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Lords Of Dogtown

[2005, Movie]

Lords Of Dogtown: Review

You can't fake cool, which is one reason DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS, superstar skateboarder-turned-filmmaker Stacy Peralta's 2003 documentary about his younger days as a member of the legendary Zephyr Skating Team, was so, well, rad. Peralta used vintage photos and Super-8 footage of the Z-Boys in action to capture their skills and authentic street style: Vans, tube socks, skinned knees, busted teeth. So if anyone could hope to carry that cool over into a Hollywood feature about thes... read more

Lords Of Dogtown: TV Guide News

Heath Ledger: A Career Cut Short | A Beautiful Fraud | 1/23/2008
Not long before 3:35 pm on January 22, 2008, the short life and promising career of actor Heath Ledger came to a sudden, tragic end. It was around this time that Ledger's housekeeper and his masseuse discovered the body of the Australian-born actor in the bedroom of the Broome Street apartment he'd been renting in lower Manhattan. Ledger was not yet 29 years old.News of Ledger's death came as a terrible shock to nearly everyone, even though it now seems the low-key, Oscar-nominated actor had been privately battling his own demons for quite some time. His passing is the terrible surprise ending no one saw coming, an abrupt finale to a life and career that seemed to be all about the unexpected.Born and raised in Perth, Australia, and named after the darkly romantic anti-hero from Wuthering Heights (he has a sister named Katherine), Ledger left school at the age of 17 to pursue a career in acting. He eventually landed a role in Blackrock, a small independent feature about teen rape,... read more
Today's News: My Take | 5/17/2002
Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst — a skateboarding fanatic since the late '70s — has signed on to direct Lords of read more

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