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Jane Fonda Teaches Heidi Montag How to Rock a Leotard
Posted by STV at 6:05 AM on August 28, 2008
Tuesday's unnerving visit to the set of Sweatin' Your 15 Minutes Away, with Heidi Montag was accompanied by an even more debilitating ebb of confidence in popular culture to ever make us smile again. So imagine the overwhelming (if perhaps coincidental) sense of joy that came along with revisiting Jane Fonda's early-'80s workout-video heyday — a brain-exploding, pre-ironic throwback to an era when only two-time Oscar winners were entitled to such garish Lycra supremacy. Sam Sparro's anthem "Black and Gold" provides the mid-tempo counterpoint, the entirety of which can be observed at Vimeo; our brains are full. Grateful, but full. And does she ever hit the spot. [Vimeo]
Tuesday's unnerving visit to the set of
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ophthalmologist
Posted 6:44 AM 28/8/08
Thought this was Madonna's "Hung Up" video until I saw that it's Jane Fonda in the purple leotard. Nice boy-girl-boy sandwich near the end.
ophthalmologist
kookla
Posted 6:29 AM 28/8/08
After a workout like that, I would definitely need a cold shower!
kookla
psych101
Posted 6:56 AM 28/8/08
For the first 30 seconds, I thought I was watching either an 80s porno or the world's worst contemporary dance routine.
Wasn't Jane fonda really anorexic when she made these vids? I haz a sad.
psych101
psych101
Posted 7:27 AM 28/8/08
@raincoaster: My therapy senses are tingling. Should not make workout tapes when recovering from ED.
She sure is bendy tho!
psych101
raincoaster
Posted 7:11 AM 28/8/08
@psych101: No, she was recovered from bulimia, which she'd had during her ingenue heyday.
I still have all of those tapes. I think the only one I don't have is the prenatal one. But you know what? Of all the 80's workout tapes, Cher's is the funniest.
raincoaster
yikesahootie
Posted 7:36 AM 28/8/08
+ Watch video
This is my all-time favorite workout video.
yikesahootie
TillieHarper
Posted 8:02 AM 28/8/08
By these I mean the Jane Fonda tapes, not what you're doing up there @yikesahootie:.
TillieHarper
TillieHarper
Posted 7:57 AM 28/8/08
Can I get these tapes on DVD? Also, does anyone remember a workout show with like three brunettes on a platform and the camera would rotate around them while they aerobicized? Does anyone remember what that show was called? I'd like to track it down.
TillieHarper
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 9:28 AM 28/8/08
@TillieHarper: You can download it here for free: [www.aerobicise.com]
Little Mintz Sunshine
yikesahootie
Posted 9:20 AM 28/8/08
@TillieHarper: That sounds like that soft-porn stuff they used to show on - gosh, was it Showtime? Cinemax? I will have to Google....
yikesahootie
Miss d
Posted 3:18 PM 30/8/08
But she really should of done that shit in her Barbarella costumes - now that would be gold!
Miss d
neurotica91
Posted 6:42 AM 2/9/08
Run dad shit!
neurotica91
snuh
Posted 8:39 AM 28/8/08
Heidi Montag's new video makes Jane Fonda Workout tapes look like they were directed by Stanley fucking Kubrick.
snuh