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Fashion Week is all about big debuts.

No, we're not just talking about clothing lines, although we, of course, were excited to see what Whitney Port's Whitney Eve and Avril Lavigne's Abbey Dawn had to offer. But the more exciting debuts this week have come in a much more human form.

This weekend, Sean Penn took his new gal-pal, Jessica White, for a stroll at Abe & Arthur's, and, just last night, Style star Kimora Lee Simmons carried her newborn, Kenzo Lee Hounsou, for his first trip down the runway.

But the most exciting and surprising of them all was Mickey Rourke trotting out 20-year-old model Cheyenne Tozzi for all the world to see at Max Azria.

She is skinny and gorgeous, and the 57-year-old (today!) couldn't keep his hands off her once she joined him in the front row—but before that, he admitted he was there for the models more than the clothes.

Asked how he preferred them, he told E! News, "Fat."

As for blondes or brunettes, "It depends on what I'm drinking," he said, taking a swig from a can of Diet Coke. When that's the beverage of choice, he says, "it doesn't matter.""

Needless to say, he was joking. Really, he was attending his second fashion show in 14 years to support the well-known designer. Sort of.

"I like little short guys," he says of Azria, "and he's got a beautiful wife."

Uh-oh.

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Rourke is such a colorful character! Get more in Fashion Week's Color Commentary.

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Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau laid the groundwork Saturday for expansion and cross-pollination of Marvel franchises. And we're not just talking about sequels! He screened exclusive Iron Man 2 footage that hinted at a mega-Marvel collaboration.

"We wanted to move [Iron Man 2's] plot along to get to where they eventually arrive at The Avengers," Favreau told the crowd of 6,000. The Avengers are an all-star team of Marvel superheroes: Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, The Hulk and some guy named the Ant-Man. (How upset would you be if Ant-Man showed up to save you. Worse than a spider!)

"I've been watching the prep work Kenneth Branagh has been doing on Thor," Favreau told fans."And I'd love to work on a project like The Avengers." Given that Favs was seated next to a Kevin Feige, president of production for Marvel, who couldn't have looked more tickled with the success of the Iron Man franchise, we think he may have an "in" for the director's slot.

So what other things happened at one of the most hyped-up panels of Comic-Con? A lot!

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How do you solve a problem like Mickey Rourke? He's like Hollywood's centaur of fashion: half dapper man, half something that should be hidden in a barn.

Look at this ambitious ensemble Rourke wore while shopping for knives at the L'Avenue in Paris this week. Casual jeans and chunky shoes tastefully offset the formalness of a patterned vest, a silky jacket, and the twinkly pocket-watch chain. Nice mash up, Rourke!

But what's with the hair that looks as if it was conditioned with battery acid? The tourist-shop sunglasses? And that awful tangerine tan? We don't know what to do with you!

So, America, you decide! Should Mickey strut his stuff down the banks of Paris? Or be stored away inside a dimly lit dungeon?

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The Wrestler has traded in his staples for some far heavier metal.

Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau has released the first on-set photo of Mickey Rourke clad in the gear that makes him the nefarious Whiplash, just one of the villains Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man will be battling in the upcoming sequel.

So far, we seem to be looking at half an orange prison jumpsuit, leather-and-iron arm braces and a heart-protecting electromagnet in his chest, like the one Tony Stark uses to keep the shrapnel at bay.

Rourke's less mechanical alter ego being Russian tech whiz Ivan Vanko, the tats he sports include several Russian phrases.

The eagerly awaited second chapter of the comic-book saga is due in theaters May 7, 2010.

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Holly Madison is putting the hot back into hot stepper.

The erstwhile Girl Next Door is following in the footsteps—and then some—of fellow Dancing With the Stars alum Kelly Monaco, replacing the soap star in Sin City's sultry revue Peepshow.

And she's bringing her best assets with her.

"I can tell you that contrary to published reports, and unlike Kelly, Holly will be topless at times," a rep for the show told E! News.

Madison's rep has yet to comment on the former Playboy Playmate's stripped-down performance plans, but confirmed that she will be headlining the Planet Hollywood burlesque show for a roughly three-month run beginning in June.

Currently, the production features both Monaco and another DWTS celeb, Spice Girl Melanie Brown, both of whom have remained fully topped for the otherwise topless show.

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•  The rumor mill has finally moved on from claiming Jennifer Aniston is pregnant, only they've become even more absurd. Lindsay Lohan? Really?!

•  Paris Hilton as a brunette looks bizarrely like Millionaire Matchmaker's Patti Stanger.

•  Madonna is so over Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez, she took the fam—including boy-toy Jesus Luz—to a Mets game. That'll show 'em!

•  Mickey Rourke has been sleeping with a new bird, and by that, we are not squawking about a ladyfriend.

•  Dear Benjamin McKenzie: Well, hello there! Southland appears to agree with you. A lot. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

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It's no secret that Evan Rachel Wood has a rather, well, unorthodox taste in men.

In the upcoming issue of GQ magazine—yeah, that one with the Zac Efron cover—the 21-year-old Whatever Works starlet admits she has reunited with her former flame, 40-year-old Marilyn Manson.

She also denies any sparks between her and Wrestler costar Mickey Rourke.

"There was no truth to it, and it was so annoying," she says. "The friendship was intimate and nice, and this makes it weird."

Rumors have also swirled about Wood's relations with How I Met Your Mother's Jason Segel, and we're just waiting for the whispers about her most recent cinematic colleagues, director Woody Allen and leading man Larry David.

Fans of the actress may recall her much more conventional relationship with Billy Elliot actor Jamie Bell. The two played lovers in the Green Day video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends."

Mickey Rourke is indeed ready to rumble.

The Hollywood tough guy popped in Sunday during the WWE's Wrestlemania 25 in Houston, fulfilling a promise he made a couple of months ago to take pro grappler Chris Jericho to the mat.

And that he did. Only, the Oscar-nominated star of The Wrestler didn't show off any of his movie training, instead resorting to his mad boxing skills.

After dispatching WWE perennials "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, Ricky Steamboat and Ric Flair in a "Legends" free-for-all at Reliant Stadium, Jericho taunted Rourke, who was seated in the front row.

And Rourke was more than willing to mix things up...

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•  Gasp! Miley Cyrus tells Teen Vogue she's just not that into Robert Pattinson and she doesn't think her fans are, either. The Disney star is getting more and more negative in her old age, also making some not-so-nice comments about Las Vegas that are sure to have the tourism board in a huff.

•  Viggo Mortensen may be stepping out of the acting saddle, but he has a history of saying such things.

•  Toby Keith has some beef with Ethan Hawke and Kris Kristofferson. It's all very country.

•  Mickey Rourke and Bai Ling are not an item, but, if you need a little romance, Big Love's Ginnifer Goodwin has a new man.

•  Seth Rogen thinks bulimia jokes are funny. We don't.

•  Dear Jennifer Aniston: We're glad you looked great at the David Lynch Foundation event, but we're more interested in hearing how the Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunion went. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

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Looks like Megan Fox is rebounding from Brian Austin Green with Mickey Rourke.

At least on screen.

The Transformers vixen, whose offscreen love life has been the subject of much speculation of late, has signed on to play an angel opposite the Wrestler in director Mitch Glazer's drama Passion Plays.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, the 1950s Los Angeles-set tale finds Fox's character, described as a slender beauty with wings who is part of a carnival, helping a down-in-the-skids trumpeter (Rourke) obtain redemption.

Aside from this summer's upcoming blockbuster sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the 22-year-old sex symbol is headlining the Diablo Cody horror flick Jennifer's Body and recently took a part in Warner's comic-book western, Jonah Hex, opposite Josh Brolin.

Rourke next plays a villain in Iron Man 2.

Meanwhile, in the day's other casting coups, Leonardo DiCaprio scores some high-powered costars and a Big Lover is taking a break from polygamy...

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•  I Love You, Man costars Paul Rudd and Jason Segel behave like 9-year-old boys. You there, laughing with them, are doing the same. (Don't worry, we are, too.)

•  Jennifer Aniston is narrating a children's book with her father, but wants to make sure you know that it has nothing to do with any possible baby lust she may or may not have.

•  The Wrestlemania fisticuffs between Mickey Rourke and Chris Jericho may happen after all…at least if the real-life wrestler's fightin' words are any indication.

•  Audrina Patridge may be a Sorority Row killer, but the trailer for her new flick looks totally fun. Too bad the same can't really be said for Hilary Duff's Greta.

•  Joe Jonas pulls a Miley Cyrus. Oy.

•  Dear Ava Phillippe: Naming your pet pig Booker T. Washington and keeping mommy Reese Witherspoon away from pork makes you a pretty darn smart 9-year-old (unlike those stinky boys at the top of this column). Love, Rise 'n' Shine

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