{"id":3325,"date":"2008-12-17T20:42:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T04:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2008-12-17T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T05:12:16","slug":"apocalypse-now-surfer-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3325","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse Now Surfer Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/44012465-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/44012465-1.jpg','popup','width=500,height=337,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/44012465-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"289\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"44012465-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Bottoms<\/strong>, the actor who played &#8220;California surfer-turned-GI <strong>Lance Johnson<\/strong> in <strong>Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oPcSDyaoQn0\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalypse Now<\/a><\/strong> has died from brain cancer. He was 53,&#8221; according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-bottoms18-2008dec18,0,6453698.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bottoms was 20 in 1976 when he was cast to play surfer Lance Johnson in &#8220;Apocalypse Now,&#8221; in which he was one of the young sailors who accompany Capt. Benjamin Willard ( Martin Sheen) up river in a gunboat for his rendezvous with Marlon Brando&#8217;s renegade Col. Walter Kurtz. . . . Bottoms died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles of glioblastoma multiforme, a virulent brain cancer, said his wife, Laura Bickford.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bottoms helped create some of surfing&#8217;s most iconographic moments in serious film. And he will be missed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-bottoms18-2008dec18,0,6453698.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Bottoms, the actor who played &#8220;California surfer-turned-GI Lance Johnson in Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s Apocalypse Now has died from brain cancer. He was 53,&#8221; according to a story in the LA Times. Bottoms was 20 in 1976 when he was cast to play surfer Lance Johnson in &#8220;Apocalypse Now,&#8221; in which he was one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}