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...anticipation sank with the opening credits: "Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood." That list spelled out the plot: damaged veteran, middle-age girlfriend, young daughter. The Wrestler never rose above fight-movie bromides, never dispelled my gloom. The character stereotyping makes Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, by comparison, seem as swathed in moral ambiguity as Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers. The movie's serioso sentimentality is doubly strange since the script is by Robert Siegel, an ex-staffer of The Onion and co-writer of The Onion Movie. His old job was puncturing clichés; here...
...bogus, can cheer the return of Mickey Rourke. And not because it's nice that he seems to have turned his life around and focused again on doing what he once did so well - but because the best writers and directors might have to put Rourke on the short list of actors up for great roles. The man from the past has a future again...
...continuing concern, according to both Donahue and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, is that families will cross Harvard off their list without carefully examining its financial aid opportunities...
...Since happiness is intangible, here is a list of events that I wish will happen in 2009, if only because they would bring a smile to America’s beleaguered face...
According to an e-mail sent by Election Commissioner Steven T. Cupps ’09, who is also a Crimson editorial editor, the campaign violated election rules by forging a signature on its staff list. If the ticket continues to campaign, it will be disqualified...