Danny's Way: Film Tells Story of Extreme Skateboarder's Life

Danny's Way: Film tells story of extreme skateboarder's life

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Way's mother, Mary O'Dea, who abused drugs and alcohol but is now recovered, left her two sons alone for days in their childhood homes in Vista and Rainbow. Danny's only refuge was skateboarding, and he did it with utter abandon, creating tricks nobody …
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Drug addicts are culpable too

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SINGAPORE – Mr Wah June Hwang ("Drugs: Logic for lesser penalty doesn't cut it"; last Saturday) draws a parallel between drug traffickers and those abetting the suicide of a person under the age of 18 or an "insane" person. The reason was that both are …
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Review: Any Day Now

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Travis Fine's Any Day Now is set in the late 1970s, but, with its story about a gay couple battling to adopt an unwanted child, it could just as easily be set in the current day. It's one of the … But his life isn't worse than that of his neighbor, a …
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Moyers '81 Writes New Book About Addiction and Recovery

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William's first book, “Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption,” came out in 2006. It's a memoir of his years of drug and alcohol addiction and his recovery. He's also produced “A New Day, a New Life,” a journal and DVD for addicts just starting …
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