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...life. Will Randy manage to connect with his estranged daughter (Wood), who hasn't forgiven him for abandoning her? (That's Act Two, where the only innovation is that the girl's mother is never mentioned.) And will a local stripper, well played by Tomei, respond to his plaintive love and drive down to see what may be Randy's last fight? (Can't have a fight movie without a "Yo, Adrian!" moment...
...offers the compelling sight of an actor who is his own special-effect monster, his own Incredible Hulk. (It's the rare movie where the 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...
...palpable physicality and inner life. Behind the bulk of his hulk, a man's dogged decency is on display, and so, briefly, is Rourke's fallen-angel smile. In the scene that could cinch his Oscar nomination, he gets a long close-up as Randy 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...
...dealt with rodent complaints on an individual basis. Citizens called up the health department, which sent out inspectors and, if need be, exterminators, who got rid of the immediate problem. But that left rats in nearby nests untouched, allowing them to repopulate the area. (See pictures of animals in love...
...problem arose mid-way through her sophomore year, when she decided the required thesis and intensive tutorials did not fit well with the pressures of a year abroad. “Social studies was pretty upfront,” she says. “They’d love for you to go abroad for a semester, maybe not a year.” While the social studies concentration has the highest proportion of students who go abroad, according to Director of Studies for social studies Anya Bernstein, only one person has concentrated in Social Studies after spending a full...