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...think of Penn as an angry actor. That's not entirely fair, since he was first noticed as a hilariously stoned surfer dude in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. And one of his four Oscar nominations was for playing a sweet-souled retarded man in I Am Sam. But he won an Oscar this year for mobilizing an implacably vengeful rage as the father of a murdered girl in Mystic River. Before that, he turned his anger into the rancid sullenness of a tormented guitar player in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown and made us sympathize with an unapologetic...
...kind of working world we would live in if we all got the jobs we wanted when we were 7: a cheerleader swaps places with a cowgirl, a fire fighter with a DJ. But the episodes generally end on an amiable, grass-is-always-greener note, as when a surfer trades with a sitcom writer and concludes, "As a writer, I'd be sad knowing that there's a lot of cool stuff going on in the world, and I'm sitting there in a room telling jokes." Likewise, Showtime's quirky Family Business (Fridays, 11 p.m. E.T.), about...
...week's Toy Fair that the never married couple "feel it's time to spend some quality time--apart." And just so every little girl could have the chance to playact the relationship dissolution and subsequent self-loathing of her dreams, Mattel even introduced a third party, buff Australian surfer doll BLAINE. Newly free Ken, we presume, can call up G.I. Joe and go double-dating...
Punishment may seem an ill-fitting strategy for a genial fellow who was a surfer dude as well as a jock in his California teens. But Fox's German-American mom and Vietnam-vet stepdad taught him discipline and focus, which he needed as he took 15 college and pro coaching jobs in 25 years. (His wife Robin spent their honeymoon in the stands as Fox coached in the U.S. Football League.) So he knew hunger when he came to Carolina. "Losing 15 games in a row, everybody had scars. They were ashamed and embarrassed, and willing to do anything...
...like a person that just quit surfing after this, I wouldn't be a real surfer." BETHANY HAMILTON, 13, who while surfing in Kilauea, Hawaii, last month had her arm bitten off by a shark...