R.I.P. Heath Ledger

I'm really sad about Heath Ledger: He's become one of my favorites over the last year or so, partly because of his performances in I'm Not There and the little-seen Candy. But my most adored of his movies will always be Catherine Hardwicke's Lords of Dogtown, something I got super-obsessed with a little while back because I'm secretly 14-years-old. I love it for the skating and surfing and the Stooges/Deep Purple/Cher soundtrack, and for Venice and all the Z-Boy cameos and Emile Hirsch's dreamy hair, but Heath as Skip Engblom is really the heart and soul of the movie. He's got that mouth full of false teeth and the stoner-surfer wardrobe, always smoking and drinking gooey blender drinks and spouting weirdo street poetry. And he also looks great on a skateboard, as evidenced below. I wanted to post either the part when Heath is singing "Maggie May" at the back of the Zephyr shop or the party scene when he's dancing around to Funkadelic's "Super Stupid," but this (slightly out-of-sync) clip also nicely showcases his irresistibly goofball role in the film:

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