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I really wanted to like this film. I love pro-wrasslin. LB, ED, KB & DM used to go. We used to pay good money to see it. We used to make the trek up the Palacio de Bovino, down some sixers and huff a j in the lot and have a grand time. An Oscar-nominated flick about past-his-prime pro wrasslin? I'm all over that like a wet blanket on a flaming stuntman.
But it sucked. The film is so painfully predicatable that I knew every plot move and this is without even seeing the trailer. It goes exactly where you predict it will go - the sense of being a has been, the relationship with the daughter, the stripper with the heart of gold - even the ending is totally predictable from the poster alone.
Maybe it's because I hate Mickey Rourke. I hated him when he stuck his pecker in the popcorn in Diner. I hated him when played big-white-man-on campus in Year of the Dragon. I hated him when he fed Kim cough syrup in 9 1/2 weeks. Sure, it's his big comeback and he's all buff now, but do we really have to see his bare ass twice? He's just overrated, just like the Wrestler.
There was a short moment when they started to develop this idea of perfomers on stage (wrasslers & strippers) versus their real miserable lives, but it failed to develop Marissa's character any more. It never got past Rourke. This film was so disappointing, even Marisa stripping couldn't save it.
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Marisa stripped? I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
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How does it compare with the gorgeous ladies of wrestling? Ah, Vegas.
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Tomei is topless in most of the film. Check it out PPFY.
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Should still have been the beautiful ladies of wrestling
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The headline for this article made me laugh in context of this discussion. I'm not sure why exactly.
Quote:Gene for glowing passed along to monkey offspring
By MALCOLM RITTER – 1 hour ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists gave marmosets a gene that made their feet glow green, and one of the animals passed it along to its offspring — the first time that an added gene has been inherited by a monkey. It was a milestone, experts said, that should make it easier to produce animals with versions of human disease for medical research.
Animals that get added genetic material are called transgenic. While researchers have long created transgenic mice and other animals by giving them extra genetic material, monkeys offer a promising avenue for medical studies because of their similarity to humans.
Researchers have added genes to rhesus macaques before by injecting embryos, but the new work is the first documentation that such genes can be passed along to future generations of monkeys. That's important because it opens the door to creating colonies of transgenic monkeys by breeding, which would be far simpler than the cumbersome process of making each animal from scratch by injecting a gene into an embryo.
The work is reported in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature by scientists at the Central Institute for Experimental Animals in Kawasaki, Japan, and elsewhere in that country.
The researchers plan to use transgenic marmosets to study such conditions as Parkinson's disease and Lou Gehrig's disease, or ALS.
Anthony Chan of the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta said the result boosts his confidence that his transgenic macaques will also pass along their added genes to offspring, once they become old enough to reproduce.
For the study, the researchers used a gene that makes tissues glow under ultraviolet light, as an easy way to see where the gene is present. They put the gene in a virus that would insert it into the DNA of cells, and then injected the virus into marmoset embryos. From these embryos, five healthy marmosets were born. All showed evidence of having inherited the gene.
Later, one of those animals fathered a male by test-tube fertilization. The gene was shown to be active in the offspring's skin.
"The birth of this transgenic marmoset baby is undoubtedly a milestone," Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a colleague wrote in a Nature commentary.
Transgenic marmosets could be useful for studying infectious diseases, immunology and neurological disorders as well as some genetic disorders like muscular dystrophy, they wrote. But marmoset biology differs enough from humans to prevent study of other disorders like AIDS and tuberculosis, which can be approached instead through other monkeys that are more closely related to humans, they wrote.
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Because you are crazy?
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