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Sean Penn’s Intellectual Glasses beats Mickey Rourke’s Crazy Sunglasses
One more year goes past, and with it another Oscars. On the whole the award winners were given to the bookies’ favourites. Slumdog Millionaire swept the board and Kate Winslet finally got the Academy’s recognition she deserves. But the biggest disappointment for me was that Mickey ‘the Madman’ Rourke didn’t pick up the Best Actor award which he was favourite for. But I for one was hoping that Mickey would get to spice up the night with another nutty acceptance speech.
The award eventually went to Sean Penn for his brilliant portrayal of gay rights activist Harvey Milk. It would be harsh to say that Sean Penn did not deserve to win. On the contrary, Milk was a great film and Penn’s role will live long in the memory I suspect. The Academy Awards are so often full of contrived and rehearsed publicity stunts – am I alone in loving the madness that Rourke brings with him?
So many of the celebrities on the red carpet turned up, as always, perfectly groomed in sponsored outfits and monotonous black tuxedos.However Rourke showed up not in a neat black tux but a slightly wild looking white suit with his bare chest on display. 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? His performance at the Golden Globes will live long in the memory. And, the day before the Oscars, he was outrageous once again in accepting his Best Actor award at the Spirit awards.
I suspect there was more than a little politics involved in denying Rourke the Oscar. 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.
Sean Penn does deserve bonus points – he’s never a dull guy and his acceptance speech was interesting to say the least. To begin with his thank-you’s were directed at the Academy, whom he referred to as “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. Not quite as entertaining as Mad Mickey would have been – but better than gushing and thanking his mother for bringing him into this wonderful world.
Meanwhile the Mickey Rourke comeback continues!
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