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Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Road

• 15 Jan 2007

Thirty years ago, the first Rocky movie came out of nowhere like the urban fairytale it was. Sylvester Stallone was a bit part player, a big slab of meat with a crooked mouth who played purse-snatchers and mafia hoods. He wrote the screenplay, an old time boxing picture like they used to make, refused to give it up unless they let him play the part, and improbably, the kid got his shot. The rest is history: it turned out to be a movie everybody wanted to see. Almost everyone connected with it... Read more