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Kate O'Brien, Conan O'Brien's Sister, Makes Big-Screen Debut in 'The Fighter'

(Dec. 16) -- Looks like showbiz runs in the O'Brien family. Kate O'Brien, Conan O'Brien's sister, will make her silver-screen debut in the much-anticipated film "The Fighter," which opens Friday. The topic came up during a conversation between "Fighter" actress Amy Adams and the TBS host during his show Wednesday...

Mark Wahlberg to Play Micky Ward in 'The Fighter'

Actors Mark Wahlberg and Christain Bale will play boxer Micky Ward and his troubled crack cocaine-addicted older brother and trainer, Dickie Eklund, in the upcoming movie The Fighter: The Irish Micky Ward Story. The movie opens in select theaters on Dec. 10, and, nationwide on Dec. 17. Ward is best known for his vicious...

Boxing's Tragedies: Alexis Arguello, Arturo Gatti, Vernon Forrest

Tragedies Of The Year: Alexis Arguello, 57; Arturo Gatti, 37; Vernon Forrest, 38.FanHouse finds the successive, July, deaths of three former world champions, Arguello, Forrest and Gatti, to be among the most tragic of any era, let alone the year of 2009.A Hall Of Fame fighter and former three-time world champion, Arguello...

Background on mickey ward

Micky Ward (born October 4, 1965), nicknamed Irish, is a retired American junior welterweight professional boxer and a former WBU champion from Lowell, Massachusetts.

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