Oh Mickey, You’re So Dead. You’re So Dead, You Blow My Head.

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Slipped a Mickey

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The Year Without Mickey Rooney 

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Andy Hardy Meets the Grim Reaper

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I Was the Biggest Corpse in the World

Mickey Rooney, whose co-stars included Care Bears, Muppets, Judy Garland and Adam Sandler, but somehow, in more than 200 films, never Kevin Bacon, has died at the age of 93. In his nearly 90-year career, Rooney did silent films, vaudeville, radio, Broadway, television, talkies, commercials, amateur porn and kid’s birthday parties. None of it very good. Rooney was renowned as someone who could sing, dance, clown, play drama – everything but grow, as the 5-foot-2 actor found himself too old to play kids and too short to play leading men. As Andy Hardy in a series of 15 films of the 1930s and ‘40s, Rooney was the biggest box office star in the world, while epitomizing American family values to a country that didn’t realize Andy would marry 8 times. He scored an Oscar nomination for Babes in Arms in 1939 and another 40 years later for The Black Stallion, and found a spot on the list of most offensive performances of all time as a caricature of a Japanese man in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. He voiced Santa in 4 Rankin/Bass specials, most notably Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and The Year Without a Santa Claus, then switched sides and appeared in Silent Night, Deadly Night 5.