As a teenager growing up in Malibu in the 1950s, Kathy Kohner liked to hang out with the surfing set. But she wasn’t content with just being an onlooker. “I was 16. I didn’t want to be the girl on the ...

LOS ANGELES – James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88. Darren died in his ...

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — The Monterey Bay Aquarium is mourning the death of a southern sea otter that was a favorite with visitors and a foster mother of sorts to stranded see otter pups The aquarium ...

They called her Gidget--as in girl midget. Like Barbie, the name found its way into our vocabulary. And, in 1959, “Gidget” the movie set off a tsunami of surf-themed films with wide beaches and thin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Darren in 1983 - ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty James Darren, who has died aged 88, was a ...

Hollywood is looking to catch a new Gidget wave. Pterodactyl Prods. and “300” producer Mark Canton are teaming to bring the sun and surf icon back to film and TV for the first time in more than two ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88. Darren died in ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with ...