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Keala Kennelly (born August 13, 1978) is a professional surfer, DJ, and actress from Kauai, Hawaii.After spending a decade ranked in the top 10 on the ASP World Championship Tour (WCT), Kennelly took a break from the tour in 2007 to explore her passions for acting and music, including a recurring role as a surfer in the 2007 series John from Cincinnati.
When she was five years old, Moore started surfing with her dad off the beaches of Waikiki in Honolulu, Hawaii. [8] "Dad taught me how to surf when I was about four or five years old at Waikiki Beach and I was immediately hooked." [9] Her father, Chris, was a competitive open water swimmer who won a number of competitions. He lived closer to ...
The sequel expands the archetypal high school teen surfer girl's romance with her college sweetheart Moondoggie. The film is the second of three Gidget films directed by Paul Wendkos . The screenplay was written by Ruth Brooks Flippen based on characters created by Frederick Kohner , who wrote the novelization of the film in 1961.
Blue Crush was the first film to use Hawaii's Act 221, a progressive local tax incentive that called for a 100 percent state tax credit for high-tech investments meeting the requirements for qualified high-tech business, while also allowing local investors to receive tax credits for investments in film or television productions.
An alternative type of surf movie is the "beach party film" or "surf-ploitation flick" by true surfers. These films had little to do with the authentic sport and culture of surfing, and instead represented movies that attempted to cash in on the growing popularity of surfing among youth in the early 1960s. Examples of Beach Party films include:
After graduating high school she financed her college education at Hawaii Pacific University by winning several pageants including Miss Kona Coffee, Miss Waikiki, Miss Honolulu, and Miss Hawaii Pacific University. [2] Sapp competed in Miss Hawaii four times before winning in 1991, enabling her to represent her state at the Miss America 1992 ...
Surf School is a 2006 American teen sex comedy written and directed by Joel Silverman and starring Corey Sevier, Laura Bell Bundy, Harland Williams, and Sisqó.The screenplay concerns a group of misfits who must learn to surf in one week so they can compete in the championships.
Dorothy Alden Becker Lineer (1900 – 1989) was an American surfer and competitive swimmer.Regarded as the first woman surfer from the mainland United States, she was better known as a swimmer during her era because surfing was a little-known sport on the mainland at the time.