Word: surfboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could not sit on the ulcer at the base of his spine. He had heard about stand-up beds and tilt-tables-so why not convert a wheelchair into something similar? Therapist Robert E. Craig and Dr. Hodge M. Eagleson Jr. worked with Boudreaux in perfecting a sort of surfboard-wheelchair combination...
...Nothing really does happen. The come-ons are put-ons; there is no smoking or drinking onscreen, and the promised love play is usually limited to an innocent kiss behind a surfboard. Frankie Avalon and ex-TV Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, the romantic leads who trip through their scenes with mindless abandon, come across as the Ma and Pa Kettle of the teeny-bopper set. Explains an A.I.P. market researcher: "Kids realize that sex play exists, but they don't like movies to get involved with it. A boy watching a movie and sitting next to a girl with whom...
...misleading to imply that more than a few moments of The Endless Summer are wavering or forced. The photography is superb, particularly those scenes actually filmed on a surfboard with a waterproof housing wrapped around the camera. And Brown's commentary, if you can stomach the occasional barbarisms or pass them off as charming naivete, is funny and quick...
...Endless Summer. To surfboard enthusiasts, a new wave film is an epic celebrating the cool of a bronzed athlete atop a ten-foot slab of polyurethane foam, shooting through a tunnel of sea-green water formed by a breaker's curl. "The ultimate thing in surfing is to be covered up by the wave," says Bruce Brown, a blond, 28-year-old Californian who probably qualifies as the world's foremost exponent of pleasure before business. A Bergman of the boards, Brown makes his pleasures pay, and has pushed his income into a fun-filled six-figure bracket...
Four years ago, the Beach Boys' drummer was sleeping in a garage in Hawthorne, Calif., a bleak beach suburb of Los Angeles, and sweeping out a laundromat to earn enough money to buy wax for his surfboard and Budweiser for himself. He had just been suspended from Hawthorne High School for starting a bloody free-for-all during a physical education class and getting drunk that night at a basketball game. After his suspension, he sullenly avoided high school friends at the usual Saturday morning surf spots and practiced elsewhere along the beaches south of Los Angeles...