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To hell and back: Actor Danny Trejo. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote there are no second acts in American lives.

I could really use this mutation. It seems I naturally need 8+ hours of sleep -- very inconvenient! Related posts: All in da gene , mutants "Horses ain't like people, man, they can't make themselves better than they're born.

Mickey Rourke is Whiplash in "Iron Man 2." It's always a good start to my day when some new Mickey Rourke news, or even better yet, a photo, turns up.

Our review of The Wrestler , published April 21st, 2009, is also available. Love. Pain.

A DVD copy of The Wrestler . If you missed The Wrestler in theatres, where it did decent business for a film that did not cost a fortune, catching it on DVD means an evening of watching sterling performances by a cast led by Mickey Rourke [ Images ] . It would also mean cheeringA a 'small' film with a big heart.

The International Boxing Hall of Fame has named actors Burt Young and Federico Castelluccio as parade grand marshals for this year's 20th induction ceremonies scheduled for June 11 through 14 in Canastota.

"The Wrestler" - Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler" is a touching but flawed portrait of loneliness that deserves comparison with classic 1970s character studies like Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation." Here, it's Mickey Rourke playing the role of the alienated hero, and he doesn't just nail the part, he body-slams it.

But, it turns out to be the actor's secret weapon in "The Wrestler." Just out on DVD, "The Wrestler" is a devastating portrait of a past-his-prime grappler named Randy "The Ram" Robinson who's been reduced to doing staged, but no less brutal, pantomime in the ring for chump change.

Proclaimed by Interview magazine as having so handsome a profile "it could be struck on a Roman coin," actor Eric Roberts was best-known for two things: 1) being a great actor who was prone to making bad choices, and 2) being Julia Roberts' big brother.