This book explores important life lessons through the lens of Mickey Rourke movies. Fifteen movies are discussed from all phases of his extraordinary career, from his teen heartthrob years of the early 1980s to his more recent work as a token bad guy. Despite never having taken a film class or paid full-price to see a movie, the author explores each film and makes a seemingly endless series of insightful, and often humorous, observations about the human condition. In fact, this book features a minimum of two jokes per page.
This book explores important life lessons through the lens of Mickey Rourke movies. Fifteen movies are discussed from all phases of his extraordinary career, from his teen heartthrob years of the early 1980's to his more recent work as a token bad guy. Despite never having taken a film class or paid full-price to see a movie, the author explores each film and makes a seemingly endless series of insightful, and often humorous, observations about the human condition. In fact, this book features a minimum of two jokes per page.
'Rebel', 'oddball' and 'Uncle Mickey': just three of the many conflicting labels Mickey Rourke has 'earned' over his remarkable career in the limelight. His public persona, moving from actor to boxer to actor, is not easy to define: making it all the more intriguing, and making Keri Walsh's study an unique and fascinating addition to the 'Film Stars' series.
Meat and Bone tells the story of Clarice Torrance, a young soldier in the most powerful military force in the known universe. After losing her fiancé and her arm during the occupation of Middes, Clarice volunteers for a suicide mission to eliminate the leader of the resistance. Dispatched to the barren surface with a group of killer cyborgs, Clarice marches them through the waste and into a world of danger and betrayal, where petty rivalries threaten to end the life of millions. Faced with a series of terrible choices, Clarice come to understand the arbitrary nature of justice and to find out, once and for all, what she stands for.
When asked to name the greatest moment of their lives, most people say their ten-year high school reunion, but try telling that to the Kooterville High Class of ’96! Even before they can partake in their first drunken Macarena, this group of backward-looking has-beens gets taken hostage by a helicopter full of super-powered troublemakers. A few dozen normal humans must face off against the likes of:• Socialist Super-Agent Dane McVain and his wondrous helicopter, Uppsala.• Super-Powered Super-Models Eva Destruction and Donna Correction• Dr. Arliss Poindexter and his warped creations, the Knockout Mouse and the Wolfian DucksEXCEPT… somewhere, among the fat, balding masses, lurks their arch nemesis, Drek Manifold.
An aspiring writer realizes his dream and launches his literary career... ... shepherded by another aspiring writer who realized her failure and became a literary agent. Unable to repeat the success of his first book, the writer exists in limbo of purposelessness and diminishing royalties... ... while the agent grows to resent him and blame him for her precarious position at the literary agency. The writer takes a trip to Korea, while the agent, desperate for a best-seller, raises the question... ...wouldn't it be better for everyone if he just killed himself?
At the height of his fame during the 1980s, Mickey Rourke was Hollywood's most exciting screen idol. Both a sex symbol and a critically acclaimed actor, his future was seemingly assured. Then Rourke gained a reputation as an uncontrollable maverick. His disdain for playing the Hollywood game was well known, but marital difficulties, the unexorcised demons of his past and heavy drinking threatened to end his career.
They say that living well is the best revenge. Well, when Wally Weston ran into the woman who recently dumped him, his summer vacation instantly transformed into a cesspool of pain and fear. So, he decided to save face and pretend to have moved on. So, she called his bluff, one thing led to another, and yada yada yada, Wally joined a neo-evangelical sex-cult. And that's when things got weird... But wait! There's more! OBSERVE the orange-skinned man who talks to hairdryers! ENDURE the exciting world sociology graduate students! BEAR WITNESS TO the mysterious halfsy! LEARN HOW TO PRONOUNCE "Rumspringa"! AND MUCH MUCH MORE! Everything Rises take the ball around the right end and runs out of the stadium! It's bound to make every other book in your personal library seem like a big bag of mashed up crap.
An intimate and revealing portrait of a complex man who happens to be one of the most intriguing actors of our time. The compelling story of how Mickey Rourke wrestled with his demons and won.
When his girlfriend, Rosemary, asks about his life, Jim Moore, a successful salesman whose territory covers the entire continental United States and parts of Canada, doesn’t think there is anything to say and so he tells her “nothing happened,” or maybe he doesn’t know how to put it all into words or maybe he doesn’t want to. Stuck in an airport because of blizzard conditions, and packed into a crowded terminal with other travelers, Moore has come to believe that his life is not worth reporting about because it has largely been a life lived without incident. However, chance encounters with a yoga instructor, a man traveling to bury his mother, and an enigmatic woodsman reawaken long dormant emotions about his father’s suicide and cause Jim to newly reflect on his own life and on a memorandum that he later discovered in his deceased father’s papers, which lists all the names of the clouds, and which Jim now, from time to time, recants as if it were his own private kaddish to memorialize his lost father. Like the pilgrims in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales who pass the time telling stories while stranded in the Tabard Inn, Memorandum from the Iowa Cloud Appreciation Society tells the tale of a traveling salesman and what really happened over the course of his forty- six years.
