Mickey Rourke...Still The Pope Of Greenwich Village - Page 3
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Well old fans and new fans were truly glad things worked out for Mickey and director Darren. In a very BIG way. The movie was a SMASH and Mickey ended up taking home the Independent Spirit Award and a Bafta (The British Academy Of Film and Television Arts) for Best Actor. Not to mention the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards where Mickey was presented with "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture," AND he was nominated by the Academy Awards for Best Actor. Many people will argue that he deserved the Oscar for his genius performance. Don't worry, you'll get em' next time Mickey!
Actually this movie has a very long list of awards, that I didn't even mention.
So after years of being out of the movie game completely, Mickey came back with vengeance and kicked some serious ass!
Now back to that pretty face.....
Mickey's once gorgeous face really has suffered due to his lust for boxing. It didn't help matters, when Mickey found himself on the bitter end of what Mickey called picking the "wrong guy" to do his plastic surgeries.
More from BANG Showbiz:
The 56-year old star of 'The Wrestler' said that he has had five operations to fix the damage done to his face during his career as a boxer, and he thinks he may have gone to the "wrong guy".Continued on the next pageHe said: "Most of it was to mend the mess of my face because of the boxing, but I went to the wrong guy to put my face back together."
Suffered a catalogue of injuries while in the ring, but admits the cuts and bruises were nothing compared to one little-known side effect of the sport. He said: "I had my nose broken twice. I had five operations on my nose and one on a smashed cheekbone.
"I had to have cartilage taken from my ear to rebuild my nose and a couple of operations to scrape out the cartilage because the scar tissue wasn't healing properly. That was one of the most painful operations, but the worst was hemorrhoids."
Mickey admitted to Britain's Daily Mail newspaper: "I was out of control and did not think the party was going to end. I could stay in any hotel, buy anything I wanted - I once bought six Cadillacs for cash and then gave them all away - and take out all my entourage to dinner. "My mansion in Beverly Hills was like something from 'Halloween III' - Elvis on acid. The neighbours were moving in and out almost monthly."
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