MACBOOK PRO / WON'T REBOOT / AFTER AUTOMATIC MAC UPDATE 06.FEB.2013

I am using Macbook Pro Mid 2010 with OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
JUST RECEIVED A NOTIFICATION THAT APP STORE DID SOME UPDATE SO MAC NEEDS TO RESTART.
I CLICKED "YES".
NEXT THING I KNOW IS THAT IT IS UPDATING/INSTALLING, AND IT ATTEMPTS TO REBOOT. BUT IT DOESN'T.
ACTUALLY IT SHOWS THE USUAL START UP WHITE/OFF-WHITE COLOR SCREEN WITH THE APPLE LOGO IN THE MIDDLE, AND THERE IS A "DOWNLOAD/INSTALL HORIZONTAL BAR". IT "SHADES/DONE" AROUND 20% AND THEN THE MAC GOES OFF. BLACK SCREEN. SWITCHES OFF.
I TRIED SEVERAL TIMES. BUT RESULT IS BAD. NO LUCK.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WAS THIS UPDATE. I WAS TIRED SO I DIDN'T PAY ANY ATTENTION.
PLEASE HELP.
P.S.
I HAVE SOME IMPORTANT DOC,S AND DIDN'T BACKUP (TIME-MACHINE) FROM LAST 25 DAYS

Gray progress bar appears under Apple logo during startup
If you want to preserve the data on the boot drive, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data, you can skip this step.
There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to fully boot. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
1. Boot into Recovery (command-R at startup) or from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup.) Launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in the support article linked below, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.”
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2. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode by holding down the key combination command-T at the startup chime. Connect the two Macs with a FireWire or Thunderbolt cable. The internal drive of the machine running in target mode will mount as an external drive on the other machine. Copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
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3. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.

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