Tag Archives: The Wrestler

Oscar Watch: Marisa Tomei

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The words “Academy Award winner” have prefaced Marisa Tomei’s name for 15 years now, ever since she won the prize for Best Supporting Actress in the lamentably bad comedy My Cousin Vinnie. In the July 1994 edition of Movieline, for which Tomei was the cover girl, the actress spent the duration of the interview fending [...]

Oscar Watch: Mickey Rourke

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Mid-way through Mickey Rourke’s comeback vehicle, The Wrestler, his character Randy “The Ram” Robinson” –after learning he’s got to give up wrestling– attempts to reconcile with his estranged daughter, played by Evan Rachel Wood. Sitting on the pier of the Jersey boardwalk in the middle of a bleak winter day, he pleads with his daughter [...]