RIP Mickey Rooney

lukin2006

Actor Mickey Rooney, America's boy next door, dies at 93

http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/actor-mickey-rooney-americas-boy-next-door-dies-at-93-1?ocid=newssocial

Rooney, who was one of the biggest box office stars of the movies' studio era, had been ill for some time, TMZ said. It did not give a cause of death and a spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

Rooney, who spent almost his entire life in show business, teamed up with Judy Garland in the 1939 movie muscial "Babes in Arms." He also starred with Elizabeth Taylor in 1944's "National Velvet," which launched Taylor's career.

Rooney was best known for his role as Andy Hardy, the popular all-American teenager, which he portrayed in about 20 movies.

Rooney was married eight times, the first time to screen beauty Ava Gardner. Asked once if he would marry all his eight wives again, he said, "Absolutely. I loved every one of them." (Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Kevin Gray and Michael Perry)

chadwick

i'll be darned. i thought he moved on a long time ago, damn.
i took the liberty of googling images of ava gardner.... nicely done
ava & rooney
ava & howard hughes
ava & sinatra

rooney looks like he's in 4th grade when he's with her.

pete's dragon
my youngest brother drove me batty with pete's dragon (think im gonna go roll around in a busy road real quick as this memory hauntes me)
http://youtu.be/4XfLb1U_j1A

PJ_Soul

I liked him in Francis Ford Copella's The Black Stallion.

dankind

Family Guy: Mickey Rooney explains his hobbies

jamburger

Any Long Islanders remember Mickey Rooney's Weenie World outside the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa?

eeriepadave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyUTK-Fu9j8

This was taken right across the street where i work now i n Downingtown, PA. It's been gone now for the past 10 years or so. Was a hotel that he stayed at.

http://mrdowningtown.does.co/mickey-rooney-slept-here/

Wobbie

with all these wives......was little Andy quite the cocksman??

dankind

I wrote a poem in college entitled "Fuck Mickey Rooney."

I gave up poetry, btw

PJ_Soul

dankind said:

I wrote a poem in college entitled "Fuck Mickey Rooney."

I gave up poetry, btw

Do you still have the poem? I'd like to read it!

dankind

PJ_Soul said:

dankind said:

I wrote a poem in college entitled "Fuck Mickey Rooney."

I gave up poetry, btw

Do you still have the poem? I'd like to read it!

No, you wouldn't.

And I bet I do somewhere.

I used to host this poetry reading dealio at my undergrad, and my method was come up with mildly amusing stuff to read to kick it off and put other readers (you know, the poets who were actually trying) at ease. I remember I also wrote one that had something to do with Sweet Pickles, Picture Pages and Bill Cosby. It also had a faux angry tone to it.

PJ_Soul

dankind said:

PJ_Soul said:

dankind said:

I wrote a poem in college entitled "Fuck Mickey Rooney."

I gave up poetry, btw

Do you still have the poem? I'd like to read it!

No, you wouldn't.

Yes, I really would!
Maybe when I take you to the UK for the Pearl Jam show you can recite it to me. :P

dankind

PJ_Soul said:

dankind said:

PJ_Soul said:

dankind said:

I wrote a poem in college entitled "Fuck Mickey Rooney."

I gave up poetry, btw

Do you still have the poem? I'd like to read it!

No, you wouldn't.

Yes, I really would!
Maybe when I take you to the UK for the Pearl Jam show you can recite it to me. :P

You win and take me, and I'll give you a signed and numbered copy. :ar!