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...miles west of Los An-geles in Calabasas, offers no pampering frills at all. Bedrooms and bathrooms are shared by the ten guests, even celebrities like Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda and Esther Williams (who ventured some hints on how to clean the pool). It's "purgatory," Owner Anne- Marie Bennstrom cheerfully confesses. Others would place it further below. "You can come to us anytime, even the middle of the night, if you feel like crying," Fitness Instructor Anniqa Foress says, to soothe newcomers. The twelve-year-old Ashram is notorious for hiking trails so steep and narrow that the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Shake a Leg, Mrs. Plushbottom | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...Come on, my graceful nymphs," cooed a leotarded physical culture-vulture named Anne Marie Bennstrom. The "nymphs" who heaved into action at her command were a score of Hollywood refugees, ranging from Novelist and sometime Scriptwriter Aldous Huxley (6 ft. 4 in., 143½ Ibs.), who looked like a long, gaunt crane, to 341-lb., 6 ft. 2½ in. Actor Victor Buono, who looked like a healthy hippo. As they puffed around the swimming pool to the recorded strains of the River Kwai March or splashed through the 'Balinese Water Dance" to the tune of the Volga Boatman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: After Many a Summer .. . | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

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