Article: Marky Mark lives no longer `Boogie Nights' may help Wahlberg bury image

When Marky Mark er, make that Mark Wahlberg stood up in front of a packed house at the Toronto Film Festival to introduce "Boogie Nights" last month, he thanked director Paul Thomas Anderson for "helping me put all that Marky Mark (expletive) behind me."

Wahlberg's turn as a boogie man in "Boogie Nights" indeed might be the performance that finally gets people to call the former rapper by his real name. Wahlberg plays Dirk Diggler, an impressionable teen whose extraordinary anatomy makes him a porn superstar.

Serious actor is the latest incarnation for Wahlberg, who began his career as the rapper with a Soloflex physique, segued into a modeling stint as poster boy for Calvin Klein ...

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