Word: boing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bo is not for the faint of spirit, or the weak of back. It is a grueling combination of punches, kicks and squats set to the rhythms of hip-hop. Blanks first experimented with the karate-like sequences in his basement in Erie, Pa., two decades ago. He later opened a studio in California, where he has taught the routine to such famed hardbodies as Paula Abdul, Lisa Rinna and Wayne Gretzky. Last August he brought Tae-Bo to the people...
...very least to your television set. Tae-Bo marketers shell out about $2 million weekly to air his 30-min. infomercial across the country. Lose weight! Kick butt! Free your spirit! All that is yours simply by buying a set of four videos for three easy payments of $19.95. And Blanks has crossed over into free TV too. He turned up on ER last month and spent a week with Oprah in the Bahamas. No wonder Tae-Bo videos have grossed some $75 million and placed in the top five of both the Billboard and Amazon.com charts last week. Consider...
...booming enterprise, however, has been dogged by legal problems. His business partner, Paul Monea, who produced the infomercial, is facing two separate lawsuits: one by Sugar Ray Leonard, who contends that his name was used without permission in the Tae-Bo infomercial; and another by Seth Ersoff, an entertainment manager who claims he introduced Monea to Blanks and was later denied a share of the profits from Tae-Bo. Monea's lawyer declines to comment on the allegations. But his client's track record isn't reassuring. In 1997 an Ohio court ruled that Monea's company could not sell...
...Using a mirror to learn the moves and correct for his impairment, he remade himself. He won scores of karate titles, appeared in a string of B movies and was born again--in that order. He is a preacher in an athlete's body, and Tae-Bo is his one true gospel. "Tae-Bo is the only exercise that will give you everything you want," he says...
...bent on providing non-commercial, local artists a place to create. The museum offers the lowest rent anywhere in the city, and its efforts to pair professional artists with particular neighborhood issues produce "an experimental showcase that really gets the local scene," according to the museum's program director, Bo Lembo...