Mickey Rourke’s New Romance
An older but athletic and muscular with a body builder body, Mickey Rourke, now 51, with a new ninth life acting career revival, has a new romance in the air with Bai Ling, She is an actress and red carpet fixture who’s known to attend major Hollywood events. Page Six reported that Rourke was at the Chateau Marmont the other night with Sean Penn (guess they made up?) when he was approached by the sexy Ms. Bai, Then, says the paper reported that they made out and partied pretty hard.
Mickey Rourke
While Mickey Rourke is a dog person, Bai is also an animal lover and is devoted to her cat Qiji, The rumors about the pair prompted visual confirmation at Bai’s blog (newly retitled “Naked Seduction for 2009″), and that’s where we stumbled upon rival suitors. While there was a picture of Rourke and Bai together, but the camera-hopping starlet showed definate chemistry this past week with the eclectic group of Ralph Fiennes, John Legend, and American Idol winner David Cook.
More recently , Mickey Rourke won the best actor Golden Globe playing a fallen-star wrestler known as “The Ram,” but Mickey Rourke deserves his own colorful nickname: “The Phoenix.” Like thet mythical bird that flames out and is reborn from the ashes, the 56-year-old actor is experiencing his own Hollywood rebirth in years. Rourke’s Sunday-night victory for his exhilarating performance in “The Wrestler” has not only jump-started a dead still career, it’s brought the actor who lives in New York city’s Village to to being the comeback of the year. 
You can’t watch the riches to rags tales of “The Wrestler” without seeing Rourke’s own story. In the early ‘80s, he broke through with a series of small but pivotal parts in such films as “Diner,” “The Outsiders” and “Body Heat.” His performances showed off his good looks, confidence and an intensity that drew comparisons to Marlon Brando or Robert De Niro. By the middle of the ‘80s he’d achieved leading-man and bona fide sex symbol status opposite Kim Basinger (and a refrigerator) with the erotically charged “9 1/2 Weeks.” “Angel Heart” and “Wild Orchid” followed and further cemented his heartthrob status. But the end of the ‘80s marked an end to his glory days on the big screen, due to a combo of bad career decisions and a volatile personal life. He turned to boxing to make ends meet.
By the dawn of the new millennium Rourke was a has-been, talked about more for his apparent plastic surgery and erratic behavior than for performances he was putting up on screen. He reportedly was relying on $200-weekly handouts from a pal. In his plain-spoken Globe acceptance speech, he acknowledged that he was almost “out of the business” a few years ago. Choking back emotions, he went on to thank his agent for sticking with him, and director Darren Aronofsky for hiring him. If those thank-yous were expected, Rourke went off script to show how desolate he’s become by thanking his mutts. “Sometimes when you’re alone,” he said, “all you got is your dog.” He meant it. In an interview, he admitted that his connection to his canines is what saved him from destroying his life. Currently Rourke is expected to be a front runner at the Academy Awards and reportedly is in talks to play the baddie in “Iron Man 2.”
