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„All us tough guys are hopeless sentimentalists at heart"

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Il Fatto Quotidiano: Mickey Rourke sfrattato dalla sua casa a Los Angeles : non ha pagato 60mila di dollari di affitto arretrato

Era solo una questione di giorni ed è accaduto. Mickey Rourke è stato cacciato dalla sua casa di Los Angeles – già dimora del famoso giallista Raymond Chandler – per non aver pagato 60mila dollari di affitto arretrato. Un tribunale di Los Angeles ha reso esecutivo lo sfratto della ex star celebre negli Anni Ottanta, deliberando a favore del suo padrone di casa Eric Goldie.
Rourke a TMZ aveva confermato che non aveva pagato il canone perché la casa sarebbe stata infestata dai topi. Candidato agli Oscar e vincitore di un Golden Globe, Rourke aveva apparentemente lanciato una colletta, poi sconfessata, per permettergli di trovare un alloggio quando era arrivata la prima indicazione dello sfratto alle porte.

L’attore dopo il cinema si era reinventato pugile. Poi è tornato sul set negli anni 2000 con “Sin City”, “Iron Man 2” e soprattutto “The Wrestler”, una pellicola quasi autobiografica. Rourke era stato percepito allora come un attore “ritrovato”, simbolo di una Hollywood capace di perdonare e recuperare i suoi figli. Subito dopo il successo, tuttavia, qualcosa si era incrinato. Erano seguiti ruoli secondari o pellicole di scarso valore artistico, confermando una tendenza ricorrente nella sua carriera: l’impossibilità (o forse la volontà) di sfruttare appieno la propria notorietà attraverso decisioni più calcolate.
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Mickey Rourke evicted from his home in Los Angeles: he hadn't paid $60,000 in back rent.

It was just a matter of days and it happened. Mickey Rourke was evicted from his Los Angeles home – formerly the residence of the famous mystery writer Raymond Chandler – for not paying $60,000 in back rent. A Los Angeles court ordered the eviction of the former star, famous in the 1980s, in favor of his landlord Eric Goldie.

Rourke had confirmed to TMZ that he hadn't paid the rent because the house was infested with mice. An Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner, Rourke had apparently launched a fundraising campaign, which was then abandoned, to allow him to find accommodation when the first indication of the eviction arrived at the door.

The actor, after the cinema, had reinvented himself as a boxer. Then he returned to the set in the 2000s with “Sin City,” “Iron Man 2,” and especially “The Wrestler,” a film almost autobiographical. Rourke had then been perceived as a “rediscovered” actor, a symbol of a Hollywood capable of forgiving and rehabilitating its children. Immediately after the success, however, something had cracked. Subsequent roles were secondary or of poor artistic value, confirming a recurring trend in his career: the inability (or perhaps the willingness) to fully exploit his notoriety through more calculated decisions.

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Introducing characters in a world-weary tone is a more than familiar noir trope at this point. And no novelist did this better than #RaymondChandler.

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"The rain had stopped during the night and the morning was all blue and gold. There was enough snap in the air to make life simple and sweet, if you didn't have too much on your mind. I had."

—Raymond Chandler, Killer in the Rain

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in diesem Fall mal einen Teil meiner Krimisammlung. Zu sehen sind meine gesammelten #Maigret-Romane und Phillip Marlow Krimies. Alles ältere Taschebücher aus dem @diogenesverlag

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This evening's viewing: the 1944 adaptation of Farewell, My Lovely. I've seen the much later version, but not this one, & I'm partial to a bit of Raymond Chandler, so when it turned up on the BBC iPlayer, that was it.

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