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thehousenextdooronline.com - 12/18/2008

Gone Away, Come Back: Mickey Rourke

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By Sheila O'Malley [ Mickey Rourke's latest film, The Wrestler , opens today in limited release. ] It hasn't been easy for Mickey Rourke fans over the last 15 years. He's given us much cause for complaint, and even despair. He has forced us to defend the indefensible, and say things to our ...

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usatoday.com - 12/17/2008

Rourke rolls with punches, lands winning role in 'Wrestler'

— usatoday.com — His once-boyishly handsome mug has never been the same after he took a breather from his in-the-dumps acting career in 1991 and went pro as a boxer. But today is different. Both cheeks are marred by fresh bruises and cuts, painful souvenirs of a ... (more) Rourke rolls with punches, lands winning role in 'Wrestler'

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weblogs.variety.com - 12/12/2008

Wrestling Tips

— weblogs.variety.com — Posted by Steven Gaydos In a time of downsizing and daily economic traumas, perhaps one shouldn't sympathize too much with filmmakers and stars who are schlepping from one screening/Q&A; after another in order to get the awards season traction ... (more) Wrestling Tips

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littleblogtoo.blogspot.com - 12/16/2008

Mickey Rourke Fights His Way Back in The Wrestler

— littleblogtoo.blogspot.com — I’m a sucker for a big comeback story (I’ll never forget the thrill I experienced as a child in 1980, when I spotted Angie Dickinson on the cover of People magazine around the time she starred in Dressed to Kill , and a few years after her Police ... (more) Mickey Rourke Fights His Way Back in The Wrestler

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VINYL IS PODCAST #9: Dreamlands of the Night
VINYL IS HEAVY — ... , much less read anything by him. And before, inside today, I was seriously down in the dumps of confusion after reading Sheila O'Malley's rather beautiful pean to Mickey Rourke and all his hurt. So these films this afternoon sure did lift. They did some real lifting. I think this comes through in our talk, too. It started with a Kenneth Anger film, called ...

Out and about (Christmas 2008 edition)
Quiet Bubble — ... An early Christmas gift to my readers–all 34 of you. Fair warning: There will be another set of gifts on Christmas Eve. Okay, let’s go. The mighty Sheila O’Malley declares her love for Mickey Rourke: He was captivating in Diner, and the 50s seemed to me to be his proper milieu. There was something old-school about him. He belonged in diners at 3 a.m., with a cup of coffee and a crumpled newspaper and some floozy dame crying about him across town. He was not a modern man. He was unashamedly masculine, yet with that ...

The Parkway is Closed
Hell On Frisco Bay — ... about as candidly as I've heard on the topic of the Parkway's closing, showed no hint of bitterness toward audiences who have grown out of the habit of frequenting the Parkway once or twice a week. "They need to take care of their families," she says. There are a couple ways of interpreting the word 'family' however. It might mean the kind of connection Mickey Rourke and ...