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Tris Dixon Twitterissä: "Now live with Dicky Eklund. Christian Bale portrayed him in The Fighter, earning an Oscar, and he captured some of the madness of the man whose been in and
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Left to right: Mickey O'Keefe plays himself, Mark Wahlberg plays Micky Ward, and Christian Bale plays Dicky Eklund in THE FIGHTER Stock Photo - Alamy
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