Word: workout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GWTW still has a way to go to become the all-time videotape best seller. That record is held by Jane Fonda's Workout ($59.95), last week's No. 3, which in three years has raked in more than $40 million. Boasts Court Shannon, a vice president of Karl-Lorimar Home Video, which produced the exercise guide: "Jane Fonda has greater endurance than Scarlett and a longer-lasting beauty." Perhaps, but tomorrow is another...
...snort, of woman- mauling Roddy Piper, "He certainly is unfit to wear a skirt." Geraldine Ferraro apostrophizes, "Roddy Piper, why don't you come out and fight like a man?" Meanwhile, each month at the Garden, 20,000 souls who wouldn't be caught dead at a Jane Fonda Workout congregate to scream obscenities and pelt the wrestlers with hot dogs and ice cubes. For the few hours they spend together in a wrestling arena, the Perrier Set and the Boilermaker Brigade have something in common: synthetic blood lust...
Egan works out with the team twice a day beginning with an icy winter walk across the Charles to Blodgett Pool for a 6:30 workout...
...Today's Day-to-Night Barbie is 26 and equally at ease in the executive suite or at the disco. We're not talking about knee-jerk feminism here, ladies, and I do think it would be unfair to say, "Barbie goes yuppie." But I now have my own workout center, computer-equipped work station and attache case, complete with calculator, business cards and newsmagazine. Projecting our femininity is still just as important as ever. That is why I asked Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta, 52, to create four glamorous gowns especially for me. At $8 each, they...
Despite the slow start, industry executives predict that how-to tapes will eventually catch on. "If you look at a bookstore," says Stuart Karl, president of Karl Home Video, producer of the Jane Fonda Workout, "best sellers make up 10% of the merchandise, and the rest is alternative programming--books on cooking, travel, self-help. The future of home video is the creation and translation of all these books to video." Observes Austin Furst, president of Vestron Video: "It's going to be a good business someday, but built brick by brick." All the industry needs now is a cassette...