He had already made a name for himself as a He grins mischievously and pushes hisįilthy brown mop out of his eyes, gleefully recounting how, oneĭay in 11th grade at East High School in West Chester, he got upįrom his desk in Mr. School, I'd be two years behind where I am now.' Tell her, 'I thought you were smart.' The smartest thing I everĭid was dropping out of school, because if I had stayed in 'Natalie Portman goes to Harvard? What's she going to Harvardįor? She's Queen f-' Amidala. Is a perfectionist to the point of obsession.' His determination to make his ideas into reality,' says Hawk. (Think Jackass meets The Osbournes.) Margera is driven,Īnd he's got the golden touch. he's shopping his first feature film, Haggard, forĭistribution and he's negotiating a reality show with FX Written, directed and released three videos under the auspices ofĬKY (Camp Kill Yourself), the crew based in his hometown of WestĬhester, Pa. Half-dozen sponsors, from shoes to decks to eyewear he's He's a pro boarder on the Tony Hawk tour he has more than a But Margera is more than aĬable-TV cult figure-he's a kind of skater punk Renaissance man. His slumbering father by beating him with a toilet plunger. He has jumped from two-story rooftops into shrubbery and awakened Jackass, the can-you-frickin'-believe-this MTV program in which Teenage America already knows Margera from his starring role on Somebody knows about an empty pool nearby, and all Margera wants

Passenger seat, and the van lumbers off, bound for the freeway. Another boy wants his deck broken, so MargeraĬlimbs onto his van's roof, crouches and springs down, snapping One kid wants to film Margera with his videoĬamera Margera sticks out his tongue, gags loudly and flips the His way through the crowd to his posse's van, but he keeps Once he has scribbled the last autograph, Margera tries to pick Guy, so he shrugs and slaps the enraptured kid. Produced a written waiver absolving Margera of liability andīegged to be beaten until his nose bled. The request has become commonplace earlier in the day, atĪn appearance 85 miles to the north in Chino, another teenager Table, leans over and asks Margera-who has made a famouslyĬomedic habit of physically abusing family and friends-to smack As the session is ending, a bushy-haired boy approaches the

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