When the week gets wild, the wild get going. Where? Straight to the tonic of True Stories at OZY and its breakdown of how to handle everything from aging dads who refuse to stop driving to catching an Oscar date with hot celebrities like Cybill Shepherd. Add to this the worst basketball player of all time and the internment camp creation of Pilates (pictured) and you have a Hump Day worth its weight in humps!
| Trapped on an island, Joseph Pilates put his time to good use. For Joseph Pilates, the exercises that changed his life took shape on the straw mat of a prison camp. The German-born part-time boxer and circus performer was living in Great Britain when World War I broke out. He was sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man where tens of thousands of suspected “enemy aliens” were kept throughout the war. There are few surviving photos from Camp Knockaloe, but one depicts Pilates leading a field full of men in standing exercises. Decades later, the exercise legend would recall devising his physical fitness system, which he called Contrology, by looking at the sickly prisoners around him — starving due to the German blockade of the British Isles — and then at the also starving, yet still sprightly, cats. | READ NOW |
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| | Trapped on an island, Joseph Pilates put his time to good use. |
| | When a friend is friends with the quasi-famous daughter of a celeb mom and you want to go to the Oscars, the way seems quite clear. |
| | Marie Bonaparte’s interest in the clitoris went an inch too far. |
| | Gary Suiter's been forgotten. Maybe that was kinder. |
| | Walking around Vancouver, and hit with the sirens, a cop stop is nothing new. But the reasons for it? Illuminating! |
| | Aly Fuentes' most recent move was part of a national program model that offers safe, short-term living arrangements for young people at risk of homelessness. |
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