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...book's consistently refreshing unconventionality. The story details Catherine's brief but obsessive love affair with Chloe, a beautiful, blonde male to female transsexual. They bond over a mutual disillusionment with their peers - lesbians involved in "unbelievably dull left-wing political activities" and the gay male "trend towards gym-cloned pretty boys." The characters of "How Loathsome" are the marginalized of the marginal. Consequently, Catherine and Chloe's relationship ends for one simple yet complex reason. "I'm not a lesbian," Chloe says...
PLOT A ragtag dodgeball team must save a gym...
About an hour outside Houston, at the end of a dirt road, sits a rambling ranch house where peacocks, emus and even a camel wander in the yard. It's hardly what you would expect the U.S. national training center for gymnastics to look like. But this is gym HQ because Bela and Martha Karolyi live here. Once a month, they open their 2,000-acre spread to a few elite gymnasts in an effort to return the U.S. to the glory of 1996. That was the year Martha coached the U.S. women's squad--the Magnificent Seven...
...help from Bela, who was retired. Colarossi, Bela and Martha came up with a program that would not only improve the U.S.'s Olympic chances, but also keep the talent pipeline full. In 1999 Bela became the first national team coordinator (his wife succeeded him two years later), the gym czar with veto power over the Olympic team...
DIED. JOE GOLD, 82, California bodybuilder and founder of Gold's Gym; in Los Angeles. Gold, center, was an early popularizer of bodybuilding in the U.S. and mentor to a broke Austrian bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom he allowed to work out for free and nicknamed "Balloon Belly." His Venice Beach gym was the setting for the documentary Pumping Iron...