Film fans may remember the fellow in the accompanying
image as Dave (played by Mark Addy) in the 1997 British comedy The Full
Monty.
Trust me: you don’t want to see any more of him than
what is revealed here. Suffice it to say, Dave really had to “lower his expectations”
for the desperate but uproariously confidence-boosting act he and his friends resorted to!
This accompanying image of a Pilates training session was taken Aug. 20, 2024, by ikorpilates.
I must admit that my first thought upon seeing
this was that it was some kind of human physiology class. My second thought was
that the individual who’s the focus of attention would be me after one Pilates
maneuver too many.
The image accompanying this post shows Ms. Garofalo at
the world premiere of Bad Parents at the Montclair Film Festival, taken
Oct. 3, 2012, by Edwin Torres.
That amount of activity is
especially appropriate for heat waves, such as the ones we’ve been having so
far this summer.
"I used to jog, but the ice cubes kept falling
out of my glass." —Rock ‘n’ roller David Lee Roth quoted in Mike Breen, “Cover Story: Eddie Van Who?” City Beat, May 23, 2002
At lunchtime the other day, as I crossed the
courtyard near my building at Rockefeller Center in New York for a quick bite
to eat, I came across this crowd of exercise fans on stationary bicycles. I did
not get the name of the organization, but, from the kind of propulsive dance music
found in discos blaring up to the nearby skyscrapers, it was easy to recall the
urging of the peppy woman leading them: “Bike to the beat!”
“My customary exercise consists of a short stroll
from the Temple tube to Equity Court, and rising to object to impertinent
questions put by prosecuting counsel.”— John Mortimer, Rumpole
a la Carte (1990)
