BONUS NUMBER 32, Part Two: THE WAY THEY WERE

(Did You Sleep With the Models?)

Sometimes it’s better to leave the past undisturbed. When I looked up Scott Madsen, 1980s poster boy for the Soloflex exercise machine, I learned that he did jail time for embezzlement. In 2010, a judge in Portland, Oregon, sentenced him to two years in prison for siphoning nearly $250,000 from his uncle’s small mortgage company in Vancouver.