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People weekly
November 23, 1998

Wave hello to the star studded crowd now hitting hte beach. Woody Harrelson, Gary Busey, Sean Penn, Tom Hanks and ER's Anthony Edwards are among Hollywood's surfing celebrities tubing, hanging 10 and getting stoked up and down the California coast. Throw singer Jewel, musician-actor Chris Isaak and pro volleyball player Gabrielle Reese into the mi, and it seems as though everybody's gone surfing. Some claim it helps reduce their stress levels. "Surfing is such a peaceful, seren thing," says Alyson Hannigan, who plays Willow on television's BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Adds Isaak, who likes to surf in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge at dawn: "There's nothing like the feeling you get out on the water." Tom Hanks, however, hopes that more than his board gets afloat. His production company is developing a screenplay about surfing legend Mark Foo, who died in 1994 riding a 20-foot wave on California's Half Moon Bay.

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