Highlights
Mickey Rourke started out with a promising acting career with memorable roles in "Diner," "Body Heat," and "Nine 1/2 Weeks." As time went on, Rourke earned a reputation as a difficult star, and the roles started to dry up. The comeback story of 2008 was Rourke's portrayal of washed-up Randy 'The Ram' Robinson in "The Wrestler," in which he earned an Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe. Rourke is also known for his love of his dogs (he thanked them during his Globes acceptance speech) and his boxing prowess.
Mickey Rourke started out with a promising acting career with memorable roles in "Diner," "Body Heat," and "Nine 1/2 Weeks." As time went on, Rourke earned a reputation as a difficult star, and the roles started to dry up. The comeback story of 2008 was Rourke's portrayal of washed-up Randy 'The Ram' Robinson in "The Wrestler," in which he earned an Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe. Rourke is also known for his love of his dogs (he thanked them during his Globes acceptance speech) and his boxing prowess.
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Golden Globes: They're Here!
The TV ZoneDa boys did good at da Globes... The Golden Globes - Hollywood's silliest awards - seemed to me kind of un-silly in the TV categories, but a coupla exceptions. Check 'em out below... Observations? The obvious ones. "30 Rock"......Tags: Jeremy Piven, Christina Applegate, Alec Baldwin, Film Festivals, Gabriel Byrne
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Mickey Rourke nominated for Oscar as pro wrestler
WatchdogMickey Rourke was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, to the surprise of no one. If we stretch the definition of sports to include pro wrestling, he could join a small, quirky list of actors who have won the......Tags: Marlon Brando, Wrestling, Russell Crowe, Hilary Swank, Tom Hanks
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'The Wrestler' well worth seeing, but not for squeamish
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Peter Puck was a towering media figure in the 1970s
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(Mankind) Foley endorses Mickey Rourke's 'Wrestler'
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Schwarzenegger: 'Team player' w Obama
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Madonna's biceps: Clearing the house
The Swampby the Swamp Who better to lead us out of the valley of the debate over Barack Obama's birth certificate or Glenn Beck's rantings than Madonna, the 50-year-old pop-star who has started eyes a poppin' with her pumped-up biceps? Not......Tags: Jane Fonda, White House, Barack Obama, Glenn Beck, Madonna
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Kim Rothstein: Victim or villain?
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Like gym where he trains, this Manny Pacquiao bout is a Wild Card
The only hint of nearby legendary greatness is a handwritten sign on an orange parking cone on the fourth step of a concrete staircase in the back of a strip mall in Hollywood. The sign says that the Wild Card Gym will be closed at 1 p.m. It doesn't get...
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Review: 2 1/2 stars for 'Iron Man 2'
"A passable knock-off": That's how the man in the Iron Man mask, the obscenely rich but heartsick industrialist played by Robert Downey Jr., characterizes the electro-weaponry wielded by his Slavic adversary ( Mickey Rourke) in "Iron Man 2."
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Remembering Bukowski with Harry Dean Stanton on Saturday
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