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...this new album of yours, you have a ton of guest stars: Lil Wayne, Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry, Pharrell Williams. Do you just try to get those people that you've always wanted to work with...
...closing credits for makeup and Mr. Rourke's trainer are well deserved. Mr. Rourke's plastic surgeon may also have earned a mention.) Reviewers love watching actors abuse their bodies for their art almost as much as actors love doing it. That's one reason Mickey should be a guest of honor at the year-end critics' awards dinners. Another is that Rourke's bio blends with the story of The Wrestler, but with a happier ending. His career has come back from the dead; any award would be like a posthumous prize to someone who is, miraculously, still around...
...Occasionally, the film is enlivened by the guest appearances of familiar actors, sometimes cast appropriately (Lou Diamond Phillips as Mario Monje, Catalina Sandina Moreno as Che's second wife), sometimes not (Matt Damon as a priest-negotiator in Bolivia!?). But the major burden falls on its star, who nurtured the project for almost a decade. And Del Toro - whose acting style often starts over the top and soars from there, like a hang-glider leaping from a skyscraper roof, thinking there's nowhere to go but up - is muted, yielding few emotional revelations, seemingly sedated here. Except for one pungent...
Liza Minnelli wasn't the only reason Rosie O'Donnell's NBC variety special flopped a couple of weeks back, but she sure didn't help. Waddling out onstage as the show's big-name guest star, accompanied by fervent cheerleading from the "surprised" host, she looked plump, shaky and a little out of touch. As my colleague James Poniewozik pointed out in his review, the show's disappointing ratings were further evidence that Broadway is not mainstream American entertainment anymore...
...meter: “I met a boy from Chicago, had dreams to be a star / And make a way, and get some pay, and drive a fancy car.” Nevertheless, Common’s rapping seems practically virtuosic compared to the album’s disappointing guest appearances by Cee-Lo, Chester French, and Kanye West. Kanye’s performance on “Punch Drunk Love” is particularly disappointing. He contributes nothing more than Auto-Tuned crooning and a repetitive chorus that barely qualifies as rhythmic talking. The failure...