A turnaround came in 1987 with her performance opposite Mickey Rourke in Barfly, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama.

The Wrestler received great critical acclaim, and both Rourke and co-star Marisa Tomei received Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, and BAFTA nominations for their performances.

In the same year, she also co-starred in director Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival, about Randy " Ram " Robinson ( Mickey Rourke ), a professional wrestler from the 1980s who is forced to retire after a heart attack threatens to kill him the next time he wrestles.

O ' Rourke did his undergraduate work at Miami University, in Ohio, and earned an M. A.

In July 2010 O ' Rourke conceded that she did not expect the party to be in power after the next general election.

In early 1999 Stephen Malkmus participated in a Sonic Youth side project called Kim's Bedroom that included bassist / vocalist Kim Gordon, guitarist / vocalist Thurston Moore, Chicago avant-garde veteran Jim O ' Rourke, and renowned Japanese drummer Ikue Mori ; they never released an album, but did play a few live shows.

( A few regularly playing pitchers, including knuckleballers Phil Niekro and Hoyt Wilhelm, were older than Franco, and a few non-pitchers, like Minnie Miñoso and Jim O ' Rourke, appeared as publicity stunts at old ages but did not play regularly ).

O ' Rourke noted on his trip to Tanzania for his book Eat the Rich that gravel was produced with manual labor ( by pounding rocks with tools ), where in almost everywhere else in the world machines did the same work far more cheaply and efficiently.

It is unknown why White did not play for the Grays again ; he was replaced in the next game by Hall of Famer " Orator Jim " O ' Rourke.

Brompton Cemetery has featured in a number of films, including David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises ( starring Viggo Mortensen ), The Wisdom of Crocodiles ( Jude Law ), Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes ( 2009 film ) ( also with Jude Law ) as the location of ' Lord Blackwood's Tomb ', Crush ( Imelda Staunton and Andie MacDowell ), Stormbreaker ( starring Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Fry and Mickey Rourke ), Finding Neverland ( starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet ) and Johnny English ( starring Rowan Atkinson ); The Wings of the Dove ( 1997 film ) ( starring Helena Bonham Carter ), as well as being used as a location by photographers such as Bruce Weber ( see " The Chop Suey Club ").

Then he turned the telephone over to Rourke, and went into the bedroom to change his slippers for dry socks and shoes.

Shayne drove westward from the Boulevard slowly, letting Rourke crane his head out the window and watch for street numbers.

There have also been many fictional depictions of wrestling ; the 2008 film The Wrestler received several Oscar nominations and began a career revival for star Mickey Rourke.

Ronald O ' Rourke of the Congressional Research Service writes that the PLAN " continues to exhibit limitations or weaknesses in several areas, including capabilities for sustained operations by larger formations

In 1944, four nurses serving in World War II – First Lieutenant Mary Roberts, Second Lieutenant Elaine Roe, Second Lieutenant Rita Virginia Rourke, and Second Lieutenant Ellen Ainsworth ( posthumous ) – became the first women recipients of the Silver Star, all cited for their bravery in successfully evacuating the 33rd Field Hospital at Anzio, Italy on February 10.

O ' Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me !.

O ' Rourke wrote articles for several publications, including The Rip Off Review of Western Culture an underground magazine / comic book in 1972, entitled A. J.

O ' Rourke was a " Real Time Real Reporter " for Real Time with Bill Maher covering the 2008 Presidential Election.

Rourke wrote the music for three Morrissey B-sides released in 1989 and 1990 (" Yes, I Am Blind ", " Girl Least Likely To ", and " Get Off the Stage ").

Rourke co-founded the Manchester v Cancer concert series, later known as Versus Cancer, to raise money for cancer research.

Rourke, who was in debt, settled almost immediately for a lump sum of £ 83, 000 and 10 percent of royalties, renouncing all further claims.

He initially offered the role to Christopher Lambert and Mickey Rourke and even considered himself for the role until someone suggested Jean-Marc Barr.

Bridgeport was the home of Major Leaguer, James " Orator " O ' Rourke, who signed the first African-American to play for a professional baseball team in 1895.

The film was nominated in the 1943 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay ( losing out to Casablanca and Princess O ' Rourke respectively ).

In the jury's statement, Jim O ' Rourke lauded the label's work as defining " a brand new punk computer music ".< ref >" Rather than splitting the prize between the two Mego entries: Christian Fennesz's Hotel Parall. lel and Pita's Seven Tons for Free Remaster Version 1. 2, the Jury that the Distinction should be awarded to the Mego label as a whole.

Co-produced by McEntire and American producer Jim O ' Rourke, the album earned mixed reviews for its lighter sound, and peaked at number 154 on the Billboard 200.

A draft Brooklands Conservation Plan was instigated by English Heritage and prepared in 2003 for DaimlerChrysler by DCUK consultants Terence O ' Rourke and will be updated and completed for publication in 2013.

It opened at the O ' Rourke Center for the Performing Arts, Truman College, Chicago, on May 19, 1999 and closed on July 18, 1999.

Having completed the interior of car 4, O ' Rourke Coachtrimmers was selected to restore the interior of the only surviving original, car 2.

Over a four month period, Berkley Books published three young adult novels written by Kelly O ' Rourke ; the novels are original stories created by O ' Rourke, with no direct continuity with the films.

Kirby's original formulation involved two kinds of move, the " blow-up " and the " handle slide "; Roger Fenn and Colin Rourke exhibited an equivalent construction in terms of a single move, the Fenn – Rourke move, that appears in many expositions and extensions of the Kirby calculus.

The original cover of the album used images of both Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.

It has become a song that inspires hope in the wake of tragedy, becoming a sort of " spiritual national anthem " according to authors Mary Rourke and Emily Gwathmey.

Based on the song writing partnership of vocalist Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr, the band also included bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce.

In a 2001 interview, influential alternative musician and producer Jim O ' Rourke ( known for his work with Sonic Youth, amongst others ) picked a Togawa Jun cover song album 20th Jun Togawa as one of his " best albums of the year.

Gilmore wrote the song for his sister Annie as she prayed for the safe return of her fiancé, Union Light Artillery Captain John O ' Rourke, from the Civil War.

After collaborating on the song, " Don't Box Me In " with Stewart Copeland from The Police for the soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish starring Mickey Rourke, Matt Dillon and Dennis Hopper, he released his first proper solo album, The Big Heat ( 1986 ), which included the top 5 European ( and UK ) hit " Camouflage ".

Sully Erna told the Artisan News Service in a video interview that he was approached to record a song called " Sinner's Prayer " for this year's Sylvester Stallone blockbuster " The Expendables ", which will also feature Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke and Randy Couture.

In 2001, Egan O ' Rourke joined as the bassist and the band recorded a two song demo that was meant for record labels only.

Larner had previously played koto with John Fahey, Jim O ' Rourke and members of indie rock groups including Camper Van Beethoven, Deerhoof, Jackie O Motherfucker and Mr. Bungle.

Washington is primarily known in the rock community for its seminal influence on the evolution of hardcore punk, known locally as harDCore, particularly through bands such as Bad Brains, Minor Threat and The Faith, and labels like Dischord Records, but it had a vibrant musical community prior to hardcore's arrival with bands like the Razz, Slickee Boys and The Penetrators, putting out records on local independent labels like Limp, O ' Rourke, and Dacoit.

Walter has collaborated with artists like Evan Parker, John Butcher, Marshall Allen, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson, Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, Vinny Golia, Joe Morris, Frank Gratkowski, William Winant, Marlon Magas, Jim O ' Rourke, Tom Smith in To Live and Shave in L. A., and Ken Vandermark as well as many influential underground rock bands including Lair of the Minotaur, Bobby Conn, U. S. Maple, Cock E. S. P., Curse of the Birthmark, the Scissor Girls, Erase Errata, The Chicago Sound, Harry Pussy, Quintron, Sharon Cheslow, and Cheer-Accident, in addition to producing albums by the Coachwhips, Burmese, Total Shutdown, Arab on Radar, AIDS Wolf, and Glenn Branca.

Grubbs and O ' Rourke have both continued to release albums under their own names in the fields of rock, pop, and experimental music.