Charles Bukowski and Mickey Rourke, who played his alter-ego Henry Chinaski in the film ‘Barfly,’ which Bukowski wrote, had a complicated relationship.
Bukowski once wrote a poem about a photograph of Hemingway drunk in the middle of the day, that he made the photographer promise not to share. It appears in this video.
This post includes affiliate links. If you purchase something through one of these links we will get a commission, which helps us maintain the site, at no extra cost to you. Today would have been Charles Bukowski’s 93rd birthday. He was born on this day, August 16th, in 1920. Bukowski…