RIP Jack LaLanne, America's Fast-Talking TeeVee Scold

Jack LaLanne died at 96 ... 96! He was in pretty good shape until the end. Jack was a vegetarian (or "pescatarian"?), non-smoking two-hour-workout-a-day beefcakeGreco-Roman model (NS  FW!) who lectured housewives and night-shifters for 30+ years on the teevee, and if you actually look at him it's like Kerouac talking at Neal Cassady speed, and it's fantastic.

He was the Michelle Obama of his time , but nobody called him Communist, even though his 10-point plan was about as Buddhist as you could find on American Teevee. [ NYT ]