So That's How Ya Do It

I'm really going to bed after this. I had to finish up some mail - when this came my way. 

Emergency-medical specialist Doug Bowen of West Chester has done many things in his line of work, which takes him to movie and TV shoots. For example, Bowen was behind the scenes, medical kit in hand, on the MTV men-behaving-badly series Jackass.

But teaching someone to feign a near-fatal heart attack?

For the movie The Wrestler, which shot scenes a year ago at New Alhambra Arena in South Philly, Bowen instructed star Mickey Rourke on the classic symptoms: shortness of breath, chest pain, numbness and tingling in the jaw, shoulder and arm, plus nausea and vomiting.

Rourke, up for an Oscar on Sunday for his bravura turn as Randy "The Ram" Robinson, employed a mixture of vanilla wafers and ginger ale for the more obvious symptoms, Bowen says. Rourke collapsed for the cameras about a dozen times before director Darren Aronofsky was satisfied. Bowen turns up in the background as a medic.

Source : Philadelphia Inquire ~ Michael Klein 

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Steph