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...history together, a "long shadow," as Keith Richards says, "that we drag around"... The Stones still have the stamina, but there's always at least a hint of a strain in the music too, a self-consciousness about the energy, as if they were the oldest guys at the gym and trying to look good on the Nautilus. Rock 'n' roll may be their life--and their business. It may come naturally to them still, but it sure doesn't come easy. That's what's different. That old winning smugness--their magisterial self-assurance--is gone. There...
...this point, Newman's life was getting a little surreal. She was still working on pronouncing all the Arab names she was learning. When she went to the gym after her first day of TV appearances, her spinning class greeted her with a round of applause. But she doesn't relish notoriety--"I didn't wake up one morning and say, 'Gee, I'm going to sue the President!'"--and she is intensely protective of her private life. As a lawyer, she has a natural antipathy to being interviewed--she likes to be the one asking the questions, thank...
Harvey Fierstein, in drag as Tracy's battleship mom (the role played by Divine in the movie), is Hairspray's showstopping centerpiece. But somewhere between his flouncy scenery chewing (with a chainsaw voice that is now painful to hear) and the familiar gags about uptight parents and butch gym teachers, Hairspray starts to lose its fizz. Making fun of the '50s and '60s has become so passe that this cartoon version gets old pretty fast. The smiley social commentary--Tracy meets the school's black kids in detention and discovers that they have rhythm--only makes the show's facetiousness...
...Blind Date, for instance, who belched her way through roller-skating and drinks with a straitlaced doctor. And if the participants don't humiliate themselves sufficiently, the shows finish the job, with snide commentary from the hosts and Pop-Up Video-style graphics (a lunkish guy at a gym gets labeled a "210-lb. dumbbell...
...private sector is investing far more, by building chrome-plated gymnasiums like the The Total Fitness Club in Guangzhou. With two branches in Shanghai already, the swanky chain opened here in December as the first upmarket gym in the thriving capital of southern Guangdong province. "Traditionally, Cantonese would rather spend $600 on dining out than a health club membership," says general Manager Kevin Ng. But in its first six months, membership at the club shot past 1,300; Ng plans to open three more Guangzhou branches over the next two years. "Fitness centers are going to be like karaoke bars...