On June 24, 2010, Mark Olsen for the LA TImes Entertainment Section wrote an excellent piece about Sly’s event at the LA Film Festival. Here are some highlights:
- In conversation lasting a little over an hour that was engaging, freewheeling and candid, Stallone charmed the sold-out crowd…
- …Stallone entered to the first of three standing ovations he would receive through the night.
- …the night was squarely on the bigger arc of Stallone’s stardom, moving from the dual-edge of optimism and pessimism represented by Rocky and Rambo to other characters of his career.
- A brief question-and-answer period with the audience simply underscored how meaningful a figure like Stallone — so easy for some cinephiles to ridicule or dismiss — is to his faithful fans.
- At the end of the evening, LAFF Director Rebecca Yeldham presented Stallone with a small statuette honoring him as a special guest of the festival. “I don’t do this very often,” Stallone said, accepting the award. He then addressed the audience directly: “No man is an island. I’ve realized as long as I’m in touch with people like you then I can always be able to write stories about people like you. So I want to thank you very much, because as much as you got from me, I got from you.”
To read the full piece click here.