Word: lifeguard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Bat Masterson has also been involved in his share of life or death brushes while working as a lifeguard at Jacob Riis Park in Brooklyn. Guarding the 300,000 Brooklynites who flocked to Riis Park on one single July afternoon last summer can be just as harrowing as fingering a sixshooter at sunset on Dodge City mainstreet. One one occasion, for example, Masterson and three fellow lifeguards had to rescue fifteen drowning teenagers who tried to swim out to a sand...
...water was heated to a soothing 80°, so the pool was full of happy swimmers. But not so happy was Lifeguard Steve Tourville. Watching over his charges, he sat in his chair wearing a suit of thermal underwear and three sweaters. Is this a Colorado ski resort scene? No, just an unusual 36° day at Walt Disney World in Florida. Across a broad sweep of the country last week, winter howled in with bone-numbing force. In the nation's capital, temperatures dropped 20°, to near zero, during a one-hour period...
...Lifeguard at Radcliffe...
Modestly ambitious. Lifeguard concerns the folkways and seductions of the California beach life. It means to be funny and a little sad, but Director Daniel Petrie (Buster and Billie) and Writer Ron Koslow share a point of view that slides and shifts like the tide. Their hero is a lifeguard named Rick (Sam Elliott), a 32-year-old beach veteran who gets most of what he requires out of life by patrolling along the water's edge. When Rick thinks he may want a little more than fresh air, sunshine, the chance to meet a few new girls...
...surfside ruminations make pretty thin material for a movie, but the real problem with Lifeguard is that Petrie and Koslow do not know what to think, much less what to make of Rick's dilemma. It seems as if they are trying to do a little pencil portrait of fear and failure, but their hero's softheadedness is contagious. Rick's final decision, which is to be a success on his own suffocatingly modest terms, is conveyed with a hint of melancholy but more than a suggestion of approval. Lifeguard is winningly acted-by Elliott and, especially...