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[apocalypsos]

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Hollywood hunk Mark Wahlberg has slammed Eminem, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for giving a false impression of tough, impoverished childhoods in their music and films. The Planet Of The Apes star has lambasted Damon, his co-star in new movie The Departed, for romanticizing difficult upbringings in Good Will Hunting, his debut film with Affleck. Wahlberg - who blames his assault conviction 17 years ago on his harsh childhood - has also attacked rapper Eminem for idealizing his difficult formative years in his biopic 8 Mile, in an interview with Details magazine. The 33-year-old actor complains, "My childhood wasn't like some 8 Mile bulls**t where you go and have a rap-off. Or like West Side Story, where you all start dancing and s**t. If I make a film about my upbringing it's going to be about more than a f**king kid doing math, like in Good Will Hunting, you know what I mean?"

Oh, fuck YOU, Mark Wahlberg. Your older brother was in the biggest boy band of the 80s. Just out of curiosity, will that be in your autobiography? How about the underwear modeling? Will we get to see that, too? I've got ten bucks that says Donnie's sitting at home reading that and thinking, "Bitch, please."

And I know this will come as quite a shock, but none of us think Matt Damon's "tough, impoverished childhood" ended because he could do complex math problems. It was because of his romantic love affair with Ben Affleck. See what happens when you don't put on your slash goggles? You honestly think Matt Damon was some sort of straight math whiz. *end sarcastic annoyance*

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[palmetto.livejournal.com]

"Waaaah, my parents only have one car."

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

"Oh, woe is me, my parents couldn't feed me so I ended up with no body fat and six-pack abs."

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Your older brother was in the biggest boy band of the 80s.

There are times when I wonder if I'm the only person in the world who still thinks of Mark Wahlberg as 'Donnie's little brother'. *g*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

And Donnie is infinitely cooler. And a much better actor. (I mean, seriously, how many of actually knew that that was Donnie Wahlberg in Bruce Willis's bathroom in the beginning of The Sixth Sense?)

[miss-katelynne.livejournal.com]

I'm still weirded out by that. Have you seen him in Dreamcatcher?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Nope, not yet. I've caught him once in a while flipping through the channels and seeing him on Third Watch (I think that was what he was on). Two minutes here or there of him still trumps the entirety of Planet of the Apes.

[miss-katelynne.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Donnie was on Boomtown. I watched that show, solely for him and Mykelti Williams.

[thebitterguy]

Boomtown was a sweet show. Shame it got turfed.

[miss-katelynne.livejournal.com]

Not at all. Except I add in the words "less talented" between Donnie's and little.

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

Same here.

[miss-katelynne.livejournal.com]

I love your icon!

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

There are times when I wonder if I'm the only person in the world who still thinks of Mark Wahlberg as 'Donnie's little brother'. *g*

I still think of him as Marky Mark of the clan FunkyBunch.

I also blame him for the fact that I grew up thinking he wrote "Wild Side". =:(

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

Same here. Still can't take him seriously. :)

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

He's just jealous because Matt Damon is a better actor. And cuter.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Hell, Ben Affleck is a better, cuter actor than Mark Wahlberg, and that's saying something. (My first reaction to "Hollywood hunk" was "Hunk of what?")

[miss-katelynne.livejournal.com]

Prosthetic Penis?

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

Wait. 8 Mile was supposed to be a biopic? Good Will Hunting, too?

I'm sorry. I like Mark Wahlberg movies fine enough (at the very least, Three Kings and The Italian Job, but what kind of spaceship did he use to depart reality?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The spaceship that's probably still smarting from when Eminem made fun of him on TRL.

[blacksatinrose.livejournal.com]

Oh please!

Every super-successful, filthy rich rapper-underwearmodel-actor has to have something to WHINE about. Talk to the hand, Mark.

[miss-katelynne.livejournal.com]

I bet he hates it when people refer to him as "Marky Mark".

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Did you see him on TRL the one time with Eminem? If you missed it, the two of them were crowding around one of the televisions and Eminem said something about them standing around in "one big bunch," and Mark pitched a fit. I can't remember if he pitched it on screen, but I do remember the look on his face. It was classic. :)

[miss-katelynne.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'm sorry I missed that! Some people are just overly sensitive. I feel like smacking people like that upside the head and saying, "Bitch! You chose to take part in that!" I bet Donnie doesn't get upset when people talk about his boy band days. I mean, it made him famous.

[unanon.livejournal.com]

I've got ten bucks that says Donnie's sitting at home reading that and thinking, "Bitch, please."

Bwa! That made me actually laugh out loud...and then have to make up something to explain the spontaneous cackle to my boss. :p

Donnie is infinitely better than Marky-Mark...as Wahlbergs go. *desperately conceals the 6 month period of her teens during which she drew Donnie Wahlberg fanart*

[franticgoddess.livejournal.com]

The man started in a remake of Charade, and therefore is an idiot in every sense of the word, in very languange.

[cochise15.livejournal.com]

Somebody sent me this post because they thought you'd be interested in this little tidbit:

Tough-guy Mark made this stupid little video called "Wild side", a "cover" of the Lou Reed song, on the benches at my old high school in Boston, BC High. It's an all boys catholic school. After he was done shooting the video, the story goes, he started calling the football team faggots or something, so they trudged over, kicked the shit out of his body guards, then kicked the shit out of him.

I wonder if being a spoiled little brat who gets whats coming to him will make it into the bio. Asshole.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing* Why am I not surprised?

[dfn-doe.livejournal.com]

I'm still curious why actors think that the public cares what they think...

I heard an interview with MW once and he was talking about his assault conviction, apparently it was reduced from an attempted murder charge. His story is that he was high on PCP and stabbed a guy in the eye so he could steal a case of beer that the man was carrying out of a liquor store. He sounded pretty apologetic about it while he was recounting the details, but being that he is an actor I don't know how earnest his emotions were.

[boozinjoebubala.livejournal.com]

He was pretty funny in I HEART Huckabees, though. Really, I think Wahlberg, Damon, Affleck, et al, they're all a bunch of little bitches. I'd rather watch a Steve Buscemi movie. Or Joe Pantoliano. Or Mickey Rourke.

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

There is no way Mark Wahlberg is only 33 years old. That is a liar liar pants on fire situation right there.

[anonymous_sibyl]

Marky Mark grew up a Dot Rat. (Kid from Dorchester Massachusetts.) I've heard the PCP/eye gouging story, too, and I tend to believe it. Even if I didn't believe the story, I would believe that his upbringing was fairly difficult and lacking in amenities. Sure, that all changed when Donnie started bringing home the NKOTB money and hooked Mark up with musical contracts, but the early days had to have been bad.

My husband's Nana had a house in Dorchester. When she bought it sixty-some odd years ago it was a nice place. When she died five or so years ago Dorchester wasn't a place you went without a large group of people to stick up for you. Somebody stole the furnace out of her house, that's the kind of city it is.

That's my long way of saying I know a Dot Rat when I see one, and Marky Mark is one.

[aristoboule.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's because living with the third nipple has damaged him emotionally? *evil cackle*

Go to http://itsb.ucsf.edu/~vcr/Actors7.html ("Skinema" aka Dermatology of the Stars is always entertaining) for some pictures of it.