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...most popular, and controversial, types of back-relief products is so-called gravity-inversion equipment, which began selling fast after Richard Gere was shown hanging heels over head in the 1980 film American Gigolo. Gravity Guidance of Pasadena, Calif., introduced the first inversion product: ankle straps now known as Gravity Boots (price: $60 to $84) that enable a sufferer to dangle from a chinning bar and relieve pressure on the spine. To go with the boots, the company sells steel-and-canvas support systems (up to $1,200) that hold users in a topsy-turvy position...
MARRIED. Mary Beth Hurt, 34, resourceful film and stage actress (The World According to Garp, Crimes of the Heart); and Paul Schrader, 37, kitschy film director (American Gigolo, Cat People); both for the second time; in Chicago...
Gravity Boots first started becoming popular after the 1980 film American Gigolo showed Star Richard Gere doing a heels-over-head workout. Subsequent features on the boots on television shows like PM Magazine further boosted sales. Says Gravity Guidance President Bryce Martin, 30: "The movie was really the first time anybody had ever heard of the boots, and we were swamped with orders from all over the country...
...also of the origin of the fabled partnership as well. Here is the regal Sibley, the gossamer Titania of The Dream, reduced to a semislattern with one thing on her mind. Here is the princely Dowell, once her dashing Oberon, as an even more unsatisfying lover, a sexually indeterminate gigolo with Saturday-night fever. At the end of the first, teasingly erotic pas de deux, Dowell effortlessly lifts Sibley aloft and, in one graceful, fluid motion, floats her offstage. The gesture promises a lovers' private communion. Yet, in the end, it turns out to be only funning foreplay...
Meanwhile, Clarisse's husband is enduring an emotionless affair with a vapid starlet, while the sensual diva leads on a young gigolo who ultimately kills himself over his love for her. The subplots enthrall, but all fade away as Clarisse's and Julien's love reaches its promising resolution...