Mickey Rourke just won the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his performance in The Wrestler, an incredible film that marked Rourke’s comeback and which I highly recommend.
Rourke was seated next to Bruce Springsteen at the awards show because Bruce won “Best Original Song” for his contribution to the movie.
Rourke beat out a group of really talented actors in Sean Penn, Leo DiCaprio, Frank Langella and Brad Pitt. (No Clint?)
I have to say that I’m hard pressed to remember seeing five movies in a row over a span of a few weeks that were all as good as these five:
**Frost/Nixon – Langella does a great turn as Nixon
**The Wrester — see above
**Milk — Sean Penn is fabulous as gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk
**Gran Torino — Clint at his peak at 75
**Benjamin Button — Kind of Forrest Gump-ish, but quite moving
**Slumdog Millionaire — Won Best Movie, I still have to see it
