Article: Mickey Rourke, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gloria Estefan, Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

ROURKE ON ROPES BUT STILL SWINGING 
M-I-C- ... see ya real soon in the tabloids _ K-E-Y ... Why? Because he's just so darned misunderstood, Mickey Rourke tells Entertainment Weekly. The sometime-actor, sometime-boxer and accused wife-beater says he's serious about resuscitating his once-promising movie career. ``I've been on the bench since `9{ Weeks.' But I put myself there,'' he says. ``I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. I'm willing to give them 100 percent this time. I just want a second chance at Hollywood.'' 
Back in the headlines last month for his unwelcome presence at the Big Apple fashion shows where estranged wife Carre Otis was ...

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