he should have willed his entire estate to Boys Town.
Very sad. Mickey deserved better in his old age. Hope he’s in a better place now. RIP
The Mick once threw a television set at a friend of my husband’s. He was a stage manager for Sugar Babies.
A great performer; a loon of a person.
bfl
I bet this happens a lot.
We need to protect our elderly better.
We have a hard time in our own family. Both mom and dad have Alzheimers and mom can be mean to dad. Even with four round the clock aides it can be hard to stop every yell or slap. And mom doesn’t know what she is doing.
Maybe men should think twice about the much younger trophy wives. The older wives might be more loyal..
I used to work in the credit dept for a major retailer and Mickey had an account with us, one day calls and asks for a credit line increase. I pulled his CBR and was shocked to see the staggering debt. I had to decline him.
I didn’t know about that, but Mickey Rooney, especially when he was older, came across to me like a fairly contentious, pugilistic kind of guy.
Left in the wake of this were 10 children with whom Rooney elected to have little contact; indeed, in his 1991 autobiography, he devoted more words to his pets than his kids.
Of course, what is always simultaneously fascinating and sickening are all the leeches grabbing for the dough while the star is alive and after he or she is dead.
I ran into Mickey Rooney in a hotel in Philadelphia. He was sitting all by himself in the lobby (his feet didn’t reach the floor). I was on my way to a meeting but I stopped and offered my hand. He waved me off like I had the plague, telling me he was waiting for someone. I would have thought he’d be flattered that anyone even recognized him.
I don’t know what kind of person he was but he was kind of a douchebag to me that morning.
Although he was in the occasional flick (It’s A Mad...World”) and tv show, it seemed like his big days of stardom were pretty much finished when I was growing up in the fifties and sixties. He used to do occasional (unfunny) appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, but for the most part almost disappeared from show biz until Sugar Babies.
Mickey Rooney was offered the role of “The Penguin” on the 1960s Batman TV series, but turned it down. The part, of course, then went to Burgess Meredith. He was also considered for the role of Archie Bunker on “All In The Family.”
Should have stopped at #7.