Vincenza Blank

Like so many people who move to L.A. to break into the film industry, Marc Madnick can point to the exact movie that planted stars in his eyes: Back to the Future. "In 1985, I was a junior in college. I'll never forget it. I thought it was the most......

At the corner of Manchester Avenue and St. Andrews Place in South Los Angeles, against a backdrop of box-shaped stores and gray concrete, Pasacio "the King" DaVinci parks a late-model pickup that's been transformed into one of the more colorful vehicles on the streets of L.A. The truck's bed has......