It has been reported that illegal downloading costs the movie industry an estimated $5.4 billion a year, but I don’t see how. The quality that I’ve seen in the past on movies that my friends downloaded is so bad I really don’t see the point. I have spent a lot of money to have a big screen high definition television set. Why would I download a blurry movie? I mean if you are going to spend the money for a fancy TV, it’s a pretty big waste not to have the store bought high quality DVD of your favorite movie. Most downloaded movies are caught by a camcorder in theatres. So you have to imagine the guy doing the recording is wavering back and forth the whole time. You also have to deal with noises from the audience. If you ask, me it’s too nerve wracking to even sit through that.

As much as I empathize with Hollywood on protecting their turf, attacking their potential customers is not the way to go. Producing great products is the most logical course. Hollywood’s movie box office slump this year is not caused by a bunch of 12 year olds downloading movies on the net. DVD sales, after all, are still very high. People want to watch movies on their big screen TV at home at their leisure. Besides, you pay the same amount to take your family to the movies as you do to buy a DVD you can watch over and over again. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Either you sell a product to your audience in the theatres or for their home use. The movie industry can’t expect to have people paying to see all their movies at the theatre and turn around and buy the DVD too, unless the movie they are selling is of superior quality like a “Passion of the Christ”, “Batman Begins”, “Star Wars”, etc. An increasing number of people are not going to rush to the theatre to get the same experience they can get at home.

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Jack didn’t always lead a healthy lifestyle. “As a kid,” he says, “I was a sugarholic. I was a junk food junkie. It made me weak and it made me mean.” But at a lecture in 1929, pioneering nutritionist Paul Bragg called 15 year old Lalanne a “human garbage can.” Ever since then Jack has been following Bragg’s philosophy – “If you obey nature’s laws, you’ll be born again.”

And Jack certainly was born again. He immediately changed his diet – no white flour, no sugar, no meat and lots of fish, fruits, vegetables and nutritional supplements. He also started lifting weights and became a bodybuilder, eventually being named Professional Mr. America in 1955 when he was in his 40’s.

LaLanne also became a hard working businessman. At 18, he ran his own bakery selling healthy breads. At 21, he opened the first health club in the country with a gym, health food store and juice bar in downtown Oakland, California. His club became the prototype of all modern health spas. Today more than 200 clubs still bear the Jack LaLanne name.

But it was on TV that Jack became famous all over the world. In 1951, he started the first exercise show. Critics thought he’d be off the air in six weeks, but “The Jack LaLanne Show’” ran for an amazing 34 years. Black and white reruns of the jump-suited LaLanne can still be seen twice each weekday morning on ESPN Classic.

Jack loves the limelight and over his seventy year career, he always used it effectively to promote himself, his show and his gyms. He’s written books, produced exercise videos and acted in dozens of TV shows and films, usually playing himself. But he’s probably best known for his amazing feats of strength.

At 41, he swam from Alcatraz to Fishermen’s Wharf in San Francisco wearing handcuffs. At 45, he performed a thousand push-ups and a thousand chin-ups in an hour. And once on an old TV show, he did 1,033 sit-ups in 23 minutes. At 60, he repeated his Alcatraz swim, but this time he did it handcuffed, shackled and towing a thousand-pound boat. And at 70, handcuffed and shackled, LaLanne towed 70 boats holding 70 people for a mile and a half across Long Beach harbor.

Jack LaLanne is definitely one of a kind. At 90, even though his hair is thinner and grayer and his walk a little slower, Jack still maintains his strict diet and exercises daily, including lifting weights and an hour of swimming. He claims to feel better than ever. “I’ve got no aches and no pains. If I get a sniffle, it’s gone the next day. Everything’s working. Just look at my wife. She’s smiling.”

LaLanne believes a half hour of exercise four or five times a week is more than enough for the average person. “You don’t have to work out seven days a week like I do.” he said. “I’m a nut. I just want to see how long I can keep this up.”

For years LaLanne talked about swimming the 26 miles from Catalina Island to Los Angeles underwater to celebrate his 90th birthday. Elaine, his wife and partner for fifty years threatened to divorce him if he tried such a stunt. When asked what he would do instead, Jack answered with a grin, “Tow my wife across the bathtub.”

“I was 40 years ahead of my time,” La Lanne says. “People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. Doctors were against me. I’d be 6 foot 2 if the medical profession hadn’t beaten me down.” (Jack is 5 foot 6.) “They said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive; women would look like men. And today all the world class athletes work out with weights.”

When asked about the difference between public attitude when he opened his first gym in 1935 and now, Jack laughs and answers with a gleam in his eye, “Back then I was a crackpot. Today I’m an authority. And believe me, I can’t die. It would ruin my image.”

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