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...among the first participants in a TV genre still in its infancy: the instructional videocassette. As VCR machines have proliferated, so have how-to cassettes made expressly for the home market. A large chunk of them are exercise and fitness tapes, led by the best-selling Jane Fonda's Workout (which has sold 750,000 worldwide since its 1982 release). But hundreds of other how-to tapes are on the market, covering everything from auto repairs to making love. By plunking a cassette into their home machines, VCR owners can get beauty tips or financial advice, take a course...
...success of Fonda's workout tape--along with sequels like her Prime Time Workout and Workout Challenge--has inspired a horde of other celebrities to try getting Americans in shape via video. In Debbie Reynolds' Do It Debbie's Way, an exercise class sprinkled with familiar faces (Florence Henderson, Teri Garr, Shelley Winters) bends and stretches to big-band music while Debbie cracks jokes and offers encouragement. Considerably more demanding is Raquel Welch's Total Beauty and Fitness. The 44-year-old star folds her body into positions that will leave most of her viewers in awe. The macho Armed...
...brother and I arrived at the IAB shortly after 6:00 p.m. We displayed our Harvard identification cards to the door monitors and then proceeded upstairs to the weight room. Upon the completion of our workout, we proceeded into the hall leading from the weight room to the stairs. We observed a security officer walking towards us. As we approached the officer, he stopped us and asked whether we had properly identified ourselves upon entering the building. We produced our student identification cards, informed him that we had done so when we arrived, and asked him what the problem...
...Kinks: Word of Mouth (Arista). At last, a good robust antiexercise song. In typically contrary Kinks fashion, however, Too Hot, with its sardonic image of an entire generation beefing, toning and shaping up, has a get-moving melody that is probably perfect for a workout. Head Kink Ray Davies knows how to write songs that cut several ways, including into his own heart. Missing Persons is a lovely piece of brooding melancholy that seems, almost nakedly, to be about the dissolution of his relationship with Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. The Kinks are still one of the most fearless, feckless...
...Superman's younger cousin and a fellow émigré from Krypton, who grows up in Midvale, U.S.A., as Linda Lee. In her preppie uniform she is an ordinary schoolgirl, but put her in red cape and tights and she is revealed as California Girl, apotheosis of the workout ethic. Kara must save the world from the malefic Selena (Faye Dunaway), high priestess of Endor and part-time palmist. In this task, Supergirl is aided by her Krypton father Zaltar (Peter OToole), who, as in every other Freudian fable from Oedipus Rex to Star Wars, must die before...