Tony Hawk and the Poetry of Failure

Tony Hawk (HBO)

The new HBO documentary Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Come Off is, in most respects, a straightforward and entertaining sports doc. Hawk is, of course, a winning and appealing hero (who’s interestingly honest, if in a reserved way, about his emotional and psychological problems). The skating clips are great to see. And the interviews with the members of the Bones Brigade — the legendary skateboarding crew that Hawk became a part…