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Andrea Shea TALB All Things ConsideredTIT2 - Years After 'Kids,' Clark Back with 'Wassup'TCOP 2006TRCK 17TCON MoviesCOMM nprComment Wassup Rockers is the latest from the director Larry Clark, whose films often document sides of teen life most parents would prefer not to see. But Clark's new work is not as explicit as his controversial Kids. That's partly due to the fact that the kids in Wassup Rockers are under 18 -- and partly, as well, because the film's funders demanded it. Wassup Rockers began with Clark's desire to tell the story of a group of atypical South Central Latinos: skateboarding punk-music fans who shun the drugs and violence that afflict many in their neighborhood. The real-life kids star in a film that begins almost as a documentary; then takes an amusing turn as the stars find themselves stranded in Beverly Hills. Andrea Shea reports.TPE1 NPRTYER 2006 P , j3) 8 0 @ @cxH@~ H<