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Mickey Rourke Interviewed: Plus Hollywood's Greatest Comebacks
Chris Roberts , January 15th, 2009 01:57

Chris Roberts gets personal with Mickey Rourke and The Quietus remembers more of cinema's greatest comeback stories

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Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights

Maybe it's the hair and makeup department but stars seem to make that transition from young to old off camera in about a week - almost like they have to disappear and make their transformation in the privacy of a cocoon. Although Burt was brilliant in the hands of a solid director like P.T.A., he has since played small parts, mainly as a shell of man who was shit-hot in the 70s... which is what he is.