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.
Bukowski starved for his art, living in rooming houses, working low paying jobs while also bumming around and spending time off in order to write and have more freedom.