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Coppola's new movie, Lost in Translation, was the most buzzed-about entry at the Venice Film Festival, where it snagged two prizes last week. Granted, it's easy to generate buzz when you've got family connections like hers. But waiflike Sofia, 32, with her soft, spacey California surfer-chick talk (expressions like "Yeah, right?" and "Oh, cool" punctuate every sentence), hardly plays the part of the Hollywood brat...
...expanded into a 650-store monster with outlets in 49 states and Puerto Rico (a store in the 50th state, Arkansas, should open soon). And it has done this without losing cachet with its target market. Pacific Sun, says shopper Heather Brentlinger, 17, of Omaha, Neb., "has the surfer look I like...
Brentlinger has never surfed. She doesn't even swim, which might have disturbed the company's founder, dedicated surfer Tom Moore. He managed to find time for his first love even as the Newport Beach, Calif., surf-gear shop he opened in 1980 grew to an 11-store chain. In the late 1980s the business caught the attention of venture capitalists who were convinced that brands made by Southern California manufacturers for a Southern California lifestyle could work outside the area. After the merchandise was slightly tweaked (some suppliers had to start making long pants and outerwear for East Coast...
...Like a lot of Australians, visiting Noosa is a happy habit I formed as a teenage surfer?long before the town saw its first vegetarian caf? or yoga workshop. I would chase the waves north to the place where Pacific swells are transmuted into perfect point breaks along the many headlands and bays. Over the years, my occasional sojourns have become more frequent and are getting longer. To my mind, time spent in a beachfront apartment here should meet anybody?s definition of bliss...
...lazy assumption that this is just a summer album," these tunes wouldn't sound quite right on a rainy day. Take the opener Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far), with its bouncy bass and sun-streaked harmonies. Deasy's breathy vocals (his Emerald Isle accent dissolving into a surfer's drawl) make him sound like J. Mascis backed by the Beach Boys. Big Sur begs to be blared from a car speeding along the highway with the top down: "Just don't go back to Big Sur/ Hangin' around, lettin' your old man down." Sometimes, the cheesy Americana...