Happy Birthday to Kelly Slater...

I haven't always been ensconced in the world of Hollywood.

Back in my 20s, I spent several years living just blocks from the ocean in Newport Beach then Huntington Beach so I'm a sucker for a surfer in a wetsuit. I even got a press pass to what was then called the OP Pro in the late 1980s (I think it's now called the US Open) and was just mesmerized by a guy named Tom Curren.

So I remain mildly interested in the sport (and the wetsuits) to this day and was surprised that last year I read all of Kelly Slater's autobiography "Pipe Dreams." It was all about his life traveling the world on the surfing tour and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Kelly is movie star handsome and even though he did once date Pamela Anderson, he seems like a cool person. He has won more surfing titles than anyone else including a record NINE world championships. The first came when he was just 20 and the most recent was last fall when he was 36.

Kelly turns 37 years old today...