Mickey Rourke Wuz Robbed


As you may recall, we love Mickey Rourke. Love love LOVE Mickey Rourke. We love that he's crazy (but completely self-aware in his craziness), love that he has a soft spot for his many dogs (RIP Loki), love that he cries in nearly every interview. So of course we were crestfallen when Sean Penn won the Best Actor Oscar last night. Sure, Sean gave a humble yet political speech (extra points for hands shaking), and we're sure our precious David was happy, but everyone at the Kodak Theatre would've lost their shit had Mickey won.

Plus, he would've made the best speech of the night by far. Don't believe us? Check out the above acceptance speech from Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards (which also featured a random appearance by Sean Nelson, singing backup for Robyn Hitchcock). In the span of a mere six minutes, Mickey shares a lip lock with director Darren Aronofsky, professes his love for Eric Roberts, gives a shout-out to his dogs (natch), and swears up a storm. Now that is how you do an acceptance speech, looking at you Kate Winslet.

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OMG, Audrey I could not agree more! I want more Rourke. I really feel like he should be nominated for a cabinet post or somethin.

And this one's just as awesome...he gets Darren to flip the bird...Mickey was robbed and Milk won/nominated because of the gay-ness of it, there's no denying it.

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