If you were watching last night's Golden Globe Awards, you may have noticed two men who looked like they'd crashed the wrong party. One had long hair, a chain wallet, and shades. The other, a long, hard look of a cobra. One wore a moustache and goatee; the other, a small soul patch. The combined facial hair, come to think of it, would result in a menacing mug.

Despite the tough guy appearances, though, Mickey Rourke and Bruce Springsteen are two of the more gentle souls you'll find roaming the lanscape of music and film. Rourke's struggles are well-documented; a promising career held back by numerous addictions. An industry that had given up on him. Forays into bizarre pursuits like boxing which served to only lower him in the esteem of the public eye.

Yet the dude don't give up. Buoyed by an enthusiastic agent (deservedly thanked during Rourke's speech last night), Rourke's career started to lift, and like a Springsteen-penned character, he began to walk the long road back to redemption. Rourke stars in The Wrestler, a Darren Aronofsky film that tells the tale of Randy "The Ram" Robinson, an aging wrestler desperate to reconnect with an estranged daughter and to let love, and not pain, guide his life.

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