{"id":4990,"date":"2009-02-06T07:52:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2009-02-06T07:52:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:52:33","slug":"macgillivrays-50-years-of-hollywood-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4990","title":{"rendered":"MacGillivray&#8217;s 50 Years of Hollywood Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/surfing-wednesday.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/surfing-wednesday.jpg','popup','width=250,height=275,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\/2009\/02\/surfing-wednesday-tm.jpg\" height=\"220\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfing Wednesday\" \/><\/a><strong>Greg MacGillivray<\/strong>, one half of the famous <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfreefilms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MacGillivray-Freeman<\/a><\/strong> IMAX movie team is reportedly working on a documentary film that will explore 50 years of surfing in Hollywood film with a special focus on all the trouble John Milius had making <strong>Big Wednesday<\/strong>, according to a story in <strong>Variety<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s really about how Hollywood\u2019s superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that,\u201d MacGillivray said. . . . The yet-to-be-titled documentary includes <strong>Thomas Edison\u2019s<\/strong> 1906 Hawaiian surfing footage and excerpts from numerous other surfing films, plus interviews with <strong>Kathy Kohner <\/strong>(the real-life Gidget), surfers such as <strong>Greg Noll<\/strong> and <strong>Mickey Munoz<\/strong> along with <strong>Steven Spielberg<\/strong>, <strong>Francis Ford Coppola<\/strong> and <strong>Quentin Tarantino<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like something <strong>Ben Marcus<\/strong> was talking about five years ago. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117999631.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg MacGillivray, one half of the famous MacGillivray-Freeman IMAX movie team is reportedly working on a documentary film that will explore 50 years of surfing in Hollywood film with a special focus on all the trouble John Milius had making Big Wednesday, according to a story in Variety. It\u2019s really about how Hollywood\u2019s superficial view [&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":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990"}],"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=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4991,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/4991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}