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...major U.S. city where there is money and fat to burn. Trainers are to the narcissistic '80s what private fencing masters and dancing teachers were to an earlier time. These status symbols in sweat socks, always perfectly fit, fit perfectly. They signal affluence (private hour-long sessions at a studio or client's home run $50 to $150) without suggesting decadence. Los Angeles, a city that has always been littered with beautiful bodies, naturally boasts a megadose of tony body toners, 200 of them by one practitioner's estimate. Fitness consultants have joined agents, managers and publicists as the undisputable...
...movie was no wow, Travolta's body was. The rebuilt dancer persuaded his trainer to go West and put up some of the money to get Isaacson started in a 1,200-sq.-ft. studio that features $50,000 worth of equipment and, no less important, wall-to-wall mirrors for checking oneself out. But his star customers are not interested in a convivial health club. They want the personal touch, and they get it. If Mickey Rourke requests an after-midnight workout, Isaacson opens the gym. If Danny Sullivan asks him to fly to Indianapolis, he gets...
Nearly 30 pages are devoted to one of Bogart's most famous pictures, Everybody Comes to Rick's--or Casablanca, as it was soon retitled. Although Ronald Reagan, of all people, was suggested for the part in one studio press release, Bogie was the obvious choice. "This guy Rick is two-parts Hemingway, one-part Scott Fitzgerald, and a dash of cafe Christ," said one screenwriter. Various actresses, including Hedy Lamarr, Michele Morgan and Ann Sheridan, were proposed for the role that Ingrid Bergman played so indelibly well. What may surprise readers in these days of superstar supersalaries...
...pictures while carrying my son and eight with my daughter. They'd get me behind desks and behind barrels and throw tables in front of me to hide my growing tummy." Dancer Eleanor Powell runs into a friend, a film cutter at MGM, and lunches with him at the studio commissary. That afternoon she is lectured by Louis B. Mayer: "My dear child, you are going to be a star . . . I would rather you weren't seen with any of the lower echelon of employees." Harry Cohn, the caliph of Columbia Pictures, learns that Choreographer Jack Cole has pronounced...
...still true. Look at the Burt Reynolds and the Clint Eastwoods and all of that crap coming up. They're all abusive to women." Howard Hawks (To Have and Have Not; Red River) on typecasting: Martha Vickers played a nymphomaniac in The Big Sleep, and the studio signed her to a long-term contract. "She started playing a nice girl, and they fired her after six months . . . I said . . . 'You were a little bitch. Why didn't you keep doing that...