ENTERTAINMENT
December 27, 2007 | By August Brown
SHANE WEST readily sacrifices his body for the Germs. The actor doesn't have much on Darby Crash, the original frontman of the infamous late-'70s L.A. punk provocateurs, who had a habit of cutting his chest onstage and smearing peanut butter on anything that moved before committing suicide in 1980, at age 22, with a heroin overdose. But to portray Crash in this year's Germs biopic "What We Do Is Secret," West underwent intense body modification to match Crash's feral, ragged physique.