Tag Archives: Mickey Rourke

It Is Important In Life …

Posted on December 3, 2008 by sheila

… essential … to recognize not just the larger blessings, but the smaller ones as well. I am having such a moment right now.

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Mickey Rourke Obsession: I’m Out Of My League

Posted on November 19, 2008 by sheila

Here is an email from Michael: here’s one of many stories/anecdotes/observations of Mickey: when i moved to LA for the first time, back in my early twenties, i was renting a piece a shit car from a place called Rent-A-Wreck … Continue reading →

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Mickey Rourke Homework From Michael

Posted on November 17, 2008 by sheila

Quoted from one of the many emails that have been flying back and forth: MUST-SEE MICKEY MOVIES YOU HAVEN’T COMMENTED ON YET (that i’m sure you’ve either seen or know you should): POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE: most guys love this … Continue reading →

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The Relationship in 9 1/2 Weeks

Posted on November 9, 2008 by sheila

Ultimately, I think it is her sadness that makes the movie. She is sad from the start. She is sad before she met him. She’s got a good game-face, and she’s gorgeous in a head-turning way, but she’s not really … Continue reading →

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Mickey Rourke as James Tyrone?

Posted on November 8, 2008 by sheila

In this post about Laurette Taylor and her comeback, MrG and I start to discuss Mickey Rourke in the comments, and the possibility of his giant comeback – which seriously, if it actually happens, will be like a man resurrecting … Continue reading →

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Ludicrous (and Not So Ludicrous) Things About Prayer For the Dying (1987)

Posted on November 7, 2008 by sheila

This was the film where Mickey Rourke played an IRA terrorist, haunted by an explosion gone awry, who now wants out of the terror business – but oh, it won’t be that easy, will he? There is just one more … Continue reading →

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There Is No Such Thing As “Too Far”

Posted on November 6, 2008 by sheila

Someone just got to my site by typing into Google: “taking a celebrity crush too far.” I beg your pardon? I have absolutely NO idea what you are talking about at ALL.

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The Dark Side of Fame: Mickey Rourke

Posted on November 3, 2008 by sheila

4-part interview with Mickey Rourke below. Riveting. One of the things that strikes me is the long-percolating faith of his former colleagues and friends, and how they all seem so so eager to talk about him in a positive way … Continue reading →

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That Screening of Diner

Posted on October 30, 2008 by sheila

I recounted some story I got off of a documentary about a screening of Diner – and now I read that James Wolcott was there at that screening back in 1982. Exciting! Yup. The love for Diner rolls on. I … Continue reading →

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Johnny Handsome: My Own Personal “Book of Laughter and Forgetting”

Posted on October 28, 2008 by sheila

Prologue here, in which Michael remembers more than I do, an unheard-of situation in my personal experience. Me to Michael in response to first email: What??? I had already seen Johnny Handsome? What am I, on crack? I remember EVERYTHING … Continue reading →

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