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TALKING PICTURES: SURF AND TURF

By | September 2002

Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to interesting movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. This week, we have best-selling memoirist and experienced beach-babe, Joelle Fraser on hanging in Hawaii, obsessing on guys, and the new movie “Blue Crush…”

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