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Article: Marky Mark lives no longer `Boogie Nights' may help Wahlberg bury image
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 20, 1997
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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 ...