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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...
Some of the newer workout tapes seem interested less in fitness than in showing off their star's physical endowments. Sandahl Bergman's Body, billed as a "video workout combining fitness with the art of dance," is long on arty camera angles and short on guidance. And in the Solid Gold 5 Day Workout, dancers cavort in a series of seemingly random maneuvers that are nearly impossible to follow...
Although a number of workout tapes are selling well, few of the more specialized how-to cassettes have found a large audience. Some industry executives blame video stores, which concentrate on renting movies and other entertainment cassettes and are little disposed to stock or promote instructional tapes (which typically sell for $30 to $60). As a result, some companies are starting to market their how-to cassettes in retail outlets geared to specific audiences: placing tapes on home repair in hardware stores, for example...
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...