Oscars Fail: They Should have Given it to Mad Mickey Rourke

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Mickey Rourke at the Independent Spirit Awards

One more year goes past, and with it another Oscars. On the whole the award winners were given to the bookies’ favourites. The British were the big winners on the night, with Slumdog Millionaire scooping, well, nearly everything, and Kate Winslett getting the Oscar at long last. The nights biggest shock, which frankly disappointed me, was that the crazy and unpredictable Mickey Rourke didn’t add to his Golden Globes, BAFTA and Spirit triumphs as expected. But I for one was hoping that Mickey would get to spice up the night with another nutty acceptance speech.

Ultimately it was Sean Penn, not Rourke, who got the gong for his excellent performance as Harvey Milk. Now I’m not saying Penn didn’t deserve it. Quite the opposite - the role was a brilliant and important one. But am I the only one that just loves the crazyness that Mickey brings to the often staged and insincere PR stunt that is the Oscars?

So many of the celebrities on the red carpet turned up, as always, perfectly groomed in sponsored outfits and monotonous black tuxedos.But Mickey Rourke went against the grain by showing up in a shabby chic white tux with his shirt open. Of course he also wore his trademark designer sunglasses which have become part of his image in the awards season. The silliest part was the amount of times he mentioned his dead pooch Loki, who passed away recently and whose image Rourke displayed on his necklace in tribute!

It was all gearing up to another unpredictable and slighlty mad acceptance speech if he’d have won. Who knows what he would have come out with on the stage, chihuahua memorial necklace, glasses and all? The memory of his Golden Globes performance will live long in the memory. And more recently he brought the house down at the independent Spirit awards the night before the Oscars - see the video above.

I reckon there was some political goings on in the Academy that stopped Mickey from getting the award. Mickey himself had predicted he woudldn’t win because he’s pissed off too many hollywood hotshots in the past. “I stupidly said acting wasn’t a job for a real man. I threatened producers, raged at directors, forgot my agent’s name. I really burned my bridges. And a lot of people have long memories,” Mickey predicted on the Friday before the ceremony.

You gotta give it up for the Pennster however, his speech was certainly an interesting one. He started out by saying thank you to “you commie, homo loving sons of guns”! Penn then pulled out a small scribbled bit of paper, donned his prescription glasses, and after a few thank-yous proceeded with an impassioned plea for equal rights for gays and against the ban on gay marriages. OK, perhaps not quite as impressive as Crazy Mickey might have been, however a lot more interesting than the usual acceptance speech drivel.

Roll on the Rourke comeback wagon in the meantime!

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