Word: lifeguard
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...Hillenburg says, “which is a really dangerous thing to do when you are under a tight deadline. But we needed a person that we associate with the ocean like Jacques Cousteau or something and Hasselhoff became the person to represent the quintessential lifeguard. So, crossing our fingers, I just called...
Died. Larry Capune, 61, long-distance paddleboarder who logged 16,063 miles along America's coastlines during eight epic solo trips from 1964 to 1987; of cancer; in Newport Beach, Calif. The Hollywood-born lifeguard's longest journey was a 4,255-mile trek from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the years, he was bitten by a sea turtle, a bluefish and a dog; hit by a tanker once and by freighters twice; and smacked in the head by a Coke bottle thrown by a pier owner who said Capune was scaring the fish...
Clean and dry is not an interesting environment for Derek Lovley. As a boy, he always wanted to go where he might get wet. Growing up in northwest Connecticut, he worked summers as a lifeguard and briefly considered a career monitoring streams. So even though his work in environmental microbiology kept him indoors, when it was time to open his own lab in 1995, he chose to do so at the University of Massachusetts in pastoral Amherst, turning down more prestigious Ivy League suitors so that he could have a better prospect of getting his boots muddy...
...flavors. A classic is still S&M - sand and masochism - those wonderful weeks of getting burnt, stung by jellyfish (and the local doctor who treats you), losing your watch while making sandcastles with the kids, eating a prawn that has gone off and having to be rescued by a lifeguard with an obscenely flat stomach. Increasingly drawing people from such coastal delights are agritourism, where you pay to smell what cows do to grass, and "edge" trips, where you are charged big bucks to risk your life scaling or jumping off something. There's also the wellness jaunt, where...
...anyone in the Marvel-movie field reconcile yang and yin? In "The Hulk", Eric Bana deftly does. He's the strongman - a 6'3", lifeguard-handsome Aussie - who plays it nerdy and needy, a strapping scientist with a troubled little boy inside. Suddenly you notice that the lantern jaw has a weak chin, that this paragon is all too roilingly human. It's the engaging fallibility that marks Bana as more than just an element in a huge marketing campaign. Ang Lee's big green monster movie may not be a smash (it already has flies buzzing around...