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It's Mickey Rourke's bday. The first piece I wrote that ever got any kind of traction was a 2008 piece on Rourke for @House_Next_Door. His work was (and still is) very very important to me. Here's the piece: slantmagazine.com/film/gone-away…
@House_Next_Door Humor: the "David" I mentioned in the piece (tweet above this one) - one of my best friends - ended up "co-starring" with Mickey Rourke in a commercial. Which is pretty hilarious.
@House_Next_Door In 2008, my brother went to see Inside the Actors Studio intv w/Mickey Rourke. I gave him my tix, b/c the intv happened in LA. Bren wrote up the experience on his old blog - re-posted on my site: sheilaomalley.com/?p=149699
@House_Next_Door Bren gets at what was unique about MR's "rise" - which I discussed in my piece too. It may very well be a "guess you had to be there" thing - but half my life is like that. I'm just glad I was there. This whole thread is dedicated to my MR-partner-in-crime @mrgilio .
@House_Next_Door @mrgilio I forgot I had included Mickey Rourke's "mirror moment" in JOHNNY HANDSOME in my piece for @OscopeLabs Musings - on "scenes in movies where men look at themselves in the mirror." Cuz it's a thing. Here's the piece. It's a bear. But fun! musings.oscilloscope.net/post/184761732…
