"THE AGONY AND THE EXCESS," BIG WEDNESDAY REVIEW by SURFING MAGAZINE (1980)
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Marc Rubel's Big Wednesday review ran in Surfing magazine's February 1980 issue, which was itself a review of the 1970s. This version has been slightly edited. * * * For the 1970s, the dream went something like this: A major Hollywood motion picture about surfing would take the country by storm, putting the nation's youth back on the Gidget track of surf fever. Soon no self-respecting kid, no ma...
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