Sunday, February 22, 2009

Mickey Rourke's Acceptance Speech, Spirit Awards

Mickey Rourke gave a memorable acceptance speech last night.

At Big Hollywood, Steve Mason writes:

Mickey Rourke won the Independent Spirit Award last night in Santa Monica, possibly setting the stage for a memorable Oscar moment tonight. Randy “The Ram” Robinson, the character that Rourke plays in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler (Fox Searchlight) is a blazing, raw, “broken down piece of meat” of a professional wrestler, and it is a once in a lifetime performance for the not-that-long-ago has-been.

His speech is so entertaining that as I was hosting an Oscar Eve radio special on 790 KABC in Los Angeles last night, every guest that had been at the Spirits could talk about nothing else....

Warning: Explicit language. (That probably wasn't necessary to say.)



I don't know how Mickey can top this speech if he wins tonight. The censors at ABC are probably sweating already.

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