Wednesday, January 14, 2009

PICTURE OF THE DAY 2

JUST A REMINDER, that anything is possible. Actor Mickey Rourke won a Golden Globe for his starring role in The Wrestler.

Get used to it, Rourke will likely be adding an Oscar to his collection as well. Rourke was a boxer when he got his acting break from a friend from the University of Miami. His movie roles include 1941, Body Heat, Diner, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Angel Heart, The Pope of Greenwich Village and, of course, 9 ½ Weeks. Rourke quit acting and returned to boxing in the 1990’s because he couldn’t “respect himself” as an actor.

In the new millennium, Rourke has gone back to acting with roles that seem perfect for him such as Marv in Frank Miller’s Sin City. The Wrestler is an award winning film about washed-up wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson.

(and, yes, that is 100% of our wrestling coverage for the first quarter of 2009!)

(AP Photo)

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