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...Others think he's Jewish. The slightly spaced-out Indian tribe that adopts him is just happy that he is visibly not another rapacious white guy. We can be happy that he links up with Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), a train robber with the anachronistic manners of a surfer dude--a little too politely countercultural for his line of work and not half as clever as he thinks he is. He looks like a young Robert Redford (the movie makes a nice satirical reference to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), but his genial self-regard--assailed by amusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: At Home on the Range | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...infected blister and then, over the year's hiatus, had to drop 55 to 60 lbs. (and grow a ZZ Top beard) and return for this rough, wet work. "People pay to do this stuff on vacation," says Hanks, 43, who earned his sea legs as a surfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Saving Tom Hanks | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

DIED. JOSEPH WOLFSON, 50, legendary surfer who was nicknamed "Dr. 360" after being the first boogie boarder to turn full circle while riding a wave; in a car crash; in Los Angeles. Surfers rescued Wolfson in 1998, after the lung-cancer patient left a note onshore with $5,000 for a funeral party and paddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 13, 2000 | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...This is by no means over," says Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, who helped lead the fight. In fact, DoubleClick has not called off its plans but only shelved them until the government and industry can agree on a set of privacy standards. Surfer, beware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The News: Data Mining: DoubleClick's Double Take | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...heading, like "ClevelandM4M," and click on the who's chatting button to see a list of folks in the room. Listed with each individual's screen name is an accompanying profile--a personal resume of sorts, whose details vary from person to person and city to city. When a surfer finds a profile he likes, rather than have an ice-breaking conversation on the chat-room bulletin board, he'll usually send an instant message to the potential paramour with an invitation to a private room. Says TV producer Jim Fraenkel, 29: "You don't even have to say anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dating on AOL: You've Got Males | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

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