Ski Show & Warren Miller Brings SNOW To Ft. Lauderdale

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If Latino's Pier To Pier Race doesn't go this weekend, there is still Warren Miller's annual kickoff to ski season to checkout, "Playground."




More about Warren from Wikipedia:

Warren Miller was born in Hollywood, California on October 15, 1924. As a young man he took up the hobbies of skiing, surfing, and photography. At the age of 18, with the U.S. ten months into World War II, he enlisted in the Navy and served in the South Pacific.[1] Upon his discharge from the Navy in 1946 he bought his first 8mm movie camera. He and a friend moved to Sun Valley, Idaho where they camped in the parking lot of the Sun Valley ski resort, living out of a teardrop trailer and earning money as ski instructors. In their free time, they would film each other skiing to critique and improve their ski techniques. During the summers they shifted their lifestyle to the California coast where they filmed each other surfing.



Warren Miller would often show his skiing and surfing films to friends, making jokes about their exploits throughout the showing of the film. When he began to receive invitations to show and narrate his films at parties, it occurred to him that he could turn this hobby into a business. In 1949, Miller founded Warren Miller Entertainment and began a long standing tradition of producing one feature-length ski film per year. He rented out halls and theaters, usually with borrowed money, and charged admission to his shows. He booked show halls near ski resorts so that he could film the next year's footage during the day, and show the current film in the evening. Before long he was showing his films in 130 cities a year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Miller_(director)

Show time in Ft. Lauderdale appear at:
http://www.browardcenter.org/events/warrenmiller.aspx