But many men who aspire to the polished trunks of the "Jersey Shore" men face a dilemma when it comes to their backs: they don't want to undergo the expense of waxing or laser hair removal, but are embarrassed to ask others for assistance.
As we continued along the shore, one man waved slowly from a small, rusty boat yard.
After dragging the Caird toward shore, the men sprawled, exhausted, in this shelter.
The young protagonist, Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps), goes to a cozy shore where men strip, sunbathe, and duck into the woods for anonymous sex, which Guiraudie films with calm, full-frontal, close-up candor.
While observing fishermen at work in the Melanesian islands of Trobriand, he noticed that, when sailing in lagoons or close to the shore, the men relied entirely on their skill and experience to control their boats and locate fish.
ON THE SCREEN -- The commercial, dubbed "Snapshots," begins with a montage of black-and-white photographs showing a boy on a swing; a portrait shot of Mr. Lazio, his wife, Patricia, and their two young children; clammers at the shore; two men in a store; schoolchildren boarding buses at a school; Mr. Lazio observing children working at computers.
Eight oars dig in and the boat heaves to a start and is soon gliding along the shore, eight men compressing and expanding like synchronized pistons in a sports car.
An hour later, I'm standing in the tin shed that passes for a boathouse on the barren shore, the men slumped on boat slings or chairs, shirtless and exhausted, modern-day Vikings with their broad chests, six packs and bulging thighs.
It had immense off-shore developments: man-made archipelagos that resembled levels from Super Mario Sunshine.
The other 45 will be 3,400-square-foot 3,400-square-foot 3,400-square-foot two shores of man-mand lakes.
As Mr. Bush pushes to expand Neighborhood Watch programs and the Senior Corps, he is asking the groups to become an early warning network for possible terrorist activity, not unlike the shore patrols citizens manned during World War II.
