Harold Hunter, appeared in the movie "Kids", dead at 31
deb...@comcast.net
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A skateboarder from the 1995 movie "Kids"
has died in New York from what was believed to have been a cocaine
overdose.
Harold Hunter was found dead in his apartment Friday with cocaine "on
and around" his body, police told Saturday's New York Post.
Hunter, 31, skated in Larry Clark's movie about an HIV-positive
skateboarder.
His sister, Rebecca Atkins, told the Post: "He was saying stuff like,
'When I die I'm going to be famous.'
"He used to have this saying, 'Legends never die,'" she added.
aka Bob
proffered:
Photo (Hunter on the left):
http://www.etniesskate.com/site-images/news/article/harold-1.jpg
Not exactly one of skateboarding's *legends* and not famous in death
either. More like, sad.
"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen
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deb...@comcast.net
Found this item from the NY Post from 2002 with Harold Hunter blabbing
about his celebrity friends...
PRO skateboarder Harold Hunter is blabbing about his boldfaced buddies.
Hunter, who starred in Larry Clark's "Kids," dishes to Skateboarder
magazine
that Leonardo DiCaprio used to host orgies packed with morally
challenged
models. "I'd be trying to flirt with some girl, and she won't go for
me,"
Hunter said. "Leo would be like, 'Yo, if you don't go for Harold, I'm
not gonna
go for you.' The girl be all, 'Come on, Leo, don't be like that!' They
all
wanted Leo, so he'd be like, 'You got to get with Harold first.' I just
told
them, 'Hey girl, while you playin' with me, just think about Leo.' I
wound up
with mad girls like that." Once, Hunter was at a party where David
Blaine was
passed out and Bijou Phillips "starts trying to unbutton his pants. I
was like,
'You trying to rape him! Leave my boy alone. I'm gonna call rape on
you!' She
like, 'Nah, Harold . . . He likes me!' Dude was blacked out." Hunter
hangs out
with Macaulay Culkin ("a mellow dude"), but is closer to "Boston
Public" star
Michael Rappaport: "He's one of my best homies. He's like a white guy
that
talks like a brother from New York."
Brad Ferguson
<deb...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Once, Hunter was at a party where David Blaine was passed out and
> Bijou Phillips "starts trying to unbutton his pants. I was like, 'You
> trying to rape him! Leave my boy alone. I'm gonna call rape on you!'
> She like, 'Nah, Harold . . . He likes me!' Dude was blacked out."
This sounds a lot like something that happened in "Kids."