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...guess: maybe, because Hollywood loves a comeback story, and because Rourke gives the kind of performance that members of the Motion Picture Academy think burrows into the very essence of acting. He made himself nearly unrecognizable - put on maybe 40 lb., studded his face and body with the scars of war - to play a has-been fighter hoping for a last shot at the big time. It's the kind of punishment that won kudos for Lon Chaney and Paul Muni in the old days and helped Robert De Niro to an Oscar in Raging Bull playing Jake LaMotta...
...pours out his clumsy love for his daughter. The speech is boilerplate sentiment, which the actor - who says he reworked it to reflect his own life - elevates to a passion as sweet as it is forlorn. (The speech is up there with the one Jean-Claude Van Damme, another comeback kid of 2008, gives in his quasi-autobiographical JCVD.) If Rourke had to punish himself to look the part of a battered fighter so he could slip inside Randy's wounded innocence, then, man, it was worth...
...Harvard men’s squash team, the No. 5 Yellowjackets needed to win only one more match to seal the victory in the best-of-nine contest Saturday at the Barnaby courts. But the Crimson saved its best for last, as junior Colin West clinched a Harvard comeback by winning the deciding match, a 9-0, 9-0, 9-5 blowout of Rochester’s top-seeded player Jim Bristow—a first team All-America selection last year...
...Polar bears make a quiet comeback from the brink of extinction by migrating south and living off the people of Wasilla...
...trip to face one of the top collegiate programs in the nation’s capital on Saturday, the Harvard men’s basketball team fell 78-63 to George Washington after a tough first half, despite a spirited comeback attempt late in the second half. The Crimson was without freshman forward Keith Wright, who was sick. A starter in all seven games this year, Wright is second on the team with 10.3 points per game. He will be out indefinitely, a major blow for Harvard, who kept it close nonetheless against its talented hosts before falling away near...