Word: skateboarder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most successful ventures is Mountasia Enterprises, based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Proprietors Scott and Juli Demerau started their first park in 1986 at an abandoned skateboard center in Mobile, Alabama. Within weeks the crush of visitors forced them to hire traffic police. In six months they had branched out to two more locations. Three years later things were going so well that they decided to get married -- on the miniature golf course at one of their Georgia fun centers. Since their debut, the Demeraus have expanded their original investment of $450,000 into an amusement empire that includes 26 parks...
When you're ready to shed your black turtleneck and emerge from the smoky cafe underworld, the Charles River offers more health-conscious activities. You can run, bike, skateboard, rollerblade or just lounge on its fabled banks...
...held up "flying" actors had to be erased laboriously, frame by frame. Now the cables that supported Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell can be removed digitally -- and the background restored the same way -- with no evidence of tampering. The 2-in. pipe that supported Michael J. Fox's space-age skateboard in Back to the Future was erased to give the impression that Fox was zipping around in midair. For Memoirs of an Invisible Man, computers removed Chevy Chase from his clothes, then filled in the displaced background. "If there's a problem on the set," says Williams, "no problem...
...rarely home, and during one period he missed three consecutive Christmases. When he did spend time with his family, says his eldest son Teddy, he behaved as though "kids were a necessary evil." He forbade crying, snapped at the slightest imperfection (such as a dinner delayed or a skateboard in the driveway) and ran his weekends at his South Carolina plantation on a militaristic schedule of dawn-to-dusk hunting. Teddy remembers the canoe trip he and his two brothers took with their father when Teddy was about 11. Turner, he says, "yelled and screamed the whole time...
...Coast. The editor in chief is Mark Lewman, 24, a.k.a. Lew. He and Dirt's art director, Andy Jenkins, 27, and photo editor, Spike Jonze, 21, got to know one another while working at Freestylin', a Los + Angeles-based bicycling magazine. Their own publication, Homeboy, which Lewman calls "a skateboard magazine with everything from dance techniques to recipes," folded after six issues, but the threesome had honed their skills. As for other qualifications, Dirt's introductory editorial points out that all three are former teenagers...