Don’t forget that The Wrestler is now available on DVD and BluRay.

A release date of April 21st has been set for the R1 release of ‘The Wrestler’ on DVD and BluRay.  Order yours now!

edit: fixed a typo.

Marisa Tomei may play a stripper in latest film The Wrestler, but she hasn’t gone on to use any of her newfound skills off set.

“I can’t say that I’m still pole dancing. It’s hard!” the actress told People magazine.

“I understand the hazards of the exotic dancer in a way I never imagined.”

The 44-year-old is up for a Best Supporting Actress gong for her role as stripper Cassidy opposite Mickey Rourke at this year’s Oscars, although she admits she had to think twice about taking the part.

“I definitely thought long and hard about it before I committed,” she said. “I loved the challenge of it.

“What didn’t appeal to me was, frankly, New Jersey, naked, winter!”

The Academy Awards nominations were this morning and Marisa has been nominated for her performance in ‘The Wrestler’.  This is Marisa’s third nomination - she was nominated for ‘In the Bedroom’ and of course won for ‘My Cousin Vinny’.

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Amy Adams, Doubt
• Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis, Doubt
• Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

A huge congratulations to Marisa!

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There’s a phrase that the sportscaster Tony Kornheiser likes to use describing women of a certain age who retain every bit of their sexual allure — the Susan Sarandons, Helen Mirrens and Tina Turners of this world.

“Still getting it done,” he says in admiration.

Marisa Tomei is years past the blush of youth, more than a decade removed from her winsome, wise-cracking Oscar-winning turn in My Cousin Vinny. She turned 44 last month. But the lady is “still getting it done.” Not many actresses of her age and stature would dare bare their all onscreen. She dares. Playboy magazine took notice, not with a pictorial, but with admiring words, echoed by Nerve.com: “Hotter Now than Ever.”

Tomei hears this and giggles. The “sex symbol” thing has come late to her, largely thanks to films with daring nude scenes — 2007’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, which had her playing a bored wife cheating on her drug-addict businessman husband, and The Wrestler, which opens Friday. She took the role of the stripper Cassidy in that film — the performance, as a woman her director Darren Aronofsky describes as “trying to keep her real life separate from the fantasy world she earns her living in,” is earning Tomei Oscar buzz.

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