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Best known for his action packed blockbusters and enjoying a huge comeback to the silver screen Mickey Rourke’s next ambition is far detached from his usual roles. He plans to play Gareth Thomas, the world’s first openly gay rugby player and male athlete in any team sport.

Rourke, 57 got in touch with Thomas after hearing of his story, as a big rugby fan he has been interested in making a rugby film for some time. He contacted Thomas via a mutual friend in the Rugby League and invited him to the audience of the Jonathan Ross show on which he was a guest and invited him to meet over dinner afterwards.

The Hollywood heavyweight is no stranger to physical sports after his training for his role in ‘The Wrestler’ for which he won a Bafta and a Golden Globe. He is also a trained boxer and fought professionally during his break from acting in the 1990′s.

Thomas is said to be delighted and flattered by Rourke’s interest in his life. His career started at a local club at youth level, after a series of transfers he ended up at his home club Bridgend. He played for the Welsh capital Cardiff for three years before returning to captain his hometown to the Welsh Premier Division title in 2003. Debut for Wales in 1995 against Japan and set a record four tries against Italy in 1999. He retains the record for the most appearances for his country at 100.

In 2006, after a neck impact during a game, he collapsed at an interview later in the day with what appeared to be a stroke, he was rushed to hospital and it was discovered that he had ruptured an artery in his neck. Many feared this would cause his retirement but he resumed playing at the start of the 2006-07 season.

The Welsh international came out to the Daily Mail newspaper claiming he didn’t want to be known as a ‘gay rugby player’ and he was a rugby player first, and foremost a man. He has publically talked about how he hopes his decision helps younger athletes feel comfortable with their sexuality and that it will not put off any potential players from what is considered one of the most masculine sports in the world.

But don’t go thinking Rourke will don his rugby boots and rugby training shirts just yet as many have pointed out he is more than 20 years older than the rugby star.

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If you haven’t seen it yet, Fight Club was, in fact, one of the most culturally and artistically important films of the last ten or twenty years. Just as movies like Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas started the decade off with a bang, Fight Club finished it off with an even bigger one. It’s definitely one of the must download movies of the last thirty years or so.

The movie follows Edward Norton as the unnamed Narrator. We never find out his name. He works a dull, soul crushing white collar job. The movie came out about the same time as Office Space, and the two are compared quite often. They both follow some of the same trains of thought in terms of where they get their material, but Fight Club takes it in a much darker direction, while still actually remaining just as funny as the other film, in spite of not technically being a comedy film.

The narrator meets Tyler Durden, and the rest is history. Durden is a character who is completely free of the boundaries of society placed on most people. You know Kramer, from Seinfeld? He’s kind of like that. Just, imagine how dangerous, frightening, and at the same time, inspiring, Kramer would be if you took him out of the sitcom setting and put him into a world where his actions could result in serious consequences.

Tyler Durden is really the heart of the film in.. Many more ways than one. He and the narrator together found the Fight Club, which begins as simply a place where lonely white collar men can fight so as to reaffirm their manhood, but soon grows into something deeper, more frightening, and which has a much greater impact in the grand scheme of things.

Once they start robbing banks and trying to take over the world, you see that the Fight Club is an expression of rage, that impotent rage that all men feel in a society that has castrated them in a symbolic way. The movie is outlandish and surreal, but this part isn’t. That anger is very real, and it seems entirely realistic that, given the right catalyst, men really could just go crazy and start blowing things up for no good reason (heck some guys already do it).

The way it ties everything up is fascinating and was, at the time, an incredible and unpredictable plot twist. Since, it’s become sort of cliche. This movie and the Sixth Sense both created their own style of “surprise endings”, and created trends that would eventually get a little tired but which, at the time, were exciting and interesting.

In the years since Fight Club, Ed Norton has become… Well he can be predictable. You always know exactly how he’s going to act from minute to minute. Interestingly, it’s Brad Pitt here who gives one of the best performances, and who would then go on to top it, over and over again, throughout the next several movies of his career. He tops this role in the Coen Brother’s Burn After Reading, and again in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. However, this role, and 12 Monkeys, were probably the two that really showed that he was a real actor, and not just a pretty boy.

The movie is violent and surreal, and winds up making an interesting statement on what it really means to be a man in the modern world. Many viewers misunderstand what the movie is really about in that… Well, it doesn’t provide answers, as many fans think. It only provides the questions.

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Lady GaGa makes a You Tube record!
The singer passed one billion for video views from a single channel.
Lady GaGa’s singles success ‘Just Dance’, ‘Poker Face’ and ‘Bad Romance’, have helped to elevate user views.
Lady GaGa is currently on tour in support of her latest album ‘The Fame Monster’.

Wayne Gillespie – Biography
Auckland born Wayne Gillespie made his start in 1979/80 busking in Paris, playing to audiences in London folk clubs and entertaining in Darlinghurst cafes before settling back in New Zealand in 1981.

His first solo album, the acoustic Wayward Son was released in 1984 and made the finals of the New Zealand Music awards in two categories: – Most Promising Vocalist & Folk Album of the Year. The song Away with You off this album also won a special APRA award in the same year.

His second album New Locations was released by CBS NZ/Aus in 1987 and was produced by Aussie folk legend the late Trevor Lucas. (Ex- Fairport Convention and producer of albums for Sandy Denny, Redgum & Goanna). This album saw Wayne in the New Zealand charts and playing live in Australasia with artists such as Suzanne Vega, Dave Dobbyn, Redgum, and Shona Lang. Wayne relocated to Sydney in 1988.

Gillespies third album Living in Exile was released in 1993 (through Sony NZ & Festival Aust) and included Dave Dobbyn, Margaret Urlich, Brendan Power & Nigel Gavin as guests. This album received much critical acclaim on both sides of the Tasman and saw Gillespie touring extensively in Australia and New Zealand both solo acoustic and in band mode. Including gigs with Chris Whitley, Neil Murray, Colin Hay, Marcia Howard and Irelands Keiran Goss.

In 1995 Gillespie formed a new band called Passionfish and released an EP Love Comes Down. He has also made several Australian TV appearances and performed on the final closing night of Aucklands legendary Gluepot venue with Dave Dobbyn, Neil Finn, Shona Lang and the Brainchilds.

In Jan 1997 Gillespie was invited to produce the third album for NZ band the NARCS recorded in Hamilton. He also co-wrote songs and guested on this album called Push the Boat Out (Hark records).

Wayne also combined with virtuoso guitarist Nigel Gavin to record an Acoustic live album Live at the Bunker album which was released in 2006.

Waynes current recording project is with a band called Famous Blue Raincoat featuring co-writes with drummer Rob Grosser due for release 2010.

On the live front several Irish dates in 2009 with Brendan Power resulted in the two planning to tour New Zealand in Jan 2010.