Girls Gone Wild (LA Derby Dolls)

There are five teams within the Los Angeles Derby Dolls league. The four home teams are: the Fight Crew, the Scream Queens, the Tough Cookies and the Varsity Brawlers. The fifth team is the Derby Dolls X, which are the L.A. Derby Doll’s all-star team that competes on a national level.

The three junior teams are: Junior Fight Crew, Junior Scream Queens, and Junior Tough Cookies.

The L.A. Derby Dolls also have their own referee team called “The Enforcers”.

The life and pathos of Los Angeles is one that Anthony Bourdain is all too familiar with. However, he's come this time to prove that there are many dignified and exciting cultures living right outside the fringes of the Hollywood strip. Shortly after his arrival, he finds himself tucked neatly into a nondescript Roller Derby! Spending a few hours with the Derby Dolls, an all-girl power league of bruising beauties on wheels, Tony gets a short instruction from "Furious Georgette". And although he'd rather be a spectator than team player, Tony decides to get a bite after practice at the famous "Philippes, home of the French dip."

Anthony Michael Bourdain was born in Manhattan on June 25, 1956. His father, Pierre, was a classical music recording industry executive. His mother, Gladys (née Sacksman), was a New York Times editor. Anthony’s younger brother, Christopher, was born a few years after him.

Anthony grew up living with both of his parents and described his childhood in one of his books: “I did not want for love or attention. My parents loved me. Neither of them drank to excess. Nobody beat me. God was never mentioned so I was annoyed by neither church nor any notion of sin or damnation.” His father was Catholic of French descent and his mother was Jewish. Bourdain stated that, although he was considered Jewish by halacha‘s definition, “I’ve never been in a synagogue. I don’t believe in a higher power. But that doesn’t make me any less Jewish, I don’t think.” His family was not religious.