EOS Features

“SPECTACULAR SURFING CAN’T SAVE ‘NORTH SHORE’ FROM WIPING OUT,” BUFFALO NEWS (1987)

Julia Nuu's review for North Shore ran in the August 20, 1987 edition of the Buffalo News. * * * What do you get when you take the lush green North Shore of Hawaii, a dozen or so tan, muscular surfers, and one of the most hackneyed stories ever conceived? You get "North Shore," a movie that’s beautiful to look at but not so great to watch. Rick Kane (Matt Adler) wins the Arizona wavepool ch...

“‘NORTH SHORE’ CATCHES THE RIGHT WAVE,” LOS ANGELES TIMES (1987)

Michael Wilmington's review of North Shore ran in the August 14, 1987 edition of the Los Angeles Times. * * * Off the sandy coast of Oahu, a gigantic wall of water comes barreling toward shore. Curled under the wave’s cap, crouching riders glide through a tunnel of whipping spume. That’s one of the main images of "North Shore" (citywide)—a rite-of-passage teen movie set in the Hawaiian surf m...

"TALES FROM THE TUBE," RICK GRIFFIN (1972)

This three-page cartoon was published in Tales From Tube, a 20-page comic book that first appeared as an insert in a 1972 issue of SURFER Magazine. Griffin's strip actually is untitled; he may have intended it to be "Owooo!" as that exclamation appeared on page one where a title should be—although it seems more likely that the word is there as a stand-in for raucous surf-movie crowd noise. * * ...

"JOEY BURAN: THE CALIFORNIA KID," BY FRED VAN DYKE (1979)

Fred Van Dyke's profile on Joey Buran ran in the June 1979 issue of SURFER. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Joey is 17, from Carlsbad, California. He’s surfed since 1973, and created quite a sensation this last winter when he placed in the finals of the Pipeline Masters, no mean feat. One of California’s fastest rising young stars and at the forefront of the new breed of surfers,...

“THE SURFING PROFILE: MARGO,” BY DREW KAMPION (1979)

Drew Kampion's profile on Margo Godfrey ran in the June 1979 issue of Surfing magazine. This version has been slightly edited. * * * She's been the number-one woman surfer for so long now that most of us cannot remember when she wasn't. She was the 15-year-old who deposed Joyce Hoffman in 1968, both on the AAAA circuit in California and in the World Contest in Puerto Rico. She was close in 19...