Is it me, or does Mickey Rourke look like "Two Face" from Batman?
Did boxing do all this damage?

I was thinking that Mickey Rourke looks like that evil doll "Chuckie" in "Child's Play".

Aw, man, I feel terrible. I shouldn't be saying mean things about people who are no longer gorgeous. Lord knows I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago either. Scratch my comment about Mickey Rourke. That was so not nice.

Great post, GT!
Did you hear about the new car feature that--if you are Nick Nolte-- the car won't start?
Mickey was icky before he got older. Cruise is an idiot.

Lisa,
Watch it girl! You and I may be tied for the "poster girl of sweetness"!

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Hilarious. Tom Cruise still looks really good, though. Coincidentally, I was watching a TV show called Psych last night and saw Keith David--my kick-ass hero from The Thing and They Live--playing an average, middle-aged, middle class father. It was a surprise.

People do age -- men are more often forgiven for this sin than women but perhaps that is not true for those who make their living in front of the camera.

Yeah, Cruise is an interesting addition here. He does look great for his age, but . . . there's something not right there. Something tinny and false about that veneer. Glad he's in there.

Vaughn -- aw, I don't think he looks too bad. I'm his age, and you can't help but not look exactly the same as you did in your mid-20s (as a trip back home, surrounded by old family photos reminded me. Ouch). I think he's aged in a rather normal way, and is still one of my favorites.

Now I'm no fan of some of the guys you list here, but I still have to say this: no one can live for 20 years and not show some signs of age. Even if you live a healthy life and make good choices, you are bound to pack on a few pounds, grow some wrinkles and lose your looks a bit. That's life.

Tom Cruise fell of the radar for me after his "interview" on GMA, by that total wimp Matt Lauer, wherein he staeted "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do." Yeah, right Tom. You know the way L-Ron teaches it. a good interviewer would have called him on that, but Lauer folded like a two dollar camp cot.

Tom followed that act with a condemnation of Brook Shields for using anti-depressants after being diagnosed with post-partum depression. I ask you, who would you rather trust, a high school dropout (Cruise), or a Princeton Honors graduate (Shields)?

What a maroon!

You're right about falling down hard. Who knows how much they use and drink. Probably safe to say Cruise does not, because it's against the Scientology rules. Drinking can make your face look really bad as you age. But, I also think a lot of it is genetics. Judging by the way women in my family age, I say I better cut out the drinking, even my minimal amount, before I too look like Mickey Rourke.

Love this kind of thing. It's a nice break from seriousness that comes with the holidays (for me a least). Thanks Greg!

I have to address Wayne G first. You kill me with the Bugs Bunny "what a maroon"! I used to say that line in a HORRIBLE Bugs Bunny voice so much my wife threatened to divorce me! Hilarious. Yes, the Matt Lauer interview, the Brooke Shields insult, the Katie Holmes furniture dance on Oprah sealed the deal. I used to really like the guy.

Lisa, you bring up a good point. I SWEAR I was picking random guys to pick on. I'm like Kerry, I LOVE Vince Vaughn. He and I are a lot alike physically, same height, probably same weight when he's "tween" . I just pointed out the difference with him as it's only been 12 years since "Swingers". He seems to have aged less gracefully. Rourke, I don't care what anyone says about him because I can't stand the egomaniac. Never could. Same with Kilmer. I really liked him after The Doors until he actually thought he was Jim Morrison afterward. Reality check Val, you were playing a ROLE! Steph, right on girl! These people make millions and put their faces out there, I don't. We can joke at their expense just a lil bit. :-)

Kerry, I'm with you. Love Vaughn, Cruise has just not seemed right to me in interviews. My sister who works in Psychiatry tells me that he has a very passive aggressive look and controlling manner to his body language. Like John McCain, perhaps the Napoleon Complex.

ROB, we agree on something! I"ve loved Keith Davis since he stole the show in "Platoon" and then both of the Sci-Fi thrillers you mention. He and Rowdy Roddy Pickled Piper or WTF his name is were great in "They Live"!

Dorinda and Kristi, I wouldn't have done this blog on women as they already catch more hell if they get one wrinkle on them. It caused my lovely Meg Ryan to go all Joan Rivers. Leading men get juicy roles into their 60's and 70's, look at Al Pacino, DeNiro, Redford, on and on...Women get past their prime at 40 in Hollywood. I saw these guys photos on MSN and had to put it down on the OS. Vaughn I should have left off. I like him too much. But he and Owen Wilson seem to have women problems a lot and with Wilson's attempted suicide it makes me wonder... I love Owen Wilson and hope he gets his life together. So glad he lived.

You're right on the money too Palindrome. Cruise is clean but not "sober" of mind I believe. Rourke has abused smoking, drugs, you name it. Mostly his body through boxing though. Vaughn just has a pot-smoking, beer drinker look. Nothing wrong with that. Kilmer definitely gets high and talks to his favorite person about his favorite subject...Him.

I can't say anything about anyone else aging. I looked at my high school senior portrait (and I'm only 31 now), but it seems like a completely different person. Ouch.

OH, and to Mr. Curise/Mapother, you DON'T know shit about psychiatry. If you did, you would respect the fact that YOU are a man and women DO have post-partem depression. It's real. Just like PTSD, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, and all other sorts of mental issues are REAL. Looks to me like Tommy is suffering from one form himself and is deep in denial. The first thing a person does when suffering from a malady is go into denial. Nicole Kidman got the f**k out of Dodge, Katie Holmes looks like one of ten Mormon wives, neglected and unhappy. I notice his roles (outside of Steven Spielberg) have stopped coming. To me, he hasn't made a "good" film in quite a long time. A lot of his films like "Top Gun" are overrated anyway. I liked is smaller budget films best.

PLEASE watch the added Tom Cruise video on Scientology. Can you say "superiority complex" to the EXTREME?!!!!!

Great post!

I have to agree with you on Cruise, he needs to come down to earth.

I must say that I prefer men on the older side of the scale, always have. A little grey in the mane is so hot!

Greg, people age and some of them do it better than others. Cruise doesn't look bad, he's just aged bad. Rourke is a mess. The others, whether I like them or not, it's just time. Time can sometimes add character but more often it shows character, good or bad,which can't be botoxed away.

Cruise hasn't age, with him it's more about the abrupt change in his personality, for the worse. The others were just observations. I don't exactly look like I did at 24 either, and I've been through as much as these guys. I guess it's just my curious human nature on changes. All of these guys have changed in different ways and each I find intriguing one way or another.

A touch of gray is trickling into my temples. Although you'll never hear me mention it but on here. My parents both didn't go gray until late. So maybe I'll keep my color a bit longer. :-)

ROB, we agree on something!

Hey, I think the only things we've disagreed about so far are pretty frivolous.

BTW, my hair? Not completely white yet. But well on its way... Boo!

I had to add Dubya in the mix. He's turned into an old man in 8 years.
I would not want to be President of the U.S. for anything in the world. And following him almost anyone could look good.

BTW Rob, do you have any Asian ethnicity in you? My wife is half and my son of course is 1/4 and in a couple of photos, I felt like I could see a touch.

Just wondering.

Peace and yeah, I was ribbing you earlier. You always make me laugh. :-)

Greg

Gee, all this talk about grey hair . . . .hehehe! :)

Meow!

I don't think you could find a before and after photo of any US president that didn't show significant age-deterioration. Look at Clinton, who was among the youngest ever to assume the office. Look at Jimmy Carter, who it happened to in 4 years. Kennedy, of course, didn't get a chance and Reagan, well, he was sort of on preservation maintenance from the git go.

Poor Mickey Rourke. He was the guy I wanted to be in The Pope of Greenwich Village; now he looks like the Mummy. Sad, sad, sad.

Lonnie, being the President of the U.S. has to be one of the tougher jobs in the world. Yes, Clinton grayed, and so did Carter in 4 years, Reagan was, I'm convinced, suffering from dementia well before he was out of office and GHW Bush really didn't change much. Maybe because he didn't really do much. Dubya HAS done much. All bad. I think the past few years of his nosediving approval rating is what took its toll on him. Clinton and Carter worked hard. Bush hardly works, and when he does it's just whatever his cabinet, V.P. and Karl Rove ask of him.

Good riddance you bastard. (not you Lonnie, you can stay)

BTW Rob, do you have any Asian ethnicity in you? My wife is half and my son of course is 1/4 and in a couple of photos, I felt like I could see a touch.

Good eye, Greg! 3/8 Filipino, 1/8 Chinese, the rest mainly Italian, Irish, and a smattering of other Western European influences.

Ahhh, I thought so! I bet you people rarely get the right combo guessed?! My wife always gets, Italian, Latina, Greek, Hawaiian, etc...
My son is even harder to figure out for most people.
Me, people just point and call me "whitey". "Hey whitey, sit the f**k down." Stuff like that.

Me, people just point and call me "whitey". "Hey whitey, sit the f**k down."

Good one. Sometimes when my wife (of British and French Canadian ancestry, best we can tell) talks about her family's doings, sometimes I just shake my head and say, "White people..." For her part, she sometimes goes to dialog from the Pink Panther movies for her comments...

Ahhhhhhhahahahahahahahaha! Clever wife! You can never go wrong with dialog from "The Pink Panther" films.

"Does your dog bite?"
"No" (dog bites and growls) "I thought you said your dog doesn't bite?" "That's not my dog."
(rim shot)

Classic

Roarke had bad plastic surgery. Really. That's the deal.

Ahhh, that makes sense Odette. Looks like he was burned or was doing meth, which will kill your skin tissue.
Thanks