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TORONTO — Mickey Rourke is back. The legendary tough guy in 1980s movies like “9 1/2 Weeks,” “Barfly” and “Year of the Dragon” has never been away. He’s been working steadily, with 16 movies just since 2000 — but his title role in “The Wrestler” is arguably his best career performance and could win him an Oscar nomination. The film, playing here at the 33rd Toronto Film Festival, arrived after winning the grand prize at Venice, and is drawing turn-away crowds. It came to Toronto without a distributor, but was snatched up for $4.5 million by Fox Searchlight.
Rourke plays Randy “The Ram” Robinson, a pro wrestling superstar in the 1980s, now reduced to shabby local clubs and rented school gyms where the dressing room is a children’s classroom. He won’t retire. He can’t. His best friend is a lap dancer (Marisa Tomei) who he has to pay for her time. He still puts on a good show, although his body is taped together. I know — pro wrestling is scripted. But the scripted stuff they do is brutal. Say you get thrown over the ropes and land on the floor. It’s in the script, but how would that feel?
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Roger Ebert, 1942-2013
Mitchell and I were in college and had recently become best friends. We were 19, 20 years old. Theatre majors. For some reason, I can’t remember why, he slept over at my parents’ house, just like we were high school besties. A couple of things stick in my memory from that “sleepover”. My two younger sisters were in high school and grade school, and were sleeping in their room across the hallway from mine. Mitchell and I began laughing so loud and so hard at one point (it is still mythical to us, that laughing fit) that my mother had to call up the stairs to us to quiet down. We were keeping the kids awake. So lame. So hilarious. But the other thing I remember is that sitting beside my dad’s chair was a book of Roger Ebert’s reviews. It had been there for years. I had read it cover to cover. I hadn’t even seen half of the movies, but it didn’t matter. I loved his observations, I looked forward to the day I could see some of these things, and I enjoyed his writing. So Mitchell grabbed it.
He flipped through it, in my upstairs room, both of us lying in bed, and he read out loud from the reviews. We would stop and talk about things. We did this for a couple of hours. It was an early version of these types of