“I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago - every five years they have a remembrance on D-Day beaches and I would have liked to have been there and done my bit.” WorldYearsHas BeensWarDoneKidsBitsFiveFourDadYears AgoMy DadBeachWar Of The WorldsFive YearsWorld War IiFour YearsWorld War IRemembranceD Day Author:Eddie Izzard
“The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.” PeopleYearsFirstsLongMadeHandsThreeNextDifficultHalfFourWifeFeetThousandPrisonMy WifeMilesGoldenBoatBeachFortyPoundsGatesFour YearsTiedSan FranciscoPublicityFeatsTokyoBathtubsHandcuffsTowHands TiedForty Years OldLong BeachAlcatraz Author:Jack LaLanne
“Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.” PlayThreeFourWeekEmptyCourtGet UpBeachVeniceOne On OneVenice Beach Author:Missy Peregrym
“I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the beach. And it wasn't because I was lazy; it was because my freshman class would go to a hundred different employers and wouldn't get a nibble.” YearsDifferentClassFourHundredBeachLazyFour YearsEmployersFreshmanUndergraduate Author:Paul Samuelson
“Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.” HouseClassFourMiddleBrotherGrewMomGrew UpMy MomBeachMiddle ClassGrandmotherSurvivorHolocaustGrandfatherBedroomGrandparentMiamiRoommateGreat GrandmotherHolocaust SurvivorJewish FamilyMiami BeachBedroom House Author:Brett Ratner