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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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Roman Polanski - The Pianist

You have to feel sorry for Roman Polanski: not only was his wife killed by the Manson family but then in 1978 he was charged with sexually assaulting a minor. But even being exiled in France and Poland couldn't stop him from winning the Oscar for Best Director with The Pianist, although naturally he wasn't there to accept it.