(continued ?)mysteriously on a movie set as well. I'll stay on this one for us, and find out if this newest Lee is related to Bruce and Brandon, unless someone in my vast cyber audience knows the answer?
Say it ain't so!
Back in those salad days known as college, I would stagger on down to the athletic complex after my last afternoon class, leave my clothes in a corner of the locker room and step into the college sauna.
At times, I would have to start it myself and then go for a smoke break before it got warm enough to sweat it all out of me. That was especially true when a bunch of us would head for such a "gentleman's workout" on Saturday and Sunday mornings after a ? well ? erh, uhm ? busy weekend night. The sauna was wonderful, soothing, and restorative if followed promptly by a cold shower.
I reminisce about those times - the sauna, too - regularly and hope upon my retirement I either have a sauna in my house, or that I plan on getting one. But now I'm having second thoughts after another one of those "doctors damning" stories about a health research study. (I know, I hate them too.)
Actually, it's only a warning, but the word is that the high temp and dry air combination puts and unusual strain on the heart (see, it is a workout!) People with existing heart trouble such as angina should stay away from saunas.
Ahhh, the summer of '80
It's not as if a television critic pining how their favorite show is about to be canceled that draws me to this story. It's not even the same critic saying "I told you so" when colleagues jump on the bandwagon. Nope, in the case of Joyce Millman over at salon.com
-- the show is NBC's "Freaks and Geeks" - what draws me to column is the content of the show.
Born from pair of writers who worked on "The Larry Sanders Show," "Freaks and Geeks" is set in a suburban Michigan high school in 1980 -- waittaminute ? that's when I entered high school! The show tracks the happenings in the lives of two separate "groups" of kids, as we called them at Wayzata high. "Cliques" is a far more accurate term.
The kids typed into the two "fringe groups" in the show couldn't be better paired for the era:
I haven't seen the show, but have meant to check it. Millman says the last chance may be March 13 More Nooner over here>>
