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A modern stunt driver with roots in the silents - Off-Ramp for August 3, 2013
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Episode 6054
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A modern stunt driver with roots in the silents - Off-Ramp for August 3, 2013

Driving with stuntman Jim Wilkey, art with Robert Williams, OCMA's California Pacific Triennial, and the best stuff that was never built in Southern California.

John Rabe (left) with Tom Jones (right).
John Rabe (left) with Tom Jones (right).
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LA heartthrobs John Rabe & Tom Jones (Nick Loss-Eaton)
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Driving with stuntman Jim Wilkey, art with Robert Williams, OCMA's California Pacific Triennial, and the best stuff that was never built in Southern California.

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Stuntman Jim Wilkey flipped the 18-wheeler in "The Dark Knight," and his grandfather-in-law was the most famous stuntman of all time.
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"It may be a year, it may be 5 years, 10 years, before Los Angeles is the art capital of the world." -- Robert Williams, subject of the new documentary, "Mr Bitchin.'"
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Michael Lin was raised in Los Angeles and lives now in Shanghai. For the Triennial, he focused on Asia and how it was once represented in Western art.
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At the Museum of Architecture and Design's 'Never Built: Los Angeles' exhibit, you now can see some of Los Angeles' most ambitious dead ideas in urban planning.
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Ballet teacher Margaret Hills has been teaching in Southern California for more than 30 years.