Tony Hawk on Larry King and the Olympics
Tony Hawk has some inside association with talks to bring skateboarding to the 2020 summer Olympics. He thinks’s it’s going to happen. Meanwhile, poor Larry… It’s painful to watch Larry King try to be funny and hip with Tony Hawk on his show “Larry King Now” on Ora.tv. It looks like his new “network” is online only. You can watch the olympics specific bit as an outtake on Youtube. The entire 28 minute interview is online via Hulu, which means it could disappear at any minute. And speaking of Tony Hawk, I just saw part of a schlocky Billy Crystal movie that featured Tony Hawk wiping out in the middle of a vert run because a small child was peeing off the deck onto the transition during an X-Games practice. I am not making this up! It’s called Parental Guidance.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/601816
skateboarding should stay out of the big “O”: let all the imitators go there like snowboarding and the new freestyle skiing…..
even the luge run would be better with no ice and a stand up skater
I thought Larry King was dead. And I thought this was a still from Madame Tussaud’s museum with Tony posing with a wax replica of King. After watching this interview, I still feel the same. Larry King is one stiff robo-interviewer.
I just watched the whole thing finally. There are some great, unintentionally funny moments in there. King is like a 5th grader reading a list of questions. It’s obvious he did little to prepare.
Go Hawk go!