Word: spa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...club get themselves mixed up in a real estate deal with a trio of bad-ass good ole boys who want to buy up a block of downtown property and build a highrise. Craig's job is to purchase a rundown hangout for body building called the Olympic Spa. The boys should have known better. Craig gets sucked into the strange rituals of the place, the exercises, the competition and-most of all -the mystical subculture of pumping iron. He makes friends with Joe Santo (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself a former Mr. World and Mr. Universe), and starts...
...Piano. As a consequence-of his waist-not, want-not approach, Guérard today commands the hottest "piano" (as professional chefs call their stoves) in the trendy, fiercely competitive world of grande cuisine. After only 1% years of operation, the Restaurant Michel Guérard at the spa in Eugenie-les-Bains near Lourdes is about to receive a top rating of 19 points in this year's edition of the Guide Gault-Millau, France's sprightliest food publication. (The spa also has a gourmand menu for the calorie-careless.) The more conservative and authoritative Guide Michelin...
...Michael Caine. Their performances are good, given the built-in limitations of the roles--this is not an actor's film. The plot is not the strongest point either: Jackson, bored with her perfect husband, adorable son, and luxurious suburban house, takes a little vacation at a continental spa, perhaps in search of some discreet adultery. There she encounters a young man (Helmut Berger) who claims to be a poet. Actually, he is a sort of well-tailored adventurer with a talent for playing the gigolo, and a lesser flair for dope-running--he caches a large supply of cocaine...
...there to work," says Actress Natalie Wood of the Anatomy Asylum, the newest hangout for Hollywood heavies. The health spa and its adjoining 25-ft. salad bar, which were opened two months ago by a slimmed-down model for chubby fashions and a former A.A.U. gymnast, already serve a clientele that includes Sally Struthers of TV's All In The Family, Singer Diana Ross, Actress Yvette Mimieux and Comedian Woody Allen. Not everyone is willing to accept the full star treatment apparently. "The food is really excellent," says Struthers, who confesses that she has not yet entered the gymnasium...
...most fashionable spas in France now offer thalassotherapy, a kilo-cutting regimen that combines diet, exercise and extensive-sea water massage. Furthermore, Gallic dieting is far from dull. Michel Guerard, the famed chef who helped popularize the low-calorie cuisine minceur, lures patrons to his spa at Eugénie-les-Bains with a gourmet diet (1,000 calories a day) that eliminates fats and starches without losing flavor...