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February 12, 2009

Mickey Rourke For A Day

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Sometimes you don't need to spend hours researching the history of a YouTube video to know that it's something that needs to be seen right away, so here's this old (as in '90s) video in which film critic Joe Queenan tries to be Mickey Rourke for a day, and the movie nerds can sort out its meaning in the universe. It's based on Queenan's famous (but not online) early '90s Movieline article, "Mickey Rourke For A Day". This will be of interest to three types of people:

1. People (like me) who love Diner and have absorbed a lot of recent Mickey Rourke, but were totally unaware that the whole "Mickey Rourke blurs the lines between his actual life and his onscreen life" was a thing before The Wrestler. I'm sorry, movie nerds: I know without looking that Drew Barrymore's birthday is in ten days, but I did not know that fact about Mickey Rourke.

2. Movie nerds.

3. People who like to watch movie critics kick trash cans while pretending to be Mickey Rourke:

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