Sunday
11Jan2009
Aronofsky Flies the Filthy Falcon at Globes
Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 11:37PM
One of the real highlights of the Golden Globes was this exchange between Best Actor winner Mickey Rourke
and his The Wreslter
director, Darren Aronofsky. On the west coast, it was bleeped and digitally blurred, so you knew it was good. I mean, anytime your awards show resembles a crucial moment on Cops, that's gotta be good TV.
The irony is that Aronofsky gave Rourke a chance after the entire industry had flipped him the bird for 20 years. Of course, the feeling was mutual for most of that time, too.
Reader Comments (4)
Thank you God, I loved this moment. Mickey deserved the Globe!
Thanks for posting this. I wondered what they blacked out.
Re: "irony". This consensual hallucination regarding Rourke being left stinking in a pit for 20 years by Hollywood is quite tiresome.
Tony Scott cast him in Domino a few years ago, and Rourke turned in a very good performance.
No he didn't. Nobody turned in a good performance in Domino, except maybe Tom Waits playing a character not named Tom Waits while a Tom Waits song was playing in the background.
Rourke has been cast in a few things over the past half-decade, but outside of Sin City, there's not a lot you can grab onto. Considering his ability, the fact that his last lead role in a studio film is White Sands in 1992 says a little something about the guys with the money not wanting to take a chance on him.