Fri Mar 27, 2009

Mark Wahlberg owes Penny Marshall By April MacIntyre (monstersandcritics.com)

Video: Extra
Marky Mark was saved by Laverne.

Long before movie stardom, rapper fame and those steamy Calvin Klein underwear ads, Mark Wahlberg was a high school drop out causing trouble on the streets of Boston.

He revealed to Extra the moment that changed his life and opened up about his teenage years, saying, “I made a lot of mistakes when I was younger…I got incarcerated when I was 17, got sent to an adult prison. That was not where I wanted to be.”

While Wahlberg was spending his time behind bars, his brother, Donnie, was climbing the music charts as a member of New Kids on The Block. Wahlberg admits, “I didn’t think [NKOTB] was a cool thing to be involved with. I was a street kid. I was into the hip hop thing. Wasn’t going to be singing love songs…Then I end up sitting in the TV room [in] Plymouth House of Correction trying to convince people that that’s my brother. [That] I could’ve done that. They’d tell me how dumb I was to have not taken that opportunity.” More...

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