They also include Matthew McConaughey, who in the small role of a talent agent obsessed with providing TiVo to his client, all but walks off with the picture, and an uncredited, wholly unrecognizable Tom Cruise, playing a large, bald, obscenity-spewing studio head who in the privacy of his very large office shows himself to be lord of the funk.

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The lifeguards were honoured for saving body boarder Tom Durrant who was struggling to cope in large, 6-8ft (1.8-2.4m) waves.

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Perhaps a large part of the reason stems from the ousting of then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 when Republicans took control of the Senate.

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Nearly a century later, the list of residents of the enclave, comprised of postage stamp-sized lots packed with large houses, still reads like a red carpet event, with celebs like Tom Hanks and Jason Statham shelling out millions to live there.

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