About 90 minutes into seeing Watchmen at my local IMAX theater, the character Rorschach had his mask removed. The actor playing Rorschach looked really familiar — an unmistakable face from the past, but I couldn’t figure out who he was. Then it hit me: He was a child star. I was sure of it.
Resisting the urge to look up the answer in the theater, I checked out our star on IMDB when I returned home. His name: Jackie Earle Haley. Born 1961. Scanning through dozens of film appearances through the past four decades, I found this:
This article appears in Mar 4-10, 2009.
