After years of suffering the downside of a career in an industry that is famously vicious and unforgiving, Mickey Rourke is now back near the top. Last night he won the Golden Globe for “best actor in a drama” in “The Wrestler.” (Guess that means I gotta go see it.)
But would the Euro-waiters, otherwise known as The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who vote for Oscar’s overinflated pre-cursor take back their votes knowing that Rourke is guilty of filmdom’s ultimate sin: Defending the President of the United States, George W. Bush?
And will Hollywood’s partisans pull back their forthcoming Oscar votes for not toeing the “Bush is Evil” line?
Apparently, Mickey Rourke is not lobbying for Hollywood’s acceptance. In GQ (the British version) this month he takes on the most politically incorrect cause of all.
“President Bush was in the wrong place at the wrong time, I don”t know how anyone could have handled this situation… I don”t give a f**k who”s in office, Bush or whoever, there is no simple solution to this problem… I’m not one of those who blames Bush for everything. This s**t between Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn’t it.”
Rourke also takes on western aquiescence to radical Islam to the Brits who basically gave up without a fight:
“I was in London recently and I couldn’t believe all these hate-talking fanatics you have over here who are allowed to carry on doing their thing even when a bus full of women and children gets blown to pieces… I know you’ve deported one or two of them, but it seems crazy. I think there is worse to come, something terrible will happen to either America or the U.K., or France even. I don’t think these fundamentalists should be allowed to talk all this crap, and brainwashing these young kids.”
Want more proof that Rourke’s life on the skids gave him a devil-may-care attitude in dealing with Hollywood’s pre-ordained opinion on everything?
According to Gerald Posner at the Daily Beast, Rourke in a text message to a friend ripped flavor of the epoch, Sean Penn, as a “homophobe” and an “average” actor.
Any not friend of Sean Penn is a friend of mine.
Perhaps Rourke is reading our own Jamie Kirchick, who has had the guts to call out the “Milk” actor for supporting Fidel Castro’s historically repressive anti-homosexual regime.
The thing is, some of the best artists do have an admirable and fun-to-watch rebel streak in them. Penn is not one of them. He is as safe as tying Madonna up. What Rourke has just done is come to hell and back with an attitude that says, “You can’t destroy me or my career. I’ve already been there.”
Hollywood needs more Mickey Rourkes. It’s just more interesting.
Anyway, glad to see he’s back on top — at least for a while. Bush supporter or not.
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