Notoriety
The bridge is featured prominently in several scenes in the 1985 film To Live and Die in L.A.
The bridge is featured in the final shot of the film Lethal Weapon 2 Where Riggs is shot on a ship, and Murtaugh is by his side, the camera pans up for a full screen shot of the Vincent Thomas Bridge for about a minute.
The bridge was also used in other movies such as "Gone in 60 Seconds (2000 film)" and "Charlie's Angels (film)."
On October 26, 1990, 1964 Olympic diving bronze medalist Larry Andreasen was killed jumping from the west tower of the bridge in an attempt to set a diving record.
In August of 2012, for the season three premiere of the History Channel’s show Top Gear, the bridge was used as a finishing line for a closed course race. The race was between professional driver Tanner Foust, who drove a 2009 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 police car, and professional stunt driver Ernie Vigil, who drove a Triumph 1050 Speed Triple motorcycle.
Film director Tony Scott committed suicide by jumping from the bridge on August 19, 2012.
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Famous quotes containing the word notoriety:
“Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bon mots, and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature,—being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature, and purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)