Posts Tagged With: the wrestler (6 posts)

  1. Robert Siegel’s BIG FANtasia

    Fandom can veer into mania, whether you cheer baseball, football or water polo. If you “bleed purple” for the Vikes or paint your face black and silver like some Bay-area [...]

  2. We’re #1!?! The medical history of BIG FAN

    Football fanaticism has metastasized into full-blown psychosis. I blame The 12th Man, clubs’ official acknowledgement and sanctioning of their followers’ delusional beliefs that their spectatorial involvement influences the on-field fortunes [...]

  3. DVD Round-up: THE CHAMP redux and presidential poo

    Ron Howard‘s movies are much like 3-ply toilet paper, preferable perhaps to other brands due to superior production values yet, in the end, just as full of crap. Opie’s efforts [...]

  4. Best song… ever?!?

    I’d like to teach the world to sing. No, no, I wouldn’t. That would take a long time and I can’t stand tone-deaf people… including myself. (Yup, I can no [...]

  5. Entertaining Thought — 1/26/09

    Mickey Rourke pinned a Golden Globe for embodying THE WRESTLER*. Sean Penn, obviously, convinced The Screen Actors Guild to cry over kill’t MILK. If I were deciding this year’s Best Actor Oscar®, [...]

  6. Film Rap: Darren Aronofsky – The Wrestler

    Warren catches Darren Aronofsky on his wrestling tour for a brief Q&A where they chat about the power of the documentary look, the joys of working in a grocery deli, [...]