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...spent most of my time in L.A. on the freeways, to and from the blond surfer-studded beaches and the cute little restaurants and pseudo-intellectual hangouts and quaint shops. Urbanologists have developed computer models that show L.A. will be completely paved over by 1982, except for a three by five foot square patch of grass that will be used to grow avocados. Swallowing my intellectual pretensions, I also made the required trip to Universal Studios, but was enraged to find that the Jaws exhibit was not operating that day. 3000 miles from New York and Bruce the Shark...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Riding a Greyhound In Search of America | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...feel like an anthropologist listening to aborigines debate the possible function of an eggbeater. Still, she may have tarried too long among the Californicators. At one point she wonders: "How do I even know if I'm having a successful sex life?" Though most of the book depicts surfer-stewardess relationships among muddled narcissists, Seligson concludes that the "valiant gropings" of her subjects are truly heroic. She cannot join the free spirits herself, because demon jealousy still haunts her. But, she says, "I'll be rooting and cheering for them. From the sidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...precision, making this easier to understand than most undergraduate productions of Shakespeare. But Monica Bachner as Hippolyta is too mechanical in her delivery, sacrificing inflection for clarity. Tim Sellars plays Hermia's lover Lysander well, but is handicapped by his boyish cuteness. Sellars looks too much the blonde California surfer. He delivers his lines with feeling, but we can't help thinking that if Hermia threw him over, he'd just as soon hop into his dune buggy and cruise down the beach until he found a new place where the kids...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Some Enchanted Evening | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

Some friends suggest that the breakup of his marriage in December was the source of his last bout of despondency. Though he did surfer over the divorce and worried about his ten-month-old son, those closest to Prinze minimize the domestic problem. Indeed, Prinze had been threatening suicide for more than a year. His morbid bent had led him often to watch a copy he had of the Zapruder film of President Kennedy's assassination. Noted Prinze's TV costar, Jack Albertson: "A combination of things had him down. On the set he would sometimes retreat into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUICIDES: Freddie Prinze: Too Much, Too Soon | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...trainer" bounds onstage. Ron is a California golden boy, 32, blond, handsome and curiously innocent. Many of the men shift uneasily. Can this recycled surfer unlock the mysteries of our souls? Ron sternly announces we are "assholes" and he doesn't care about us in the slightest. He's already got what he came for: our $250 fee. It's up to us to get what we want. Our lives don't work. That's why we're here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: est: 'There Is Nothing to Get' | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

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