Mickey Rourke Picks Up A Rental �Bargain� In Manhattan

By Sarah Lin from The Wall Street Journal Asia

Mickey Rourke has taken on a rental loft in Manhattan for $19,800 per month, which is less than 50% of what the previous tenant was paying.

"The 5,000-square-foot loft has a private keyed elevator, four bedrooms, a media room and three baths. The full-floor apartment has blonde oak floors throughout and a sauna."

"A former tenant had rented the same apartment four months ago for $40,000 per month," says listing agent Frances Katzen of Prudential Douglas Elliman.

The actor, 56, won a Golden Globe Award this year for his comeback role as an athlete past his prime in last year's "The Wrestler."



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Mickey Rourke in new beer commercial

And it's awesome.



Thanks Perez!

Crap on a stick!

Something happened this weekend that I didn't actually believe until I looked it up online (what did we ever do without the internet?). Alf was flipping through the channels and stopped on 9 1/2 Weeks, a movie that neither one of us has ever seen, but we do know of it because of the infamous sexy food scene. So, I'm watching and I'm like, who IS that hot guy?? And Alf said, "can you believe that's Mickey Rourke." I spit out my red bull. Or my wine. All right, who are we kidding. My wine. So, this is Mickey Rourke from the 80's.



Totally hot, totally doable. I like.

And here he is today.



Now, I get it. The movie is 23 years old. People age. And, apparently, Mickey has had a pretty rough life. But, I was so flustered by the fact that, here I was, swooning and practically drooling over this hot guy in 9 1/2 weeks and it was Mickey Rourke. Didn't see that one coming.

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