http://showhype.com/movie/mickey_rourke/ The Web's top Mickey Rourke news from ShowHype - find more at http://showhype.com/movie/mickey_rourke/ en ShowHype http://backend.userland.com/rss http://images.dailyradar.com/media/img/showhype/logo_120x60.png http://showhype.com/movie/mickey_rourke/ 120 60 http://showhype.com/article/lennard-davis-mickey-becomes-a-rat-and-we-all-like-it/ <p> As a kid I loved Mickey Mouse -- his high, shrill voice, and his madcap love of life. I wanted to be a mouseketeer and join all those nice, well-kept kids on the Disney TV show who seemed to embody the ideals of what America was all about. But what's happened to Mickey? I read today that Disney is about to launch a new Mickey video game in which our hero's sunny personality is going "dark side." Mickey, that loveable mouse, will become a rodent and wander through a cartoon wasteland meeting bitter and disappointed characters who resent his success. In making Mickey more sinister, Disney follows in a trend toward media characters who are no longer Mr. Nice Guys. Now television doctors like House, cutthroat lawyers like Glenn Close in Damages , grumpy comedians like Larry David, and philandering working fathers like Don Draper in Madmen -- all have deeply dark, self-destructive sides to them. When I was growing up and loving Mickey, television characters were meant to be role models&nbsp;...</p><p>Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: <a href="http://showhype.com/celebrities/">Celebrities</a>, <a href="http://showhype.comhttp://showhype.com/movie/mickey_rourke/">Mickey Rourke</a>, <a href="http://showhype.comhttp://showhype.com/television/heroes/">Heroes</a></p> http://showhype.com/article/lennard-davis-mickey-becomes-a-rat-and-we-all-like-it/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:47:48 +0000 Celebrities Mickey Rourke Heroes http://showhype.com/article/jeff-danziger-mickey-and-carrie/ <p> </p><p>Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: <a href="http://showhype.com/movies/">Movies</a>, <a href="http://showhype.comhttp://showhype.com/movie/jeff_bridges/">Jeff Bridges</a>, <a href="http://showhype.comhttp://showhype.com/movie/mickey_rourke/">Mickey Rourke</a></p> http://showhype.com/article/jeff-danziger-mickey-and-carrie/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:29:57 +0000 Movies Jeff Bridges Mickey Rourke