Word: sand
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...heard tales of the beach: the sugar sand leading to a phosphorescent sea, the beautiful people living in an unruffled commune, the symbiosis of modern man and primal nature. And if these attractions don't give you a high, then the free dope will--it sprouts like kudzu all over the place. Now Richard, the narrator of the book and film The Beach, has somehow reached this ideal island in Thailand, this littoral dream made literal. But Utopia isn't good enough for Richard, because he's questing, he's weak, he's ornery...he's Leonardo DiCaprio...
There are at least 2,000 kids like Tamara here on Ko Pha-Ngan island, a 20-sq.-mi., palm-fringed, mountainous speck off the eastern coast of Thailand. The beaches are pristine--white sand, yellow boulders, coral reefs and gently slapping waves. You can rent a bungalow for $5 a day. The boys and girls seem to be young, thin and beautiful. They convene from all over the globe: club kids from London, bar hostesses from Tokyo, English teachers from Taipei, tech refugees from Silicon Valley--all looking to partake of this new civilization on the island that...
...Thai entrepreneurs who owned the prime Ko Pha-Ngan waterfront were, at one point, the black sheep of their respective clans. Beaches were useless: the prime coconut-farming plots were inland. But with the arrival of the sand-loving farangs, a whole new economy emerged. Families like the Thuaycharoens, known locally as the Khaos, grew wealthy building bungalow complexes and beach bars. Mustachioed Mr. Khao is now governor of the whole province. Bespectacled Mrs. Khao manages their real estate empire from behind the counter of her two-aisle grocery store. The kids who buy rolling papers and beer from...
Fans who were disappointed to see Leonardo DiCaprio's dismal end in Titanic shouldn't have worried. Three relatively low-key years after the blockbuster in which he succumbed to an icy demise, Leo washed up on an idyllic stretch of sand as one of the world's highest-paid, most well known actors.In his latest rendezvous in the water, entitled The Beach, based on a book of the same name by author Alex Garland, Leo reinvents himself as Richard, a dissatisfied, disillusioned Gen-Xer, traversing the world in search of a "genuine" experience. Genuine in this case excludes anything...
...video, pencil neck. And you can tell those leotarded WWF sissies that the Wild Man from the Desert Sand is coming after them...