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Barfly is a 1987 American black comedy film directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. The film is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles , and it presents Bukowski's alter ego Henry Chinaski .
Mark Kriegel is an American author, journalist, and television commentator. He has been an analyst and essayist for ESPN's boxing programming since 2017 and in 2022 was the recipient of the Boxing Writers Association of America's Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism [1] and is regarded as "perhaps the finest boxing writer in America."
Samuel "Mayday" Malone [3] is a bartender and owner of Cheers. Sam is also a ladies' man.Before the series began, he was a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox when he became (and still is) a friend of Coach, but then he became alcoholic, which took a toll on his baseball career.
Chinaski begins sleeping with fellow barfly Jan, a kindred spirit he meets while drowning his sorrows at a bar. When a brief stint as a bookie finds him abandoned by the only woman with whom he is able to relate, a fling with gold-digging floozie Laura finds him once again falling into a morose state of perpetual drunkenness and unemployment.
The puzzle was a Wheel of Fortune crossword with “butter” being the clue, and the words in the puzzle all coming after butter in common compound words. And that helped set the stage for the…
"The Simpsons," to fans' dismay, has killed off original character Larry the Barfly after 35 years. A man of few words and true to his nickname, Larry Dalrymple was often seen at Moe’s Tavern ...
Barfly may refer to: Barfly, 1995 album by the band Buck-O-Nine; Barfly (club), a music venue in Camden Town, London, UK; Barfly, 1987 American film starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway; Barfly, a bar in Montreal on Saint Laurent Boulevard; Barfly, a comic strip in the Irish music magazine, Hot Press
Henry Charles "Hank" Chinaski is the literary alter ego of the American writer Charles Bukowski, appearing in five of Bukowski's novels, a number of his short stories and poems, and the films Barfly and Factotum.