvels...
...feminine. She falls in all the right places. She endears herself to U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones '69) with her charming ignorance of U.S. laws against lying to federal agents, and she knows when to let her man go. The real reason for the change? Perhaps Angela Bassett could mop the floor with him, beat him until people that loved him wouldn't know him. But these are ridiculous statements to make about a movie that's based on something as untrue and trite as good triumphing over evil. That's Grimm alright. This movie is about...
...Almost any specialization you have in humanmedicine, we probably have here," Bassett says...