Sylvester Stallone on the fight to make "Rocky"
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At eighty years Sly wrote a book about the character and the movie that changed his life, Rocky. And how he taught him to forgive his parents, to be a good father and, he tells us, to save his soul from that black hole that never fills up.
He was 29 years old, with little money and limited opportunities as an actor when Hollywood wanted to buy him the story on one condition: that another star play the protagonist.
Sylvester Stallone on the fight to make "Rocky"
Sylvester Stallone was a struggling actor who wrote the perfect script for himself – and refused to sell it unless he played the title role. He talks about his new memoir, "The Steps," that recounts his rocky road to fame before and after "Rocky."
Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades, Now He’s Coming Clean
Sylvester Stallone has loomed large in our popular imagination for 50 years, ever since he exploded onto the screen playing the iconic underdog boxer Rocky Balboa in a film he wrote and that won the best picture Oscar. Many more “Rocky” films came after that, and also another franchise, “Rambo,” which heralded a new era […]
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