Talk:Mark Ruffalo/Archive 1

Definitely NPOV
"'So called' chick flicks?" "Acclaim for his work?" Is he too good for chick flicks and does everyone really love him?209.158.115.50 16:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Controversy and attraction

 * He attracted controversy for his steamy sex scenes with Meg Ryan as a sleazy, potentially dangerous homicide cop in Jane Campion's dark psychosexual thriller In the Cut (2003).

Was this supposed to mean that SOMEONE criticized him? If so, who? And by the way, controversy is not criticism. It's not a controversy unless there is a dispute between 2 or more sides. --Wing Nut 17:42, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Mark Ruffalo is cute and fine

I don't think there is a NPOV problem here. I would remove the NPOV marker.

Brother
Hiya, Mark Ruffalos brother was recently shot inside a nightclub. Theres an ongoing investigation about it but he is nonetheless dead. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28039910/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.213.119.103 (talk) 06:38, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Health Problems
Should the fact that he's a vegetarian be under the "Health Problems" heading? Maybe it can be somewheres else in the Personal Life section or elsewhere. Plorry (talk) 20:05, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Untitled
Is Mark Ruffalo Jewish?


 * A couple of in-depth articles make it pretty clear that he's an Italian-American (i.e. not Jewish unless I'm missing something). He's probably Catholic, but I haven't seen that stated yet.

"Ruffalo, 32, left when he was 13, after attending Lance Middle School, but he still returns to visit his father, grandparents and sister.

"I had a great childhood there," Ruffalo said.

"I lived on the edge of a forest. We had a very big Italian family with lots of love."

Perhaps his Italian great-grandfather's interest in commedia dell'arte had a genetic influence on Ruffalo's choice of careers, but not at first.

He appeared in the high school play while living in Virginia "and, after that, I put away acting as a totally useless thing I could never make it at or do," he said. "But I couldn't find anything better."" http://www.jsonline.com/enter/movies/dudek/dec00/count21122000.asp?format=print

"“I was brought up in Kenosha, Wis., a factory town,” he said. “My mom was a hairstylist. My dad was a construction painter. He was an amazing, charismatic guy who was city high school wrestling champion three times. He was away a lot when I was growing up. I was very lonely for him.”

Mark is the oldest son of Frank and Maria Ruffalo, second-generation Italian-Americans. His three siblings—Scott, Tania and Nicole—are all hairdressers.

When Mark was 13, the family moved to Virginia Beach, Va. “My dad’s painting company had collapsed,” he explained. “In Virginia, he started a business called Soda Butler: You deliver syrup to people, and they carbonate their own soda at home. That fizzled out. We got poorer and poorer. It caused a lot of anger at home.”" http://archive.parade.com/2004/0509/0509_mark_ruffalo.html Vulturell 02:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

The article says he won the Tony for "Awake and Sing," but I don't think he did...

Didn't win -- was nominated. Change made.

INTERESTINGLY THERE IS A GREEK SURNAME THAT IS VERY POPULAR, JUST TYPE IT INTO GOOGLE, WHICH IS SPELT AS GAROFALLOU (IN GREEK IS MEANS "CARNATION" - THE FLOWER) THE ABBREVIATION TO RUFFALO IS QUITE OBVIOUS. GREEKS HAVE BEEN LIVING IN MAGNA GRAECIA - MODERN ITALY, SINCE 800BCE,SO IT IS NOT UNUSUAL THAT THIS NAME/SURNAME EXISTS IN ITALY. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.223.5.104 (talk) 08:46, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Garofalo Name Meaning Southern Italian: from garofalo ‘carnation’, from Greek karyophyllon, standard modern Italian garofano. Southern Italian Greek has the more conservative karofaddho; the standard modern Greek form is garifalo. This is presumably a nickname for one who habitually sported a carnation, a topographic name for someone who lived where carnations grew, or a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of these flowers. De Felice notes that the Calabrese and Sicilian dialect forms, garofalu and garofolo, denote other species of plant, as well as a whirlwind or vortex, senses which could also have contributed to the surname. Other similar spellings: Gruffalo, garifalo, garofalo, garifalia....101.162.55.67 (talk) 06:13, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

9/11 Truther
The section is sourced to two YouTube videos, both interviews. Are there any reliable secondary sources that call him Truther? I'm not disputing the label, I'm just concerned about the sourcing as this is a BLP. --Sonicyouth86 (talk) 16:05, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

This Is Our Youth
He was part of the original cast of This Is Our Youth (1996), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.

This doesn't seem correct. The Independent Spirit Awards are for movies, and This Is Our Youth is a play.

108.59.48.3 (talk) 20:27, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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