STILL PUMPED UP.(celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 'Pumping Iron' motion picture )

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 25-NOV-02

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What with the budget crisis, the reappearance of the homeless, and the return of swingers' parties, the city is beginning to resemble its nineteen-seventies self--or so it seemed at the Whitney one night last week, when Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, and several hundred guests gathered to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of "Pumping Iron," the documentary about bodybuilding that made "the Austrian Oak" famous and launched a thousand gyms.

Back in early 1976, George Butler, a photographer and documentary filmmaker who had spent months tracking Schwarzenegger, Ferrigno, and several other musclemen as they prepared for the...

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