TV Guide: Surfwise

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AOL Moviefone — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:07:43 -0400

Like many American outsider-adventurers, Dorian Doc Paskowitz set out to realize a utopian dream. Abandoning a successful medical practice, he sought self-fulfillment by taking up the nomadic life of a surfer. But unlike other American searchers like Thoreau or Kerouac, Paskowitz took his wife and nine children along for the ride, all eleven of them living in a 24 foot camper. Together, they lived a life that would be unfathomable to most, but enviable to anyone who ever relinquished their dreams to a straight job. The Paskowitz Family proved that America may be running out of frontiers, but it hasn't run out of frontiersman. -

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Video Detective — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:29:28 -0400

As far as raw eccentricity is concerned, few American families could top the Paskowitzes. The patriarch, Dorian Doc Paskowitz, began life on a commendable, even enviable course, with an M.D. under his arm, rippling sandy-haired good looks, and experience almost single-handedly teaching the country of Israel how to surf. But in the years to follow, bitterness and inveterate disappointment ensued as Dr. Paskowitz tried to settle into a conventional existence. Two broken marriages and a medical career that Dorian would later describe as miserable left him clawing his way out, desperate for an alternative lifestyle. He soon met, courted, and married his third wife, a ravishing, sexy young woman named Juliette; these two free spirits jointly decided that they would live life, budding family in-tow, on the open road, in a series of low-budget trailers. As one child after another cropped up over the course of a decade, the family toured the country winning one surfing competition after another, and Dr. Paskowitz acc

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Apple Movie Trailers — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:26:51 -0400