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Movie: 'Barfly'

8 tonight MNT Hard-drinking writer Charles Bukowski based his screenplay for this 1987 drama on his own life. Mickey Rourke (right) stars as Henry, sometime poet and all-the-time drunk, who hooks up with a fellow lush (Faye Dunaway) and a magazine publisher (Alice Krige) interested in his work.

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Hard-drinking writer Charles Bukowski based his screenplay for this 1987 drama on his own life. Mickey Rourke (right) stars as Henry, sometime poet and all-the-time drunk, who hooks up with a fellow lush (Faye Dunaway) and a magazine publisher (Alice Krige) interested in his work.

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