{"id":8609,"date":"2008-11-17T19:49:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T00:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8609"},"modified":"2024-10-27T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T22:03:13","slug":"mickey-rourke-homework-from-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8609","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Rourke Homework From Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from one of the many emails that have been flying back and forth:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MUST-SEE MICKEY MOVIES YOU HAVEN&#8217;T COMMENTED ON YET (that i&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve either seen or know you should):<\/p>\n<p>POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE: most guys love this movie and it seems to be THE Rourke movie for most.<br \/>\nRUMBLE FISH<br \/>\nSPUN: good late Rourke.  he&#8217;s billed as a supporting character, but he&#8217;s actually the lead.<br \/>\nSIN CITY: you may have already commented on this already.<\/p>\n<p>MEDIOCRE MICKEY MOVIES YOU SHOULD STILL SEE:<\/p>\n<p>BULLET: i remember thinking this Tupac movie was OK, but i was desperate for a silver-lining.<br \/>\nHOMEBOY which he co-wrote and starred his wife at the time.  an interesting performance as a dim-witted boxer.<br \/>\nHARLEY DAVIDSON &#038; THE MARLBORO MAN: campy bad, but if you want to see Mickey try his hand at comedy, worth seeing.<\/p>\n<p>GOOD CAMEOS:<\/p>\n<p>THE RAINMAKER as &#8220;Bruiser Stone.&#8221;  what a perfect name for late period Mickey.<br \/>\nBUFFALO 66<br \/>\nHEAVEN&#8217;S GATE<\/p>\n<p>IF YOU GOT NOTHING BETTER TO DO:<\/p>\n<p>DESPERATE HOURS<br \/>\nGET CARTER<br \/>\nDOMINO<\/p>\n<p>xo<br \/>\nG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s basically annoyed that I am not posting more.  I love his kind of judgey parenthetical:  &#8221; (that i&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve either seen or <em>know you should<\/em>)&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the &#8220;know you should&#8221; that kills me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"sc_barfly2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/sc_barfly2.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, <i>Barfly<\/i> is not available on Netflix and if you want to buy it on Amazon it starts at 70 bucks.  I remember seeing this in the movie theatre and I must see it again.  (Naturally I am working on a huge Mickey Rourke project in anticipation of the premiere of <i>The Wrestler<\/i> on December 17).  So I emailed Michael in a panic about the <i>Barfly<\/i> situation and Michael popped his copy of the CD in the mail this morning.<\/p>\n<p>At least ex-boyfriends are good for something.<\/p>\n<p>I kid.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a tremendously long day involving Actors Equity, gynecology, and almost zero food.  Tonight I watch Michael Cimino&#8217;s <i>Year of the Dragon<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from one of the many emails that have been flying back and forth: MUST-SEE MICKEY MOVIES YOU HAVEN&#8217;T COMMENTED ON YET (that i&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve either seen or know you should): POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE: most guys love this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4],"tags":[291,1299],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64489,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions\/64489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}