June 05
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg
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Born on June 5th, 1971, Wahlberg’s early life in Boston was troubled. By thirteen he had developed a cocaine addiction, and by 15 had become involved in a number of domestic disputes with racist overtones. Paradoxically, at around the same time. Mark Wahlberg found success as a young musician. He was a founding member of the seminal eighties boy band New Kids on the Block, although he quit before the group really hit the big time (making room for Joe McIntyre). The scrappy Wahlberg then formed his own group, the delightfully named Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. When he was twenty, the Bunch had a number one hit with “Good Vibrations” (no relation to the Beach Boys song). The video for “Good Vibrations” featured a number of what would later become Wahlberg trademarks: punching things, bad rapping, and taking his shirt off. Although the group’s popularity quickly declined as the early nineties wore on, Wahlberg continued to make music until 1997. It was then that he starred in Boogie Nights as Dirk Diggler, a well-endowed busboy turned porn star. From then on, Wahlberg built a varied and successful movie career, including turns in quirky indie comedies like I Heart Huckabees (1994) and triple-A thrillers like The Departed (2006 ) alike. Wahlberg is Hollywood royalty now, a far cry from his rough formative years. Not all the fight is out of Marky Mark, though – he can still be found starring as a pugilist in the Academy Award-Nominated The Fighter, or joking (?) about breaking Andy Samberg’s nose for his pitch-perfect impression of Wahlberg on Saturday Night Live. As far as Mark Wahlberg has
come, it’s important that he never forget his roots. In that spirit, toast
the Mark so nice they named him twice with the eponymous “Marky Mark
Cocktail” and watching him again the The Departed. |
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Marky Mark Cocktail |